Kate Phiz

I’ve brought the Widor Toccata lens up to full production standard at last.  It’ll probably evolve somewhat but it is basically there.

The major problem though is that it has been ranking abysmally in Google.  I’d got the module headings wrong so I’ve changed that.  If Google doesn’t have a mood about that change, then that should help the rank.  To give both the Allegro and the Toccata a boost, I’ve created a Hub which features both of them.  I find Hubpages polcies somewhat stifling and it’s hard to write hubs to promote lenses, but that one has enough original content (a poll on which is the better piece) that it qualifies.

It is done, and I’m very happy with it.  It’ll grow out with some extra links as I create linked lenses but essentially it’s a full production version.  Now onto the Widor Toccata which is a much higher volume – and more competitive subject.  I’m hoping the lenses so far will support it and hopefully lift it in Google.

The Widor 6th lens is on the front page of Google already, so I started a child lens (which will be fairly lengthy) just on the Allegro.  I hit publish by mistake so it isn’t finished yet but at 4am it’s beyond me for tonight as there are at least another 2 hours work, perhaps 3.  I started a Widor Toccata as well and a Cavaille-Coll lens.  Even more work.

I’ll post again when I have the Allegro lens finished.  I’d ignore it for now.  At least most of the many body is in so that Google can start indexing it.

As an offshoot of my series on English Cathedral organs I wrote a lens about Widor’s 5th Organ Symphony.  Despite little traffic so far – I hadn’t expected much at this stage – that lens has done very nicely in terms of royalties.  So it has a new sister (brother?) a lens on Widor’s 6th Organ Symphony.  I’ve started two other Widor lenses as well, and a lens on one of the French churches I featured in the new Widor lens.  I’m presently not certain how many Widor lenses there will ultimately be.  It could just be 4 or 5, or I might fully expand out all the children and make 20 or so.  We’ll see how things go.

My first lens is on page 3 of Google.  Hopefully the companion lenses will help puh it up a bit, but I’ll probably also add a Hub in due course as well.  The Cathedral lenses as they get built out should also act as support, and again I can write a hub and articles to support them.

I’ll also start adding Bach and Vierne.  I’ve a Bach cross-over lens in WIP.  And probably some Saint-Saens as well.  Then there are lenses on the organ builders themselves.  So far I have one of those in WIP but I must add Cavaille-Coll pretty soon.  It’s turned into a big project but I think I can break it down into manageable pieces.  My first target is the Widor.

Who?  Ensemble Squillante.

I’d not written a sax lens for a few weeks and came across the material for this lens and decided to add it to the portfolio.  Search volumes are miniscule and their fans are mostlly French but if they get popular then things will pick up.  In the meantime I’ve added a slightly unusual lens to my portfolio and hopefully it will add just a little more traffic to my Best Sax Solo lens.  Regardless of traffic, this one is a keeper.

Since I’m writing lenses about cathedral organs, my thoughts turned to organ music and organ builders.  Expect lenses about Willis and Sons (that’s in WIP) and other organ builders.  For now though here is a lens about the most famous of Widor’s organ symphonies – No 5.   A lens on symphony no 6 is in WIP and will get finished in due course.

I’ve started a new mini series about Billy Joel.  So far there is just the lens about Billy (which will grow out as I add child lenses) and the second one about Cold Sping Harbour, his first solo album.

My Greatest Sax Solo lens is now number one in Yahoo for the eponymous search term.  Yay!   Double Yay!  So I was looking around for how to grow it out.  It seems sensible to make lenses about the people mentioned in that len – which can in turn link back.  I’ve always enjoyed Billy Joel’s music and know a lot about it so that seemed like a good place to start.  I took look at what there already is and there is a tier 3 lens about Billy Joel with minimal content – pretty much a Squidwho skeleton, so I decided I can beat that and if I do I should have a solid Tier 3 lens at least.

I like to do things well though.  Good enough is something I struggle with.  So one lens became a mini series with a chld lens planned for (at least) each of his studio albums.   I don’t expect to rank on Billy Joel in the SEs but I’ve learned that there is a reinforcement effect between nests of lenses.  A solid mini series on Billy Joel won’t get to the top, but the links back – when I create them – into the Greatest Sax Solo lens should be securely underpinned and help that along.  It’s still only at #5 in Google and that’s something I would like to change.

Well since my Ruth Lorenzo lens is on page 2 of Google and Hubpages seems to do well for promotion, I wrote a hub to promote the lens.   Actually they cross-link but I regard the lens as the main page – I just don’t like Hubpages all that much.  It just seems a bit of stuffy environment.

It’s happened.  My Greatest Sax Solo lens is now my highest ranked lens – just outside Tier 1.  That’s pleasing because it’s the first lens I’ve actively promoted.  I don’t believe it will ever be a money-spinner as it’s the wrong subject and traffic will be too low, but plesasing all the same.

I don’t get much traffic to my <a href=”http://www.squidoo.com/ruth-lorenzo”>Ruth Lorenzo</a> lens to maintaining it is something of a labour of love but it holds a place in my heart as I think it is my oldest lens.  So it has just undergone a major update to reorder the lens and add loads more new content.