Ok, something is odd here:
I compared three lenses:
- the average lensrank put them solidly in Tier 2 for the month (high 3,000's, 5,000's and 6'000's)
- They had not had commercial clickouts, royalties or sales and had none owing (all three are informational)
- One had the infolinks turned off, the others had them left on.
Guess which one earned twice as much as the other two? Yeah. I'm left scratching my head and wondering what exactly is going on.
This is not a good incentive to keep infolinks turned on.
This may prove to be a bug, but right now I am baffled.
(Lenses in quesion: Great Western Railway, the Untouchables and Flying Scotsman.)
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Monday, 20 July 2009
More musings about Green links and discovery modules
I am seriously considering turning them off. As I said before, if I want green advert links in my text I could create my own easily enough and not share revenue (Half the affiliates on commission junction offer that option). Looking at the pros and cons:
Leaving them on gives on big advantage - money. Apparently it should almost double what we receive.
However, on the downside, this comes at the cost of losing visitors and therefore potential sales. It places links I can't control in my content, which are rarely relevant. Also the links will remain able to place all three in the intro module, which looks dreadful.
It may even be lowering lensrank. You see, my visitors books are set up so any visitor can post (and fully moderated because of it!) Most of my comments were from non-squidoo members. Since the links came in, that has almost stopped. Since comments count towards lens-ranking, some of my higher rated lenses have dropped quite badly.
Of course, if I did turn them of the option would be following Squidoocool's lead to replace the cash loss. Might try it on a few of mine and see how it works...
Discovery Modules
Squidoo used to have a "discovery module" which displayed related links (three of yours, three of someone else's). These were a great traffic source, but they were turned off on the new templates.
de Havilland Mosquito is the site of a test - whether I turn this into a full module or not will depend on the results.
Leaving them on gives on big advantage - money. Apparently it should almost double what we receive.
However, on the downside, this comes at the cost of losing visitors and therefore potential sales. It places links I can't control in my content, which are rarely relevant. Also the links will remain able to place all three in the intro module, which looks dreadful.
It may even be lowering lensrank. You see, my visitors books are set up so any visitor can post (and fully moderated because of it!) Most of my comments were from non-squidoo members. Since the links came in, that has almost stopped. Since comments count towards lens-ranking, some of my higher rated lenses have dropped quite badly.
Of course, if I did turn them of the option would be following Squidoocool's lead to replace the cash loss. Might try it on a few of mine and see how it works...
Discovery Modules
Squidoo used to have a "discovery module" which displayed related links (three of yours, three of someone else's). These were a great traffic source, but they were turned off on the new templates.
de Havilland Mosquito is the site of a test - whether I turn this into a full module or not will depend on the results.
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