Squidoodling with Noadi

My lens making has gotten me some attention. I was one of the new batch of Giant Squids named May 2, 2008. I'm still giddy.

I've had an explosion of lens making recently. I give the credit for that to the Captain's Squidoo Chat the members of the chat are so helpful and they do a great job keeping me motivated.

Stats as of October 1, 2008
Lenses in the Top 100 = 0
Lenses in the Top 1,000 = 3
Lenses in the Top 2,000 = 12
Lense in the Top 5,000 = 23
Lenses in the Top 10,000 = 37
Lenses in the Top 50,000 = 87
Lenses in WIP = 2
Total Number of Lenses = 134
Total Number of Groups Managed = 8

Best Ranked Lens Polymer Clay Sculpting Tips and Tutorials #264
Worst Ranked Lens
The Greatest Fictional Detective Ever #211,133

Stats as of September 1, 2008
Lenses in the Top 100 = 2
Lenses in the Top 1,000 = 8
Lenses in the Top 2,000 = 18
Lense in the Top 5,000 = 32
Lenses in the Top 10,000 = 51
Lenses in the Top 50,000 = 95
Lenses in WIP = 4
Total Number of Lenses = 133
Total Number of Groups Managed = 8

Best Ranked Lens Cephalopod Craft Patterns #23
Worst Ranked Lens
All About Sheryl's Scribblings #181,890

Stats as of August 1, 2008
Lenses in the Top 100 = 0
Lenses in the Top 1,000 = 9
Lenses in the Top 2,000 = 16
Lense in the Top 5,000 = 26
Lenses in the Top 10,000 = 41
Lenses in the Top 50,000 = 78
Lenses in WIP = 3
Total Number of Lenses = 116
Total Number of Groups Managed = 8

Best Ranked Lens Polymer Clay Sculpting Tips and Tutorials #101
Worst Ranked Lens Noadi's Art on CafePress #160,314

Stats as of July 1, 2008
Lenses in the Top 100 = 0
Lenses in the Top 1,000 = 11
Lenses in the Top 2,000 = 17
Lense in the Top 5,000 = 29
Lenses in the Top 10,000 = 43
Lenses in the Top 50,000 = 73
Lenses in WIP = 3
Total Number of Lenses = 83
Total Number of Groups Managed = 8

Best Ranked Lens How to Start Selling on eCrater #255
Worst Ranked Lens All about Sheryl's Scribblings #94,552

Stats as of June 1, 2008
Lenses in the Top 100 = 1
Lenses in the Top 1,000 = 5
Lenses in the Top 2,000 = 9
Lense in the Top 5,000 = 21
Lenses in the Top 10,000 = 29
Lenses in the Top 50,000 = 57
Total Number of Lenses = 70
Total Number of Groups Managed = 7

Best Ranked Lens Polymer Clay Sculpting Tips and Techniques #77
Worst Ranked Lens Sheryl's Special Parmesan Meatballs #96,488

Stats as of May 3, 2008
Lenses in the Top 100 = 1
Lenses in the Top 1,000 = 2
Lense in the Top 5,000 = 12
Lenses in the Top 10,000 = 19
Lenses in the Top 50,000 = 44
Total Number of Lenses = 58
Total Number of Groups Managed = 7

Best Ranked Lens Polymer Clay Sculpting Tips and Techniques #53
Worst Ranked Lens Wallace and Gromit Video Showcase #195,509

Stats as of April 25, 2008
Lenses in the Top 100 = 1
Lenses in the Top 1,000 = 2
Lense in the Top 5,000 = 8
Lenses in the Top 10,000 = 15
Lenses in the Top 50,000 = 39
Total Number of Lenses = 52
Total Number of Groups Managed = 6

Best Ranked Lens Polymer Clay Sculpting Tips and Techniques #70
Worst Ranked Lens Wallace #148,224

June 2007:
1 lens - Payout $0.52

July 2007:
3 Lenses - Payout $2.44

August 2007:
4 Lenses, 1 Group - Payout $0.87

September 2007:
15 Lenses, 1 Group - Payout $18.40

October 2007:
20 Lenses, 1 Group - Payout $29.02

November 2007:
18 Lenses, 1 Group - Payout $21.93

December 2007:
23 Lenses, 1 Group - Payout $13.45

January 2008:
21 Lenses, 2 Groups - Payout $17.93

February 2008:
24 Lenses, 2 Groups - Payout $26.51

March 2008:
36 Lenses, 3 Groups - Payout $36.54

April 2008:
56 Lenses, 6 Groups - Payout $43.97

May 2008:
70 Lenses, 7 Groups - Payout $89.43

June 2008:
83 Lenses, 8 Groups - Payout $170.04

July 2008:
89 Lenses, 8 Groups - Payout $165.31

July 2008:
107 Lenses, 8 Groups - Payout $263.86

Royalties decreased after December due to switching over from using the Amazon module in some of my lenses to becoming an Amazon affiliate and using those links.

Drop in number of lenses in November and January were due to deleting some lenses that were doing badly and I didn't want to continue maintaining. Now I'd never do that, I'd find some way to make the lenses better.

July Payouts:
Payouts have moved to average lensrank which actually hurt my payouts. I had lenses that I created in July that were in the top tier at the end of the month make only 8 cents because they started out with a very low lensrank right after publishing which brought the month long average way down. This is going to be good for established lenses but definitely hurts new lenses that are doing well.

Also in the past all lenses even those below the 3rd tier cutoff got at least a penny, that seems to be gone. Kind of irritating for stats because I made so many new lenses in July that aren't listed in my royalty stats because their average fell below that cutoff.

September Lensrank and Lenses
I didn't do much editing, promoting, or making new lenses in September and late August. The reason for this sadly was that two of my uncles passed away within a month of each other. I really didn't have the time or motivation to both fulfill my duties as a Giant Squid Greeter and work on lenses so I focused on on being a Greeter and even that suffered. Things are looking up though and I hope to be back in the swing of things soon and hopefully my earnings for September won't take too much of a hit.

1: Use your Primary Tags well.
2: Keep things fresh. I never let my lenses go more than a couple weeks without being updated at least a little bit.
3: Squidcast
4: Participate at SquidU and on the Squidoo Chat.
5: Submit your lenses to Isle of Squid, Squoogle, and Lensroll.
6: Use Firefox.
7: Use the Squidoo Extension for Firefox.
8: Use the Squidoo Dashboard Extension for Firefox.
9: Get Greasemonkey for Firefox.10: Use the Squidoo Enhanced Greasemonkey script.
11: Get a Squidoo blog at SquidTop.
12: Turn on the contact option in your profile.
13: Join Squidoo Groups.
14: Petition the SquidAngels for blessings at SquidU.
15: People love how-to lenses.

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