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Is It Possible To Have Multiple Top Tier Lenses?

Up till now I've just dabbled in Squidoo and my monthly payouts have been around $25-50. It's a thrill to get more than one lens in the top tier that pays out.

But I wanted to find out if it's possible to consistently maintain more than ten lenses in the Top 2000. I found at least a dozen such elite lensmasters, many of who generously offer tips on how to do so.

Who makes at least $70-$300/month?
Who makes at least $500/month?
Who makes at least $500-$1000/month?

Follow the Leaders

Best Practices of Top Squidoo Lensmasters

Turns out it is possible as proven by over a dozen lensmasters with at least 10 lenses each month in the Top Tier. Leading the pack is Pastiche a.k.a. Lee Hansen with over 30 lenses in the top tier. I invite you to visit the lenses of these top lensmasters and see what you can learn. For me, they continue to be a source of inspiration. If they can do it, I can too.

Niche Content

Pretty much all of these lensmasters excel by focusing on a particular niche then blog about it which helps get their lens indexed on Google, adds a backlink to their lens and can also possibly help generate Google AdSense revenue on their blog as well. See how flowergardener earns at least $500/month from her natural health pet niches, click here.

Blog About Squidoo

Most generously take the time to share their learnings and experiences with Squidoo which also has the added benefit of adding backlinks to their content and additional page views.

Persistence & Stick-to-it-ness

With the exception of Tipi who joined in 2008, all these lensmasters joined Squidoo between 2005 & 2007. This tells me that page views and lensrank come to those lensmasters who persist, learn how to create great content and figure out the most effective ways to promote it. Comment left by top lensmaster Thomas C:

I think you got it right when you mentioned "sticking to it" That is the best tip of all! Just start creating lenses and keep working on them! A lens is never complete in my book! My lenses all get a good dose of freshness! Just keep working on your lenses and keep making new ones to work on as well! After all, you can't have 30 lenses in the top tier if you don't have 30 lenses to begin with!

Image Source: terren in Virginia, used under Creative Commons, flickr.com

30 Top Tier Lenses

Paper Crafts, Clip Art, Coloring Pages

Squidoo Top Lensmaster Pastiche Joined August 12, 2007

Lee Hansen shares her Squidoo experience and stats on her blog 20th Century Geek Grrl.
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15-20 Top Tier Lenses

Twilight

Squidoo Top Lensmaster Bite Bella Joined August 26, 2007

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Digital Photo Editing

Squidoo Top Lensmaster dagsmith Joined December 25, 2007

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Crafts & Recipes

Squidoo Top Lensmaster Noadi Joined May 3, 2007

Sheryl Westleigh talks about her "tentacled ramblings" on Noadi's Squidoo Blog.
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Food & Recipes

Squidoo Top Lensmaster rms Joined May 8, 2007

Robin S shares Squidoo tips on the Giant Squid Community Showcase
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Recipes

Squidoo Top Lensmaster ThomasC Joined January 30, 2008

Thomas generously shares lensbuilding tips on squidbuilders.com
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Spirituality

Squidoo Top Lensmaster Katinka Joined May 21, 2007

Katinka Hesselink shares Squidoo tips on her weblog.
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Local

Squidoo Top Lensmaster Tipi Joined June 26, 2008

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10+ Top Tier Lenses

Kid's Birthday Parties

Squidoo Top Lensmaster Janet 21 Joined January 5, 2007

Janet D shares her impressive monthly Squidoo earnings and payouts here which in 2009 range from $500-$1000/month with her biggest payout over $1,200 in one month. Find out also about her success on HubPages where Janet reports earnings of $500/month.
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Product Reviews

Squidoo Top Lensmaster bdkz Joined February 17, 2007

Bonnie is a Giant Squid Organizer and generously mentors Giant Squids on Squidoo here.
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Concert Tours, Tickets, Setlists & Reviews

Squidoo Top Lensmaster JimH Joined September 25, 2006

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Tatoos & Costumes

Squidoo Top Lensmaster relache Joined April 10, 2006

Rae Schwarz shares her online resume here.
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Dogs & Natural Medicines For Pets

Squidoo Top Lensmaster flowergardener Joined June 9, 2007

Deb's top lens about Dog Medicine Side Effects has been on the Top 100 for well over a year. Deb earns at least $500 per month on Squidoo. She blogs about her Squidoo experience on Little Debbies World. Comment left by Deb:

It helps immensely to have many lenses with valuable and interesting content in a popular niche. All of my lenses (37) in the 'dog' niche are over 2 years old. I was fortunate when I joined Squidoo, that what I wanted to write about had not been covered, so I just kept building on the niche. I have never not earned at least $500 per month through my lenses, whether it be adsense, module sales, or private affiliate sales.

In 2007 through half of 2008 I averaged 23 lenses in the top tier. Now I average 11, due to the algorythm changes and increase of lensmasters. I've won many awards and recognition through my 3 niches. I think it helps that I've kind of 'tied together' 2 of the niches. Natural medicine for people......and natural medicine for pets.

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5+ Top Tier Lenses

Laptop Bags

Squidoo Top Lensmaster mynameiskate Joined Oct 26, 2005

Kate Trgovac is one of Squidoo's premiere lensmasters. Kate reveals she makes approximately $70-$300/month tending to average around $120/month. Check out FAQs about My Lenses, My Traffic and My Secrets to Success.
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Niche Lenses of Top Lensmasters

Have A Second Look By The Type of Content

Think to succeed, you can just jump on the bandwagon and create lenses on these high lensranking niches? It's possible, but to be as successful it's best you have a genuine interest in the topic. Great content ultimately requires you have a passion for what you're writing about and something unique to communicate about the topic.

What's worth studying about these lensmasters in a shortcut to greatness is how they've invested their time and energy to establish solid backlinks and search engine optimized content. Check out how these lensmasters successfully cover a range of topics within a niche so you can ride on a tailwind towards success.

Ask yourself before you start writing, will I still be interested in this niche a year from now? To stay in the top tier, you gotta love your niche so much that you're prepared to keep the information constantly fresh.
  1. Paper Crafts, Clip Art, Coloring Pages
  2. Twilight
  3. Digital Photo Editing
  4. Crafts & Recipes
  5. Food & Recipes
  6. Recipes
  7. Spirituality
  8. Local
  9. Kid's Birthday Parties
  10. Product Reviews
  11. Concert Tours, Tickets, Setlists & Reviews
  12. Tatoos & Costumes
  13. Dogs & Natural Medicines For Pets
  14. Laptop Bags
  15. Got Niche? Get Words!

How Many Page Views Do Other Lenses Get?

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Curious About Traffic To Other People's Squidoo Lenses?

How to Find & Expand A Niche

Three Free Niche Marketing Lessons

From RMS check out this blog post on writing about a niche within a niche. Potpiegirl throws in her two cents about sub-niches, micro-niches & micro-micro niches and Giant Squid a_willow offers her insights on this featured lens.
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Got Niche? Get Words!

Choose Keywords With Less Competition

There's a bit of grumbling in the SquidU Forums about the Top Tier lenses being dominated by long time lensmasters and that it's impossible to get lenses into the higher paying stratas. But Erica Stone a.k.a. Sojourn joined in 2009 and proves that by learning the tricks of the trade from other top lensmasters, she's been able to catapult a steady stream of lenses into the top tier.

It's only been recently that I discovered a small but incredibly valuable secret on how to get lenses into the top tier that has made all the difference. Erica shares one of THE critical success factors that most newbies neglect but that can make all the difference.

Do you use Google Keywords Adwords Tool?
What about Google intitle/inanchor Searches?
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What Are Your Squidoo Goals?

Know of Anyone Else With 30+ Top Tier Lenses?

Many lensmasters suggest focusing on generating affiliate income with less emphasis on lensrank. This summer, I tried picking a product and building content around it but the lenses were uninteresting, I found the process boring and quit after a week.

So instead, I'm going to focus on developing strong content and write about something I feel passionate about and that's music and all things related to pop culture. The weird thing is by not focusing on affiliate income, one of my newest lenses about the Julie and Julia Soundtrack has already generated some sales of related products.

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    WindyWinters Dec 30, 2010 @ 10:09 pm | delete
    Wow! 30+ is a lot of lenses to have in the top tier. I had nine lenses in the top tier this holiday season and now just two. Best Wishes with your Squidooing!
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    makingamark Feb 9, 2010 @ 11:51 am | delete
    A brilliant idea for a lens and I do so agree about the need to be interested in your topic if you;re going to keep it ranking high.

    For the record, I've currently got eight top tier lenses and had eleven just recently which I think is the most I've ever had.
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    Ramkitten Feb 9, 2010 @ 11:11 am | delete
    Very interesting to see who was (is) on this list and to do some comparison, both amongst them and their lenses and to my own.
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    Barkely Jan 8, 2010 @ 11:00 am | delete
    I think stick-to-it-ness is very important. Some of my lenses jump out of the gate with traffic, but others have sat for up to a year then suddenly been discovered by Google. I think just regularly tweeking and adding new lenses is a big help. Fabulous lens idea! Love your insight.
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    seashell2 Oct 20, 2009 @ 9:26 pm | delete
    Awesome lens... thanks for sharing all this great information!
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    PotPieGirl Oct 19, 2009 @ 10:35 am | delete
    What a fantastic lens - Great work! You sure offered some valuable tips and insight that can really benefit other lensmasters.

    Sharing is a great way to prosper ;)

    There is no "secret" to Squidoo - well, not anything different from the "secret" of getting any web page to do well...lol.

    Optimizing the page, using keywords that will give you a better chance to rank and get found in Google and other search engines, and offering unique content about sum up the "secrets" (uh-oh, did I let the cat out of the bag? haha)

    Thanks for sharing this lens!

    Jennifer
    ~PotPieGirl
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    lakern26 Oct 17, 2009 @ 1:34 pm | delete
    Excellent lens! It's very interesting to know whose in the top tier and how they got there. Thanks so much for the helpful resource!
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    Sojourn Oct 11, 2009 @ 9:45 am | delete
    Adrienne - Thanks for the feature! (I'm blushing!!!) I was fortunate to have had a number of more experienced lensmasters help me along the way - some don't even know how much they helped. It was the time spent analyzing their work - as you do in this lens - that helped a few things click in to place. One of the things I love best about Squidoo is the helpful environment and the willingness with which people share information. It's made all the difference. Very nice lens!
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    ChineseKitesforKids Oct 9, 2009 @ 5:54 pm | delete
    You mean we can make money on here too...?????? LOL j/k

    I can't even imagine how much you make with 600 lenses...... great lens, thanks for sharing.
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    Brookelorren Oct 5, 2009 @ 11:59 pm | delete
    If I can bring in $750 a month (through all freelance sources, not just Squidoo) then I won't need outside income and I can focus on freelance (which is more fun to do). So that's my medium-range goal. I've hit $50 a month, so my next goal is $100/month.
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    shajo Oct 3, 2009 @ 5:30 pm | delete
    This is very interesting and it inspiring! Thank you! :)
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    prosperity66 Oct 1, 2009 @ 12:11 pm | delete
    Another of your lenses that goes directly into my computer bookmarks, Adrienne!
    This is not only an interesting one but also really well done and agreeable to read: as soon as started to read, I knew I would learn something!
    Dom.
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    Tipi Sep 29, 2009 @ 8:47 pm | delete
    Wow! You sure do come up with some good ideas for lenses. This is real neat.
    Thank you creating it and best wishes to you...always!
    Susie
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    dagsmith Sep 28, 2009 @ 10:15 pm | delete
    Great lens! I have been able to move ~12 lenses to Tier 1 but I need to take some of these ideas to ensure that I can keep these lenses in the top Tier!
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    daybreak Sep 27, 2009 @ 7:14 pm | delete
    I have to agree that writing about what you are interested in and passionate about is 1000 times easier than picking a topic solely for financial reasons.

    I think our culture places financial gain far to high on our list of priorities.

    What could possibly be more rewarding than serving our community?
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    Pukeko Sep 20, 2009 @ 7:15 am | delete
    fantastic lens. Great advice. I am going to read and study this lens a few times.
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    chefkeem Sep 17, 2009 @ 10:55 pm | delete
    Brilliant lens idea, Adrienne. Deserves a hearty SquidAngel Blessing. :-)
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    Treasures-By-Brenda Sep 17, 2009 @ 3:47 pm | delete
    Nicely done, Adrienne & blessed.
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    Light-in-me Sep 16, 2009 @ 3:20 pm | delete
    Hello,
    I started in the end of March 2009, I am just starting to build a niche or two. It took a lot of reading to try to understand everything, fortunatly there are many wonderful lenses that provide a wealth of great how to information. The traffic is slowly starting to come, I plan on continuing my efforts slow and steady. The hardest part is finding the time. This is a great lens, gives me hope. The Megan Casey interview is really great, it was so nice to see her and I am truly inspired to go for my vision.

    Thank you for sharing,

    Robin
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    puzzlemaker Sep 13, 2009 @ 4:40 pm | delete
    Because so many niches are already covered here on Squidoo, I think lensmasters have to press themselves to be more and more creative. BUT as creative people we are up to the challenge! I've heard the advice "Give it at least a year" a couple of times, so when I started with Squidoo that was my goal...work at it hard and as much as possible for a year and see where I stand. I love Squidoo and can learn tons and tons from other lensmasters. And the community aspect is the best perk yet!
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