Tier 1 Lenses

I'm super excited: two of my lenses are now in Tier 1. The first lens I've ever created on panic attacks while driving is the one, and I've been working at it for over 2 years for it to happen, and the second is my very new lens on Free printable alphabet stencils. Now this second lens is very new, I've made it November 4 and it already hit Tier 1, how cool is that!

But what is the big deal with the Tier 1 lenses? Well, we not only get paid at Squidoo for the affiliate sales we make, but we also get tier payments every months. So for example if a lens was averaging a tier 1 throughout the entire month, 2 months later (the payments are always 2 months back, just like with Amazon payments) that  lens will get paid a nice little sum of money.

Here are the tier ranks and payments for the Tier1, 2 and 3. Tier 4 doesn't really get anything, although there were cases when there were just a few cents allocated to some tier 4 lenses.

Tier1: rank 1 to 2000 $47.12
Tier 2: rank 2001 to 10,000 $8.01
Tier 3: 10,001 to 85,000 41c
Tier 4: below 85,000 nada

Most people have their lenses in tier 3 as it's quite difficult to get higher tiers for the lenses. Of course the higher the tier, the more fierce the competition. For tier 2, throughout the entire Squidoo, only 2000 lenses make it to the top. Considering that there are practically hundreds of new lensmasters joining Squidoo every day, that's dearly little!

Now of course, only to be able to keep these two lenses in Tier 1 and get more of my tier 3 lenses to tier 2 and 1! That's my goal (except making regularly new lenses) for the immediate future.