AJ is Always Juggling

Those of you who followed by lens experiment on Losing weight with a wheat free diet will know that I do like to have a look at the Stats on my lenses. However, over the last few weeks as I slogged away to make my 50 lenses in order to be able to apply for Giant Squid, although I have kept an eye on my rankings, looking at the detail has been neglected due to lack of time.

I have been through all my lenses to sort out which ones I wanted to switch to the new Squidoo templates and I will continue to “tinker” with them over the next week, but yesterday I took some time to try and establish why one of my new Astrology lenses is doing so well and the other three are not.

Taurus in love is a lot higher in the Squidoo rankings than it’s “sister” Taurus, as well as Aries and Aries in love.

All four lenses have been treated exactly the same way and at first I wondered if it was just that Taureans are more interested in their love lives than Arians! The answer was actually a lot more straightforward than that.

Despite being published within a couple of days of each other, over 08, 09 and 10 June, Taurus in love is the only lens out of the four currently attracting Google Traffic. This is a puzzle to me as all the lenses have been promoted in exactly the same way and they have similar keywords and phrases.

They do have the same layout – they are part of a series, after all. However, I have been careful to make sure that any modules that are the same have different text.

It will be interesting to see how this evolves and when I start getting Google traffic to the other three lenses. But I would be glad if anyone has any theories about this to post a comment.