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Creating Lyrics Lenses on Squidoo

I am now experimenting with making Squidoo lenses based upon lyrics of songs.  There are a number of benefits to their simplicity, including:

  • The potential that you could rank higher is the way in which your lens is constructed and the fact that you could have more related content, thereby probably ranking higher in the SERPs than a competing page.
  • You can add easily add the song’s Youtube videos and other content that is not included on other lyrics sites.
  • Another benefit includes your including Amazon links to the album or MP3 single.

First, take a look at How To Make A Lyrics Lens.  He did a GREAT job describing how you can make one and the benefits of it.

My modifications include:

  • Using the Amazon Spotlight module for the album
  • Using the Amazon module for the singles (mp3 singles of just the one song)
  • Adding a Blackbox module at the bottom, pointing to other related lenses
  • Lensroll your related lenses together
  • Adding a Flickr module and set it to a slide show (for the artist or band)

I just started and am already seeing good traffic.

After you’ve got your lenses out of WiP status (work in progress) add them to the following groups.

Lyrics Headquarters – add your lyrics lenses to groups, including this one

Here’s some of my current lyrics lenses:

Beck – Replica

Beck – Modern Guilt

Beck – Volcano

Beck – Orphan

Portishead – Hunter

Portishead – Silence

Constantines – Our Age

Constantines – Hard Feelings

Constantines – Trans Canada

Usher – Moving Mountains

Fleet Foxes – Your Protector

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16 Responses to “Creating Lyrics Lenses on Squidoo”

  1. Are you working with something that allows you to auto-generate these lyrics lenses or doing it “by hand”.

    It seems like the probable per lens return would make it tough to spend that much time putting together individual lyrics lenses to me.

    Am I wrong? Can a single song page really generate sufficient revenue/traffic to make it really worthwhile?

  2. Its a new way to bring some more traffic. I need to try it. Thanks for good hint

  3. this isn’t really a comment on this post, but on the site in general. there seems to be some glitchy stuff going on in ff3 with the navbar up top.

  4. that’s an idea! im certainly considering making lyrics lenses myself after reading your post, and by the way, im a huge beck and portishead fan!

  5. I have been playing around with these as well and the idea is great – just not sure about copyrights on using the lyrics though

  6. Really Creative Idea DUDE… Surely i would love to try this…

  7. I love Beck !

  8. Squidoo is a good way to spread the word about your site or service. It ranks quickly and carries a lot of weight in the search engines.

  9. Seems like a good idea, but aren’t there any potential copyright issues that might arise from publishing popular lyrics?

  10. Realy good idea, but as YouTube Marketer mentiont, is think there will be problems with copyright issues

  11. very good and smart idea, but copyright issues always comes in as a major problem

  12. Old post but intriguing idea!

  13. I dont think I really understand your point. Are you saying that we need to be careful or just mindful? Anyway, always a good read :)

  14. Main thing is that it’s lucrative.

  15. Squidoo lenses are difficult to make look good :( what do you think of mine, above?

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    Cheers

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