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My Wild Week: Rising Lensrank & 3 New Lenses
This week has been wild, and the first thing is the page I published on 10/09/08, DIY Auto Backup Camera: How To Install A Backup Camera On Your Car, Truck, SUV, Or RV, which I announced in my last post, received almost 20 visits from Google in it’s first week (over 20 by now). I didn’t even realize this was happening at first, I just figured a bunch of my fans from Squidoo were visiting.
I began to realize something was different about this Lens when I noticed it was slowly rising in lensrank over my older, more established Lenses. My Tips And Ideas For Designing A Successful Website Lens has been my highest ranked Lens almost since I first published it, but it was over taken by The Love Of Dragons: Dragons In Books And On Video because of the increased traffic from entering the Squid’s Choice Awards, but my new DIY Lens was my 2nd highest ranked Lens only a week after being published.
All this, and at that point just 1 rating, 1 comment and one favorite (thanks mulberry). This seems related, Captain Squid’s latest blog post is Why Squidoo Ratings Swaps don’t work, check it out if you haven’t already.
Looking at the statics, I found all the Google traffic listed, and there 10 clickouts. This was incredible, since I had done my regular promotion: I posted here and on 8 other blogs. I posted to Lensroll, Squidom and SquidPoint (first time I did all three on the same day), but didn’t add to Delicious and Digg until a week after I published (well after all the Google traffic).
One thing I know I did try to do was use “backup camera” or “wireless backup camera” in the tile of 8 modules, I also used those words as often as possible in the text and pictures (as you may or may not realize, the picture file names aren’t the same as the description the reader sees, Google sees the picture file name, and counts it towards how often words or phrases are used on a page, or so I’ve been told).
I’ll be watching this Lens and will still try to make backlinks with social bookmarking sites like I usually do, but I sure hope I can duplicate this in the future.
I’ve been hanging out over at Captain Squid’s Squidoo Chat Room, and was able to hear an interview with Loyalis (he’s Captain Squid, in case you didn’t know), about his history on Squidoo, and It fired my up to start adding more Lenses to my own collection. So, my three newest Lenses are VR3 Bluetooth Hands Free Cell Phone Adapters, VR3 Backup Cameras and Car Safety Products, and VR3 High Quality Audio, Video & High Tech Navigation For Your Car, Truck, RV or SUV.
Never did three in one week before!