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.-
Pastiche's Lensography
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This lensography features the most popular lenses on Squidoo by Pastiche - that's me. My newest lenses always appear at the beginning of this lens. Join my fan club - you'll get a Squidcast heads-up when I update one of your favorites. I'...
15-20 Top Tier Lenses
Twilight
Squidoo Top Lensmaster Bite Bella Joined August 26, 2007
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Enslaved by Faeries in an Ocean of Squids
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I'm just your ordinary work at home mom who proudly holds the title of Giant Squid and happens to be enslaved by faeries. I have been married to my best friend for 18 years. We are the proud parents of two beautiful daughters that are smart, sil...
Digital Photo Editing
Squidoo Top Lensmaster dagsmith Joined December 25, 2007
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Dagsmith Lensography
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Welcome to my Squidoo collection. It's hard to say why one builds Squidoo lenses - hobby; obsession; creative outlet? As this lensography shows my collection follows a few themes - digital photography, scrapbooking, Internet deals and more. Every...
Crafts & Recipes
Squidoo Top Lensmaster Noadi Joined May 3, 2007
Sheryl Westleigh talks about her "tentacled ramblings" on Noadi's Squidoo Blog.-
Noadi's Lensography
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This is a directory lens of all the Squidoo lenses, mostly art and craft related I also have lenses about authors, artists, animals, farm life, and more.
Food & Recipes
Squidoo Top Lensmaster rms Joined May 8, 2007
Robin S shares Squidoo tips on the Giant Squid Community Showcase-
Lenses by rms
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Hi. I'm rms and this is a lens about me and my lenses! My real name is Robin and I grew up and spent most of my life on Long Island. (That explains the accent.) I was, up until recently, the contributing editor of both Fresh Cooking From Your Ga...
Recipes
Squidoo Top Lensmaster ThomasC Joined January 30, 2008
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Zucchini Bread Recipe
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Zucchini Bread Recipe Have you just picked some fresh zucchini from your garden? Now you want to know how to turn that zucchini into a warm and tasty treat for the family to eat during supper? Try this Zucchini Bread Recipe that has a crunchy topping...
Spirituality
Squidoo Top Lensmaster Katinka Joined May 21, 2007
Katinka Hesselink shares Squidoo tips on her weblog.-
Spirituality's Lensography of lensographies
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What can I say to introduce myself. I'm an online addict who has two spiritual blogs, one spiritual website and so on. I'm interested in Religion, Spirituality, Webdesign, Search Engines (aka Google), Science fiction, Fantasy literature, the environm...
Local
Squidoo Top Lensmaster Tipi Joined June 26, 2008
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Squid Angel Tipi is Susie Lehto
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Happy New Year in 2010! ~ Real "Angelic Encounters" influence my life as a Squid Angel. I wish good souls to prosper on Squidoo and have loved my part. This round of Squid Angel's term of service will be ending with the new year. I'm grateful to Squi...
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.-
Are you a Stay at Home Mom (or Dad) Interested in Earning a Monthly Income?
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Okay, I am sure you are all thinking, "What's the catch?" Don't worry, there isn't one. I promise. I am a stay at home mom and I will show you how Squidoo is helping me earn a monthly income while still being home to take care of my children. What i...
Product Reviews
Squidoo Top Lensmaster bdkz Joined February 17, 2007
Bonnie is a Giant Squid Organizer and generously mentors Giant Squids on Squidoo here.-
Who The Heck Is bdkz?
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Who is bdkz? That's a tough question to answer but here's a start! I'm a Giant Squid Organizer, Head RocketMom and a Squid Angel. I have created over 400 lenses, been "Lens of the Day" twice and have had 15 of my lens in the Top 100. I have also sna...
Concert Tours, Tickets, Setlists & Reviews
Squidoo Top Lensmaster JimH Joined September 25, 2006
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Concert Tours 2008-2009 Setlists and Reviews
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I'm always looking for setlists and reviews of my favorite bands and artists when they go on tour. It's always hit and miss, sometimes finding the information and sometimes searching forever with no results found. What I decided to do was to set up...
Tatoos & Costumes
Squidoo Top Lensmaster relache Joined April 10, 2006
Rae Schwarz shares her online resume here.-
The Illustrious Rachel Schwarz
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Welcome to the lens about Rachel Schwarz, writer-artist, eclectic human, dress-up maven and Squidoo Lensmastress. On April 10, 2006 Rachel Schwarz was reading the New York Times online when she came across an article about a new site called Squidoo th...
Dogs & Natural Medicines For Pets
Squidoo Top Lensmaster flowergardener Joined June 9, 2007
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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Dog Medicine Side Effects
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Prepare to be shocked! The dog medicines prescribed for your best friend hold many 'shushed-up' side effects. Find the most prescribed pet meds and their side effects - which are often harmful and fatal - on the detailed listing below. Just to name...
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.-
Stuff that Is Funchico!
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I started writing about Funky, Chic and Cool Laptop Bags. And then I found more funchico stuff to write about. So this is where I thought I would pull it all together. Thank you for visiting!
Niche Lenses of Top Lensmasters
Have A Second Look By The Type of Content
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.
How Many Page Views Do Other Lenses Get?
Here's my favorite link:
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.-
How to Find and Expand a Niche
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There is a lot of talk about building a niche. Everyone is saying: make niche lenses! They have a better chance to be found by search engines! Become an expert in your niche! This is all great! And you should do this! But... how? Today there is so...
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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Keyword Tips for Squidoo
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It's Time for Keywords! Keywords are the words that link your content to your visitors. They are the words people type into search engine search bars to come up with the information they need. Your selection of keywords can make or break your lens....
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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- seashell2 seashell2 Oct 20, 2009 @ 9:26 pm
- Awesome lens... thanks for sharing all this great information!
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- PotPieGirl PotPieGirl Oct 19, 2009 @ 10:35 am
- 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 lakern26 Oct 17, 2009 @ 1:34 pm
- 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 Sojourn Oct 11, 2009 @ 9:45 am
- 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 ChineseKitesforKids Oct 9, 2009 @ 5:54 pm
- 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 Brookelorren Oct 5, 2009 @ 11:59 pm
- 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 shajo Oct 3, 2009 @ 5:30 pm
- This is very interesting and it inspiring! Thank you! :)
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- prosperity66 prosperity66 Oct 1, 2009 @ 12:11 pm
- 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 Tipi Sep 29, 2009 @ 8:47 pm
- 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 dagsmith Sep 28, 2009 @ 10:15 pm
- 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 daybreak Sep 27, 2009 @ 7:14 pm
- 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 Pukeko Sep 20, 2009 @ 7:15 am
- fantastic lens. Great advice. I am going to read and study this lens a few times.
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- chefkeem chefkeem Sep 17, 2009 @ 10:55 pm
- Brilliant lens idea, Adrienne. Deserves a hearty SquidAngel Blessing. :-)
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- Treasures-By-Brenda Treasures-By-Brenda Sep 17, 2009 @ 3:47 pm
- Nicely done, Adrienne & blessed.
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- Light-in-me Light-in-me Sep 16, 2009 @ 3:20 pm
- 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 puzzlemaker Sep 13, 2009 @ 4:40 pm
- 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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- CoolFoto CoolFoto Sep 9, 2009 @ 10:53 am
- Well, I have 3 purple stars, that helped ranking for a short while. Now have 5 ranked below 10,000 and 6 more ranked under 20,000.
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- GonnaFly GonnaFly Sep 9, 2009 @ 2:30 am
- Thanks Adrienne. This is a great read for a newbie like me. Something to aspire to!
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- makingamark makingamark Sep 8, 2009 @ 3:24 am
- What a great lens - and thanks for doing the analysis and identifying what actually works! I absolutely agree about the persistence aspect and also the benefits of working in a specialised niche. I have four themes:
- resources for artists
- resources for art lovers
- great gardens
- cats (very minor)
The bulk of my 102 lenses belong to the first two themes and they generate traffic for one another. All get backed up by posts on my blog
I'm giving you a 5* as you've really highlighted something useful here.
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- ThomasC ThomasC Sep 8, 2009 @ 1:27 am
- 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! (well except some of the junk ones I built early one that need to be deleted, but just takes too long to delete them type of.... oh sorry... lol!
Anyway 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!
Thanks for considering me a top lensmaster! I guess my life does kind of revolve around squidoo.
ThomasC
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