How to Drive Traffic To Your Squidoo Lens
Squidoo is a web 2.0 site and it has certain social networking elements built into it. Each lens can be ranked from 1 to 5 stars so if you create a good lens then visitors can push it to the top of the ranks by giving you 5 stars. The higher your rank the easier it is for Squidoo visitors to find you. My most heavily trafficed lense was ranked at as the number #2 lens for the food and cooking category and number 250 overall among thousands of lenses.
Other users can also lensroll your lens to appear on the right sidebar of their lens page if they are so inclined.
You can do your best to make sure your lenses rank well via Squidoo searches by making sure they are properly tagged.
Lens have guestbook capabilities and it is helpful to find other lenses that you like and leave comments, giving you permanent links to your own lenses. This also helps to build community. Many times if you leave comments then those lens owners will return the favor and give your lens a favorable lens rank…adding to the cycle of traffic.
Squidoo also has a community form called SquidU. This forumm is a great place to network, meet other lensmasters, and even request that your lens be blessed by a SquidAngel. You will know if you have been blessed because a little angel will appear on your lense and your rank and thus traffic are greatly increased when you receive this honor. So it is great goal to build a truly excellent lense worthy of blessing.
You can also drive traffic to your lenses by linking to one or more of them OR your profile page which lists the lenses you have….on your other sites, blogs, and newsletters if you have them. You can also place a link in your signature line for community forums, discussion groups, and emails.
Your lenses can be added to various social book marking sites like Digg, HUGG, reddit, and stumbleupon. There is even a new one specifically for Squidoo lenses called lenseroll.
Do article marketing whereby you write and distribute article on various subjects to the free reprint article directories and put the link to your Squidoo page or pages in the by line. Whenever someone publishes your articles they will also be publishing those links.
So you can pretty much market a Squidoo page the same ways would promote a regular web site or blog.
So are you ready to Squidoo? Use this link to get started and after you make $15.00 Squidoo will give us both and extra $5.00!
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