Squidoo can be a great tool in your marketing arsenal to generate targeted traffic to your website fast.Create a free Squidoo lens on a topic that is important to you and add links that point to websites, RSS feeds, eBay auctions and Amazon modules .You can also add images,video and opt-in boxes. It works with Web2.0 principles, users create content for other users.You can also earn money with Squidoo, as advertising revenue is shared between the content creators.
With Squidoo you can personalize your lens URL, meaning that you have the possibility to make the URL relevant to the content by inserting keywords in the URL.If your lens is about making money online, try to come up with a catchy URL that is easy to remember and has your best keywords. Not an easy task, but it really pays off to do this correctly and think of a name that best describes what your lens is about.
Give your Squidoo lens a descriptive title.It is important to give your visitors some hints of what to expect.This gives your visitors a good reason to open your page and read what you have to say. People are curious and always looking for more information.
Make your lens interesting by adding hyper links to other resources, add pictures and most of all useful content about one specific and narrow subject.Your lens should be targeted to one subject, If you know a lot about home business opportunities then write about that subject and include hyper links to affiliate programs that you have joined.
You can create as many lenses as you want, concentrate on making every lens as targeted, keyword rich and interesting as you possibly can.Squidoo ranks all lenses by popularity so it is important to take the time to make the lens as good as possible.Before you start creating your lens, read the faq-section for more in-depth information.
Also, make sure to update your lens with new content a few times per week to keep it fresh.
Submit your Squidoo lens to the search engines.This will make the search engines index your lens and you will start receiving traffic also from them.Google usually index Squidoo lenses quickly and rank them high in the search results.Or, if you all ready have a blog that is indexed you can place a link to your Squidoo lens from your blog.When the search engines crawl your blog the next time your lens will be found and indexed.
Sign up for Squidoo here
When you have built your lens, have a look at SquidU.It is a learning library for Squidoo lensmasters.It contains information in many different categories and articles of how to make your Squidoo lens even better.
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Gotta love Squidoo, thanks for the tips.
I was watching a video this morning that was talking about Squidoo and they suggested that you pick a topic like roses and then build more single lenses on various types and occasions where roses come into play, like anniversaries, Valentine’s Day.
Have all those lenses pointing back and forth between your other lenses and of course any website you have on that topic.
As for getting Squidoo pages indexed I never submit to search engines. I prefer to comment on related blogs and from my own websites as well.
Hi James, thanks for your nice comments! Keep coming back to read more and if you like this blog, stumble it! -Tom
Your in depth review of these marketing tips for Squidoo topic is great. I am looking forward to even deeper reviews.Actually, probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to post your “best practices” as a series
Thanks again
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