How To Use The Squidoo Page Break Module

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Okay, so you've created this lovely multi-page lens, prettied it up, written a lovely introduction and interlinked it. You sit back, watch the visitors rolling in... and then you realise. For all you know, the visitors are only arriving on the front page and stopping there. So what do you do?

Add some ways for them to interact!

• Guestbook This is a good way to get feedback, and tells you who and when and which page, but most people don't comment there and even if they do, most people comment on the front page. (Assuming you have one on each page).


• Plexos - If the plexo is interesting, you can get votes and submissions. This is easier than the guestbook and people like voting, but only Squidoo members can use it. You don't get notified for votes, but you can be for submissions.


• Polls - These are good, if the question prompts people to react. Anyone can vote. On the flip side, the only way you know about them is when you visit the lens yourself.


• Duels - These can be fun, if people want to play, and anyone can play, but you need to have a question to get answers.


• Images (clickouts) - Small thumbnail images prompt people to open them up for a better look. You can use HTML coding or Flickr modules, and this offers the chance for affiliate sales from Zazzle or Allposters. You can also put them everywhere! This requires adding them, so is more work, and effectiveness varies with yoru audience. For example, this method is highly successful on my Disney Femslash lens because most visitors are very interested in fanart and want a better look at each image (which are also usually too complicated to see properly when small). It's not always so successful on other lens, when people are happy seeing just the small images, or aren't really interested. Picking good images tailored to your audience is important.


• Referrals - You can track referrals from different pages (they show up in your stats) or from sites you know links to specific pages. Of course, referrals don't always record accurately, and you don't always know where they really landed.


• Search Hits - If you have very nicely divided pages by topic and you know that a) the separate pages are ranked in the search engines and b) that the text is specific to one page. This can be nice and reassuring, because you're getting search hits on more than one page of your lens, or depressing if you're not. It also depends on where your traffic mostly comes from.


• Resources (Clickouts) - Links to other sites follow similar rules to the image links. If it's interesting, or useful, people will click. There is, of course, a limit to how many links you can add! Sales modules also act as clickouts - scatter Amazon modules throughout your lens, rather than just on one page. You can also use the Featured Lens Module, but clickouts won't show up in your stats. They will show up as arrivals on other lens, but this is a complicated way to see them, assuming those other lenses are even yours.

Yes. That's right. I'm watching you.

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Loading speeds have always been an issure, especially with the giant lenses people tend to make on Squidoo - but it just got a lot more personal, as Google now uses loading speed in page ranking!