User Comments

1. 

   2/25/09

   Mortira

   I'm surprised no one has jumped on this discussion yet! Here's my two cents:
   
   1. Both. There are people who have hundreds of lenses made, and they are about anything and everything (except credit card debt and acai berries!).
   
   2. Use the same brainstorming tool that your 6th grade English teacher showed you. Just lay out what you want to say, then work on the how! Add modules that are appropriate as you work.
   
   3. Getting traffic to a lens takes work - unless you happen to make a lens about something that everyone wants to know. There are lots of lenses about lens traffic. Do a search for them!
   
   Other thoughts? Post this same discussion on SquidU - you'll have more responses than you know what to do with!

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   2/27/09

   legbamel

   I'll throw in my two cents, as well. I came to Squidoo as a place to promote articles from other sites. Then I made a little pile of personal lenses and then one to promote my blog (and vice versa). I now have two accounts, one specifically for music lenses that cross-promote with my music blog ( www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Not-Pop ) and the other for my cooking, environmental, and other miscellaneous lenses ( www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/legbamel ).
   
   There is no "best" way to set up a lens. What you include and how you arrange things depends entirely on your preferences and your topic. Most of my cover song and standards lenses have a similar layout because I want to include the same sorts of information on each of them, but that doesn't work for, say, my recipe lenses. I would suggest including a guest book, though. People like to be able to leave comments.
   
   I don't get a lot of traffic to any one lens (with the exception of my seasonal lenses, but that's generally very short-lived). I simply don't have the time to do the sort of promotion for them (all 83 of them, at last count) that would get them noticed. But I don't use them to make money or promote a business, so that doesn't bother me. They are all about subjects that interest me and the comments and responses that I do get are very gratifying on their own.
   
   Gee, that was more like my buck twenty-five!

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