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SquidQuiz -- A Great Way to Build Relevant Backlinks

SquidQuiz is a fun, quick kind of Squidoo lens. Create a trivia quiz on a topic you love, add a Featured Lenses module to your other quizzes, and you only need one more content module to get the lens featured. For those of us who tend to make long, involved lenses on topics, this is a great way to force us to be brief.

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But WAIT! Back up. See what I said back there? Add a Featured Lenses module to your other quizzes. Or any sort of links to your lenses on related topics!

I think this could be very powerful for SEO. I didn't figure out the system until lens #3, but I soon realized there's an SEO trick staring us in the face.

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My Squidoo Successes

A lot of Squidoo members post in SquidU when they reach various milestones. I'm too shy do that, although I'm not too shy to plug a lens when it answers a question somebody's asked!

However, for a week or so now, I've hit a new threshold that I want to toot my horn about:

18-20 lenses in the top tier, every day, and
Four lenses in the Top 100.

That's out of about 80 lenses.

I want to thank Squid Angels profusely. You're not the only reason my lenses are doing well (I hope!), but I know that the current batch of Squid Angels has been very, very actve. I've seen a lot of you stopping by some of my successful lenses and showering pixie dust -- openly or (I suspect) covertly. Thank you so much.

Finally, my Jackie Robinson lens, which has spent two years wandering around in the 20,000-50,000 lensrank range before my recent efforts got it into the 1000-2000 range, is now rank six.

I feel guilty about submitting it for Lens of the Day. But I always thought it was one of my best lenses, and I knew from clickouts it had been submitted before. With Jackie Robinson Day coming up again this year, I couldn't resist plugging it! Now, thanks to the LOTD nomination and recent traffic, that lens will finally be sending more than eight cents a month (or a bit more if someone buys memorabilia) to the Jackie Robinson Foundation.  Thank you again, everyone!

For far too much info on my Squidoo traffic, tiers, stats, see my Greekgeek's Squidoo Stats lens, which is probably pretty typical for an experienced Squidoo user who's not doing affiliate marketing.