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How does squidoo lensrank work?
Well, squidoo lensrank has, by common consensus (at least) the following factors:
- Lens freshness.
- sales made through money making modules like amazon and ebay.
- visitor numbers.
- star ratings.
- favorites.
- whether you've been blessed by an angel.
- whether you're a giant squid.
- click outs from your lens
- visitor activity on your lens (voting, writing in your guest book, joining a duel
Generally on lensrank
Below 50.000 it is probably not getting many visitors, nor are you working on it.
Below 100.000 - well, you know best, but my guess is that lens is spam, or not yet live.
BUT since the amount of lenses is constantly growing, lensrank changes too. In a year time 50.000 may be as respectable a lensrank as 10.000 is now. (writing Juli 2008)
Lensrank can go up and down.
That's just the nature of the game. See here a graph of the visitors numbers and lensrank of one of my highest ranking lenses (though not one, as you can see, with enormous amounts of visitors).
As you can see the timelines of your stats and your lensrank aren't synchronized.
This is because the timeline of your visitor numbers does NOT include any days your lens didn't get visitors.
Your lens did have lensrank the whole time, so that's shown in it's entirety.
Lensrank dropping or rising?
At A you see lensrank slowly dropping, due to lack of visitors and probably also lack of attention on my part. This lens just lingered there for a while and lensrank suffered.
At B you see lensrank suddenly going up. Probably someone voted on my lens, or favored it or something, because it had hardly any traffic yet.
The main point here is: whatever votes you have, whatever angel blessings a lens got - if nothing happens (no RECENT traffic, no RECENT sales, no RECENT votes, no RECENT changes - lensrank will go down).
Anymore questions about lensrank?
Nobody is an expert on lensrank - except the people at squidoo HQ - which I'm not. This lens merely reflects the factors we all know factor in there...
But if you have any questions, please ask them.
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spirituality
Well - even 'the giant squid effect' (or two angel blessings) is not going to counter the other aspects of lensrank. Other lenses are perhaps getting more traffic, more sales, or more votes - pushing your lenses down. Posted July 22, 2008 |
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BigGirlBlue
I'm not seeing the Giant Squid effect. In fact, I'm seeing the opposite, even on the lenses I update weekly. Posted July 21, 2008 |
Freshness: What you can do to up your lensrank
- Freshness
- Become a giant squid
That's right: only one thing really... Becoming a giant squid is obviously a lot of work... Still worth the effort. It involves making consistently good lenses - and at least 50 of them.
But what if you're not about to become giant squid...
What does lens freshness mean?
Lens freshness means your lens has been edited recently. That's right: new lenses and lenses that have been recently edited get a boost in lensrank.
Giant squids...
Giant squids get the equivalent of 2 angels blessings on every lens they make - right off the bat! So here's-
THE GIANT SQUIDS (and how you can become one)
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No, it's not a rock group. It's the core group of movers and shakers at Squidoo. One day at Squidoo Headquarters, Seth and Megan noticed something. They noticed that many of our community's best lenses are built by people who have a lot of lenses. T...
Votes: Star ratings, Favorites & Squid Angels
- votes
- favorite it!
- squid angel blessing
When lensmasters rate each others lenses, they give those lenses a boost in lensrank.
More votes is more effect.
What has even more effect is if we favorite each other's lenses.
There is a group of extra special lensmasters that can boost your lensrank a lot more: the squid angels.
Squid angels can single handedly boost lensrank or make it plummet.
Again: more votes is a bigger effect. So if several angels bless your lens, that's even better.
Squid angels & star ratings
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Low votes in squidoo should be banned!
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I think people should lighten up about the star ratings. Even a low star rating will boost your lensrank (a bit). So any rating is better than NO rating. Disagree? Tell me! [That said: it does anger me when a good lens that hasn't been voted on yet...
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Squid Angel -- Blessings to YOU
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This is the first instance on Squidoo that I've actually written about my Catholic upbringing in Cleveland, Ohio, and what an impact it had on my spiritual being. You see, it was the nuns and priests that I encountered in elementary and grade school...
Visitor numbers
On getting traffic, from the search engines
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SEO for squidoo - getting found in google: search engine optimization
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SEO - search engine optimization - has many different facets. This lens goes over the main ones - especially how they effect making successful lenses on squidoo.
Sales: amazon, ebay etc.
That is: if you get a sale through your amazon module, you get a percentage of that sale, and a boost in lensrank.
If you get a sale through an amazon affiliate link (that you got from Amazon, not through squidoo), you still get a percentage of the sale, but not a boost in lensrank.
Click Outs
In other words: if people click on your links, your lens rank goes up.
Visitor activity on your lens
All the factors combined
It's for instance not very likely that a lens will get into the top 100 without ANY votes. It would have to get A LOT of visitors and sales to compensate for that.
Some speculations about lensrank factors
- Time of visitor stay on lens (longer -> higher lensrank).
This might be a measurement of the quality of your lens content - Backlinks: lenses with links from outside squidoo would get a higher squidoo rating off the bat.
I find it hard to believe that's true, since traffic is also to some extent dependent on backlinks - and a lens with a lot of low quality (spammy) backlinks does not really deserve a higher lensrank based on backlinks alone.
What did you think of this lens?
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InternetJunkie
I try to update most of my lenses about once a week and find as many lenses I can (or have time for) to rate, comment on, lensroll and favorite. This usually brings me more visitors. Posted August 19, 2008 |
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lakeerieartists
Interesting info. Thanks. Posted August 18, 2008 |
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PositiveChristian
Very useful information. The information on understanding movements in the lens statistics is particularly helpful. Posted August 06, 2008 |
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StephanieManning
Nice Lens! It all makes sence now! Posted August 01, 2008 |
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spirituality
I didn't say anything about the value of the various factors relating to each other. Nor did I say these are all the factors there are. Posted July 31, 2008 |
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