Discovery Module
My CSS box has been up on all the video lenses for one day, and already seems to be having an effect. The pages have had slightly more traffic than I expected, which seems to be cross-lens from the box itself. I've tried it in a range of places on different lenses and its interesting to see which ones it works on. At the end of the week I'll tally up my results.
Now I just need to figure out how to automate it.
Traffic seeker
Much pressure is being put on my finance department to approve a purchase of the software, since being able to automate search engine submissions completely would be ideal.
Zazzle
I have the new camera, which is great. I also have the blasted flu and can't go out of the house, which is not so great. This is why I am doing all the lens projects now, by the way...
Superbreak
That's right I'm now a superbreak afiliate, which means that tickets to the theatre shows (and hotels for the airshows) can be found on the lenses. At last.
Showing posts with label trafficseeker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trafficseeker. Show all posts
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Monday, 13 July 2009
And the update goes on
This is taking some time. My apologies to anyone on twitter since I had not realised my update would be pulling in every page as I updated it (It's meant to show one an hour at most...)
On the other hand, the Avro Vulcan video showcase is now looking much better. Its still not my greatest lens, but it has links to the Amazon.co.uk DVDs and actually has some working videos on it. Then again, it was my first squidvids lens and it really was showing its age. Several of the others should look a bit fresher as well!
Might actually be getting involved with this new charity panel for Squidoo, so I'll fill in more details as I get them.
Also Squidoo are running a competition to give one squidoo charity $3000 - see here for details: win $3000. (I just wish a few of the ones I support would sign up. I'm getting tired of pulling the funds out of paypal and wandering across to their charity pot.)
Finally, for anyone interested, an update on Trafficseeker: Frankly it's been a godsend. Trying to manage 200 lenses and assorted sites on the search engines was a nightmare. I've had the entire lot automated for several weeks and it really has helped.
The automation tool is very powerful, but the cut down version with the Pro version which is limited to ten automated projects and 200,000 submissions at a time, really is too small for what we are working on. We are currently duscussing whether to upgrade to the Enterprise edition, which would allow me to set up everything as automated projects.
The Pro version would be fine if you have eight or ten websites (or groups of lenses) to submit. Once you get more or if you are doing this commercially, you are likely to need something larger. I'll give an update on what we decide.
On the other hand, the Avro Vulcan video showcase is now looking much better. Its still not my greatest lens, but it has links to the Amazon.co.uk DVDs and actually has some working videos on it. Then again, it was my first squidvids lens and it really was showing its age. Several of the others should look a bit fresher as well!
Might actually be getting involved with this new charity panel for Squidoo, so I'll fill in more details as I get them.
Also Squidoo are running a competition to give one squidoo charity $3000 - see here for details: win $3000. (I just wish a few of the ones I support would sign up. I'm getting tired of pulling the funds out of paypal and wandering across to their charity pot.)
Finally, for anyone interested, an update on Trafficseeker: Frankly it's been a godsend. Trying to manage 200 lenses and assorted sites on the search engines was a nightmare. I've had the entire lot automated for several weeks and it really has helped.
The automation tool is very powerful, but the cut down version with the Pro version which is limited to ten automated projects and 200,000 submissions at a time, really is too small for what we are working on. We are currently duscussing whether to upgrade to the Enterprise edition, which would allow me to set up everything as automated projects.
The Pro version would be fine if you have eight or ten websites (or groups of lenses) to submit. Once you get more or if you are doing this commercially, you are likely to need something larger. I'll give an update on what we decide.
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Lens #136 and Trafficseeker report part 2 or 3?
#136 English Electric Canberra / Martin B57 Canberra Video Showcase
http://www.squidoo.com/canberravideoshowcase
To go with the Canberra lens, since I found a lot more videos of the plane than anything else. And because it's a really nice looking aircraft in all its variations. I don't usually do video showcase lenses, but this fitted.
Traffic seekerRight, since I started it there have been a few effects.
1) Traffic - no significant extra traffic has registered on any of my test sites, although there's been a minor increase: literally one or two visitors per site.
2) Backlinks - the number of backlinks has significantly increased
3) Search engines - the lenses' presence on search engines has increased (position and which ones it's actually shown on)
4) Due to a combination of the above, lensrank has increased on those lenses.
I am expanding my test, but meanwhile I'm using the tool simply to keep the major search engines updated with my new lenses - it's worth it just for that ability. Would you want to manually submit over 100 urls to each major engine each month? No, nor do I!
http://www.squidoo.com/canberravideoshowcase
To go with the Canberra lens, since I found a lot more videos of the plane than anything else. And because it's a really nice looking aircraft in all its variations. I don't usually do video showcase lenses, but this fitted.
Traffic seekerRight, since I started it there have been a few effects.
1) Traffic - no significant extra traffic has registered on any of my test sites, although there's been a minor increase: literally one or two visitors per site.
2) Backlinks - the number of backlinks has significantly increased
3) Search engines - the lenses' presence on search engines has increased (position and which ones it's actually shown on)
4) Due to a combination of the above, lensrank has increased on those lenses.
I am expanding my test, but meanwhile I'm using the tool simply to keep the major search engines updated with my new lenses - it's worth it just for that ability. Would you want to manually submit over 100 urls to each major engine each month? No, nor do I!
Friday, 22 May 2009
A traffic seeker report and Out of ideas...
Running a bit out of ideas, so I am taking a short break from lenses and turning one of my lenses into a full website (handicapped by my complete lack of artistic talent...). I might have another lens up by the end of today, I don't know.
The initial results from trafficseeker have been good, and my test site has increased its exposure to visitors and backlinks. Unfortunately the lens I used it on wasn't that well ranked, so an increase from two to four visitors a day might be co-incidence. Nonetheless, there's cautious optimism going on here, so I'm trying it on something a bit higher ranked.
Now if I could just get some more ideas...
The initial results from trafficseeker have been good, and my test site has increased its exposure to visitors and backlinks. Unfortunately the lens I used it on wasn't that well ranked, so an increase from two to four visitors a day might be co-incidence. Nonetheless, there's cautious optimism going on here, so I'm trying it on something a bit higher ranked.
Now if I could just get some more ideas...
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
New Lens, & Traffic seeker
#131 British Aviation
http://www.squidoo.com/british-aviation
Stuck with a case of writer's block I thought I'd get down to the rather dull project of creating a lensography for my aviation lenses. They are getting a little out of hand since I've made quite a few...
And on to TrafficSeeker.
Right, I was happy enough to register it. First impressons of the registered version were mixed.
1) It shows all the search engines you get with Platinum, so you have to manually cull these to a level that your Pro version will submit to. However having seen what the extra engines are (e.g. a Russian specific search engine and FFA networks) I will not be buying Platinum.
2) If you submit to all the ones you can (about 200,000) it takes a lot of time. The scheduler and Bulk Submit are likely to be vital.
3) Spidering your site produces A LOT of extraneous links. With my site, which has content across multiple domains, it was better to set it up manually.
The first test is still running. However my reason for registering it was simple - a mild boost in lensrank for the site I used it against, and even if I only use it for search engines and not all the extras it wil save a lot of time.
Overall so far I'd give it a tentative four/five. Hopefully once I get the scheduler set up that will increase.
http://www.squidoo.com/british-aviation
Stuck with a case of writer's block I thought I'd get down to the rather dull project of creating a lensography for my aviation lenses. They are getting a little out of hand since I've made quite a few...
And on to TrafficSeeker.
Right, I was happy enough to register it. First impressons of the registered version were mixed.
1) It shows all the search engines you get with Platinum, so you have to manually cull these to a level that your Pro version will submit to. However having seen what the extra engines are (e.g. a Russian specific search engine and FFA networks) I will not be buying Platinum.
2) If you submit to all the ones you can (about 200,000) it takes a lot of time. The scheduler and Bulk Submit are likely to be vital.
3) Spidering your site produces A LOT of extraneous links. With my site, which has content across multiple domains, it was better to set it up manually.
The first test is still running. However my reason for registering it was simple - a mild boost in lensrank for the site I used it against, and even if I only use it for search engines and not all the extras it wil save a lot of time.
Overall so far I'd give it a tentative four/five. Hopefully once I get the scheduler set up that will increase.
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Slowdown on lenses
Thanks to the long trip I mentioned yesterday, and the rain I didn't mention, I have a wonderful cold.
Sorry, no new lenses. Just beechams and a warm fire.(And submitting my lenses to lensrolls and Squoogle and adding badges and general tweaking, but then every little helps.)
I'm also running a trial of TrafficSeeker - managing resubmitting my sites to all the search engines each time I update them is getting tricky now there are over a hundred lenses and multiple websites. Hopefully this will take on some of the load and give me more time to write lenses!
So far its been very easy to set up and use for the trial version. I've got four projects set up, and installation was a snap, and submission very easy. However, perhaps because it was a trial I have found that it can lock you out if you have the scheduler running in the background. As I find out more, I'll report further.
Sorry, no new lenses. Just beechams and a warm fire.(And submitting my lenses to lensrolls and Squoogle and adding badges and general tweaking, but then every little helps.)
I'm also running a trial of TrafficSeeker - managing resubmitting my sites to all the search engines each time I update them is getting tricky now there are over a hundred lenses and multiple websites. Hopefully this will take on some of the load and give me more time to write lenses!
So far its been very easy to set up and use for the trial version. I've got four projects set up, and installation was a snap, and submission very easy. However, perhaps because it was a trial I have found that it can lock you out if you have the scheduler running in the background. As I find out more, I'll report further.
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