Tips for building successful squidoo pages

[Roo]

Just wanted to add a further tip to those using squidoo -

Use your Profile!

Your profile will accept basic html the first 100 or so characters will appear by default on each lens with a 'more' option to display it in full. You can create custom profiles for each lens if you wish.

I'm only just starting to fill out my profile in full, so far I've included a couple of banner ads and a stat counter, though will be adding more soon! My results of the first 12 hours of having a hit counter showed 50+ hits, and the stats analysis showed most of these were as a result of people clicking the 'more' button when viewing a lens. This is a much higher rate than I expected, so will be adding more to my profile soon!

[temi]

Thanks for that tip, I will add more details to my profile as well, my profile is actually showing up in search engine search as well.

[TeamPlayer]

Originally Posted by temi

Thanks for that tip, I will add more details to my profile as well, my profile is actually showing up in search engine search as well.

Wow, that`s not taken long.

[temi]

BTW Geoff, your site is now number 6 in the top 10 in the sports section, what do we have to do to make it number 1?

[livetech]

That's a great tip. I've added some links to my profile

[TeamPlayer]

Yes, I`m really pleased with it Temi. At one time I thought that all that was necessary was to keep adding content - text- modules - images etc, and that would help it get up the rankings.

Now though I realise it takes more than that, especially important is activity from others - lensrolling, ranking, favoriting, joining my fan club etc. In other words if others are perceived to like my lens it definitely helps.

Hopefully we`ll all continue to help one another in threads such as this in which members give helpful tips, and the other one about rating one another`s lenses.

[temi]

Cool TeamPlayer, I will keep encouraging others to visit your site as well, you are the one who actually got me into squidoo

[Roo]

Originally Posted by TeamPlayer

Now though I realise it takes more than that, especially important is activity from others - lensrolling, ranking, favoriting, joining my fan club etc. In other words if others are perceived to like my lens it definitely helps.

True, if you look at the top 100 overall the thing most of them will have in common is that they encourage the visitor to interact using poll's and plexo's.

Though cracking the top 100 is pretty tricky, and there's a lot of very good competition. I've currently got a lens that's ranked 5th in it's category and has been for the last week, though the lensrank has bounced between 118 and 141 in that time.

The thing to remember though, a high lensrank will gain a very little extra juice from search engines, but is it worth the effort if you're constantly updating to try and get a little higher up the rankings if this isn't converting into sales or visitors to either your lens or the website you're using it to promote.

I wish I'd put a stat counter on my profile page before, it's pretty amazing how many views I'm getting on it, I really hadn't thought of using the profile before, in less than 24hours I've had over 150 views!

[TeamPlayer]

I wish I'd put a stat counter on my profile page before, it's pretty amazing how many views I'm getting on it, I really hadn't thought of using the profile before, in less than 24hours I've had over 150 views!

Well done Roo, that`s quite a lot. Is it possible to tell how many of those are repeat visitors as opposed to new visitors?

[Roo]

Originally Posted by TeamPlayer

Well done Roo, that`s quite a lot. Is it possible to tell how many of those are repeat visitors as opposed to new visitors?

I'm using html tracking from Statcounter.com and although this isn't as fully featued as the java version it does identify which are returning visitors and those viewing it multiple times in one session.

Stats from midnight, to 10.20pm - 155 page loads, 131 uniques, 6 returning visitors.

I'm still a bit stunned by this and am curious as to whether this is somehow tracking actual views of my profile or it somehow is the equivalent of putting tracking on each page, and even though the counter does not show, it registers a visit. I've got too many lenses to check the stats on each lens to see.