First Statistics From Squidoo and EzineArticles
I finally have some statistics. I’ve created four Squidoo lenses, one group and one ezine article that has been published. Have I managed to get any traffic?
Two of my lenses appear in the google index. My article, which was published two days ago, refers to one of those lenses (my primary lens). Over the last 7 days the lens with the article referrer received 10 visits and 9 of those where from the ezine article.
Traffic
The article itself received 21 visitors on the first day, 17 on the second and 8 today. I’m fairly curious to see how the traffic tails off but unfortunately I won’t be able to monitor it over the next few days. With such a small amount of traffic I suspect it isn’t significant.
Lens A: 13 (12 from article) Lens B: 2 (referred from Lens A) Lens C: 3 Lens D: 2
Lens A and B are both related as are C are D.
Google Ranking
Both the article and Lens A are targetting the same long tail keyword with around 3,500 competitors. The article is at 16th place (2nd page) for the quoted phrase and the lens is at 21st place (3rd page).
Update (31st): The lens is now on the second page at position 19 and the ezine article is nowhere to be found.
For the unquoted expression the article is at position 21 and the lens is at 34. The phrase gets just a little traffic. It may be worth trying to boost the lens and/or the article onto the first page to see if it gets any traffic directly from google.
The article was indexed by google almost immediately as was Lens A. Lens C was indexed about one week after creation and I have no idea why the other lenses are not indexed.
Lens Rank
Lenses A C and D had a lens rank of between 105,000 and 125,000 when created. Lens B has a lens rank of greater than 165,000. Lens A has been promoted several times and now has a lens rank of better than 20,000. I suspect the increase in lensrank for lens A is due to the traffic I “bought” with my time writing the article.
So, overall, the results are pretty interesting. In this specific case the article handily beats the lens and was much easier to write. Both article and lens have received more traffic than this blog which has had a handful of visitors over its entire life. All pages are indexed in google and the spiders visit fairly frequently.