And the Ever Challenge Winner Is…
November 30th, 2007 | 
Author: Hi Lensmasters -
We have a winner! Congratulations are in order for Mr. Paul Duxbury – challenger extraordinaire and soon to be proud owner of a custom-built lens created for him in any niche of his choice by Tiffany and Lewis of BuildMyLens.com.
Traffic is going to help your lens a lot. I discovered this when I saw such huge jumps in LensRank when I blasted my list. So although I have a list (which – by the way, why don’t you?) you can get a similar effect using Ezine Articles.
Just write an article and place your Squidoo lens link in there – I’m doing that for my Top Toddler Toys lens and it gets decent traffic from those articles. Plus, EZA has a good Google PageRank, which helps your lens because you have a good backlink pointing to your lens.
Well I enjoyed it – I know it’s a slacker month for most of us because we’re busy getting ready for the holidays. Maybe we’ll do another in January when we’re all dedicated and have forged rock solid resolutions that we’ll work hard. 
Here are the final rankings – thanks for participating everyone! Paul – email me and we’ll get your lens going!
1st place Paul: http://best.christmas-present-ideas.ever.com 170
2nd place Tiffany: http://best.plr-site.ever.com 278
3rd place Frankie: http://www.squidoo.com/funniest-calvin-and-hobbes-ever 359
Linette: http://www.squidoo.com/best-decorative-christmas-tree-themes-ever 1,318
Doug: http://best.lenses.ever.com/ 2,015
Alison: http://best.orlandoattraction.ever.com/ 3,162
Janet: http://funniest.tvshow.ever.com 3,320
Stephen: http://greatest.guitarplayer.ever.com/ 3,947
Bruce: http://best.bfads.ever.com/ 5,070
Denise: http://yummiest.christmas.ever.com 5,257
Connie: http://wisest.woman.ever.com/ 6,341
Katiyana: http://cutest.doll-sweaters.ever.com/ 7,259
Linda: http://greatest.toy.ever.com/ 7,945
Len: http://deadliest.article-writing-tool.ever.com 13,026
Kim: http://best.fire-retardant-plants.ever.com/ 13,048
Tammy: http://smartest.tammydickinson.ever.com/ 14,503
Lewis: http://www.best.squidootips.ever.com 16,656
Christopher: http://best.identitytheftprevention.ever.com/ 17,007
Chip: http://best.throwback-football-jerseys.ever.com 17,618
Maureen: http://smartest.tv-chef.ever.com 17,941
Lori: http://best.christianwomensresources.ever.com/ 18,130
Alban: http://greatest.message.ever.com/ 18,271
Colin: http://best.seoebook.ever.com 22,707
Kevin: http://best.ceos.ever.com/ 25,731
Ruth: http://tastiest.holiday-treats.ever.com 26,904
Troy: http://coolest.rock-biography.ever.com/ 31,413
Randell: http://laziest.ebayer.ever.com/ 38,287
Tiff
Posted in Lens Challenge Update
December 1st, 2007 1:26 am
Congrats Paul! I have visited your lens several times and it definitely is a winner.
I do use Ezine Articles also. Tiff just kidding about the list.
December 1st, 2007 6:51 am
Wow! Well thank you and I am delighted to have won as you might expect. I love Squidoo and the opportunities it offers and I have certainly enjoyed building this particular lens and participating in the challenge.
Tiff thank you for the time and effort you put into this Challenge which I know we all appreciate. I am sure that everyone who has participated will have gained something from it and hopefully will continue to develop their Ever lenses and lots more lenses too.
THank you also to all those who participated for giving all of us the opportunity to learn something new from your lens. I have really enjoyed visiting and reading many of the lenses.
Tiff I will drop you a line shortly.
Take care
Paul
December 3rd, 2007 5:37 pm
Congratulations Paul. Thanks also to Tiff for all the work that she put into this and for coming up with the challenge.
I learned a lot from it. The thing that I have found with the Ever lenses is that I can’t seem to get them listed on google! I do exactly the same with my Ever lenses as I do with the others which get listed really fast - but no joy! Is anyone else having the same problem?
Alison