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Editing suggestions for your lenses - to give your lens a lensrank boost

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A checklist to improve your lenses...

Lenses get payed out based on average lensrank of each lens over the whole month.

Since lensrank is based, at least partly, on how often lenses get edited - this lens is here to give you some ideas about what to do when you go over your least edited lenses.

Obviously: if you have something to add that will make your lens better: that's your best edit by far. But if you can't think of anything, the following are some things you can do that will improve your lens, improve its chances of being found in the search engines and - because it's a legitimate edit - improve it's lensrank to boot.

Improve key words

Improving the key words on your lenses will help:

  • Get you squidoo traffic

  • Get your lens found in google

  • Improve lensrank (because you get more traffic)

How lensrank works & How to get your lens found in google (SEO)

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Add the same (new) module to all your lenses

I have several modules I want to have on all my lenses. Adding them is one way to give your lens an upgrade & edit.

You could:

  1. Add a thank you module:
    to thank all the people who support you.

  2. A support me module.
    To remind people to vote, link etc.

  3. A My lenses module set to link to all your related lenses, or all your newest lenses

  4. A sales module: amazon or ebay for instance.
    If your lenses aren't monetized much, this is a good time to spice things up a bit.

  5. A flickr module:
    get some pictures to make your lens look better.

  6. A Google Blog posts module.
    Get related info on your lens. Makes your lens look nice and fresh to google - which is a great bonus.

  7. On most lenses it's a good idea to have a guestbook module

And make sure your modules have custum titles: appropriate to your topic, not generic.

Find your new module

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Some things to do to improve your lenses

What's your favorite? & feel free to add your own.

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Improving the look of your lenses

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Improve keywords

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Fix any broken links or missing amazon products

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Focus on lenses that might rise or fall a tier

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Check 'Explore related pages'

Are the lenses listed actually related to yours? A more...7 points

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Interlink related lenses

using the featured lens module or a link plexo (fo more...7 points

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Optimizing tags

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Delete any old information

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Add the same module to all your lenses

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Add subtitles to modules

Include more keywords on your lens by using those more...3 points

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Lens Bio & Pic

Update your biography and or avatar-picture for di more...1 point

Improving the look of your lenses

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Improve the look of your lenses

  1. Make sure you have cute pictures in the introduction module. Perhaps pick or create a new one.

  2. Add pictures to your other modules, or add a polaroid module

  3. Use some CSS to make your text look better

  4. Add a picture to your guest module

Focus on lenses that might rise or fall a tier

If you have many lenses, the ones to look at are the ones that are near the border of a pay out tier. That is: around 2000 or around 10.000.

Of course the best way to make lenses jump a tier and stay there is to get them more traffic. Think about not just editing that lens, but promoting it as well.

Squidoo pay out tiers??? - explained

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Check 'Explore related pages'

If you have lenses on the same topic, go check out whether they are actually showing up under 'explore related pages'. If not - change your tags or simply add low ranking lenses of your own.

Any questions?

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If you aren't willing to pay up, you'll have to be content to stay updated on my Marketing Spiritual Blog where I am also willing to answer any questions related to the posts. It also contains a free ebook.

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