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!
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
Looking for something outside of the module box?
- 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
Here are some modules that will help spice up your page!
- 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
Use the share option to show off your lens with stumbleupon, facebook, digg etc.
While this doesn't count as an update, it does increase lensrank!
While this doesn't count as an update, it does increase lensrank!
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- JayKish JayKish Sep 1, 2008 @ 1:34 am
- Nice tips! What about it Blogging, Forums, Bookmarking, Social Networking and Web 2.0?
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- dtbs dtbs Jul 9, 2008 @ 1:43 pm
- interesting lens! thanks for sharing this info! please check mine out at----------------> Kava Kava.
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- KonaGirl KonaGirl Jun 27, 2008 @ 12:15 pm
- Great tip! I spend hours on one lens just looking for the right photos or videos. Thanks bunches!
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- JigsawForte JigsawForte Jun 25, 2008 @ 11:53 am
- I've been on an updating binge today after I figured this out. Thanks for the tips!
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- rms rms Jun 17, 2008 @ 1:09 pm
- Great ideas for updates here!
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- Amanda_Blue Amanda_Blue Jun 14, 2008 @ 10:20 pm
- Helpful suggestions. I'll be back to re-read this. Thank you!
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- LindaJM LindaJM Jun 8, 2008 @ 6:34 pm
- Great ideas... for those days when you really need something new to aim for. Branching out to the modules that aren't commonly used is important. Also photographs - everyone likes to see them and they're still worth 1,000 words.
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- poddys poddys Jun 5, 2008 @ 6:15 am
- Great tips, and you are right, keeping your lens updated does help in the ranking. 5***** for the tips and a nice lens.
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- streak_tlu streak_tlu May 27, 2008 @ 7:26 pm
- Very helpful tips Jess! Pretty soon we'll all have so many lenses it will be impossible to update them all everyday!
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