Popularity Contest

As you all are aware, www.lensroll.com is a site much like Digg, but you can only submit lenses. In addition to having the opportunity of being featured on the front page you also get yourself a dofollow backlink to your lens. So it’s a good first step on your Lens Promotion to do list, straight after you’ve hit publish on your quality lens.

When you get down to basics, lensroll.com is a popularity contest. The most popular are featured on the front page (as well as me skimming through the submissions list every morning and opening up interesting lenses and bumping to published status if I enjoy the read). To do something different, we’re trialling a new way for you to prove just how popular you are, by allowing anonymous voting. One vote per IP address. So after you’ve submitted your lens to Lensroll.com, send your unique lensroll.com URL to your family, friends and work colleagues and ask them to open the page, and click on Vote. They don’t even have to sign up at the site.

Because lets be honest, most of your fan base isn’t going to be made up of Lensroll registrants, or even Squidoo Lensmasters, but people you know. And it’s about time they got a chance to give you a big thumbs up!

So stop by www.lensroll.com and submit your best lens, and lets see it voted up to the front page.

Creating Effective Page Titles

A few good points for creating pages titles. We’re not to keen on the topic of his title example but it gets the point across.

Creating Page Titles

Use tools like Google Adwords to determine your strongest keywords for the page. Under the “how would you like to generate keywords” box, choose the “website content” option, enter the page URL, and a list of keywords relevant to the page will be displayed. Work with those keywords when creating a title. Google’s Search-Based Keyword Tool is another excellent tool for this purpose.

Your title should convey your message to visitors and searchers, but it also has to stand out. If you have created a page for weight loss, simply using weight loss as the title isn’t good enough. You should use titles like “Lose Weight Naturally in 15 Days” or “Weight Loss without Crash Diets” – sounds good?

Once you’ve written the title, look for ways to make it better. Is it boring? Does it look like every other title on the page? Never be satisfied!

How Long Should the Page Title be?

Keep titles around 60 characters. If a title is too long Google swaps out the extra words for ellipses (…) aka “blah blah blah.”

To recap, here are a few tips when it comes to writing titles:

  • Keep the title around 60-65 characters. Not too long or too short.
  • Keep it relevant and specific to the page content.
  • Make each title unique.
  • Stay away from generic, uninformative titles like Homepage (boring) or Page 1 of eBook (snoozer).
  • Don’t keyword stuff the title.
  • Don’t overuse CAPS.

source - Can Title Tags (Page Titles) Boost Rank?
resource – Adwords Keyword Tool

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