This is why SquidQuizzes need extra content.
Take a look at what happens to the lensrank of an old SquidQuiz when I supplement it with new content for search engines to pick up. A little promotion doesn’t hurt either.
Average Lensrank – Nov ’09 to Sep ’10: 105,197
Lensrank – Oct 5 2010: 101,282
Lensrank – Oct 12 2010: 13,824
Ten months in the life of a Squidquiz:
Breakdown from SquidUtils:
| Date | Lensrank | Visits |
| November 2009 | 127,995 | 1 |
| December 2009 | 93,938 | 36 |
| January 2010 | 103,854 | 66 |
| February 2010 | 121,585 | 47 |
| March 2010 | 110,926 | 53 |
| April 2010 | 80,809 | 51 |
| May 2010 | 118,422 | 48 |
| June 2010 | 89,571 | 35 |
| July 2010 | 122,344 | 43 |
| August 2010 | 106,551 | 49 |
| September 2010 | 103,974 | 52 |
Lensrank Last Seven Days:
Breakdown from SquidUtils:
| Date | Lensrank | Visits |
| 30 September 2010 | 104,110 | 0 |
| 1 October 2010 | 108,284 | 0 |
| 2 October 2010 | 109,855 | 4 |
| 3 October 2010 | 106,819 | 4 |
| 4 October 2010 | 103,502 | 6 |
| 5 October 2010 | 101,282 | 4 |
| 6 October 2010 | 69,496 | 3 |
| 7 October 2010 | 75,158 | 1 |
| 8 October 2010 | 80,357 | 3 |
| 9 October 2010 | 84,138 | 4 |
| 10 October 2010 | 84,121 | 6 |
| 11 October 2010 | 25,125 | 18 |
So far so good, although most of this is not sustainable since it derives from SquidLikes which wear off in a few weeks.
However, as outlined in the first post for the Tier One Challenge, I’ve been laying the foundations for longterm improvements; the Squidoo social stuff is a side effect and not what I’m targeting. I see single search traffic results from Yahoo, Google, and Ask targeting the new lens content, and a couple visits from the LJ* post I made yesterday.
Today I’m going to work on syndication of Squidcasts and RSS feeds.
I already have a syndicated PR2 Livejournal blog that’s several years old where I announce updates to Ancient Greece Odyssey, so I just announced the quizzes there, and I’ll announce it on Mythphile.com as well, a PR3 site that’s 2.5 years old.
I’m also going to finish updating related lenses, the other Squidquizzes in the series. I did most of them last week, but there’s two still awaiting my attention. They all cross-link to each other, so they need uniform look-and-feel plus good content on all of them, which will attract traffic and drive some to the test quiz.
