What Should You Do After You Publish Your Lens?

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Now You Need to Get Traffic

Let's assume that you've created a lens with quality content; a lens that deserves traffic and will offer something useful to its readers. If your lens doesn't meet this requirement, stop reading this right now and go make it better. I'll still be here.

For those of you who have worked hard to make a great lens, here are some steps to help you get some traffic. It's not instant; it takes time to build good traffic, and you have to keep working at it. Be patient.
Photo courtesy of Flickr and Mattieu::giik.net/blog.

This is MY to-do list for new lenses. This lens is here to help me remember what to do after I publish. It's mainly for my use, but feel free to read it. I'll be adding to it as I learn more. Also, there are lots of really good lenses out there on getting traffic.

What Now? 

Photo courtesy of Flickr and cgines

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You need to get the word out to the world that you have a terrific new lens. Where to start? I once thought about putting a magnetic sign on the side of my car, so that everyone would see it and come visit. I really do this with one of my main sites that's meant to be local, but it won't work for every new lens that I build. Besides, I want more exposure than just the folks here around town.

Submit Your Lens to Social Bookmarking and Networking Sites 

These places are a great way to begin to build some backlinks and get a little traffic at the same time.
Digg
Easy to use, but it takes a while to build up enough of a following to bring you much traffic. An occasional lens of mine gets a lot of non-fan traffic, but most of it is from my "friends."
Stumbleupon
I apparently abused my privileges at Stumbleupon. For some time,I haven't been able to submit anything. I read somewhere that if submit too many urls with the same domain name, it redflags. Ooops.
Facebook
Haven't tried this yet, but I'll be exploring it. I've heard mixed reviews.
Stumpedia
"The Human-Powered Search Engine"
Gather
Post short articles and review the posts of others.
Technorati
I have't used this. Need to explore.

Some Social Sites are Just for Squidoo Lenses 

Lensroll.com
Friendly and easy to use. Submit your lenses and vote for others' lenses that you like.
Squidirectory
Not a social site as far as I can tell, but a good backlink.
Squoogle
Good directory for lenses.
Squidom
Just for lenses.
Isle of Squid
Created by Captain Squid, another great backlink.
LensmasterWorld
Don't know much about this yet, I've just joined.
Squiddix
Mixx for Squidoo.
Squiddit
Reddit for Squidoo.

Create More Traffic and Backlinks by Blogging 

SquidTop
You can visit my new blog at Bee's Bits.
Typepad
Don't know much about this. Some lensmasters love it.
Blogger
I've used this. Simple. I've heard that you can be locked for having too many repeats of one domain name (like Squidoo). That seems like a problem if you're trying to promote lenses.
Rocking the Squid
I need to explore this more.

Post Around the Web 

Get your name and link out there. Contribute to the conversation, but don't get spammy. Post when you really have something useful to say.
Yahoo Answers
Find some questions that you can answer.
Squidaholic
Squidaholic always has recent blog posts regarding your lens. Scan it often to look for the right opportunity.

How Do You Get Traffic? 

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Cross-reference among my own lenses

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Submit url to Google

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Ping the lens

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Send a Squidcast

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Write an article or two on the same subject as the new lens.

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Find a related forum and participate.

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