Ever Issues and Challenge LensRank Update
November 13th, 2007 | 
Author: Hi Lensmasters!
Couple of things to address today. First, I posted in SquidU to give all of our lenses some exposure and I had hear directly from Squidoo Staff complimenting me on the challenge idea. Looks like some sourpuss went around and rated some of the lenses 1-star.
They came from the blog here, which I had posted in the SquidU forum. Don’t let them get you down – they just don’t like ME because I market on Squidoo and teach others how to do it. They’re ignorant, so ignore them and go on with your lenscrafting.
Someone asked about indexing in Google. What I do is go to Google.com and in the search box, type in my lens URL. If it’s indexed, it’ll show up. If it’s not, it won’t. Sorry I don’t know what an indirect link is in Google.
Frankie had this Bug Alert: “A major problem I ran into last night: the text/write module is really messed up. I’d make changes (had images and links to sites) and it’d come back with really old stuff, over and over again. I put in a bug report. So, now I have several modules that cannot be published because others are screwed up! If they don’t fix it soon, I’ll have to copy stuff out and try to delete the messed up modules — however, there’s a problem doing that sometimes too — they mysteriously pop back up!”
Also, a client of mine read Social Networking on Squidoo and wants to know how I make Amazon buy buttons in my text modules, so I’m going to create a video tutorial on that later today and post it to YouTube. I’ll probably post it here, too. But my username on YouTube is TiffanyDow (original, eh?) so you can look it (and other Squidoo videos) up there.
Already solved - see in comments:Also, Frankie and Linette – I’m confused. All of our pages are superlative.word.ever.com and yours is http://www.squidoo.com/funniest-calvin-and-hobbes-ever and http://www.squidoo.com/best-decorative-christmas-tree-themes-ever - so how did you create your to look like an Ever page? It’s already in Google, but since it’s tacked onto Squidoo. Were they created via Ever.com?
Okay, here are the current rankings for the Ever Contest:
Paul: http://best.christmas-present-ideas.ever.com 221
Thefluffanutta: http://best.console.ever.com/ 261
Frankie: http://www.squidoo.com/funniest-calvin-and-hobbes-ever 390
Stephen: http://greatest.guitarplayer.ever.com/ 532
Alison: http://best.orlandoattraction.ever.com/ 542
Doug: http://best.lenses.ever.com/ 611
Maureen: http://smartest.tv-chef.ever.com 769
Katiyana: http://cutest.doll-sweaters.ever.com/ 1,236
Ruth: http://tastiest.holiday-treats.ever.com 1,667
Linette: http://www.squidoo.com/best-decorative-christmas-tree-themes-ever 1,773
Connie: http://wisest.woman.ever.com/ 2,000
Kevin: http://best.ceos.ever.com/ 2,326
Troy: http://coolest.rock-biography.ever.com/ 2,780
Chip: http://best.throwback-football-jerseys.ever.com 2,934
Tiffany: http://best.plr-site.ever.com 3,187
Lewis: http://www.best.squidootips.ever.com 3,427
Christopher: http://best.identitytheftprevention.ever.com/ 3,443
Alban: http://greatest.message.ever.com/ 4,347
Len: http://deadliest.article-writing-tool.ever.com 4,642
Kim: http://best.fire-retardant-plants.ever.com/ 5,047
Lori: http://best.christianwomensresources.ever.com/ 5,721
Bruce: http://best.bfads.ever.com/ 5,809
info-preneur: http://best.alternative.ever.com/ 6,222
Linda: http://greatest.toy.ever.com/ 7,117
Tammy: http://smartest.tammydickinson.ever.com/ 7,757
Colin: http://best.seoebook.ever.com 18,514
Randell: http://laziest.ebayer.ever.com/ 29,212
Rabs: http://best.coloncleanse.ever.com - Still says under construction
Tiff 
Posted in Lens Challenge Update
November 13th, 2007 8:32 pm
Tiff,
All of our Ever.com projects show up under the Squidoo domain as well. In fact, you can even include ever.com in front of any Squidoo lens you have anthey will come up to. This is because they are on the same server.
Someone else brought this up earlier either on here, or SquidU concerned about a duplicate content penalty. I don’t think this is the reason Ever.com is not showing up in the Search Engines, though.
Kevin
November 13th, 2007 8:38 pm
Okay, I found out is has to do with dots and dashes, too.
I was entering http://best-plr-site-ever and it didn’t show up.
Thanks, Kevin!
So it’s not showing up yet…I have work to do
tiff
November 13th, 2007 8:46 pm
Tiff
I had noticed that someone did a 1 star but as you say don’t let the saddos get us down!
Take care
Paul
November 13th, 2007 9:33 pm
Hi Tiffany,
Just a quick question, on my new lens I’ve put in a poll but it doesn’t show the buttons where you can vote only the lines, do you know how to fix it. Here’s my lens:
http://deadliest.article-writing-tool.ever.com/
Your help would be greatly appreciated
Cheers
Len
November 13th, 2007 9:47 pm
Len
Your Poll Voting roundels are showing for me. Do you mean you are only seeing the results? That’s probably because you have already voted on your poll and are not given a second opportunity.
Hope that helps
Take care
Paul
November 13th, 2007 10:13 pm
About the my url http://www.squidoo.com/funniest-calvin-and-hobbes-ever — When I threw my hat in, I went to my lens and copied the url off the page and pasted it here. The other one — http://funniest.calvin-and-hobbes.ever is what I got when I created the page in the EVER creation process. It’s totally weird to me, but both urls seem to work fine.
November 13th, 2007 10:18 pm
Oops, my EVER address is — http://funniest.calvin-and-hobbes.ever.com (I forgot the .com on my previous comments.
Frankie
November 13th, 2007 10:49 pm
An indirect link would be typing “cutest doll sweaters ever” and having this blog show up.
But you actually want to see the URL itself as the search result.
All of the Ever pages have two URL’s that point to the same page
http://cutest.doll-sweaters.ever.com/
http://www.squidoo.com/cutest-doll-sweaters-ever/
November 13th, 2007 11:40 pm
My site has been indexed by Google. You can check it out at Calvin google index Way Cool! Check out your sites, I bet most of us are already there.
November 14th, 2007 1:09 pm
Hi Tiff,
my impression is that Squidoo does not value original content very high. I wrote quite a lot, at least compared to other pages, but it doesn’t show in the ranking. I am just guessing.
Cheers,
Alban
November 14th, 2007 11:07 pm
Sorry Tiff - just realised that my lenses doesn’t fit in with the rules, as I built it a couple weeks ago. So, put that one down as “just for fun” or remove it or something. Cheers.
thefluffanutta
PS: Still not indexed on any searchengine…
November 14th, 2007 11:10 pm
Been trying to get this entered into the contest.
http://yummiest.christmas.ever.com/
November 14th, 2007 11:46 pm
Hey Tiff,
Here is another one for your contest, thanks!
http://funniest.tvshow.ever.com/
Janet
November 15th, 2007 5:23 pm
Hi Tiff,
OOPS! I think I submitted these to the wrong thread above, so I am putting them here where they belong. I would like to submit three lenses from the ever project for your consideration. They are all doing pretty good, considering that they are only a week or so old. Here they are for you to consider;
http://best.toys-in-the-world.ever.com
http://best.canon-camera-equipment.ever.com
http://best.board-games.ever.com
Blessings,
Donna