My First Tier 1 Lens

My hard work and a lot of coffee finally took me somewhere on Squidoo. By following tips from some succesful lensmasters and building a network of quality backlinks I manage to move one of my lenses to Tier 1. For those who don't know what Tier 1 is, this is a group of Squidoo lenses with rankings from 1 to 2000. These lenses get the most from advertising revenue each month and April payment for tier 1 lenses was a little less than $30. So you see, it's really good to have some lenses in the highest tier on Squidoo.

The lens I am talking about is Funny and Cool Facebook Status Updates where I made a list and resources of ideas for funny and inspirational ideas for Facebook status updates. Facebook is a trending topic right now and people search for pages with stuff for their Facebook wall. And it seems that a lot of folks like my lens.

5 things that made this happen

1. Backlinks. I made a lot of quality backlinks on different sites. I wrote a unique description on each bookmarking site and add a link to my lens on Squidoo. I also submit these other links with more unique description so I build a small but powerfull network of links pointing to my original lens.
2. Promotion. I promoted the lens on Facebook and Twitter and the news is spreading real quick. My traffic skyrocked and I am happy to announce that I will hit 3000 weekly views.
3. Fresh Content. I added some fresh content to the lens and reorganize my modules so it looks better. New content really boosted its rank.
   
4. Links. Added two capsules for featured links on the lens where I listed links with more sites that offer ideas for Facebook updates. Because the links are related to my lens and people are interested in them the lens have a lot of clickouts and high CTR. This really improve raking.
5. Tags. I first made some research about tags on Squidoo and modified tags for this lens a little. I used tags really related to the lens and traffic really increased because of this.

I hope you will find some of these tips useful. I am still learning about Squidoo ranking so I can't tell for sure what is the most important for a good ranking but when I'll know for sure I'll be happy to let you know.

Getting in Tier 1 is a first big step in my Squidoo 60 day challenge where I intend to build 10 lenses in Tier 1. So this is a first step and 9 remain. But I am exited and really happy to have a lens in Tier 1! And some other lenses are climbing really fast so with some work I expect to have at least 3 more Tier 1 lenses in a week or so.