Monday, October 24, 2011

Squidoo Stats - 24 October 2011

Number of Lenses in Top 2000: 47

Halloween Magazine Lenses: 12

Top 10 Lenses - Lens Rank

Published Lenses: 204
WIP Lenses: 5

Avg Lens Rank: 67,812


Newest Published Lens
Haunted Castle in Vermont - Wilson Castle


Lowest Ranking Lens

Top 10 Cat Gifts -  200,219

Friday, October 7, 2011

I missed a stats post ...sigh

I usually post a Squidoo stats update on or around the 20th of the month on this blog. I did gather my stats, but neglected to get the post out due to a couple pressing family issues. Okay, so that's my excuse ... but I will post my October stats soon and, hopfully,  if I can find my saved data I'll also share September for anyone who's interested.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Squidoo Stats - 20 August 2011

Number of Lenses in Top 2000: 46

Notable Events

Purple Star - Fresh Apple Cake Recipe
Lens of the Day - Eco-Friendly Tiny  Houses
 
Top 10 Lenses - Lens Rank

Clip Art Borders & Frames - 26
Coloring Fun for Adults (Adult Coloring Pages) - 53
Peace Coloring  - 70
Crafts for Kids: Fiesta Crafts - 95
Eco-Friendly Tiny  Houses - 128 (LOTD August 2, 2011)
Printable Alphabet Letters - 134
Star Charts: Reward Charts for Children -  144
Pirates Coloring Pages - 167
Baby Shower Clip Art - 219
Fun with Free Paper Toys - 228

Lowest Ranking Lens - Lensrank
Using UUU and VVV to Build Great Squidoo Lenses - 202,008


New Lenses
Digital Stamps - Free Black and White Clip Art

Total Published Lenses: 200 - WIP: 3



Thursday, July 21, 2011

Squidoo Stats - 20 July 2011

Number of Lenses in Top 2000 -  37

Top 10 Lenses - Lens Rank

Clip Art Borders - 15
Adult Coloring Fun - 34
Peace Coloring Pages  - 61
Pirates Coloring Pages - 106
Printable Alphabet Letters - 131
Wedding Clip Art - 151
Party Games for Adults and Older Kids - 161 
Pirate Clip Art - 191 
Best Free Coloring Pages Ever - 198
Baby Clip Art - 240

Lowest Ranking Published Lens

Rocket Mom Lenses by Pastiche

Total Published Lenses: 200 - WIP Lenses: 1

Newest Lenses


Monday, June 13, 2011

Squidoo Stats - 13 June 2011


Squidoo Snapshot - 13 June 2011

A big Squid week for me - my Squidoo lensmaster interview was published at SquidooHQ.com on June 10. I share my secrets for Squidoo success in the article, so if you want to know how I build and manage lenses that record stats like those listed below, read the interview!

Also this week I took a deep breath and reverse-engineered one of my best lenses to remove the Page Break module and reorganize the content sections. Adult Coloring Fun is one of the first lenses I created and it's also one of my  best performing, so I'm pleased to see that it's recovering a bit of lens rank now that it's returned to  a one-page mega lens. I have more planned modifications for that lens, and I've added new printable adult coloring pages and resources again this month.

Surprise and w00t! Lensmasters received an early Squidoo payday this month.  I realize my best earnings to date and  donated more than $200.00 to charity.

Here's a snapshot of my Squidoo stats today. I'm posting my monthly stats peek  a week early because I'll be pretty busy next weekend celebrating Father's Day and my younger daughter's 36th birthday.

Number of Lenses in Top 2000 - 40

Top 10 Lenses - Lens Rank

Clip Art Borders & Frames - 22
Coloring Fun for Adults - 31
Peace Coloring - 72
Printable Awards, Certificates, Diplomas - 97
Pirates Coloring & Crafts - 131
Star Charts: Chore Charts for Children - 147
Wedding Clip Art - 155
Best Coloring Ever - 174
Printable Alphabet Letters - 185
Baby Shower Clip Art - 193

 

Lowest Ranking Published Lens


Connect with Your Grandkids - 176,656

Total Published Lenses: 197 - WIP Lenses: 5

Newest Lenses - Lensmaster: Pastiche

Fathers Day Coloring Pages - 623 (first published May 20)

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Squidoo Stats - 19 May 2011

Squidoo Snapshot - 19 May 2011

Number of Lenses in Top 2000 - 45

Top 10 Lenses - Lens Rank


Clip Art Borders & Frames - 19
Coloring Fun for Adults - 44 (this one uses the soon-to-deactivate Page Break Module)
Peace Coloring - 82
Printable Awards, Certificates, Diplomas - 97
Pirates Coloring & Crafts - 137
Crafts for Kids - Fiesta Crafts - 157
Pirate Clip Art - 225
Fun with Paper Toys - 232
Wedding Clip Art - 266
Printable Alphabet Letters - 282



Lowest Ranking Published Lens

Image Factory Graphics Zazzle Store - 188,113


Total Published Lenses: 197 - WIP Lenses: 5

Newest Lenses - Lensmaster: Pastiche


Mother's Day Coloring
Father's Day Coloring
Duel: SquidLIKEs and Comments Go Hand in Hand

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Happy Easter - Another Purple Star!

I opened my email this morning and discovered the best Easter surprise ever ... Easter Clip Art won a Purple Star award today!


Happy Easter!!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Squidoo Stats - 18 April 2011

My Top Lenses - Lens Rank 

Number of Lenses in Top 500 - 23
Number of Lenses in Top 1000 -36
Number of Lenses in Top 2000 - 51

Top 10 Lenses

Easter Coloring Pages - 34
Clip Art Borders and Frames - 47
Coloring Fun for Adults - 50
Easter Clip Art - 56
Peace Coloring Pages - 89

Best Coloring Ever - 148
BUGS Coloring Pages - 164
Crafts for Kids - Fiesta Crafts - 168
Wedding Clip Art - 186
Eco-Friendly Tiny Houses - 225

Published Lenses: 194 - WIP Lenses: 2

Newest Lenses - Lensmaster: Pastiche

Earth Day Crafts - Green Crafts for Kids
Earth Day Coloring Pages
Earth Day Clip Art and Photographs
Royal Wedding Paper Dolls
Royal Wedding Colouring Pages
April Fool's Day Angel Blessings

Monday, April 18, 2011

3 Lens Experiment - Earth Day Crafts, Clip Art, Coloring


I'm running another lens rank and marketing test, this time with a set of 3 Earth Day creative / craft  lenses. I published all 3 lenses almost simultaneously - yes, I worked on all 3 at the same time.

Earth Day Coloring has reached Tier 1;
Earth Day Crafts is in Tier 2;
Earth Day Clip Art and Graphics has a long way to go before climbing from Tier 3. No surprises here.

It will be interesting to see how these 3 Earth Day lenses rank and compare against one another in a year.

Earth Day Crafts - published 27 March
Earth Day Coloring Pages - published 24 March
Earth Day Clip Art and Graphics - published 24 March

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Squidoo Snapshot

Lots of discussion this week around the new Lens Progress Bar in the Squidoo workshop panel. Many lensmasters are grumbling about the requirement for a lens to have 20 SquidLikes (thumbs up clicks by Squidoo members) in order to be considered "100%" complete. The change has triggered plenty of forum action as well as Twitter comments and some very creative lenses.

I'm not concerned about the 92% rating. I take it as a "complete without that bit of extra frosting" eval. I have some very good lenses that may never see 20 likes. I have several lenses that received wonderful comments but the lensmasters who visited didn't give the lens a Thumbs Up.

Being a marketing person and understanding how survey questions try to weed out inaccurate data with screening questions to eliminate such conflicting responses I'm left with a puzzling question. I'm not sure if that was an oversight on their part or the comments were somewhat meaningless.

Who knows what it means?  But it leads me to another lens idea.

I've been busy with lensbuilding for the past month.  I published 3 new lenses in the past month and am working on finishing up an Earth Day set this week.

Here's what I managed to get out of WIP in the past few days:

New Lenses

Gnomes Coloring Pages
Organic Pioneers - Stonyfield Farm, The Yogurt People
Free Patriotic Clip Art

Jazz Up Your Lens, Blog or Web Site with Google Fonts

Here'a peek under the hood (it's an easy lesson, I assure you) on how to manipulate your styles a bit to use Google's online fonts for free.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Squidoo Stats - 19 March 2011

My Top 10 Lenses - Lens Rank - Lensmaster: Pastiche


Number of Lenses in Top 500 - 20
Number of Lenses in Top 1000 - 35
Number of Lenses in Top 2000 -  49

Clip Art Borders - 35
St. Patrick's Day Fun for Everyone - 50 (LOTD March 17)
St. Patrick's Day Coloring Printables - 61
St. Patrick's Day Clip Art - 63
Adult Coloring Pages - 79
Peace Coloring Pages and Activities - 85
Easter Coloring Pages - 155
Baby Shower Clip Art - 203
Printable Alphabet Letters - 247
Wedding Clip Art - 251

New Lenses

Celebrate Pi Day - 3.14 Mad March Holiday 4 Geeks   (PURPLE STAR)
Royal Wedding Coloring Pages
Royal Wedding Paper Dolls

Monday, March 7, 2011

March Madness - 3.1459 ........

March has 3 very cool holidays that I really enjoy celebrating. Until this week, however, I hadn't made a lens for the one that's closest to my geeky heart: Pi Day.

The oversight is now officially corrected. I just published Celebrate Pi Day 3.14 - Mad March Holiday 4 Geeks at Squidoo. It's a bit of nerdy history and math, and a whole lot of fun for adults or kids. Add your favorite pie recipes, add to the list of Pi puns, create and list your own Pi-Ku poetry or check out some of the links to activities and Pi Day celebration ideas.

My new Pi Day wacky holiday lens joins my collection of favorite March holiday lenses for St. Patrick's Day and Mardi Gras (well, Fat Tuesday is in March THIS year, so it counts). I guess I could also sneak in the Easter lenses because when Mardi Gras falls on a February date that means Lent ends in March, right?

But that's another story ... tomorrow is Fat Tuesday and March 14 is Pi Day.

Monday, February 21, 2011

More Angel Wings

copyright lee hansen all rights reserved - squidoo clip art angel graphic
I'm sporting Squidoo angel wings again. My first angel assignment was in October, 2001 and I flew around the entire community blessing great lenses for about 3 weeks.

Now I'm a neighborhood angel for Arts & Design in the sub-category Clip Art. I'm also the angel for the Coloring topic under Hobbies & Games.

I've been visiting lenses in both official neighborhoods and I've also discovered some blessing-worthy lenses outside my immediate categories but within my specific topics.

Squidoo Stats - 21 Feb 2011

My Top 10 Lenses - Lens Rank (Lensmaster: Pastiche)

Clip Art Borders - 50
Coloring Fun for Adults - 51
Crafts for Kids - Valentine Crafts - 67
Peace Coloring - 73
Valentine Coloring Pages - 101
Valentine Clip Art - 153
Eco-Friendly Tiny Houses - 219
Pirates Coloring - 235
Best Coloring Ever - 244
Gift Coupons to Print - 274


Number of Lenses in top 500 - 19
Number of Lenses in top 1000 - 35
Number of Lenses in top 2000 - 48

Newest Lenses

Clip Art Neighborhood Angel
Rainbow Clip Art
Word Art Graphics and Quotations Clip Art

Friday, January 21, 2011

Squidoo Stats - 21 January 2011

It's been months since I posted samples of my Squidoo stats. Since there've been so many changes to the system over the past year I thought it would be interesting to pull a snapshot of my lens rank stats and compare them to my Squidoo stats from a year ago.

My Top 10 Lenses - Lens Rank (Lensmaster: Pastiche)

Coloring Fun for Adults - 57
Clip Art Borders & Frames - 69
Peace Coloring - 82
Star Charts: Reward Charts for Children - 170
Eco-Friendly Tiny Houses - 206
Valentine Coloring Pages - 215
Crafts for Kids - Valentine's Day Crafts - 224
Pirates Coloring & Crafts - 283
Printable Alphabet Letters - 315
Best Coloring Pages Ever - 332

Number of Lenses in top 500 - 17
Number of Lenses in top 1000 -  30
Number of Lenses in top 2000 - 46

Newest Lenses - Lens Rank

Rainbow Coloring Pages - 7,555
Rainbow Printables - 9,903
Art Cars -  41,083
Word Art Graphics - 54,740
Autumn Clip Art - 56,604
Rainbow Clip Art - 59, 914

179 featured lenses, Squidoo Giant 100, Level 62