Getting Your Lens Listed In Google Is Not Impossible!
For a long time people have been enjoying the love affair that Squidoo and the search engines have been having. For many though it just seems like a never ending struggle to get their Squidoo lens listed in Google - Not anymore!
I've put together my favorite ways of getting my lens listed in Google (and other major search engines) fast. I really hope that you enjoy working these tips and techniques to get yours there too.
Remember to favourite this lens so that I can let you know when I add more tips and techniques. Getting listed in the search engines is now simple and easy - give it a go to see results yourself.
Here's some recent results to show you how a three week old lens was getting traffic (free traffic) from Yahoo! within days of being published.
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What Will You Find Here?
- The First Steps To Getting A Squidoo Lens Indexed In Google
- Which Search Engines Should You Try & Get Your Lens Listed In?
- Share YOUR Experience Of Getting Listed In Google With Others
- OK I've Submitted My Lens To The Search Engines - Now What?
- Find Out More At The Kelly Stone Blog
- Doing More To Get Listed In Google With Your Lens
- The Most Important Part Of Getting Your Lens Listed In Google
- What The Future Holds
- Leave Me Your Feedback!
The First Steps To Getting A Squidoo Lens Indexed In Google
First Things First - Google Needs Something From You
Getting your Squidoo lens listed in Google should be thought about from the very beginning. Right back when you first start thinking of creating your own lens. Never leave it until you have already created a lens as it could make it very difficult for you to get there at this point.When you first create your lens, you want to be thinking about 'how' Google and other search engines list you. They don't come along and see your lens and say "Hey, Robyn has created another lens, let's make sure we send her lots of free traffic."
You need to know about how your lens gets listed before you can start to build a lens that stands a good chance of getting picked up and listed.
Think about what you type into a search engine when you are searching for something. This comes down to keyword research and is vital to the success of your lens. Over at Squidoo Queen I go into a whole chapter on this - it's THAT important.
Keeping your lenses built around your keyword research is key to getting your lens listed in the search engines.
At this point you should be totally happy with your lens and feel that it's going to really benefit your readers - it will wont it?
You're now happy that your lens is up to scratch and want to start getting some of that lovely free traffic from the search engines. Here's how you can start to get that lens listed in Google and other search engines .........
Which Search Engines Should You Try & Get Your Lens Listed In?
There's more than just Google out there you know!
Look back up this lens and look at those stats. That lens was getting most of it's traffic from Yahoo! Before you switch off though, think about 'who' uses Yahoo. People who are 35+ with disposable income, in other words - THE PEOPLE MOST LIKELY TO MAKE A PURCHASE ONLINE!
Never get hooked on the idea that Google is the be all and end all to get your lens listed with.
Let's Get Started
The most basic part of getting your lens listed in Google is adding your lens yourself to their listings. This is not something that only Google does, all the search engines have this facility. Here are the major players ....
Google's Add Url Page - This is where you can submit your Squidoo lens to Google asking for inclusion into their search results. This is NOT guaranteed to happen just because you do this.
Yahoo! Add Url Page - Yahoo! is fast becoming a MAJOR source of traffic for many of my lenses and should not be ignored. Again, you are NOT guaranteed to be included through this submission.
MSN Add Url Page - MSN is now starting to send a lot of traffic that should also be capitalized on - never ignore a search engine just because it's one YOU never use!
Once again, I want to emphasize that these three sites are the three major search engines that send me the most free traffic to my Squidoo lenses and the smaller search engines should not be ignored. Submitting to search engines should be done manually and although it can be time consuming and fairly boring it is the most basic task to get your lens listed.
Share YOUR Experience Of Getting Listed In Google With Others
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OK I've Submitted My Lens To The Search Engines - Now What?
You've Done The Grunt Work - Let's Take It Further!
Squidoo Directories
The directories listed below are designed for Squidoo lenses so you wont have any problems having them accepted (unless you have a spam lens!) The point of adding your lens to directories is to get links to your lens from other lenses, sites and blogs.
It's these links that help Google to rank your lens and decide if it should be shown on their listings. A lens that has links from other lenses or sites is seen as a good lens - afterall, people wouldn't bother linking to a worthless site would they?
Squidutils Directory - This site is well worth visiting just for their content anyway and it will add your lens as long as you sign up and log in. Well worth exploring this site further than just the directory.
Lensroll Another great place to add your Squidoo lenses to.
I've taken away another link that I was using as it seems to have disapeared. I'm in the process of using three other directories that are designed for Squidoo lenses but until I see the results myself I wont recommend them. Remember to favourite this lens to keep updated with new additions.
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Find Out More At The Kelly Stone Blog
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From my own experience through my Squidoo lenses I have found that Google is much more likely to list your Squidoo lens if it already has traffic coming in.
One of the best ways to get this happening is to combine Squidoo and Bum Marketing - It shows you how to totally dominate both of them and get traffic flowing through your lens instantly!
Blogging For Traffic
If you already have a blog be sure to review your own lens on it and then link through to your Squidoo lenses. Keep the links to your lenses as relevant to your post as possible. Google likes to see links that are relevant remember and don't like to see a post about baby care linking to a lens about car washes!
Blogging is a great way to get Google (and others) to stand up and take notice of you. If you don't have a blog don't worry as you can borrow someone elses :)
By this I simply mean that you can go along and search for blogs that are using the 'do follow' tags. You see, most blogs don't use the follow tag or top commentators plugin as they don't want to encourage more comments which is likely to cause them a headache with more than normal spam comments.
Once you find sites that are using the 'do follow' tag you need to see if they are worth commenting on. For example, if the site has no page rank from Google and has no traffic coming through it then the chances of this link doing anything for you is slim.
Look for high page ranks, high traffic blogs and then comment on posts that you can add to. NEVER just write in the comments box something like "Great blog - thanks" it's likely going to get deleted as spam.
Think of what value you can add to the post that is already there, can you add further information, give an example of how you used the information etc.
I go into great detail about this at Blog Traffic Unleashed and the power of using social networking sites to get lots of traffic to your blog.
The Most Important Part Of Getting Your Lens Listed In Google
The most important thing with attempting to get your lenses listed in the search engines in patience - if you don't do it within a few days of creating your lens - KEEP GOING!
Never give up and feel that this is a lost cause. Some of my lenses have appeared within a few hours and others have taken a few weeks. (Shhhh, but I even have two that have NEVER been in the search engines at all)
Taking action is what will make you a successful marketer so keep going and success will follow.
What The Future Holds
As I develop this lens I will keep updating it so that people can come back and view the updates and learn more on getting your lens indexed in the search engines.Remember to favorite this lens so that you can be the first to get these updates.
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You can also get lots more information about building your Squidoo empire by visiting Squidoo and Bum Marketing
If you like Squidoo and feel that you want to really build an income from it then you can find more information about Squidoo from the Squidoo Queen
Leave Me Your Feedback!
I love to find out what people think of a new lens so be sure to tell me what you want to hear about next, any tips that you have and where you think it's great! :-)
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rustic1964
Great Help many thanks Posted October 02, 2008 |
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AndyPo
Very useful information. I am still struggling to get much traffic to my 32 lenses, but with some of these tips maybe it will start to flow... (5*) Posted September 28, 2008 |
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KimDion
Thank you for making this lens. It was truly a blessing to find it. Posted August 18, 2008 |
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dukeman62
Hi Kelly, Posted August 01, 2008 |
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The_Party_Animal
This is great information and very well written - i will be reading all your stuff. Thanks for that!! Posted July 27, 2008 |
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BlakeH
thanks for the great info. Posted July 24, 2008 |
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mktiastcy
wow!! You were so much help!! Posted July 11, 2008 |
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James20
Thanks for your hard work on this lens. I have learned some things I did not know. 5***** Posted July 10, 2008 |
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blue22d
Nice lens - great information. I will try some of your ideas. Stop by and visit my lenses. Appreciate your comments. Posted July 09, 2008 |
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mjm
Nice lens, 5 stars from me. This was helpful since some of my lenses can't seem to get onto any search engines. I will try to use your tips to see if I can get some more traffic. Thanks! Posted July 07, 2008 |
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InspiredWritingResearch
Thanks Kelly, I was looking more info on MSN and you really helped me out with advice not to advice the smaller engines. Faved you of course! Posted July 07, 2008 |
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RobertDeveau
excellent work, can't wait to read some more so I can draw more traffic to my own lenses. Posted July 01, 2008 |
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Lewis887
Great Information. Thanks. Posted July 01, 2008 |
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RentMyGarden
Hi Kelly Stone, Posted June 26, 2008 |
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mommyenterprises
Great lens! I have added it as a resource on one of my lens about making money on Squidoo. Posted June 17, 2008 |
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KimDion
I have been trying to get my lens in Google or Yahoo for two weeks. I will try some of your tips thank you. Posted June 06, 2008 |
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Tony-Matos
Hi Kelly great lens, very helpful and your the best!!! Posted May 05, 2008 |
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britney-smith
Hi This is great lens and lessons that i learnt , of course i love your squidoo queen .I am one of your fans hehhee.. Posted May 03, 2008 |
