Affiliate sales from lenses are up too and as we are moving into the highest buying time of year – just think of all that lovely Christmas shopping! - I am confident that affiliate income will be as high this year as ever.

Old Jetty

I have never really bothered with building backlinks to my Squidoo lenses outside of Squidoo but I think that is going to have to change.  For one reason, Google is still not giving back the authority(or the traffic) to my lenses that they once had.  The reason for the increase in traffic lies mainly with Yahoo and internal linking within Squidoo.

I am reluctant to start writing ezine articles just to give links to my lenses.  To be honest I am reluctant to write ezine articles for anything but I know it is something I have to do for my own sites and niche blogs.

Recently the very excellent Keyword Academy, where I am a member took over Connect Content and now I can use that to build links as part of my membership.  So my next step has to be asking for links to my lenses on Connect Content and see how it goes.  You can now get a month’s trial membership to the Keyword Academy for $1 – you’d be crazy not to!

I have added several new (unique) articles to the site and have Amazon products auto-posting to the site.

There are now over 600 pages indexed in Google for this site and traffic is increasing.  However, I have not seen any great increase in adsense clicks or sales.  This is probably because although a ton of pages are indexed, my site appears on the first page for only a handful of very long-tail keywords.

Brixham Lifeboat

Still, it is only mid October and I hope by the time the Christmas shopping starts in earnest my site will be popping up all-over for lots of buying keywords.

Squidoo is Improving

Traffic to my Squidoo lenses has improved remarkably!  It is now at its highest level for almost 2 years.  Making lenses again looks to be a worthwhile use of time.  Plus they can be used to build links to my sites.