My lens on Squidoo
Not sure it's the right place to brag about that, but one of my lenses is currently #60 on Squidoo Top100 list!
http://www.squidoo.com/browse/top_lensesJust came from Squidoo and you're Ranked #9 in How-To, #54 overall. So you've climbed!
Congratulations!!
- tdruskposted 16 years ago
0 I'm sorry but I'm kind of disgusted that a person with only 3 lenses is in the top 100. I know you're a good marketer , which obviously helps you, but I can't help and be disgusted. Considering that some of my lenses took days to write, I can't help but feel this way.
Don't feel disgusted, Squimpleton. Writing for the internet is a business and traffic is the name of the game. To get traffic you need to write on topics people are interested in and your hubs and lenses need to be well optimized so that searchers can find them. Your creativity as a writer is not on the line here. You write very well. It's just that Misha's SEO skills are just as important as your writing skills in the eyes of Squidoo and Hubpages. It's all about traffic.
May I suggest that you do a llittle SEO on those 20 lenses of yours or hire someone who has the skills( which are considerable) to do it, Just a thought.......I don't belong to squidoo and don't really know how it works,but assume that it is something like hubpages. Anyway, crying in your beer won't help
Thanks guys!
Lena, I don't think so - it has been PR4 for quite some time already And I'm yet to see PR5 profile on HP.
Squimpleton, not sure what your problem is. Probably lack of identity. Are you Tiffany Dow?Misha - Your ESL becomes less of an issue every time you say something
LOL Thanks Mark, I'm trying to do my best
You may feel any way you want, but trying to spoil the party by posting a post like yours is highly impolite and therefore insulting. I know another person with similar difficulties in ethics area, who happens to be highly active on Squidoo, like you said you are - that's why I made a guess you might be her. And you definitely lack an identity - no real picture and no name provide just that
I read your post, and tried to understand what you were saying. You must admit, disgusted is a strong word. And whether you feel disheartened or disgusted or even disillusioned my reply is correct.
Perceived Quality + Quantity (because lets be honest, beauty is in the eye of the beholder) is still a level playing field when there are so many 'competitors'.
Misha would be at an advantage anyway, because he's deliberately chosen to deal with a smaller stable of lenses and commit more time to promoting them.
Where I may spend 90% of my time writing content and 10% promoting it, he's more like 10% writing it and 90% promoting it (though its probably 1% writing it and 99% promoting it.)
This would likely result in inferior quality IF he were mass producing lenses. But he's not.
What it means is he's likely to have spent as much time on the one lens as I have on any of mine, and then spent 10 times more time promoting it.
You're entitled to your feelings. It's just unfortunate that they would be disheartened, disgusted, disillusioned or disgruntled when someone reports their personal best.
Squimpleton -
You have to admit that was a witty rejoinder
And you did use the word "disgusted" which is pretty harsh. I sort of feel the same way although I am not sure I would use the word disgusted. - Misha has 7 hubs and I have 146. We have been here for about the same time - yet we have almost exactly the same page views - just over 300,000.
Misha openly admits that he doesn't even write his own stuff and will only pay as little as possible for the writing. (One of the few areas we disagree on) but - this is testament to his promotional skills. Me - I prefer to write good quality, well researched content and not spend so much time on promotional stuff.
I constantly struggle with whether I should be doing that or be out leaving links. Horses for courses. And the whole internet is like this - not just hubpages and squidoo. I find it very frustrating that some of my blogs are up against large corporations that spend a fortune on a domain name and buying links rather than offering good content. But I have had to suck it up. As will youWOW, 39 right now
. Congratulations Misha 
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edit: You even got a comment from the brokegerman.Thanks for your support, guys!
Hey, I'm #17 now!!!
Wooo-hooo!!!Thanks guys!
Janet,
I bow to you
Just a kind of curiosity - how much traffic does it take to get to the first place currently, if you don't mind? Mine shows 7750 visits for the last seven days...For some reason I thought it was pretty much based on traffic. Good, now I know a bit more, thanks a lot Janet!
Good question Wayne!
Well, I went and checked - HP is not even in the list of referrers for the last week - but received 500+ clickouts- Marye Audetposted 16 years ago0
hey, congrats Misha!
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