2011-06-25

Another Tier 1 Lens!

Great news! Another lens of mine just climbed into the Tier 1 and now I can count 2 of my lenses in this tier :) This is indeed a great reason for a little celebration.

This is one step closer to my goals for Squidoo 60 Day Challenge. I know I won't reach 10 Tier 1 lenses till 1st of July, but I have two Tier 1 lenses now and other are ranking higher and higher every day. So I'm really optimistic about other lenses as well. I think I can reach 10 lenses in Tier 1 till the end of this summer.

The lens I'm talking about is 10 Best Selling Laptops 2011. Why it's in the Tier 1? Backlinks with proper anchor tags, quite a lot of sales, nice traffic stats and constant updates. I redesigned a lens a little, added some text and new modules and implement RSS feeds for best selling laptops from Amazon directly into the lens. And the lensrank sky-rocked by the night :)

I will do some studies to see which site brings the most traffic and which backlinks are performing well and then I post my experiences here.

2011-06-24

2 New Lenses

I want to present my two new lenses. Brand new, pretty cool and filled with information and content.

1. Sexy Anime Figurines

Anime figures and manga figurines are making me quite a lot of money on Squidoo and sales are pretty great. Traffic is rising day by day and lenses about the topic rank high. That's why I decided to make a small network of lenses for this niche. I hope I will increase my earnings by doing so.

Sexy Anime Figurines is a lens about cool and attractive anime figures that you can buy online for affordable prices. These figurines are really awesome, high quality products and designed in details. If you love anime and figurines combined with beauty and babes than this page will fit you just fine! Browse the lens and find the best anime figurines.

2. Top 10 Digital SLR Cameras 2011

I made a list of best selling and top rated DSLR cameras in 2011. I love photography, I'm experimenting with stock photography and I'm making money online selling photos and stock photos. And every photographer knows that a quality digital SLR camera is one of the strongest weapon in photography if you want to make high quality photos.

Check out the lens Top 10 DSLR Cameras and find the best digital SLR cameras available on the market right now. You'll see that these cameras are really affordable and are worth their price!

Introducing The New Giant Squid Club

Some big changes are coming to Giant Squid Club on Squidoo. Squidoo recently sent an email to all who sent an application to join Giant Squid Club and introduce the new changes in the program and new minimums for joining the program.

In this post I want to present these new changes and new standards for new Giant Squids.

The 3 things you need to know:

1. Squidoo is asking all those who recently sent an application to join the Giant Squid Club to fill out a new application form. Anyone who doesn't apply here won't be considered for the Giant Squid Club.

Here is the application to fill out: https://squidoo.wufoo.com/forms/join-the-giant-squid-club/

2. You only have to have 25 lenses, not 50, in order to apply! But wait. That does mean it's easier to get in. In fact, Squidoo have even higher standards of quality for those 25 lenses. They also need to be published, featured (not Work in Progress), and so good you want to share them with the others.

Let's say you have 54 published & featured lenses, but maybe you rushed a bit to get them done by the June 30 Giant Squid deadline. Maybe they're not all quite as good as you'd like. You caught a break! If you have at least 25 that are insanely great, then you're ready to apply.

On the other hand, if you've been working since March and have 115 superstar lenses, then you can apply for 'Giant 100' right away and get the perks for that level if you're approved.

3. There are no more deadlines. You can apply whenever you are ready, whenever you are certain your lenses are really strong. So take your time, no rushing, no all-nighters. Just good solid lenscrafting.

Read more about the changes and new Giant Squid Club in this post on Squidoo HQ blog.

2011-06-09

7 eBay Purchaces in 2 Days!

My lens Pink Floyd Action Figures is climbing up the letter and making sales and gaining rank. In fact, it made 7 eBay sales in the last 2 days. I was thinking about removing my eBay modules from my lenses but now I see that they worth something :)

Below are stats for this lens. You can see the eBay purchaces.

2011-06-08

iSteve: The Book of Jobs

I made a new lens dedicated to one of the most wanted books right now, The Book of Jobs. The book of Jobs or iSteve is a biography about Steve Jobs, the founder and CEO of Apple.

On the lens you can find all the important information about the book and the author, the latest news about the book and some links for further reading and stores where you can purchase the book.

Visit my lens Steve Jobs Biography.

You can pre-order the book now to get a special discount so check out the lens to find more info.


2011-06-05

Google +1 Button is now live on Squidoo!

Google recently offered bloggers and sites to add its +1 Button to their articles and content. Google +1 button is a simple bookmarking button, very similar to Facebook Like Button, that can help both bloggers and users to promote and explore good content. If you want to know more about this new Google feature please read my article Google +1 Button for Bloggers on my blog Blog of Zoso.

Google +1 Button is currently available just for Giant Squids.You can read the official announcement about this new feature and testing on Squidoo HQ Blog.

How Can This Improve My Lenses?

If you +1 a lens it will be recommended to your community and friends. So if your friends search for a specific keyword related to your lens, your lens will appear higher in search results and Google will show your recommendations to your friends and your network. This can help you to increase your traffic and gain some quality readers that are interested in the topics you're covering. People will more likely to check out something that someone has recommended to them.

What Google says
Here’s what Google has said about their goals and how this might positively affect SEO:

Content recommended by friends and acquaintances is often more relevant than content from strangers. For example, a movie review from an expert is useful, but a movie review from a friend who shares your tastes can be even better. Because of this, +1′s from friends and contacts can be a useful signal to Google when determining the relevance of your page to a user’s query. This is just one of many signals Google may use to determine a page’s relevance and ranking, and we’re constantly tweaking and improving our algorithm to improve overall search quality. For +1′s, as with any new ranking signal, we’ll be starting carefully and learning how those signals affect search quality.

Example
You’ll see the +1 button on Giant Squid lenses, next to the existing Facebook and Twitter social sharing buttons. New button looks like this:

The Google +1 button on a Giant Squid's lens



What do you think about this new feature? Do you think this new button will help to grow your traffic and rankings? Share your thoughts in comments.

2011-06-01

Article Directories List

Here is the list of the best Article Directories you can use to promote your Squidoo lenses and get some high quality backlinks, improve your ranking and get more traffic. It's cool to use as many as you can, write a nice article and then include a link to your original lens on Squidoo.
  1. Ezine Articles
  2. Articles Base
  3. Suite101
  4. Buzzle
  5. Helium
  6. Go Articles
  7. Article Snatch
  8. Article Alley
  9. Article Dashboard
  10. Self Growth
  11. Idea Marketers
  12. Amazines
  13. i Snare
  14. Search Warp
  15. Article City
  16. Sooper Articles
  17. Article Click
  18. Article Rich
  19. Article Cube
  20. A1 Articles
  21. Article Stars
  22. Submit Your Articles
  23. ABC Article Directory
  24. Web Source
  25. Article Compilation
  26. Articles Factory
  27. Article Pool
  28. Evan Carmichael
  29. Site Reference
  30. Article Splash
  31. UPublish
  32. ACME Articles
  33. e-Articles
  34. Article Nexus
  35. The Whir
  36. 990m
  37. Articles Alley
  38. Four PX Articles
  39. Article Cell
  40. Article Bliss
  41. Article Monkeys
  42. Every Query
  43. Article WareHouse
  44. The Content Corner
  45. Articles Just 4 You
  46. Article Wheel 
  47. Affsphere
  48. 365 Articles
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