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Promote Your Site Using Squidoo: 5 Strategies For Success

Written by: Jeff Casmer

Article Overview: Squidoo is a web 2.0 website that allows users to build web pages, or lenses that give users interesting information--think friendster meets wikipedia. It has become a handy work at home tool. But besides being able to showcase your knowledge, Squidoo lenses can earn top Google rankings in the search engines. What this translates to is a load of traffic for your website.

Promote Your Site Using Squidoo: 5 Strategies For Success

Squidoo is a web 2.0 website that allows users to build web pages, or lenses that give users interesting information--think friendster meets wikipedia. It has become a handy work at home tool. But besides being able to showcase your knowledge, Squidoo lenses can earn top Google rankings in the search engines. What this translates to is a load of traffic for your website.

Although Squidoo is a very effective traffic generating strategy, like all website promotion techniques you need to plan carefully if you want to truly make it work. Below is a check list of things you'll want to do if you want to promote Squidoo to earn money at home.

Look at the more popular lenses.

While many people fear competition, I like it. I lets me know what do right. Before you create your lens take a look at what the popular lenses look like. A Squidoo that achieved a top Google ranking must have done something right. What did the owner do with their lens?

Now that you have some ideas, do some planning by writing out what exactly your lens is going to look like. Think about who you want to target, the theme of your lens, the content you'll provide and how you are going to outdo the already successful Squidoo lenses.

Do some keyword research.

If you want to earn money online you have to do some keyword research. No good marketing campaign is complete without thoroughly investigating what keywords to use. Creating your lens is no different. Try to uncover low competition keywords to use in the headline of your lens. By including keywords in your Squidoo URL you improve your chances of getting a first page ranking in Google.

Provide good content

To do really well, your Squidoo should have high quality content. If you are not up for creating new content then gather old blog post, articles and even forum posts into a text file to use on your lens. You can also try purchasing fresh private label rights content. Do not post all your content at once. It's best to save some for later. Having well written content will help you earn money at home.

Collect suitable multimedia and graphics

Be careful when choosing the graphics and multimedia for your Squidoo. While it can enhance your lens, it can also distract users. Ensure that they are suitable for your lens and consider hiring a graphic designer to create unique graphics for your lens.

Use your Squidoo to market

Now that your Squidoo is published you are ready to use it to earn money online by promoting Squidoo. You can do this by adding an opt-in form. Not only will you be sending traffic to your website but you will be building your list. Then, use an RSS feed module. Simply load the RSS feed from your blog or website and your Squidoo lens will then update automatically as you update your website.

Squidoo is a great website promotion marketing option if you want to earn money at home. Simply use the information above to ensure that you get as much success as possible with your Squidoo lens.

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Is Squidoo an effective tool for you? - When Squidoo first came out I signed up a few lenses to promote some of the activities I was up on on my site and showcase some of the famous entrepreneurs we had featured. I found that it did not generate a lot of traffic and I stopped investing the time. Now I'm reading more and more about spammers taking over Squidoo to create landing pages and they have decreased the quality of content on the site. Has anyone had success using Squidoo?
Most Useful SEO Tools For Webmasters - Hi, My name is Jeff, I work for WebBizIdeas.com and we are developing an article called "50 Most Useful SEO Tools for Webmasters." We have ranked & listed our top 30 SEO Tools but want to get your opinion on what SEO Tools are most useful to you; as Internet Business Owners. Google Webmaster Tools Google Analytics Google Alerts Yahoo Site Explorer SEOBook.com Keyword Research SEOBOOK.com SEO For Firefox Tool SEOBOOK.com Search Engine Rank Checker SEOBOOK.com Back Link Analyzer SEOChat.com Keyword Difficulty Compete.com Quantcast.com Alexa.com Archive.org Stompernet Site Seer Technorati.com PRWEB.com ADDTHIS.com SHARETHIS.com EzineArticles.com Scribd.com Squidoo.com YouTube.com StumbleUpon.com Reddit.com Digg.com Del.icio.us Wikipedia.org Flickr.com NewsVine.com Yahoo Answers NOTE: When you list your answers please include a description on what the site is, why it is important to you, and your experience please....we may include it in our article. Jeff
Re: What are the ways to start a business with a small capital? - Hi John, I agree with the others, get yourself a blog, join a few affiliate programs related to music, write articles and submit them to article directories with a link to your blog in the resource box (no links in the article itself) and create a Squidoo lens. Add new content to your blog and Squidoo lens as often as possible and you'll start seeing some results. Also make sure you follow GT's tips about SEO Good luck, Carol
Re: Best Internet Marketing Strategies - It's funny to come across the phrase "don't put all your eggs in one basket" on the first thread I check out - after seeing the exact phrase on a blog about Squidoo's policy changes last year. If you rely on a single strategy - such as, for example, building multiple Squidoo lenses about your affiliate programs, you are effectively at the mercy of the managers of Squidoo. They brought in a much stricter policy about links and spam last year, a lot of lenses were shut down. Even with web hosting it probably makes sense not to rely on a single website or a single web host. What are members' thoughts on the number of marketing methods to employ, and in what percentages? In my case, for one of my games sites, it would be approximately: 1. Website seo, keywords and unique content 40% 2. Blog 25% 3. Forum 15% 4. Article marketing 10% 5. Squidoo 5% 6. Twitter & Facebook 4% 7. Broadcasting to my list - 1% (This needs to be built up...)
Re: Teens make $$ on Squidoo - I make a residual income from Squidoo, and some of it I give to charity. But I never made lenses for that reason, more for a wider promotion strategy. In all honesty I don't think squidoo is the best strategy for making money online, since Squidoo takes a big chunk of your earnings and you don't have 100% control of your content. The advantage is your pages have some ranking power out of the bag, but with consistent effort you could have your own site which ranks. If you want to make $500/mo from Squidoo you'd need between 100-1000 quality lenses (depending on niche and aff. comissions), be specifically promoting a good product using your own affiliate links, and do a little bit of promotion to your lenses and profile. A keyword juicy title for your lenses is also a must so do some keyword research and go for LONGTAIL. I recommend you also create your own site and link the squidoo lenses to that, and also incorporate other authority sites where you can publish content like ezinearticles and hubpages.


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