Being Telepathically Topical

The Giant Squid blog points us to a very interesting lens. It was lens of the day a few days ago too.

www.squidoo.com/sarah-palin

I don’t agree with what Sarah Palin says (her big speech was written by Bush’s speech writer!), but I’m not writing this to talk about politics.

I’m writing this because the lens was telepathically topical.

It was made BEFORE Sarah Palin got the nomination for the VP. And as a result, it was already ranking well in google. Number 9 I think. Then when her name hit every media stand in America, people searched for her. To find out who she is, and what she means.

And the lens got 33,000+ visitors in one single day….

Wow!

It’s currently at lensrank 2 and has had almost 90,000 visitors this past week.

The lens was made by Susan Lewis, and she is one smart cookie.
She said to me that she decided to make the lens because she thought Palin had potential. Wow. ‘A complete shot in the dark’ she said.

Making lenses AHEAD of time is a clever move.

What could YOU make a lens about that will make it big at some point in the future?

Here are some of my ideas:

• Lenses about products that don’t yet exist (Apple Touch Tablet anyone?)

• Lenses about movies that aren’t out yet, or are still being made (imdb.com has ALL listings of these!)

• Lenses based on terms like “Madonna’s New Album”, or “Paris Hilton’s latest scandal”.

Anything really..

Instead of thinking about what people are searching for today, maybe make a lens or 3 about what people might be searching for tomorrow.

It may make you 33,000-visitors-a-day happier

Nice work Susan.

Lewis

P.S. What’s the highest number of visitors YOU have ever gotten in a single day to one of your lenses?

I have no idea myself, because I don’t look at the stats like that. But I guess it’s no more than one thousand on a single lens. Probably not that high. There cheers for Susan!

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