Little Earners

As I didn't achieve Giant Squid status in March I'm now working on getting there at the end of June instead. This means more work with promotion and editing to get the worst lenses I have up to scratch. I've also got myself a Squid Mentor

I'm thinking seriously of writing down a promotion plan. A step by step guide that I can follow to ensure that I don't miss out anything. For example, when I publish a new lens I already have a number of directories that I submit it to right off the bat. However once I've completed that, I seem to not bother doing much else for some time after. You can imagine what that does for the lens ranking and traffic.

So, I need to create a list of all the best sites to submit to and the best things I could be doing to help promote my lenses.

This way, I can be sure that I have done everything in my power to drive traffic to my newest and oldest lenses.

I've also got a new blog at Squidosphere. It's called Giant Squid Invasion and it will document everything that I do and will be doing to achieve Giant Squid status. What will happen to the blog after I've managed to achieve that I don't yet know, but I'm sure I won't be deleting it

You can check it out here: Giant Squid Invasion

Please be aware that there is nothing there at this time. I shall be publishing my first post later on today.

I'm always thinking of new and different ways of promoting my Squidoo lenses and one of those was to set up a Squidoo community. However, I scrapped this idea as I didn't think that:

a) I could do the community justice with information and resources

b) I could adequately promote it.

So, now I'm back again to thinking what could I do to promote my lowest ranking lenses which also happen to be some of my Squidoo resources.

I've created a group on Squidoo for Squidoo resource lenses which include promoting, marketing, design, books, blogs, websites etc.

So if you have one of these lenses or more, of course, then please do join:

Squidoo Resources

A group just for Squidoo resource lenses. If you have a Squidoo lens that helps other lensmasters to promote, market and/or design their lenses then please join this group!

Squidoo Resource Lenses include:

Squidoo Design
Squidoo Marketing
Squidoo Tips
Squidoo Promotion
Squidoo Books and Squidoo Book Reviews
Squidoo Contests
Squidoo Blogs

Perhaps the way to go would be to set up a community on somewhere like Google, MSN or Yahoo...

Thoughts?

To try and help the bottom few lenses with traffic at a despressing zero, I've syndicated the feeds to Feedburner.
I've used this service in the past and I have 3 of my blogs currently signed up to it but have had varying success. I suppose if I made more of an effort and publicised the feed count on the blog's themselves I may see more of an interest.
There doesn't seem to be, with Feedburner, a way of searching for feeds so am unsure if there is any directory of current feeds or not available. This would help boost the subscriber count up for sure.
If anyone has any tips on Feedburner and how to get the most of this service I would love to hear from you.
Please do leave a comment or two

Well the new year has seen an increase in the traffic again to my lenses (woohoo!) apart from two lowly lenses sitting at the bottom of my Lens list!

Promote your Lens - Reviews was a lens that did very well when it first came out. The 16 ratings are testament to that. However, it is now on the bottom of the list and has been dropping like a stone for several weeks.

It includes information about my review community on Ning, Reviews for Promotion which is also not doing so well.

I'm reluctant to give up on either of these sites so I definitely need an injection of something magical to boost their rankings and to get the word out about them.

I have to admit that reviews are not necessarily the best of reads but they are important when promotion is required. So, here's to looking for something magical!

Any suggestions are welcomed