5 Tier 1 Lenses! WOW!

Today is anoter day for celebrating :) I will surely drink a beer or two to celebrate the latest lensrank update on Squidoo :) I now have 5 lenses in Tier 1! 2 new tier 1 lenses in one lensrank update. Ben 10 Coloring  Pages and Me Gutsa Meme climbed up to tier 1 :) Awesome :)

So what have I done to reach this?

I think that two things count the most to get the best rank on Squidoo. Traffic and clickouts. I've done a little analysis of my top 5 lenses on Squidoo and this are the two things that they have in common. Traffic and clickouts. My top lens that is ranked #130 doesn't have a single sale in almost a year. It doesn't have much backlinks! But it receives 10.000 views per week and few thousands clickouts per month. And it's my best lens.
I compared this lens to my other 4 tier 1 lens and they all have quite a lot of traffic and a lot of clickouts. Not as much sales, backlinks and likes. So I guess this is it.n Clickouts and traffic.

Increase Clickouts and Traffic to Improve your Rankings

I will surely work hard to improve next 5 lenses that rank best in tier 2 to get them into Tier 1. And you should work on your lenses too to get better rankings and get more money from AdPool. And you can see that sales and likes don't count that much in terms of overall rankings so be sure to concentrate on traffic and clickouts. Be sure to add Link List Module, Link Voting module, Amazon Modules and include related and interesting links in your text modules, pools and intro. This will surely increase the number of your clickouts and improve your rankings. Try it and observe!

Celebrating my 3rd Tier 1 Lens!

My Squidoo 60 Day Challenge has ended and I will post all the stats and updated tomorrow on this blog. But first, let me just say that I now have 3 tier one lenses on Squidoo! This is a very great news for me :) Two months ago my best ranked lens was a little above 5000. So having three tier 1 lenses now is a great success.

My third tier 1 lens is Top Rated Digital SLR Cameras 2011.

Again, backlinks on related sites worked really well. Backlinks increased traffic and ranking and my overall rank for this lens jumped overnight.

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.