Do You Twitter, MySpace or Mixx? Increase your Traffic!

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Are you trying to find ways to promote your lens?

If you are like me, you are trying to find ways to get your lenses noticed and increase traffic. I have been surfing around the various lenses looking for networks and ideas to try and increase the amount of quality traffic to my lenses. And I don't want to pay for it. I think if you write interesting articles or lenses that have useful information, people will look for it. The trick is, getting the information out there where it is searchable. There's tons of information on the net, but you have to be unique to stand out. And networking is the key. Anyone in business will tell you that word-of-mouth business is the best kind.

So follow along and I do and see what I have done so far and feel free to add suggestions or comments. I have about 25 lenses so far and I have very little traffic at this time. I am averaging 140 visits in 7 days to all of my lenses. I would like to increase that.

08/26/08 Update: Since I started implementing all these suggestions, my visits have increased to 304 visits in 7 days on average.

Is there any big secret to success? If you find it, let me know. So far, I have decided that the Secret to Sucess is hard work. Finding the right niche and finding the right places to talk about your work. I have not found that magic "easy" button.

Stumble It!

What Was the First Thing I Did to Promote My Lenses? 

Forums!

After I created my first Lens - The Secret World of Whippets, I didn't know what to do with it. I joined the SquidU Forms and sought advice in the Critique Me Forum. I got a lot of great information from other Lensmasters. I put a link to my lens in my signature.

Haven't been to the Forums yet? CLICK HERE.

And since I administer two forums of my own, I added a link to my a few of my lenses in my signature.

WhippetTalk Forums
The Paranormal Site

What was the Second Thing? 

MySpace and BlogTalk Radio

Next, I decided to add to MySpace Profile that I am a Squidoo Lensmaster. Add links to your lenses in your profile so that all your friends see what you are doing. Send out Bulletins of your new lenses or any updates.

I also have a PodCast site at BlogTalk Radio that I occasionally aire my WhippetTalk Radio Show. I blog about my Whippet related lenses there.

The WhippetTalk Squawk Blog 

I created a blog to talk about whippets and promote my WhippetTalk.com site. But I found that I was blogging about what I was doing at Squidoo. It's another backlink all the same.

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50 Ways to Use Twitter 

featured lens 50 Ways To Use Twitter

Twitter is an amazingly powerful tool for promoting your Squidoo Lens, Blog, Business and more. So check out these cool ways to educate, inform, enlighten and amuse people. Just remember, you've only got 140 Characters so stay on your topic!

50 Ways to Use SquidCasting 

And don't forget to use your SquidCasts! Every time you make a lens, update a lens, feel like talking about your lens, make sure you send out a SquidCast so that all your fans and members who have favorited the page will come and look it!
featured lens 50 Ways To Use Squidcasting

What the heck is Squidcasting? No it's not fishing for Squid! It's the awesome new interactive tool from the Squidoo HQ team. In a nutshell Squidcasting allows you to interact and react with your fans and fellow Squids. Check out my 50 Ways to Use Sq...

Create a Lensography 

I created a Lensography to showcase all my lenses as I create them and to allow interested lensmasters to see what I am up to, who I am, what my interests are and what my goals are. Right now I am working toward becoming a Giant Squid.
featured lens WhippetTalk Lensography

Lensography. A fancy term that means, describing myself and my interests and lenses to the online community. For those who really want to know who I am and what I'm doing, here's the spot to keep track of it all. This is about a journey. From the fir...

Do You Administer or Own a Forum 

or Message Board?

Here's a lens where you can add a link to your Forums and get another backlink to increase traffic.
featured lens Forums and Message Boards - Increase Your Traffic

It's not easy to get a lot of members to join your forums and message boards. Having an active board is fun if you are lucky enough to have one. I've had a board for almost 10 years and fortunately, it's going strong. And I started a new one about ye...

These are Great Lenses 

to Help with Ways to Promote Your Lens!

Learn from those who are already sucessful!
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featured lens Promoting Your Lens Outside Of Squidoo

One of the most often asked questions in the Squidu Forums is, "How do I get traffic to my lens?" The most obvious way to generate traffic to your lens is to make sure that it is search engine friendly. But that is a topic that deserves its own lens...

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Rule #1: If you have a site or Squidoo lens, you want more traffic. Rule #2: You don't have enough money to buy as much traffic as you need. Rule #3: You've already made your site/lens as compelling as you know how to. So, what now? Read on for the (...

Affiliate Links 

I even decided to join some Affiliate Programs to help my lenses make some money. But what good are the links, if no one comes to your site? And when they do come, are they enticed to actually click those links?

Here are the Affiliate Programs I participate in:

PJN July Promo

Webmasters Make $$$
Webmasters Make $$$



LinkShare Referral Prg

Earn $$ for your website traffic

Affiliate Programs Lens 

Here's a lens about the Affiliate Programs I have joined and how I rate them.
featured lens Affliate Program Reviews

Okay, I know what you're thinking. "Oh great, ANOTHER affiliate marketing site where you tell me what's great about this program and that it's going to make me TONS of money." Well I'm not. I am your average person with limited experience to Affilia...

 

SEO Software of choice

Tools I Use 

I have used various sites to help me optimize my lenses and keep track of traffic and where my lenses rank in the search engines. SquidUtils is the best place to start. Do a Lens Health Check, Ping your lenses and submit to Lensroll right off the Advanced Dashboard!
SquidUtils - Utilities and Tools for Squidoo Lensmasters
SquidUtils has complementry utilities and tools for Squidoo Lensmasters. Tools include: the advanced dashboard, lensmaster feeds, plus Amazon links and feeds.
Google PageRank Checker - Check Google page rank of any web pages
Page Rank Checker is a completely Free tool to check Google PR, page rank of your web site easily and possibly display your Google PageRank on your web pages.
Free users online counter
See who is browing your lenses right now and where in the world they live. It's free and no registration is required. Paste it in your Profile.
Zimbio
Get your lenses added automatically at Zimbio. Go to SquidUtils and to Lensmaster RSS Feeds and add it to your Zimbio account. Get your blogs added too.

Buying Traffic. Is it worth it? 

If you really want traffic and get your website or lens noticed you may consider paying a service to get you top rankings in ads on search engines such as Google. Or companies that will help you "optimize" your site and get you higher rankings in the search engines. The question is, what kind of traffic do you want? And when you decide to spend the money, does the service allow you to specify your target audience? Sure, it's great to get a lot of visits to your page. But what is it worth unless you get the type of visits you want. Visits from people who are looking for YOUR topic. Here's a list of sites where you can pay for traffic.

SEO software

Top Google Placement for Sale

SEOmoz.org - Learn From SEO Experts. Become an Expert.

$100 In Free Links From Text Link Ads!

Free E-Book on SEO 

Search Engine Optimization

The chief SEO consultant for Link-Assistant Dan Richmond has written an e-book called SEO in Practice. This is the first unique Guide to Practical SEO. What's so unique about it? Well, there are a number of things:

It's purely practice driven. It tells what exact steps you should take to get your website to the top in search engines. It's written in a plain language everyone can understand. It's built around doing SEO rather then reading SEO, and its 100% free.

Next Generation SEO Guide. 100% Free. 200% Effective

So What Now? 

If you are new to Squidoo, I hope you found some ideas here to help you get started with promoting your lenses. If you are a Squid Veteran, I hope that you can help me out with suggestions to help get my lenses noticed. Tell me about the things you did to get more traffic to your lenses. Did you notice something that I am not doing and should?

Lensmaster

poutine wrote...

Thanks for the very useful info in this lens.

ReplyPosted December 23, 2008

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ReplyPosted December 05, 2008

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oneskms wrote...

Every serious lensmaster wishes for an increase in traffic, thanks for putting together a great resource for helping achieve better / increased traffic. 5* and favourite

ReplyPosted October 14, 2008

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Junyuan wrote...

Twitter, I must say, is one of the best social networking sites on the Internet and if used correctly, it can help you bring your business to the next level (in terms of traffic and sales). I must say that this is one really solid site with lots of resources for people to visit... Loved it! :) I've given your lens a 5-star rating and added it to my favorites. You may want to check out my lens where I share 20 free Twitter tools you can use to enhance your business... Feel free to visit it and let me have your comments! :) You may also want to add your lens to my Internet Marketing Directory to get more traffic to your lens... Cheers!

ReplyPosted October 11, 2008

Lensmaster

Junyuan wrote...

Twitter, I must say, is one of the best social networking sites on the Internet and if used correctly, it can help you bring your business to the next level (in terms of traffic and sales). I must say that this is one really solid site with lots of resources for people to visit... Loved it! :) I've given your lens a 5-star rating and added it to my favorites. You may want to check out my lens where I share 20 free Twitter tools you can use to enhance your business... Feel free to visit it and let me have your comments! :) You may also want to add your lens to my Internet Marketing Directory to get more traffic to your lens... Cheers!

ReplyPosted October 11, 2008

Lensmaster

WhiteOak50 wrote...

Great Lens!!

ReplyPosted October 10, 2008

Lensmaster

nightbear wrote...

Wonderful lens, I hope all this information really helps me. I love all that I learned. thank you.

ReplyPosted October 10, 2008

Lensmaster

Hekepei wrote...

Thanks for all the help :-)

ReplyPosted October 03, 2008

Lensmaster

johndilbeck wrote...

Great lens, Kim.

Thanks for giving us a place to share our profiles and to learn about sites we may not know about.

You reminded me about Mixx and I need to get back there and learn how to use it.

Act on your dream!

JD

ReplyPosted October 01, 2008

Lensmaster

rodabisnis wrote...

greats, usefull,thanks you

ReplyPosted September 30, 2008

 
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