My Not So Big Week
I took a couple of days off to enjoy the fall weather last week and am now seriously behind. My goal to hit at least a 100 lenses by the end of the month is still certainly possible, but I need to buckle down. I have 93 published lenses now. After a couple of “recreational lenses” I did manage to squeeze out two more related to my “niche”. I did The Best Cell Phones for Music Lovers and A Rugged Digital Camera. Not everyone is as much of a purist as the typical Squidoo lensmaster apparently. Based on my lens comments, it seems we like to keep our devices separate and distinct.
I have managed to spend time each day on Tagfoot, a committment I made to get more involved in the social bookmarking scene. Thus far, I’ve had a bit of success in getting some additional traffic but until I make more non-squidoo friends it’s probably not going to be anything dramatic. I’m trying hard to seek out other interesting sites and videos to add in order draw more attention to my submissions in general.
My Qassia writing has had similar results thus far. I’m definitely adding backlinks which is boosting my rankings a bit but traffic itself is minimal from this source. No AdSense revenue from those articles as of yet. I have still avoided doing a Knol but wonder if others have given it a go? There is so much writing to do between articles, a couple of blogs, Zimbio, Qassia, Squidoo lenses, and my own website (which gets neglected) that I can’t imagine doing more.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Great terminology! I love ‘recreational lenses’ and ‘niche lenses.’ I started out writing ones that were related to my eBay business (I’ll call them my ‘niche lenses’ but quickly was distracted into writing ‘recreational lenses.’ A look at my list of lenses will tell the casual observer that I’m all over the board when it comes to subject!
Brenda
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:41 am
You can do it - I’m rooting for you to make it to 100. Not such a big goal as becoming a Giant Squid though in some ways, more a personal goal I think that I’m way off achieving right now - only 67 lenses and too many in WIP.
Qassia might one day be useful as a source of traffic, but right now I get precious little, except the occasional comment on a lens I have submitted. The backlinks are useful though.
Tagfoot is proving to be good for making friends, and I am getting some traffic, more than I ever did by using Digg etc. Making friends online is always good, and if an extra backlink helps your google rankings, then traffic will come in indirectly as a result. Every bit helps…