Archive for March, 2007

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

 
The March Squidoo Challenge is soon to be in session.  It’s baaaaack! Want to test your skills against other LensMasters and see how well you can rise in the ranks of Squidoo and in the Google SERPs?

 
This time, we’re throwing all rules out the window. I want to let chaos reign to see just how far we can manipulate the system to work for us. Your lens can be about butterflies or backend product tips – anything goes!

 
You can link from existing lenses, you can put it in any category you want, switch it up midstream, focus on any keyword or phrase, and in the end – the one coming out highest in overall LensRank at the end of 15 days wins. Everyone thought 30 days was too long last time, so you’ll need to work hard for a shorter period of time.

 
The only requirement is that the lens has to be created new from scratch and you can’t start creating March 16^th.  This gives everyone a level playing field to start.  Whoever ranks highest when I check the stats on March 31^st wins!

 
This time, I’ll only accept participants who sign up on the opt in list (over there on the left side of this blog). It’s far more trouble for me to send the list an email and then also send direct emails out. This list isn’t used for pedaling products – it’s a contest only list so I can blast a single update out at a time.

 
Once you’re opted in to the contest list, wait until the start time for the challenge and start building your lens. Then go to the challenge forum at http://www.socialmarketing101.com/Forum and there is a March Challenge sticky thread under the Monthly Squidoo Challenge folder where you will post your name and lens URL. Remember not to create your lens until the start date because existing lenses won’t be eligible. 

 
This is what I’ll use to keep track of the participants, so make sure you add yours to the list.  The reason for this is because there are some people watching the challenge from the opt in list who aren’t actually participating, but just watching and learning.

 
If you want to find out some great tips from past contestants, then download a copy of the Squidoo Cheat Sheet here: http://www.tiffanydow.com/CheatSheet.html. It’s a compilation of what myself, Kevin Davis, and David McGraw learned in the January-February challenge.

 
Enjoy!

Tiff