Excited about lens success

Some lenses linger at the bottom of the list for months, but others fly to the top within only a few days. It always makes me feel good to see that happen. Recently I experimented by making a lens for a niche that I thought was totally glutted with similar lenses. If you look at the Kitchen Mixers category on Squidoo you'll see several dozen lenses about kitchen mixers. Undaunted, I made another.

My lens, Top Ten Kitchen Mixers, was not an immediate success but I've steadily added it to my secondary sites and a few directories during the last few weeks. I'm keeping track of all these backlinks in OneNote and Excel. Once a lens has twenty backlinks I record them in the Excel spreadsheet then move that lens into a secondary category where it will stay until it has fifty backlinks.

I don't know why, but many of the backlinks I make for my lenses never show up in SquidUtils' backlink checker. It is a good idea to ping the backlink sites. Over the months I've picked up many of these tricks and incorporated them into my workstyle until they became second-nature.

Anyhow, researching the kitchen mixers was a trip for me. It has been a long time since I even owned a kitchen mixer, and I miss having one! I long for the days when I had a big family and could have gotten some use from one. Now it would seem superfluous!

One thing about the kitchen mixers - they're popular subjects for lensmakers because when you go to Amazon's affiliate page, they often show as the most popularly sold items in housewares. Everyone wants a piece of that pie. So far I haven't sold any kitchen mixers but I long for the day! Maybe I should make some cookie and cake recipe pages so I can put links to kitchen mixers on them!

So anyhow, the lens started up the lensrank ladder slowly, but now a week or two later is at 13K meaning it might be a second tier lens soon! Woohoo! I'm kind of excited that it is doing so well. Right behind it is my new lens on the best-selling telephones. So these two new lenses are doing well and I'm happy with the results.

When you make new lenses, don't stop backlinking. It really makes a difference! Sometimes we get so many lenses we're overwhelmed with the backlinking process. The best way to deal with that is to have an organized way of tracking your work, and a list of sites you can work with... like this one.