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.

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.

Squidoo 60 Day Challenge

I'm working on my own Squidoo 60 Day Challlenge.A challenge when I want to see if I can really achieve something real with this Squidoo things and increase my earnings to some nice monthly number.

Check out my lens Squidoo 60 Day Challenge for more info, updates and inspiring comments :)

My main goals in this challenge:

1. I want to Make 10 Tier 1 lenses
2. I want to Make 30 Tier 2 lenses
3. I want to Make 40 Tier 3 lenses
4. I want to start selling at least 2 Amazon products per day
5. I want to start selling at least 1 iTunes song per day
6. I will try to become a Giant Squid with my work during the challenge
7. I want to reach the Highest Level on Squidoo
8. I want to grow my fan club and get 500 Fans on Squidoo
9. I want to get a Purple Star :)
10. I want to increase my weekly traffic to 10.000 or more per week

So these are my main ten goals for this Squidoo 60 Day Challenge. I will work hard and try to achieve most of these goals in 60 days or less. And then stay there :) On the lens about the challenge you can find my progress and see where I'm going with tiers and stuff.

And a little more about earnings. My ideas is this: If I create 10 Tier 1 lenses, 30 Tier 2 lenses and 40 Tier 3 lenses I will increase my earnings from Squidoo ad sharing to app. $400 per month.

I hope you like this challenge and you'll check out my lens to see my progress and experiences. I will share my experiences and updates here and on the lens so bookmark them for further reading and updates if you're interesting in this challenge yourself.