Promote Your Lens With Squidoo Directories
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Squidoo Directories Are A Great Source For Backlinks
If you aren't submitting your lens to directories, you are missing out on a bunch of traffic from lensmasters that use these to find new and interesting lenses.
You are also missing out on something else just as valuable. These directories provide backlinks. A backlink is a link on a web page that links back to your site.
If your new to trying to generate traffic to a webpage, you may be asking why these are so important. You want these backlinks because some search engines such as Google use the number of links going to your site as a part of their ranking of your site. The search engines assume that the more links found across the web pointing to your site the more important and popular your site is.
I will help you with getting the right kind of links and how to get them. There are a few tricks to doing it right.
You Want Good Quality Backlinks
Backlinks From Relevant Sites Are Best
You have to be careful about building your backlinks. The search engines want to see the links on relevant sites. By that I mean sites that have something in common with your site such as a similar topic.
Squidoo directories help you with this relevancy issue. These directories are specifically for squidoo lenses or in some cases anything web page about squidoo and the links on these sites are listed by category, so the page your link is on will be relevant by being squidoo related and by the topic.
Build Your Links Naturally
Add Backlinks Slowly
The search engines also take notice when you add links back to your lens if you add too many at once. This isn't a good thing though. They frown on this sort of activity. Google and Yahoo and the rest of them know that a site gains popularity slowly. Very rarely does a sites fan base skyrocket overnight.
You need to add a one or two here and there. Put aside a few minutes a week to add your lens to a directory or two. If you have a number of places you are trying to get backlinks for, you can do one or two lenses a day and rotate them so that you don't add too many too quickly for any particular lens.
Doing it this way takes a bit of time, but you will slowly build your rank solidly with the major search engines.
Share Your Thoughts On Directories
Take Part In The Conversation
Explain your take on squidoo directories. Do you use them all the time or just sometimes or maybe never? Are you new to squidoo and never heard of directories? Come on, go ahead and tell me what you think.
Do You Use The Squidoo Directories?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byOf course I do! I use every source I can for traffic.
GadgetKnowHow says:
after reading this, yes. thanks I really needed this info.
Posted November 07, 2011
attorneys001 says:
Yes, But they are very few in no. and need more to increase my traffic through squidoo directories.
Posted August 16, 2011
A Squidoo what? I don't have time for that.
pyngthyngs says:
Many a baby Squidooer may ask this question when they are first starting out, so you are really helping the community a great deal by creating this lens. I find that Squidoo Directories do help in building a backlink profile for your lenses and should be used.
Posted April 25, 2010
Big List Of Squidoo Directories
Don't forget that while you are using the directories to get backlinks you will also get traffic from those using them to surf. While you are there adding your links why not take a moment to surf yourself. After all this work squidooing you deserve a break.
Some of these directories may require that you add a link or banner on your lens back to them.
- Squidom.com
- It's like digg for Squidoo lenses.
- Squidoo Directory - SquidUtils
- Directory of the best lenses on Squidoo, organized by topic and primary tag.
- SquiDirectory
- A Best of Squidoo Directory. Featuring helpful information on a variety of interesting topics.
- The Isle of Squid
- The Isle of Squid - The Premier Squidoo Link Directory
The Isle of Squid is a Directory of the Best lenses on Squidoo. All of the submissions are hand-reviewed for quality. - Squidixx - Mixx
- Mixx is your link to the Squidixx community. The Squidixx community is a place for sharing news, photos and videos about Squidixx - Mixx.
- Lensroll / Published News
- Lensroll - Squidoo lens masters sharing relevant content. Build links and increase your traffic.
- Article Troll
- Squidoo Lenses - Squidoo Marketing - Squidoo Traffic
Whether you create Squidoo lenses for SEO, marketing and traffic or just to showcase cool content, ArticleTroll.com is THE directory to submit Squidoo lenses. Promote and market your interesting and educational Squidoo lenses, bios or groups for backlinks and traffic. - The Top 100 Squidoo Resources
- This list is for Squidoo Resource Lens' only. The top 100 Squidoo Resources can be found all in one place. Squidoo Resources include Squidoo book reviews, Squidoo graphics and design, Squidoo promotion, Squidoo contests, Squidoo Tips etc.
- Squoogle Article Link Directory
- Link directory of quality content from Gather, Squidoo, HubPages, Associated Content and Launch Tags.
- Squidoo Lens Directory
- Directory of Squidoo Lenses for SquidLog Members
- Selling Lounge | Squidoo
- The Selling lounge Link Directory is a 100% SEO friendly Link Directory and Human Edited. Submit your web site free to our fast growing link directory.
(This is not strictly a directory for Squidoo lenses, but they do have a section for Squidoo lenses.) - Squidoo Encyclopedia
- Squidoo Encyclopedia is everything and anything about Squidoo. Blogs, news, articles, squidoo lenses, resources etc.
- squidoo lens directory
- directory.squido.lt
- Squidoo Lenses Directory
- Squidoo Lenses section of quality Squidoo Lenses listed in the PHP Link Directory.
- lenslike.com - Squidoo Lens Directory
- An easy to use and clean looking directory for Squidoo Lenses.
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Let me know if you find any dead links. Also alert me if you have a problem with any of the squidoo directories so that I can take them off of my lens.
Feel free to Contact Me if you have any suggestions. I am always looking to add new links.
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SimonJay
Dec 27, 2011 @ 1:42 pm | delete
- Hey thx for this really usefull i will defo be looking into squidoo directories for a few quality backlinks.
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BHawkins930
Aug 23, 2011 @ 9:49 am | delete
- Thanks for this lens! I had no idea there were so many resources geared towards squidoo lenses. I am kind of unclear on should you bookmark and add your lens to a directory on the same day or is that frowned upon by the search engines?
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littlelotus
Jun 11, 2011 @ 3:52 am | delete
- good resource.. thanks for sharing... however I never seem to be able to get to isle of squid, is the url still active?
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Mara
Jun 9, 2011 @ 4:02 am | delete
- Thank you for sharing these very useful tips. I will make sure to follow your advice for my new website instead of wasting loads of money on fake SEO promises.
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Jerrad28
May 18, 2011 @ 11:20 am | delete
- Thanks for the advice and tips!
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