First of all, thanks for the advice not to unmax my lens! I think it has a lot to do with the fact that as of this morning, http://www.squidoo.com/collegevisitsurvival is #38 in Family and #800 overall! Wow! My second lens is now at #434 overall but only #11732 overall.
So what it shows me, is that the lenses about making better lenses really do help. I have spent a lot of time at SquidU, I have made it a point to visit at least 20 new lenses a day as well. I still have to work on the backlinking. Both lenses were accepted at Isle of Squid, but when I try to add the coding to my lenses, the whole text is underlined which looks lousy. I want to backlink this blog as well.
Any helpful hints how to do linking well and where to add backlinks within the lens?
Happy Saturday Y’all!
Tags: dorm buying, Lens in the top 100 for family, perfect college, ranking, squidoo
I’m sure there is a better way to do it but I have a text/write module at the very end of my lenses; that’s where I put any photo credits, back links to directories etc. I generally have no title for that module.
I also do backlinks in a text/write module. Sometimes in a ‘the most important thing’ module, which als accepts ordinary HTML-links.
But if you’re stumped, you might just use a links-module. That’s what they’re for after all
Backlinks are really important for getting a higher ranking in the search engines, which of course leads to more traffic. But then if it’s a good backlink, say to a niche site or forum, you stand to get some traffic from there too. The more the better.
Good luck, it sounds like you are learning quick, and getting a lens in the top 1,000 pretty much says you are well on your way
There is so much new terminology for me that it gets a bit overwhelming. I really want to figure out how to add links within text which means gaining some understanding of basic coding.
I really do appreciate the input. Once I read it , it is so simple that I feel like hitting myself upside the head !
Thanks!