Do You Need a Squidoo Lens Review?

All the best to read were the tutorials from you. I'm now publishing lenses at Squidoo for the first time and I need to read more from you.

Hi Jackie,I think I'll need a lens review. Do I need to publish it first or can you look at it before it goes to publish. Your tutorials are very helpful. I'm having trouble with the Visal Call to Action. Thanks

Jackie, I'd love to have you review my lens -- soon as I get one together. I'm struggling to decide what a "lens" is, how many words do we need, what a "module" is, and what to talk about in each lens.
This is what I think I've learned: A lens is about the same as an "article" but not quite so formal. I think a "module" is a paragraph. Seems like I read someplace that the lens should be about 300 words. And, a "campaign" consists of 5 or 6 lenses on the same subject.
Now, if I'm on track here, I'm wondering how do we separate the pieces of information about the topic. Do we discuss the function in one, maybe the quality in another, and so on?
Do you think I'm teachable? Sure hope so.
Thank you,
Susan

Wow, I am spending all my non squidoo lens making time over at all your blogs Jackie. with my 3rd lens now finished using your Christmas blueprint guide, I may be ordering a review from you soon.

Hi Jackie - I know you have marketed some of your old lenses in the past. What would you say is the the most important thing in a lens you are looking to sell? Do you need to be able to show a bunch of traffic? Google SERP position for specific keywords? Actual cash flow? I have a few that have fallen outside the niches I'm now focusing on, but don't really know if it's worth marketing them in their current states.

Sorry -- a little off-topic I know :)
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@Musty ~ if you're going to be using lenses regularly in your business then I suggest you learn to make them yourself. It can get rather costly to have them made ~ especially if you're going to need a lot of them.

If you are trying to sell a product from your lens there is a bit of a formula to it ~ if you take a look at the articles page you will find the process outlined. If you're trying to sell products from your lenses I will steer you toward that process in the review ~ so might as well test it out from the beginning. :)

If you haven't already downloaded the blueprint it will show you the process as well and you can print it out ~ then come here for the specific tutorials.

Hello there Jackie!
Thanks for your wonderful service...I was wondering weather its good to buy a lens or setting up one yourself is better...also, can I write any thing in my lens (in case of creating it myself) given that your review "approves" it?

Many thanks,

M.

what above links are you referring to?

Is it my computer or what. Whenever I clicked on any of the above links it takes me to the site in some other language and hardly any information displays in the body of the pages. The links to the side and at the top are in some other language.

Fantastic Ingrid!! Glad to hear it helped.

Hi Jackie

That age spot lens you reviewed for me the other day. I followed your step by step instructions in the review, did some additional articles and I have seen the traffic doubled already. Thanks again. You are awesome.

Igrid

well congrats on taking action. I can tell you for one ~ that it would be a great idea to use the name/url fields when you make a comment to link back to one of your lenses. :) Instead of putting NA in the url field. :) This builds links to your lenses and will help you get better rankings for the keywords you've targeted in your lens.

Hi, Jackie.

I am already aware that you do lens review and you do charge. I am trying to avoid getting money out of pockets as much as possible. That's why I am asking if you know anyone that has success following you and is willing to review my lens for free or some lesser charges.

Plus, I have 15 lenses (This is the first time I put up Squidoo lenses - also the most I've done in my internet marketing venture).

G.

Gani ~

did you see at the bottom of this very post that that is what I do? You just have to click the buy now button ~ and put your lenses in the notes to merchant section. :)

Hi, Jackie

Do you know anybody or people, especially the ones that have success with following your Squidoo Christmas Blueprint, that are willing to review my Squidoo lenses for free or nominal charges?

G.

Regarding your niche ideas I think you need to find some specific keywords and make sure they fit the criteria outlined.

Hi Jackie,
Sister,I love the photo with the cute little kid.Thank you very much for creating such a sincere e-book.
Can you give 4 lens url on parenting material you created.I have taken potpiegirls book.But I want more lens examples.Also do you feel dog insurance ,11 secrets of attracting money good enough to be made in to a a lens?

Your lens is locked because it has in some way violated the squidoo terms of service. You can read about them here: http://internetmarketingformommies.com/squidoos-ne.... If your lens is locked chances are that Squidoo is going to delete the lens so a review would be irrelevant.

Hi Jackie,

I wish I took your offer sooner than later, my lens is locked and I am not sure why.I wanted to finish all the steps before I order a review. I've done up to step 4 and when I tried to print step 5, I found out that hotmail has gone and deleted my old emails. I did not know that they can delete your emails and it won't show unless you try to open that email and find that its been deleted.

To cut a long story short is it possible to add those step by step to this page or somewhere we can find it, or if not may you please re-send me step 5,6, and 7 please maybe that will help me find the reason my lens was locked.

One last thing can I order lens review for my lens even if it is locked or what?

Hi Jackie,

Just wanted to say Thank You so much for the 1 to 1 Email Coaching session.

It was great to have someone there to ask those "silly" questions which you feel you really ought to know the answer to - but don't!!!

I would certainly recommend you to others in need of help and may even be back myself.

Thanks again.

Thanks for the heads up. The button is now working ~ or at least it was a minute ago when I tried. If for some reason it quits working again you can paypal the money to jackie[at]sutv[dot]com :)

Hi Jackie,

When I click on the Buy Now button, I am taken to the home page of PayPal. When I login, I am then shown my dashboard. There's no reference of you or any type of transaction being made.

I've tried in Firefox and IE and get the same response.

Please advise. :)

NICE!! Yeah that is the price of using Squidoo is all the ads that you have no control over ~ which is why it's best to have your own sites so you have total control ~ but Squidoo works great when you're on a budget, or want the power of an authority site behind you right out of the gate.

totally agree with you. there is many space or gaps before they decide to purchase. i found that squidoo is full of ads, think that it can be lead to "leaking" traffic too :) good news is.. one of the lens do convert. about 50+ visitor and 13 clickout to merchant and 1 sales. Squidoo really works!~

@bryan Yeah you definitely can't judge from a few items. There are a lot of places the sales funnel can go wonky. How much traffic is a "lot" of traffic. I ask this because it often takes 100 click throughs to get 1 sale. So you may have a "lot" of traffic, but how many click throughs are you getting? Until you have 200 or 300 CLICK THROUGHS and no sales, you can't really say it's not working.

Also your ppc was a one click thing ~ they saw the ad they went to the merchant. Now they are searching on google, finding your article, clicking on the link, going to a lens, and then MAYBE getting to the merchant. That's a lot of space to have something work "not quite right" along the way.

Hang in there, and keep taking action, the more you do the better you get.

jackie..

thanks for the link. i found its really useful for me. which mean, if we target on late buying cycle, chances to convert them into buyer are high rite.

i have experience where i bid on keyword "where to buy product x" and directly link them to merchant (using ppc), and it does convert. Thinking that it will be good if i can get free traffic from SE on that keyword, i setup few lenses + blog + article on that keyword and push them with lot of backlink. My lens rank well, and getting lot of traffic from article and other few site, but, no sales at all.

So i guess, squidoo only work on certain product. But, i cant simply judge base on few lenses only. i will create more and more lens helping them in making the best decision to buy something. And, if i found all of them are failed.. look like i should refer them for you :) hopefully you will stick on that price (really really great price actually). Thanks again Jackie.. you are helping me so much..

You can add a bank account or a credit card to your paypal acct then the money can come from there. ~ If you don't see the special instructions then just shoot me an email once you've paid with the address of the lenses you'd like me to look at.

momtohanna[at]gmail[dot]com

Jackie, I'm wanting to pay for you to look over my lens. I'm really having a hard time with this 'keyword' stuff and maybe that's my problem. I've only created one lens because I'm so new at this and want to understand things before i continue to keep creating and wasting time. When I go to my paypal account, I don't see a button that says "add special instructions".

Also, my paypal account have no money in it. Do I need to add money to the account for this to work.

I'm really looking forward to having you look over my content. What a great idea, especially for someone so new to this. Hopefully I'll learn a few good things.

Let me know about the account. I'm ready to get started!!!!

Angie

What I find works best is to give people something they are either looking to buy, or something that solves a problem. I've had a lot of luck with parenting stuff that solves a particular problem and other than that I do a lot of specific things so I can just give people what they are looking for.

When you go for such general stuff you end up getting people who are just looking for information, checking prices etc, but aren't really ready to buy. Here's a really good article that talks about this concept: Understanding the Buying Cycle

hth

oho..jackie..sorry, my bad :)

Thanks for your well explanation.

I am sure your service will help us a lot. Currently, i use your guide and jennifer (potpiegirl) to create lens. So far, few of my lens rank well in google but no one convert. all my lens are promoting amazon stuff like mobile phone, game console and camera. Did you have any experience promoting that stuff with squidoo? did it convert well?

thanks jackie..

Hi Bryan,

I'm Jackie actually. :)

I certainly can not guarantee that your lens will convert. That would be silly. There are a million variables to making things sell/not sell. I can however, help you create a lens that will be found by the search engines (provided you've chosen appropriate keywords). I can help you with all the things I've mentioned in this post.

A lot of times there are really simple things you can do to change a lens that will make it show up higher in the search results, and get traffic.

No one else IS doing this type of service, and it's a bummer because people keep cranking out lenses that have a couple key problems, but because they don't know it they keep doing the same thing over and over again, and just wonder why it's not working. At some point they get frustrated and they say "this squidoo thing just doesn't work." or "google doesn't like squidoo anymore" and it isn't that, it's most likely something very fixable that is wrong with the lenses.

So ... no I can't guarantee you any results. I can guarantee that I can give you my insight from building hundreds of lenses and making money every month from Squidoo. I can give you an honest evaluation of your lenses, and I can give you some honest feedback about what is working, and what might help it work better.

If that's what you feel like you need, super ~ give me a shout, if it's not, that's ok too. :)

Jackie

kelly, this is first time i saw someone who offer this kind of service. what can we expect from your review? i'm sure everyone try hard to make lens that convert. suppose we let you review, and after we fix all the thing that wrong from your view.. does it mean our lens will convert? thanks in advance...