What exactly is the criteria for "best" lens?  One of my lenses on a celebrity has a 5.0 rating, and ranks over 8,000 positions higher than the lens that SquidWho brings up when you search for that person.

Another one of my lenses also ranks roughly 8,000 better than the SquidWho featured lens, but mine's only rated 4.0 in that case.

This isn't a huge deal - the more lenses the merrier, and I'll work to improve mine - but I'm just curious.  If this is top-secret Squidoo/SquidWho information, do any lensmasters have any ideas, based upon if your lenses made the cut?

Last edited by beta197 (08/29/2007 3:48 pm)

KimberlyDawnWells wrote:

beta197 wrote:

What exactly is the criteria for "best" lens?

The highest ranked SquidWho branded lens for that specific main keyword.

So if I had a lens on Chris Meloni on Squidoo, and one on Chris Meloni on SquidWho, just the SquidWho lens would show up when searched for on SquidWho.  If there were 20 lenses for Brittany Spears on Squidoo, but none on SquidWho, when you do your initial search on SquidWho it would generate a new one.  Let's say another 20 get added to SquidWho.  Searches on SquidWho will bring up the top SquidWho lens for Spears.

If you want the lens to show up on SquidWho as the top lens, make sure the PRIMARY tag is the exact name of the person.  And then of course have the best lensrank for that tag. 

Clear as mud?

NOPE does not work, try Babe Ruth search in Squidwho search box

http://www.squidoo.com/Babe-Ruth/
This one ranked 356 does not show up in Squidwho search but instead a Babe Ruth lens ranked 23,000 shows up

Tags are the same

Last edited by jeffryv (08/30/2007 11:40 am)

First this is great fun!

Two questions:

1. Does SquidWho work for a "Who is" with Organizations?

2. How long does it take for a SquidWho page to go live in the system?

I did three pages yesterday, one on Diana Princess of Wales (which is live and only showing as Diana Princess of Wale...) one on Josh Groban and one on Bindi Irwin, neither of which are live if I search, but they show up live as Squidwho pages if I pull them up.

Thanks,

P.S. The Diana Princess of Wales is in memory of the 10th Anniversary of her death this Friday.

Does SquidWho work for a "Who is" with Organizations?

If you do a page on Microsoft and have a biography module for each of that top five players, we can wiggle that into SquidWho.  If it is about the business model, that can be done on Squidoo.  If you do a Squidoo lens that is about Seth and Megan and Gil and Corey, that can fit.  Non-people lenses are simple moved to Squidoo, no hard feelings.

2. How long does it take for a SquidWho page to go live in the system?

It's the same as Squidoo lenses.  After they "rollover" with your stats.  All of yours are showing live for me.

I gotz bugs!

Send ONE email to me with your bug issues and I'll personally deliver it.  kimberly at squidoo.com

Kimberly

Thanks for checking for me. I often have caching problems, because I am working on several things at the same time and hate rebooting.

I could see the lenses live, but when I typed in the search terms, I was still getting that nothing existed in the system.

I am also wondering a bit about this...

If there were 20 lenses for Brittany Spears on Squidoo, but none on SquidWho, when you do your initial search on SquidWho it would generate a new one.  Let's say another 20 get added to SquidWho.  Searches on SquidWho will bring up the top SquidWho lens for Spears.

What happens to the other 19 SquidWho lenses on Brittany?

Do they get reindexed and show up in Squidoo.com, or do they get buried in Davey Jones's Locker, in oblivion?

Thanks,

What happens to the other 19 SquidWho lenses on Brittany?

Go to http://www.squidoo.com/squidwho/hq and type in Chris Meloni.  Gasp!  Already taken.  But in the top right you'll see a link to Explore More: Chris Meloni.  When you go there, you'll see any other Chris Meloni links.

I searched for J K Rowling and JK Rowling (the top Squidwho) and was invited to create a new page. It only worked when I typed in JKRowling with no spaces. The current top squidwho is for JKRowling.

The same thing will happen if you type in Kimberly Wells instead of Kimberly Dawn Wells, or type in Kim Wells.  Right now it just recognizes me as Kimberly Dawn Wells.  Or if you spell Brittany as Brittney.  (Actually if you type in Kimberly Dawn Wells it goes to my Buckcherry lens...still working on those little glitches.)  But kdwells goes to me.

But anyway...
Just like glitches on Squidoo, this will all sort itself out, so if you start early by building up your lenses, you'll come out on top in the end.  If you wait, tsk tsk...you know what. 

Gil just told me about some magic he was working.  If you test the SquidWho searches they are playing much more nicerer now.

http://www.squidwho.com

KimberlyDawnWells wrote:

Gil just told me about some magic he was working.  If you test the SquidWho searches they are playing much more nicerer now.

http://www.squidwho.com

It would be good if squidwho.com didn't redirect to http://www.squidoo.com/squidwho/hq

But the results being squidoo.com/~whatever would be fine.

It would be good if squidwho.com didn't redirect to http://www.squidoo.com/squidwho/hq

But the results being squidoo.com/~whatever would be fine.

The new link has nothing to do with the searching, it's just finally redirecting.  Is that what you were getting at?

KimberlyDawnWells wrote:

It would be good if squidwho.com didn't redirect to http://www.squidoo.com/squidwho/hq

But the results being squidoo.com/~whatever would be fine.

The new link has nothing to do with the searching, it's just finally redirecting.  Is that what you were getting at?

I mean that www.squidwho.com is what it says in the browser URL. Currently it redirects to http://www.squidoo.com/squidwho/hq

It would probably work better for the purposes of SEO and PageRank to be a domain unto itself. People who bookmark the page will be bookmarking www.squidwho.com rather than http://www.squidoo.com/squidwho/hq

When people start talking about it in the same breath as www.imdb.com they'll tell their friends but if they go to their favourites and bring up http://www.squidoo.com/squidwho/hq it won't have the same impact as www.squidwho.com

KimberlyDawnWells wrote:

If you still want to tell someone squidwho.com go for it, but there won't be any pages created under that domain. They're all going to be under squidoo.com.  To create two separate sites would divide the search and admin features, and confuse a heck of a lot of people.

Results appearing under squidoo.com is fine.

Just having squidwho.com redirect to the longer URL may cause confusion as far as branding is concerned.

If your Squidoo lenses are set to 100% cash payout, will your Squidwho lenses be the same?  If not, how do you set them to cash?