Squidoo Earnings Growth

We had the other day a discussion on the Squidutils forum about the earning growth on Squidoo for royalties, and some of us showed our graphics to illustrate that. Mine was an interesting case as the growth is almost non-existent, followed in September by a real shooting to the moon.

I guess it shows the growth since I became much more focused on Squidoo last Steptember. Just as with anything, as long as you pull in the hard work, the rewards won't fail eventually to show up.

Lens Remade And Indexed Within Hours

Well that's interesting. I wrote yesterday a post about a lens not getting indexed after 4 months. Well this morning I decided to recreate the lens, so having two tabs open, I copy-pasted all the lens information to a new url, and then deleted the old lens. I pinged the new lens, send it to Lensroll and Lenslike and that was it.

Just a few short hours after I checked in Google and the lens was already indexed! My new baby lens is well and alive. I can't believe I waited for 4 months until I scraped the old one to finally give it a new shot.

So here is the new lens which was accepted by Google right away:

Best Self-Help Books For Women

I am tickled pink that Google indexed this one so fast. I think there must have been some glitch at Google about the old one and it would have never gotten indexed at all. Guess better late than never...

Lens Not Indexed in 4 Months

Ok I have a weird situation here - I have a lens that hasn't been indexed in Google since last October - that's just about 4 months and that's weird, considering that most of my lenses get indexed within hours or days (usually 2-3 days max). I noticed this by chance, since it's very down in tiers and it doesn't get any visitors, and the keyword is not all that difficult afterall.

So I checked in Google and sure enough, it's still not indexed.

I got a few useful tips from fellow lensmasters on the Squidutils forum and I've been implementing them, hoping that Google will finally take notice of it. If not, sometimes next week it goes on to the chopping block and will re-create it on another fresh lens.

The lens is about self help books for women, and the original title was Best self-help books for women, but I got the advice to even change the title for a bit, hoping that things will shake up. Let's see.

Also changed the lens a bit, added a link to a module of the lens within the intro part, changed the image and pinged it. It would be awesome to finally get indexed, I wouldn't want to scrap it and spend my time rebuilding it from scratch.

Lens Selected For Valentine's Day Recipes Monsterboard

This one is new to me too: one of my lenses I submitted for a quest on Valentine's Day got featured on the 80 Valentine's Day Recipes monsterboard. In the image below is the one pointed to by the orange arrow. It's a lens on Valentine Cake Balls (which are yum-yum!)

80 Valentine's Day Recipes

None of my lenses were previously featured on any monsterboard or on the homepage (one of my 'wet dreams' which hopefully will also happen), so this was an interesting event for me.

150 Lenses Done So Far

I took a 4 day break from last Thursday until Sunday to play an online game I've discovered recently, called Entropia Universe. It's awesome and quite addictive. As I know myself when it comes to games, I spent these days to play fully and get it out of my system (else I'd be dreaming about the game instead of working every day). Now I'm back on track with my 150th lens today on palm tree wall decals.

I can't believe how far I've come since I've started more seriously with Squidoo back in September last year. I truly enjoy writing for Squidoo because it allows me to write on any topic that I fancy for the moment. Also the great modules allow me to easier express my creativity. Squidoo is definitely not an article writing site!

Now let's see when I'll have ready my 200th lens. I know some lensmasters with 700+ lenses. I guess I still have a looong way to go till there...

Finished January With 145 Lenses Total

Wow, I can't believe I already have 145 lenses with my latest lens about bronze horse sculptures that I've just finished this morning. Just in December I made my 100th lens on Kindle DX covers and cases, which made me a few nice sales over Christmas.

Well technically it is first of February this morning, but I'm hoping that this lens is still included for January since I've made it before the actual lensrank update, so that I get tier payments for February (if the lens gets to a tier, of course).

Just a year ago I was struggling with 5-10 measly ones for backlinking purposes. Since I've started seriously adding higher quality lenses (for people, not for search engines and backlinks) in September, I really pushed myself hard.

And it shows, as sales are up especially for December. While the sales for January are about half as those for December, they're still much higher than I'd ever had at Squidoo before.