Time Saving Ways to Raise Your Rank
So you've created the most magnificent lens. What next?
You should update it regularly both to keep it interesting, and to move up in rank.
It's easy, and can be done in five minutes (or less!)
A regularly updated lens will have readers coming back, so be sure to mention this on your page.
And, of course, this lens gets updated Monday through Friday, five days a week!
New Ideas
- News - Using the basic text module or text list module, create your own news section so that you can add recent relevant news stories onto your lens. Additional news updates give you something to do another day.
- Lens Feature - Add a module where every week you feature a related and interesting lens
- Recipe Ideas - Add a fun and related recipe to your page (look through cookinglight.com and allrecipes.com). Copy and paste into a text module!
- Definitions - Use a site like dictionary.com and define some of your keywords for users who might be new to your topic.
Quick, Glorious Modules
- Wikipedia Module - This is a great module for adding basic information about your topic in seconds. Just type in your search term!
- Photos - All text? Add some color to your lens with a picture or two. Choose from flicker, add your own photo with polaroid, or just upload one to an text module
- Striking Titles - Make your titles pop with a black box module or big arrow link
- Blogs - Link into relevant blogs with the RSS feed module, or if you don't know of a specific blog, try google blog search.
- Interaction - Add a poll, duel or voting module.
- Twitter - Add a twitter feed about your subject to your lens. There are lots of factual twitter feeds.
- Group Discussions - Add this module and start a conversation.
- Google Maps - Show off a location featured in your lens and give your visitors some perspective!
- Poll - add a fun, silly poll into your lens to give it more personality!
- Countdown! - use the countdown module to alert your viewers about impending dates.
Honorable Mention
While this doesn't count as an update, it does increase lensrank!
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JayKish
Nice tips! What about it Blogging, Forums, Bookmarking, Social Networking and Web 2.0? Posted September 01, 2008 |
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dtbs
interesting lens! thanks for sharing this info! please check mine out at----------------> Kava Kava. Posted July 09, 2008 |
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KonaGirl
Great tip! I spend hours on one lens just looking for the right photos or videos. Thanks bunches! Posted June 27, 2008 |
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JigsawForte
I've been on an updating binge today after I figured this out. Thanks for the tips! Posted June 25, 2008 |
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rms
Great ideas for updates here! Posted June 17, 2008 |
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Amanda_Blue
Helpful suggestions. I'll be back to re-read this. Thank you! Posted June 14, 2008 |
