My Photos of Apollo Moon Landing Sites From Space lens has existed for a month, and looks to be a long-term second-tier lens with 50 visitors a week and a fair number of clicks. Those two factors will help this lens maintain its lensrank.
Here’s the steps I took to make this effective lens.
1) Find a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘traffic’
Controversies & Hoaxes Draw Web Traffic
“You Have No Right to Traffic”
I was just rereading Seth Godin’s The Nine Free Things Every Site (Or Lens!) Should Do, which is the link SquidU’s Answer Deck gives you if you click “How do I get more traffic?”
As usual, Seth is simple and short, whereas my own 3-part Squidoo tips tutorial on how to build web traffic is in-depth [...]
My Purple Stars and Other Squidoo Awards
Wow! Where are these purple stars coming from! This is a HUGE huge huge thank you to everyone who has nominated my lenses for purple stars, Lens of the Day, and other Squidoo awards.
I also feel like bragging, although I am actually a little surprised at one of the purple stars I just found in [...]
SEO Experiment – Make One Hit Worth Two
Yep, back in the saddle. Dissertation is keeping me busy! However, I’ve hit a few modest SEO tips in the course of updating and making some new lenses.
First up: CLONE YOUR VISITOR.
This is an idea I’m trying, not yet proven, but it makes sense to me.
Situation: A series of lenses, a sequence of lenses that [...]
Which Social Media Sites Benefit SEO?
When a newbie asks how to build web traffic, one of the first pieces of advice they’ll hear is to submit their URL to StumbleUpon, Digg, Del.ici.ous, and other social media sites.
I got the same advice. I bought into it. But does social media/social networking really benefit SEO (search engine optimization)?
Hey, let me be social [...]
Images and Videos as Linkbait!
I often use Flickr and YouTube for hosting my lens images and video and as a way to drive traffic. I prefer hosting my best-looking photos on Flickr as opposed to Photobucket or even my own website, because I can add something in the description field like “This is an illustration for Ancient Greece Odyssey: [...]
Two More Quick Squidoo SEO Tips
Here’s two easy steps I do as a quick “freshness boost” for a lens about to slip past the bottom of its tier. It’s no substitute for adding new, updated, exciting content, but it’s a quick fix.
In traffic stats, I change the window to 30-day-traffic and add any keyword phrase to my Squidoo Tags that’s [...]
“My Lensrank or Traffic Is Dropping– Help!”
Hey, it happens to all of us. You wake up, check the dashboard, and– eek! Traffic on lens X is going down, and lens Y is now in a lower lensrank tier than it was yesterday. I want to throw a question out to my readers: what steps do YOU take, reflexively, to combat lensrank [...]