Squidoo For Marketing

A few years ago, I found my favorite web page creator of all time–Squidoo. Making Squidoo pages is very easy and very addictive because it is ready for traffic the day it is created. Although I have about 20 blogs, nothing I’ve created has filled me with the same level of fun as Squidoo.

Jerry Low of Web Hosting Secret Revealed has written “20 quick tips for Squidoo newbies” as a guest post on Van Seo Design. His 20 tips are:

1. Not keen in writing? No fear, fully utilize Squidoo built-in modules to minimize the writing task.
2. Good keyword research work is a must before creating a Squidoo Lens.
3. Good keyword research work is a must after creating a Squidoo lens, use the stats feature to check which keywords are referring you the most traffics.
4. Long tail keyword helps, include them in your lens tags.
5. Squidoo lenses rank well in Google, always keep SEO in mind while writing – use keyword in your lens URL, bold your keyword, include keywords in your title, make your lens description keyword rich… etc.
6. Squidoo disallow drug reviews and sales, so forget about writing your 101 tips on cheap Viagra shopping.
7. Implement Squidoo tags – use up all the 40 tags progressively.
8. Join Squidoo Groups that are related to your topics.
9. Be active in the Squidoo community – the more your profile get exposed the better your lens ranks in Squidoo.
10. Be friendly – there are tons of Internet marketers hanging around Squidoo and unlimited ways to partner up with the big dogs.
11. Set ‘Contact’ on in your profile so other Internet marketers can get in touch with you.
12. Submit your lens to social bookmarking sites such as Digg and StumbleUpon.
13. Squidoo marketing can be a quantity game, break your subject into smaller part and create more lenses on various sub topics.
14. Leaving meaningful comments on other lenses helps, try start with the Lens of the Day.
15. Keep your lens fresh, it ranks better in Squidoo.
16. Use “Poll” and “Plexo” to increate your lens interactivity.
17. Use “The Most Important Thing” and “Talk Bubble” modules to promote your primary ideas or products.
18. Squidoo lens gain Google PR fast, thus remember to link back to your related website or blog via keyword-rich anchor text.
19. The “Black Box” module is best to highlight your free email courses or ebooks, use that to capture more leads.
20. Use “RSS Feeds” module to promote your blog in your Squidoo lens.

Create your own lens here.

My Squidoo lens will be in tomorrow’s post.

Tags: keyword, lens, research, SEO, Squidoo, writing