New Lens: The Golden Ratio

Golden Ratio

The niche idea about the golden ratio just came to me, so I thought I would do some keyword research and found a few long tail keywords that have very little competition.  I knew that I needed to finish the lens quickly, since it was the end of the month and Squidoo does not give you any credit for the month in which your lens is created.

I have placed a link to my golden ratio lens on to Squidu, but I am holding off from putting it on StumbleUpon until July, since I should see a nice run-up with folks coming from SquidU to my lens.

Repaired My Mitt Romney Mormon Lens

Mitt Romney Mormon

My Mitt Romney LDS lens was unpublished by Squidoo a week ago and I finally go around to making some changes to it.  I took a look at the Google Keyword Tool to see if there might be more keywords for which I could optimize the lens.  I did find a few easy to rank keywords (I hope!) and added them to the lens.  I also made a change in the title, adding a few more keywords.

I am hopeful that these changes will make the lens succeed.  I think that with the Presidential election on the way, this lens could do pretty well.

Happy National Sunglasses Day 2012!

Sunglasses Day

Today is National Sunglasses Day!  Every year on June 27 we can celebrate sunglasses for all that they are.  They alone have made people look cool and rise to stardom.  Singers, like Corey Hart, became one hit wonders singing about them.  Who can forget Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator or Tom Cruise in Risky Business.

Of course, I wrote a lens on National Sunglasses Day, so go ahead an click the link above!

New Lens: NoFollow Links

NoFollow

I finally finished another Squidoo lens called NoFollow Backlinks - my first since my Star Parker Biography lens.  It seemed like a good theme, since the Google Panda and Penguin updates really did a job on those internet marketers who had focused solely on dofollow backlinking.

I have shared the lens on Stumbleupon, Digg and Delicous and on SquidU, in their recent lens thread.  I think that it will do well, but you never know.

Gigantic Day For Katie Pavlich

Katie Pavlich Fast and Furious

One bit of news and lens visits go through the roof!  Yesterday, the Senate oversight committee voted to find Eric Holder in contempt for the Fast and Furious investigation.  Katie Pavlich literally wrote the book on the Fast and Furious debacle.

Once the contempt charges were made public, visits to my lens on Katie increased a ton.  In fact, I received over 500 visits yesterday alone and am on my way to well over 100 lens visits today.  I am now trying to get a few more backlinks for my best keywords to see if I can rank 1st in Google for them.  I can't imagine how many visits I would have gotten, if I would have ranked first.

My Katie Pavlich lens has now moved into the top 10,000.  Hopefully, I can keep moving up, so that my average for the month was within that top ten thousand.

April 2012 Squidoo Earnings

Sorry for my late post on my Squidoo earnings, but I ended up vacationing in Hawaii with my family and had very little time to get on the computer.

Overall, I had my second best month ever on Squidoo!  I only made more during a month where I made a pretty significant Amazon sale, which did not occur this time, so, in reality, my Squidoo earnings for April 2012 is trending upwards.  I am hopeful that my May earnings were even higher - I am pretty sure that they will be.

Squidoo Earnings

I made $12.51 in April from these lenses:

High PR Backlinks ($8.53)
High Quality Backlinks  ($2.55)
Free Social Bookmarking Sites  ($0.58)
Gold Bulova Watches for Women  ($0.43)
Get Instant Backlinks  ($0.43)

Not a great month, but things are really starting to look up, as I have several lenses that are now in the top 80,000 and three that are in the coveted top 10,000 lenses.

Doing Pretty Well With Keyword Research

Keyword Research

I seem to be doing pretty well with keyword research, since many of the new Squidoo lenses that I have been creating have been moving up the SERPs pretty quickly.  My Who Is Wayne Dyer lens is now on the 2nd page after hovering on page 10 for a couple of weeks.  My Bastille Day lenses are on the second page, except for Bastille Day Milwaukee, which is on page one.  I have not yet moved into #1 position, so I have not seen a huge influx of traffic, like I get for my top two lenses, but as the lenses age, I am hopeful that they will continue to move up the SERPs.  I will also continue to create backlinks to them.

New Lens: Star Parker Biography

Just finished up another lens, since I am going on vacation and will not be able to make another lens for over a week.  I continued with my female conservatives theme and created a lens about Star Parker.  I have made similar lenses about Lila Rose, Pamela Geller and Rachel Marsden.

Star Parker biography

I think that the Squidoo lens should do well, as the keywords that I am optimizing for are not that competitive with the obvious main keyword being Star Parker Biography.

New Lens: Traffic Travis Review

Traffic Travis Review

Since Squidoo doesn't pay for the traffic that you produce to your lens during the month in which your lens is published, I have decided to focus on sales lenses now.  Unlike Sunglasses Day this lens is all about sales of a Clickbank item that I have titled Traffic Travis Review.

Sine I have done very well on the SEO type of lenses, I thought that this lens would fit in pretty nicely.  My lenses, Free Do Follow Backlinks and High Quality Backlinks, should be able to drive some decent traffic to the lens, along with SEO.

New Lens: National Sunglasses Day

Sunglasses Day

It took up the Squidoo quest to create a lens for a wacky or offbeat June holiday, since there was 200 points in it for me - Sunglasses Day seemed to be the most interesting, little competition and some side benefit of possible Amazon sales on sunglasses.

National sunglasses day is on June 27 every year.  I tried to optimize my lens for sunglasses day, but also some low competition long tail keywords around sunglasses.  I think that I did a decent job and I hope that Google gets the lens crawled quickly and gets it ranked, so that I can see some traffic and get some Amazon sales.  Since the lens was created in June, I know that I won't get paid for the traffic.

Remember, wear your sunglasses on National Sunglasses Day on June 27 - even at night!

New Lens: Notre Dame Jerseys

I decided to keep the Notre Dame theme going and published a new Squidoo lens titled Notre Dame Jerseys.  This lens is a sales lens, unlike my other three ND lenses:  ND SMC Observer, Notre Dame Football News and 2010 Notre Dame Recruits.

Notre Dame Jerseys

There is quite a bit more competition for the keyword, so I have been a bit more lenient on the number of long tail keywords that I have used in the initial text box - deciding to go all out with jersey numbers, types, sports, et al.

My hope is that the lens has time to rank with Google with multiple keywords throughout the summer, so that it is ready for the NCAA football season.

Squidoo Lens Repair Gone Wrong?

Squidoo Lens Repair

I thought that I was making a smart decision changing up my Free Instant Backlinks Generator lens a bit.  I changed the title from "Thousands of Backlinks Instantly Generated" to "Get and Build Instant Backlinks - Generators, Submitter and Lists".  I am hoping that Google crawls the lens pretty soon or it will have been a Squidoo lens repair gone very, very wrong.

As of now, I have no visits to the lens, when there normally are at least a few.  Hopefully my other lenses, Free DoFollow Backlinks and High Quality Backlinks, can deliver enough traffic to keep the lens in Tier 3.  I might have to rethink how I conduct my Squidoo lens repairs in the future.

New Lens: ND Observer

Hot off the press is a new lens that I put together about the University of Notre Dame school and student newspaper, The Observer.  I have been trying to get to a third and a fourth lens about ND to go along with Notre Dame football recruiting and 2010 ND football recruits, so that more traffic can flow through them.

ND SMC Student Newspaper

I probably should have thought about doing this lens on the ND SMC Observer, when school was in session, but it will give the lens some time to crawl up the SERPs before students get back into school and football season starts.

My Squidoo Earnings

Squidoo Earnings

Most of my lenses are new, but from the lenses that I had already built has already gained me $60.96 in Squidoo earnings ($59.32 Cash and $1.64 Charity).  These Squidoo earnings came mostly from two lenses:  Bulova Watches For Women and Free DoFollow Backlinks.

I have really increased the number of Squidoo lenses that I am producing - trying to generate one lense a day - so I am hopeful that my earnings will drastically increase, as I continue to build my lensography.

I will have an updated post each time that I get paid to show my Squidoo earnings for the period and for my overall time on Squidoo.

My Squidoo Lens and Earnings Blog

Squidoo

I have been dedicating myself more and more to Squidoo, as of late, after starting off my year trying to make a dollar a day on Triond.  Slowly I noticed that the earnings on Triond are not great, so I began to explore my other options and since I had a few Squidoo lenses to my name, I thought that I would Squid-dabble instead.

I am now going full bore into my Squidoo lensmastership and am attempting to produce one lens a day, though it is a very daunting task, especially if I want to create quality lenses.  So far things have been going well, so I thought I would blog about any updates that I make to my lenses and try to drive some traffic to Squidoo through this blog, as well.