Very cool!   It's very satisfying to start seeing this happen.

I share your excitement. If you do a google search right now for "nursery themes for boys" you will find my little ol' lens as the very first search result! Yep, my Squidoo lens is ranked #1 with google.

Now if I could just learn enough about this SEO stuff to do that with my other lenses.

I remember the thrill I felt when my first lens got its first search engine hit (it started getting Yahoo traffic before it got any Google).  Congratulations.

It depends on the lens, but I'm finding one can start getting Google traffic within the first day.

I always feel rather smugly victorious when I manage to goose Google to start sending my lens traffic before Squidoo has indexed it.

Squidoo adds your lens to the sitemap, and builds links to it through tags and categories, during the daily indexing. Once Squidoo has done that, the Google spiders that crawl Squidoo fairly often should see your lens. Announcing your lens through other channels, especially a frequently-maintained blog, can catch Google's attention even before the daily indexing.

But of course, the goal to strive for is to keep getting traffic. At least once you've started getting traffic, you know you're on the right track!

Thanks everyone for sharing this moment with me!

What is the 30-day challenge, prosperity66?  I'd like to learn a bit about SEO, it seems like the best way to get consistent traffic.

prosperity66 wrote:

30 DC is definitely a great way to start working online.

Ditto - I recommend it too.