Squidoography

I have received yet another Squidoo payout that was over $200 - hopefully that's a trend that will continue. With only 5 stable tier 1 lenses (some others jump between tier 1 and 2 regularly) I need a large number of tier 2 pages and/or sales to keep me above this figure. As usual, you will find Squidoo payment proof screenshot below.

And here are the Squidoo payout tiers for August 2010:

Adsense

High LR: $19.42
Medium LR: $3.30
Low LR: $0.17

Infolinks

Tier 1: $5.78
Tier 2: $0.98
Tier 3: $0.05

Chitika

Tier 1: $0.14
Tier 2: $0.02
Tier 3: N/A

This month was pretty exciting for me as a Squidoo user. We got new shiny traffic charts in lens stats pages, and of course the improved profiles with a Guestbook feature on each. There was also talk about beta testing some new stuff, so it looks like HQ has more improvements in store.

So, I've finally gotten around to posting my July 2010 Squidoo payment. It's a respectable amount of $216. Squidoo had a little hiccup with this month's payment (sending the lensmaters the March 2010 amounts first), so I received it in two separate PayPal payments. Which is why the image below is the Squidoo Blue Box instead of the customary PayPal screenshot:

Squidoo payout tiers for July 2010 ad pool were as follows:

High LR:  $20.72
Medium LR:  $3.52
Low LR: $0.18

July 2010 Squidoo Infolinks tiers were:

Tier 1: $6.05
Tier 2: $1.03
Tier 3: $0.05

July 2010 Chitika Ad tiers  (I'm finally enabling them for a number of my lenses):

Tier 1: $0.91
Tier 2: $0.15
Tier 3: $0.01

That's all folks. Big thanks for Squidoo for correcting their payout error so quickly.

June is turning out to be a pretty profitable month for me, with a $168 Squidoo payout from my main account and a much smaller, but still welcome payment from my secondary one. For the sake of simplicity, I'll continue tracking only my main account payouts on this blog; so here's the Squidoo payout proof for June 2010:


Squidoo ad pool payout tiers for June 2010 were as follows:

High LR: $16.29
Medium LR: $2.77
Low LR: $0.14

June 2010 InfoLink Squidoo tiers were:

Tier 1: $5.88
Tier 2: $1.00
Tier 3: $0.05

Once again we see a slight increase in ad pool and infolinks tier payouts, which is always welcome. This month my infolinks earnings made up as much as 15% of the total payout, Amazon being responsible for 6% and ad pool for the rest 79%.

I'm happy to share my May 2010 Squidoo payout which is my highest one so far, thanks to the ever-increasing ad pool payouts and (to lesser degree) InfoLinks which I enabled about 2 months ago. The payout was $196 and InfoLinks made up about 11% of that sum.

Squidoo payout tiers for May 2010 were as follows:

High LR: $16.16
Medium LR: $2.75
Low LR: $0.14

The tiers for InfoLinks were:

Tier 1: $5.07
Tier 2: $0.86
Tier 3: $0.04

You might have noticed some new things on Squidoo this month. First is the new and improved rating and social bookmarking stripe. Squidoo has moved from the 5 star rating system to a simple "like" button. They've also removed the big Facebook/Twitter badges that I admit were pretty annoying to me and replaced them with simple buttons. As a result, the header takes up less vertical space, so more of your content appears above the fold. Sweet! Note that the ratings stripe now appears at the bottom of the lens, too - so if you've been using the Lens Love module for that, you might want to remove it or place it elsewhere.

The second big news is the Summer Sunshine Award for Charity contest that will go on for 2 months with one lensmaster winning $99 every day! What you have to do is make a great lens and set it to donate its earnings to charity. More information here.

I'm rather late, but I'm finally posting my April 2010 Squidoo payout. It was $134 this month - not too shabby, but I'm hoping for a noticeable improvement next month when InfoLinks finally kick in (seeing how I finally gave in and enabled them on a lot of my lenses).

Squidoo payout tiers for April 2010 were as follows:

High LR: $16.84
Medium LR: $2.86
Low LR: $0.14

And the InfoLinks tiers were:

Tier 1: $3.98
Tier 2: $0.68
Tier 3: $0.03

On a completely unrelated note, I'd like to ask lensmaster opinions about the target="_blank" hyperlink attribute (it forces links to open in a new window). The idea behind using it is to prevent visitors from leaving your site. However, I've recently read some opinions stating that it doesn't really work that way and merely annoys your visitors.

Do you use target="_blank" for links on your lenses? Join the discussion on SquidU.