The Mossie one was more successful than I thought, and I only rolled it out this morning. As a result, I'm doing a full test of a discovery-style module on the video games lenses.(e.g. Dark Cloud)
Since I haven't changed these lenses for a few months they are all fairly stable in traffic terms. This means that once the modules are in place and the initial boost from the amending has gone, I can compare before and after.
Currently I am trying this by adding a hand coded piece of CSS to each intro module. In a few cases it is elsewhere on the page to see what the effect is and whether I get more cross-lens traffic. All the links are currently to my own lenses, but then I don't have permission to use anyone else's for the test.
If this is a success I will see about creating something, possibly in clearspring, that will emulate the old discovery module properly. Doing it by hand is a real chore - and I'm not looking forward to trying to update links!
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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.
Friday, 19 June 2009
#164 Right hand modules
http://www.squidoo.com/right-hand-module
A place for my test notes on right hand modules. Currently the module has my flat text links in it (after finding out that half the browser problems were caused by the Google translate module I'd used to test, which was typical.)
Hopefully (hint) someone with a bit more time and coding skill will produce something useable by anyone - my method is clunky and takes HTML knowledge to exploit fully.
Wasn't sure whether or not to count it towards to 200, but since it's taken most of my evening, I might as well. If it gets scrapped because someone has something better I think I'd actually be happy.
A place for my test notes on right hand modules. Currently the module has my flat text links in it (after finding out that half the browser problems were caused by the Google translate module I'd used to test, which was typical.)
Hopefully (hint) someone with a bit more time and coding skill will produce something useable by anyone - my method is clunky and takes HTML knowledge to exploit fully.
Wasn't sure whether or not to count it towards to 200, but since it's taken most of my evening, I might as well. If it gets scrapped because someone has something better I think I'd actually be happy.
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