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Squidoo - A Fast Way to Promote Your Website or Blog

Written by: Claudiu Geanta

Article Overview: A not so "new kid on the block" - Squidoo is a medium where you can promote your website or blog fast on the internet. Google indexes Squidoo lenses more often than your site is indexed and a presence on Squidoo will take your products and services to the front row of the internet. A serious marketer should become very active on this platform by finding their niche and write about it. There is no limit to how many lenses you create. The more the better. This article will explore the advantages of writing Squidoo lenses.

Squidoo - A Fast Way to Promote Your Website or Blog

Sure you are on Facebook, Linkedin, MySpace and Twitter but have you heard of Squidoo? Well - you should because Google loves Squidoo so you should come to love it too.

Squidoo is a very popular publishing platform and community designed for you to create text about your particular niche in the market. The text published on Squidoo are called "lenses".

Basically, Squidoo lenses are pages that resemble more like advertising flyers which concentrate everything you know about a particular topic of interest. Squidoo snaps it all into focus - thus the name "lens". Think of it like the "Red Bull" of the internet.

Publishing on Squidoo is very simple to do. It's also fun but very powerful in the grand scheme of all things Google. This is a new way to share your opinions, interests, create and promote your online identity and mostly - your credibility. What's even better about Squidoo is that it's FREE. That's right -you heard it - Free. You can also (and are even encouraged to) earn a royalty for charity or yourself.

So, Why Should You Build Squidoo Lenses?

A Squidoo lens is a great tool that can help you:

• Market your online business
• Brand yourself and your websites/blogs as authorities in your niche
• Build traffic to your websites, blogs, on line storefronts, and online auctions
• Build your subscriber list
• Sell more of your products
• Build lots of deep links to the inner pages or shopping pages of your websites
• Build resource pages on each topic that's part of your main niche
• Dominate the search engine results for various keywords in your topic
• Squidoo lenses are indexed and ranked by Google very fast

The important part is to get started. You can always edit and change anything on your lens. Then, when it's ready, publish it and show it off to your friends and colleagues.

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Article Tags: advertising flyers, authorities, charity, colleagues, credibility, deep links, google, grand scheme, li li, myspace, niche, online auctions, red bull, royalty, search engine results, shopping pages, squidoo lens, storefronts, twitter, ul
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Related Forum Posts
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...)
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?
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: Link Building Tactics - Here is a list of link building tactics to consider: * Build and host useful tools * Offer testimonials on complimentary services * Widgets (and submit them to directories) * Cross link web sites that you own * Write reviews * Promote content on social news sites * Article Distribution * Submit Blog & RSS Feed to Directories * Directory Submissions * Ads on search friendly sites * Sponsor newsletters archived to the web * Job listings * Forum Signatures * Classified Ads
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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