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May 25th, 2008
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and the Lens Reviewed is ...
Amorsiko.com: eBay the Pinoy Way
http://www.squidoo.com/portable_ebay
"Amorsiko.com: eBay the Pinoy Way" created by Portable_eBay ranked 4,531 in How-To with an overall rank of 43,326 at review time.
Very informative lens, and capable of delivering the needed information regarding the topic. Content is full of articles discussing several aspects of the subject matter. However, most sections of the lens is linking to one url which is: http://www.amorsiko.com, this URL appeared eight times on the lens. It is more preferable to have other links, the lens need to lead to other resources.
Due to the vast number of websites (and lenses) related to eBay the keywords that will be tested for search results will be mainly "portable ebay", "amorsiko" and "squidoo amorsiko" in order to have more fair results.
Searching key words at Squidoo resulted in having this lens at very good ranks. For example:
Searching "portable ebay" resulted in rank 2 for this lens in search results
Searching "amorsiko" resulted in rank 1 for this lens in search results (it was the only lens shown for this key word)
Searching for "portable ebay" at Google, showed the lens at 39 among search results, and searching for "amorsiko" the lens url showed at 7th rank in search results, but when "squidoo amorsiko" was searched the lens was ranked at the first position.
Different results were returned from Yahoo, searching for "portable ebay", "amorsiko" and "squidoo amorsiko" did not lead to the lens among the first 50 search results.
This lens is really fit and very good source of info. More work is needed to enrich it with more links and listing it on Yahoo (by enhancing the tags).
Summary
Content:
Consistency (15): 15
Richness (15): 12
Attractiveness (10): 9
Interactivity (5): 4
Squidoo search (20): 19
Google search (25): 20
Yahoo search (10): 0
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Total Score (100): 79
- reviewed September 9, 2008
Past Reviews
Read Aloud Books For Families
http://www.squidoo.com/readaloudfamilybooks
"Read Aloud Books for Families" created by slotowngal ranked 821 in Family with an overall rank of 25,079 at review time.
Very Rich lens, and with rich I mean this lens is capable of delivering a great deal of information regarding the topic. Content is full of articles, references, news links, other resources and shopping guides and more. One can spend a great deal of time enjoying reading the stuff and learning more. The lens also creates good vibes so far, it was rated by six visitors with Five Stars and three visitors had favored it ... this is another evidence that this lens is outstanding.
Searching several (but related) key words at Squidoo resulted in having this lens at very good ranks. For example:
Searching "reading aloud" resulted in rank 1 for this lens in search results
Searching "reading family" resulted in rank 2 for this lens in search results
Even searching "aloud" alone resulted also in rank 2 for this lens
Searching for "read aloud books for families" at Google, could not show me this lens in the first 50 results, but when I added the word "squidoo" the lensmaster page was shown at rank one, however, could not get the lens URL in the first 50 search results, I have to admit that this topic is there on the web like jungle many many websites, however, submitting the lens URL directly to Google will help.
Different results were returned from Yahoo, searching for "read aloud books for families" resulted in having this lens ranked at number one, searching for "aloud for families" resulted in a rank of 16 while searching "read aloud books" resulted in having it at 41 in search results!
This lens is really fit, rich and great source of info.
Summary
Content:
Consistency (15): 15
Richness (15): 15
Attractiveness (10): 9
Interactivity (5): 5
Squidoo search (20): 20
Google search (25): 15
Yahoo search (10): 10
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Total Score (100): 89
- reviewed June 20, 2008
Trombone Trivia For Musicians & 'Bone Lovers
http://www.squidoo.com/trombonetrivia
"Trombone Trivia For Musicians & 'Bone Lovers" created by slotowngal ranked 1,169 in Music with an overall rank of 23,627 at review time.
Very Good lens fully and perfectly dedicated to Trombone, and well-fine-tuned for the topic. Content is full of harmony as the subject itself (music) and the content type is well-balanced, I mean one can have video clips, CDs, educational links and much more.
Searching several (but related) key words at Squidoo resulted in having this lens at good ranks. For example:
Searching "trombone" resulted in rank 3 for this lens in search results
Searching "trombone music" resulted in rank 2 for this lens in search results
However, it was a bit hard to find this lens when searching words like "jazz" and "musical instruments", I think some enhancement can be done in the tags (just a guess).
Searching for "'bone lovers" at Google resulted in having it at rank 1 in search results, but when the word "trombone" or "trombone squidoo" was searched the lens was not ranked among the first 50 results. This might be a good indication about the tags thing, though for this topic I know there is a vast number of pages there on the web.
Same results were observed at Yahoo, with one difference searching for the word "'bone lovers" resulted in having this lens ranked at number two!
A lens really well worked after, and the content is really fit and relevant, still some work is needed to improve its rankings, doing more work on tags and link it to other relevant topics like 'jazz' and other music genres and musical instruments will help in improving its ranks.
Summary
Content:
Consistency (15): 15
Richness (15): 14
Attractiveness (10): 9
Interactivity (5): 5
Squidoo search (20): 16
Google search (25): 16
Yahoo search (10): 6
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Total Score (100): 81
- reviewed May 30, 2008
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Thanks,
Portable_eBay wrote...
Hello Sir. I only got 1 lens. http://www.squidoo.com/portable_ebay
It sure would help if it gets reviewed so I can review and improve it.
Salamat po.
Posted September 07, 2008
slotowngal wrote...
Hi, I have a couple of lenses I'd love to have reviewed:
http://www.squidoo.com/trombonetrivia
http://www.squidoo.com/readaloudfamilybooks
Thanks!
Posted May 25, 2008
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