New Design and New Goal

This blog has a brand new design and I must say that I am really satisfied with this new look. The template is inspired by Daily Blog Tips, a very cool blog about blogging and making money online. If you don't know about Daily Blog Tips I really recommend you that you check it out! :)

This new design gives this blog a fresh look, it's easier to read and the advertisements really work well on templates with white background and sidebars on both sides of the blog. Revenue is one of the biggest reason for changing the design. This blog receives high traffic every day and income is rising day by day. So I guess this will increase the revenue of this blog a little bit more :)

I am still working on some minor changes in the layout and I will ad some very cool features and plugins in the short feature that all Squidoo lensmasters and marketers would most certainly love to use. Stay tuned for new updates and tools for Squidoo.

The main reason for this change is my goal to put this blog to a whole new level. I know that frequency of the posts on this blog doesn't quite go along with the title and my main goal is to change this. I am quite good at Squidoo now and I can say that I'm making good money there. So I have plenty of tips and advices to share with you. Therefore I decided to actually post a tip or article every day so this blog will actually be DAILY Squidoo tips. I hope this will increase both traffic and revenue even more.

I hope you like the new look. Stay tuned for some cool Squidoo tips in the future. Every day, I promise :)

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.

Tools and Resources for Squidoo Lensmasters

Ok, let's first list some tools and resources that will surely help you to make better and wonderful Squidoo lenses and optimize them well. Squidoo can be quite difficult if you want to add some style and design to your lenses because this requires some CSS and HTML knowledge. So if you're not familiar with coding or if you want to simplify your Squidoo experiences these tools can really help you to make better lenses.

Check out my lens Tools and Resources for Squidoo Lensmasters and find the best tools to use on Squidoo. I listed a lot of really helpful lenses from fellow lensmasters where you can find a lot of useful and helpful tips and tools for Squidoo deigns, graphics for Squidoo and tips that will help you with CSS and HTML.

On the lens you can find the following:

• Tools for Squidoo
• Best Tools for Squidoo
• RSS tools and tools for Selling modules
• Traffic and SEO
• Squidoo Directories
• Submit to Search Engines
• HTML and CSS
• Graphics for Squidoo
• Making Money on Squidoo
• Best Money Making Squidoo modules
• Best Tips for Lensmasters
• Squidoo tips from Bloggers
• Addons for Your Lenses
• Books about Squidoo

 Image credit: SquidArt Too by Steve Thompson

Welcome to Daily Squidoo Tips

Hello and welcome on Daily Squidoo Tips!

This is the very fist post on this blog so I will introduce myself and made few intro points regarding this blog.

My name is Tilen Hrovatic and I'm an active Squidoo lensmaster. I made more than 150 lenses, a majority of them are high ranked and I'm making money on Squidoo. You can view my Squidoo profile here.

This blog is dedicated to Squidoo and those who like Squidoo and want to learn more about it. I will share my tips about making money on Squidoo, SEO for Squidoo and other Squidoo related tips here. I will try to share my experiences and things I've learned from being an active Squidoo lensmaster for some time. I want to share tips that will help you to make some real money on Squidoo and optimize and promote your Squidoo lenses so they will be attractive to visitors and search engines.

Expect daily posts on this blog. This blog is called Daily Squidoo tips and I will stick to the schedule and post every day, so there will be a lot of useful articles and resources here after some time :)

I hope you'll like this blog and my posts. You can subscribe to the blog (widget in the sidebar and FeedBurner E-mail subscription) to receive the updates and stay informed about Squidoo tips.

Have a nice day!