Lens Promotion
Now that you have a lens, you want to let people know about it. Getting people to read your lens is harder than writing it! But there are many ways to promote your lens, make it more popular in search engines, and make it a success.
In this lens I'll explore some of the popular ideas I've seen mentioned here on Squidoo, and will add quite a few other promotion ideas that I haven't seen other lensmasters mention.
If you're not a member of Squidoo yet, please join.
Long Term Research
This lens is turning out to be a long term research project. I'm constantly seeking new ideas and sites for lensmasters to use in their lens promotion activities.
If you find the links in this lens helpful, please bookmark it and come back often.
What you'll find here:
- Search Engine Optimization
- Tags . . . And Keyword Use, In General
- Keyword Wisdom
- Backlink Building
- Learn More About SEO
- Networking in Squidoo Communities
- For more discussion of Squidoo message board forums, check out this lens:
- Start A Squidoo Blog
- Lensmastery by Linda
- Comment on Other People's Blogs
- Professional Blogging
- Squidoo Lenses About Blogging
- Start a FREE Website With Links to Your Squidoo Lenses
- Social Bookmarking Sites
- Social Bookmarking - Expert Advice!
- Articles to help you understand social bookmarking sites
- More about social bookmarking and the nofollow tag
- Social Media Marketing
- Web 2.0 Sites
- Market Your Lens Via Web 2.0 Sites
- Friend Feed
- Stumpedia
- Squidoo Lenses to Help You With Web 2.0 Sites
- Promote your site on Craigslist
- Use RSS to Send Emails to Lens Visitors
- RSS Feeds Provide Automatic Backlinks
- More Great Lenses About SEO
- Articles and sites that can help you create and promote your Squidoo lens
- About the author
- My social networking sites
Search Engine Optimization
I've read this book cover-to-cover and recommend it highly for anyone needing to learn the rules and tricks of search engine optimization (SEO). Believe it or not, this "for dummies" book is one of the most highly recommended SEO books available.
Tags . . . And Keyword Use, In General
...why they are important, and how to choose them.
Choose tags wisely. You get only forty tags here at Squidoo so you will want to make the best use of them.
When people use the Squidoo search box to find lenses on topics they want to know about, the tags you use may help determine whether or not your lens will appear in search results. So make sure the tags accurately describe your lens so that the people who want your information can find you.
The tags also show up in the keyword meta tag for each page, but it is unknown whether this is used by search engines. Keyword meta tags at one time were used by them, but because keywords were abused by webmasters seeking an unfair advantage, search engines found ways to get needed information elsewhere.
The tags, especially the first one, also determine what other lens links might be displayed on your page in the discovery tool blue-box, if you have that enabled.
This is something you can work on and tweak each time you update your lens. Try to update at least once weekly. Believe me, this WORKS. I have brought sites up from many pages down in the Google search results, to page one, just by updating often and adjusting my keyword usage to reach for the best results.
To get ideas for tags and keywords to use in your Squidoo lens, go to the Google Keyword Tool. Use these keywords to attract visitors from search engine traffic.
Get a book on SEO - Search Engine Optimization, such as the one I recommended above. It will give you comprehensive information on bringing search engine traffic to your Squidoo lens.
At SquidUtils there's an important article on How To Pick Your Primary Tags. You will need this information to submit your lenses to the SquidUtils Squidoo Directory.
Keyword Wisdom
For more discussion of using keywords on Squidoo, read these:
-
The Tao of Keywords: How Ancient Philosophy Can Guide Your SEO Efforts
-
The Tao Te Ching contains the rational basis for human activities, so it provides outstanding guidance for keyword selection and search engine optimization.
-
Squidoo Traffic Tricks: (how to get more visitors and a better search engine ranking for your Squidoo lens)
-
Do you have some lenses that don't get as many visitors as they deserve? Would you like to learn how to get more people reading your lenses? Wanna know how to make people come back to your lenses again and again? Would you like to rank higher in G...
-
The Best Keywords Tools | Keyword Research and Trends
-
Using trend reports and keyword suggestion tools to find what people are looking for, you can then focus your website content, advertising, and affiliate links to improve your conversion. These are the best free ways to find the most popular keywords...
Backlink Building
The one most-important thing you can do to promote your site for search engine results is to develop a lot of backlinks. This means that you need a lot of other people's sites linking to you. This used to be easier when people made personal pages with lots of links, or blogs with extensive blogrolls. But now people are choosier about what or who they'll link to, so you need to develop a plan.
I've tried writing personal emails to people owning sites with related content, asking them to exchange links. Sometimes this works. I've also received plenty of requests for links. My number one reason for turning link requests down is the problem of unrelated content. For example, on my blog about starting a web design business I received a request from someone with a spammy-looking commercial site about wrist watches. Why would I want that link on my webdesign blog? The answer was no. If it had been from a fellow webdesigner with a site having information on webdesign business practices, I would have jumped at the opportunity to exchange links.
You can also use a myriad of bookmarking and web 2.0 community sites to place links to your work all over the web. This will require a lot of effort from you, but the results can be powerful.
Below, I list many sites that can be used for backlink building. It will take me months to find and review sites, so I'm going to go ahead and publish this page now, and add to the lists often. I know that if you go the extra mile to promote your lenses on the sites I recommend, you'll find your sites will do better in search engines, and more people will learn about and visit your lenses.
Learn More About SEO
For more discussion of SEO and backlink building, check out this outstanding lens:
-
SEO for squidoo - getting found in google: search engine optimization
-
SEO - search engine optimization - has many different facets. This lens goes over the main ones - especially how they effect making successful lenses on squidoo. An elaborate version of this lens, with details about blogging, twitter and more, can...
Networking in Squidoo Communities
...get to know other lensmasters.
If you care about Squidoo, then show it by participating in online Squidoo communities. Start with Squid U - the Squidoo message board. Put links to your lenses in your signature line and then start posting every day.
Make your name one to remember.
Lensroll and Squidom are Squidoo bookmarking and networking sites. You can add your lens links to the sites and people can vote on them.
Thomas C. started a new forum for Squidoo lensmasters to promote their lenses and Cafe Press sites: Rocking the Squid.
Squid Top is a community blogging site for Squidoo lensmasters. More about that in a minute.
Squidoo link directories - make sure all your lenses are listed on these sites: SquidUtils Directory, Isle of Squid, and Squoogle.
Ning communities have become very popular for lensmaster networking. Two popular Ning groups are Squidoo Marketing and Senior Squids, for lensmasters over age fifty.
For more discussion of Squidoo message board forums, check out this lens:
-
Squidoo Message Board Forums
-
You have to do it. You have to let people know about your lenses - but HOW? One of the best ways is to network with other Squidoo lensmasters on Squidoo message board forums. There you'll meet lots of other lensmasters who have been where you are now...
Start A Squidoo Blog
To create backlinks for your lenses and perhaps raise some visitor awareness of what you're doing on Squidoo, start a Squidoo blog to feature information about each of your lenses.
Next, you can add the RSS feed for each blog to some of your lenses. Yet another way to generate traffic to your Squidoo lenses.
My Squidoo blog is at SquidTop: Lensmastery by Linda. I write short articles intended to inspire and help other lensmasters.
Squid Top is a blogging community just for Squidoo lensmasters. I highly recommend you start a blog there.
Following is a list of sites where you can build free blogs.
Blogger.Com
This is probably the most popular blogging site fo more...7 points
WordPress.Com
WordPress will delete your blog if they think it i more...6 points
Live Journal
Very popular blogging and networking site that giv more...2 points
Journal Space
This is another blogging and networking site where more...0 points
Thoughts.com
Create a Free Blog and online journal site at Thou more...0 points
Lensmastery by Linda
... this is my Squidoo blog at SquidTop.Com
My focus in this blog is to publish short articles that will inspire and help other lensmasters.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byComment on Other People's Blogs
...you CAN get some good link backs.
Most blogs are set not to allow backlinks, because they have that terrible "nofollow" attribute in the link tags, automatically.
A lot of bloggers have installed plugins that remove the 'nofollow' attribute. These are called 'dofollow' blogs. On those blogs you can comment and put in your link, and that will count as a backlink through Google.
All my blogs are set to be 'dofollow' blogs, and I check them every morning to make sure nobody is abusing the privilege by posting spammy looking and off topic comments.
Here's a list of do-follow blogs:
- Big Money List: No follow, Do follow, I follow, and No-no follow Blogs
- A list of 'dofollow' blogs.
Professional Blogging
To blog effectively, and to get the attention your blog deserves, study the work of Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett.. the professionals.
Squidoo Lenses About Blogging
...improve your blogging skills...
-
Expert Blogging Advice Helping Bloggers Succeed
-
Blogging has evolved to new standards of professionalism, and we must evolve to meet the challenge of competing with the best. I've been blogging since 2001. I've studied the experts extensively and have lots of information and links to share with yo...
Start a FREE Website With Links to Your Squidoo Lenses
One way to get backlinks is to link your websites together.
Just like with blogging, you can start static websites that link back to your Squidoo lenses. As an example, I just started one at Celebration of Life (Google Pages). It was very easy to make and if you know nothing about web design this is perfect for you.
Here are some places where you can build free websites.
Google Pages
You can get a free site at Google Pages - and thes more...0 points
Freewebs.com
Make a website in minutes with simple tools for in more...0 points
Yola | Build a Free Website
Learn how to make a free website. Yola will allow more...0 points
Free Website Builder - Moonfruit - Beautiful websites, simply
Moonfruit offers a free website builder that creat more...0 points
Social Bookmarking Sites
When you participate in a social bookmarking community, take advantage of any social interaction available, such as the groups on StumbleUpon.
When using any of these sites it is helpful to know if they give good backlinks, or if they are useful only for promotion. You can know by looking at the source code for each page where your links appear. To look at the source code, right-click on a page, then choose "view page source" if you're using Firefox, or "view source" if you're an Internet Explorer user.
If you see your link in the source code and it has this tag: rel="nofollow" - then the search engines will not count it as a backlink.
Another thing some sites do is to cloak the links with a secondary URL, and of course this too will not count as a backlink.
To see that dynamic in action, check out a MySpace profile page. There you'll see that links are cloaked.
Check all bookmarking sites for the quality of backlinks, and then place your links where they'll do the most good.
I will be testing each site and will post my findings along with each link. This research will take a while, and will be ongoing for months to come.
StumbleUpon
Is StumbleUpon blocking Squidoo sites? I stumbled more...6 points
del.icio.us
Links tagged 'nofollow' so the search engines will more...0 points
Social Bookmarking - Expert Advice!
-
100 Tagfoot Tips
-
As I recently became the first member on Tagfoot to reach a Footness of 100,000, I thought I'd share 100 hot Tagfoot tips with you! The most important thing to remember is just to have fun. Tagfoot can be confusing when you're just starting out, but...
-
Articles to help you understand social bookmarking sites
- Need Social Media Success? Don't Start With Digg
- Warning: Digg seems to have outgrown itself. This article explains how and why.
- The correct way to use Twitter
- There are many ways to use Twitter.
More about social bookmarking and the nofollow tag
Great lenses here... to show you where to place your links.
-
97 Social Bookmarking Sites with Google PageRank
-
Social bookmarking is a great way to save pages you like and help others find articles, blog posts, lenses and sites you create. But what sites should you use? This list of bookmarking services can help you decide.
-
DoFollow: Increase Your Backlinks with DoFollow Sites
-
The DoFollow revolution embraces the sharing of link juice going out to other sites. Learn more about DoFollow, where you can get listed on DoFollow sites, and what it means to you as a webmaster and link builder!
Social Media Marketing
![]()
From Gaping Void
Web 2.0 Sites
I'm going to separate Web 2.0 sites from Social Bookmarking sites. Social Bookmarking is a form of community link sharing, whereas Web 2.0 sites in this list include what we call "social media" and "web communities".
Read the notes I've written on each site. I've done the research to find out whether or not these sites are good for creating backlinks to your lenses, blogs, and articles.
Gather
Gather is a place to connect with people by sharing articles, videos, and photos. You can place your link in any article you write there for good back...3 points
Hover Spot
Excellent backlinks on the profile page. No cloaking of links like you'll see on Bebo and MySpace profiles.2 points
My Space
You can get good backlinks by putting your lens links in your MySpace BLOG. The profile pages cloak links so backlinks aren't possible.2 points
Encore: Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life
For older people; great backlinks can be added to your profile.1 point
FriendFeed - my favorite!!
Perfect backlinks when you add your Squidoo feed from Squidutils.com to FriendFeed.1 point
Eons: Lovin' life on the flip side...
A site for older people, with great backlink potential on the profile page. I'm not sure if links would be welcome elsewhere. Experiment!1 point
Good Reads
A fun site for booklovers where the links are blessed as perfect backlinks worthy of pursuing. I've already listed a few of my Squidoo book lenses her...1 point
Stumpedia
A human-powered directory. Place your links here and interact with others registered at the site. Excellent backlinks.1 point
Tagfoot
Fascinating new site... great backlinks. At this time, still in beta, so you might need an invitation to participate.1 point
Bebo
Not good for backlinking, but still you can establish a presence and post your links. Perhaps someone you connect with there will check out your links...0 points
Useless! So far as I can see, all links are cloaked or tagged 'nofollow'. I'll keep researching this.0 points
Ryze business networking
This is a professional networking site. You can add your Squidoo links to your profile for good backlinks.0 points
About Us - Website Directory
Great backlinks on profile pages.0 points
Zimbio - Online Magazines
Worthless for backlinks - you get one live link on your profile, but that one is cloaked. Do yourself a favor and don't bother with this one.0 points
AuthorsDen
Links are cloaked on profile pages, and not allowed in the blog. Useless!0 points
Alumni Net
There's room for only one link on your profile, but it is a perfect backlink. I put in my lensography link.0 points
LinkedIn: Relationships Matter
Profile page links are cloaked; there may be other linking opportunities on the site I'm not aware of yet.0 points
Zenzuu
I joined Zenzuu and found it full of spam with no good backlink opportunities.0 points
Market Your Lens Via Web 2.0 Sites
Friend Feed
I'm so enthusiastic about FriendFeed that I've created a lens to show you how to use it for full potential.
-
How To Use Friend Feed
-
Friend Feed is a Web 2.0 feed amalgamation site that allows you and others to comment on your online activities. There's an easy registration. You log on, add as many feeds as you'd like, then connect with your friends. With FriendFeed you can find...
Stumpedia
These lenses are about that great new human-powered directory, Stumpedia. It is easy to use - just add your lenses and any other sites you love, then vote sites up or down. Great fun, and a way to connect with other lensmasters.
-
Stumpedia - The Search Engine
-
There's a new kid on the search engine block called Stumpedia. It's unique approach is that it is a human powered search engine which allows users to submit sites along with matching keywords and phrases, which can then be rated and ranked by its own...
-
Stumpedia.com
-
If you haven't heard of human powered search engine, Stumpedia, you might want to give it a whirl. It is essentially a human-powered search engine with a social aspect to it. In other words, Stumpedia allows content producers to submit and profit fro...
Squidoo Lenses to Help You With Web 2.0 Sites
-
Add Your Profile - Make New Friends
-
Social Bookmarking; Web 2.0; Squidoo - All great new ways to promote your content. Squidoo Lensmasters love to promote their lenses with these sites. Use this site to Add Your Profile address and find other lensmasters profiles on the respective book...
-
Social Bookmarking, Networking, News and Content Sites
-
The arrival of Web 2.0 has transformed the online marketing landscape dramatically. Small and medium sized businesses can now compete on a level playing field with big branded businesses and websites. With Web 2.0 you can market your products on so...
-
Top Blogs Following Web 2.0
-
We spend a lot of time at Viget Labs keeping an eye on new site launches. People often ask what blogs we follow to keep up, so we put together our list of top 10 blogs following Web 2.0 (in no particular order) in this post on the Four Lab...
-
Tagfoot
-
I'm not sure if it's the bastard child of Digg and HubPages or the lovechild of Del.icio.us and Squidoo. But it's hot, it's happening and it's HERE.
-
How To MySpace
-
MySpace is not just for musicians and teenagers. Learn how to use MySpace for business or social networking at any age. Want to know how to use MySpace? Want to learn how to do something in particular on MySpace? Find MyS...
Promote your site on Craigslist
-
* How to use Craigslist SEO secrets to promote your website
-
Join my SEO, health, shopping and finance groups! This lens describes how to increase your website traffic by using Craigslist in search engine optimization and website promotion to boost your website's search engine performance. Posting well-writte...
Use RSS to Send Emails to Lens Visitors
This is permission marketing. You provide a place for people to sign up for your rss feed. What they'll get are your SquidCasts. These are an option for you to send out each time you update a lens.
-
Offer Email Subscriptions to Your SquidCasts
-
This tutorial shows how to set up a subscription service so your Squidoo lens visitors can receive your SquidCasts in email. If you're not a member of Squidoo yet, please join. Subscribe to get notifications of my lens updates by email. Note: This...
RSS Feeds Provide Automatic Backlinks
You can use the RSS feed for your lenses to get backlinks on other sites. For more information, read the lenses featured below.
-
Understanding RSS
-
For something as simple and important as RSS, it's incredibly misunderstood. In this very non-technical lens, I'm going to try to show you what you need to know to start using it.
-
How To Get Deep Links with RSS Feeds
-
There are a number of online syndication services that will display an RSS feed as a web page. These will typically contain deep-links to pages on to the originating website, which is a valuable source of backlinks. I originally wrote about thi...
-
Seven Of The Best Uses For RSS Feeds
-
The Best RSS Feeds can be found everywhere. When you see a feed icon on a web page, it means these pages serve their content in syndicated format. Feed icons, or text links, can be found on Blogs, Squidoo Lenses, Social Bookmarking Sites and Social N...
More Great Lenses About SEO
For more discussion of SEO on Squidoo, check out these outstanding lenses:
-
GreekGeek's Squidoo Tips: How to Get Your Lens Found
-
So, you want to learn how to build successful Squidoo lenses (or any sort of webpage), attract web traffic, and get your Squidoo lens found by Google! This three-part tutorial covers: Part I: Ten Steps to Build an Appealing (and Effective) Lens Part...
-
How To Get One-Way Backlinks
-
When you have just created new website, you will want to attract people to visit it. One of the most important tasks for any webmaster is to build up the number of links to the site from other websites. This can be done manually via reciprocal link e...
-
Submit URL: Squidoo Lens Promotion
-
On this page, you'll find some links to places you can submit your Squidoo lenses to so that you can get more web traffic to your lens. Google is usually the main source of traffic to my lenses, but to rank well in Google takes other websites linkin...
-
Do Squidoo: A much requested guide to creating a successful Squidoo lens
-
Are you seeking information on how to use Squidoo effectively? Excellent, because this lens is made just for you! Find the answers to: - How do I do ...? - Why won't ... work? - How can I ...? - Why do you ...? - Where is the ...? Finally d...
-
Best Squidoo Tips plus Squiddy!
-
Squidoo's easy, but some things can be maddenly hard to find. Save time, it's all here for you. How to install Squidoo buttons on your blog, links to all the best how-to on Squidoo that there is. And show your Squidoo-love! I've sought out the best...
Articles and sites that can help you create and promote your Squidoo lens
- Lensmastery by Linda
- My Squidoo tips.
- bdkz's: Best Squidoo How-To Directory Ever
- I'm Lensmaster bdkz and I have been creating lenses on Squidoo Since Feb. 2007.
- 101 ways to get more traffic
- Post from Squid-U.
- How To Find Lenses and Groups on Squidoo
- Searching for Squidoo lenses on a search engine can be a real pain sometimes, as the results are very often filled with non-content pages like tags. Finding the best groups for your lens to join can also be very tricky.Here I provide two custom searches (by Google) that are optimised to only return
- SEO Dictionary
- SEO Dictionary offers brief and clear descriptions of all relevant technical terms in the field of Search Engine Marketing & Optimization.
- The Squidoo Answer Deck Headquarters
- Lots of links to information about how to create better lenses.
- How to Promote Your Lenses Without Being Labeled a Spammer | Squidüber
- Quality triumphs over outrageous sales tricks.
- Relationships and Online Social Networks: The Value of Sites Like Twitter and Plurk
- Why are some friendships short and fleeting while others may last for an entire lifetime? Apart from personality differences and many other reasons,
- The Lensmaster Lounge / stumbleupon, del.icio.us, rollyo, YouTube, Flickr, etc.
- Lens promotion ideas at Squid-U.
- 20 Hard Core SEO Tips
- For those of you loyal readers who wish I would just take a break from the theoretical musings, here is the type of list of SEO tips I rarely give out.
- Search Engine Optimization Tutorials - at Spider-Food.net
- Forums and Tutorials: search engine optimization - SEO
- How I Went From A 50,000 Rank To Under 2000 In 3 Days
- In early July 2008 I had taken a brand new lens and brought it from a 50,000 rank to under 2000 in 3 days(It is now a week and a half later and it is ranked 802 of all of Squidoo). I've learned many lessons from many sources mostly on the Squidoo site itself! I've learned a valuable lesson from a ve
- Squidoo HQ
- Tips for using Squidoo.
- How to Get Backlinks | Internet Marketing Techniques and Theories
- Getting Backlinks to rank your website....I can't think of anything more time consuming, frustrating, and boring than having to spend the time necessary
- SEO Theory and Analysis Blog
- Algorithm analysis, Web community relationship analysis, SEO practices and techniques, industry news, etc.
- Backlink Strategy
- A message board thread at the Lensmaster Lounge.
Thanks for reading this lens...
I'm glad you came by. If you rated my lens, I thank you for that. I've enjoyed, even loved, working on SEO issues for years now, and am grateful for an opportunity to share my understanding of the SEO process with others.
Remember, as a good web citizen you have a responsibility to give your readers real value, not just spam. Your intention in building backlinks should not be to spam your link all over the internet. People won't respect that. Your goal should be to give yourself fully to the task of giving web surfers something they're going to love reading about.
Your Feedback is WELCOME!
I'd love it if you would leave a line or two letting me know what you thought of this lens.
-
Reply
- nickupton nickupton Nov 2, 2009 @ 9:56 pm
- Excellent. Nice to hear what is working for you and what is not. Favourited.
-
Reply
- W. Clark W. Clark Oct 26, 2009 @ 6:04 pm
- Way too busy.
-
Reply
- woodsmith woodsmith Oct 21, 2009 @ 12:14 pm
- Hi Linda,
Thanks for your forum advice!
I check this lens out too...Cool content indeed. I'm going to make this my first favorite lens. Also, I was looking for the "do follow" list, but the link was a dead end at Blogger.
Cheers!
Jay
-
Reply
- website-builder-info website-builder-info Oct 21, 2009 @ 9:24 am | in reply to Televerus_org
- Hi, there is a SEO plug-in for firefox that will tell you whether links are follow or no follow, the no follow links are highlighted in red.
Hope this helps.
http://websitebuilderinfo.com
-
Reply
- LindaJM LindaJM Oct 15, 2009 @ 3:05 am | in reply to Televerus_org
- Televerus - some Squidoo links are "follow" and some aren't. I believe the plexo links are "no follow" but link list links are "follow"... plus any links in your text box would be "follow"... a good mix really. Often the plexos get spammed so I can understand why they are "no follow". Also - the RSS module links are "no follow" so I am transferring my blog posts to link list modules.
-
Reply
- Televerus_org Televerus_org Oct 14, 2009 @ 9:32 pm
- Thanks so much for these helpful hits. I've just recently started a new Squidoo account, and have written 3 lenses so far, and am trying to get them found. I especially want to thank you for the dofollow / nofollow information. Does anyone know if the links from Squidoo are nofollow links?
-
Reply
- Ladymermaid Ladymermaid Oct 14, 2009 @ 12:50 pm
- Great article with a large amount of very useful links. Thank you for sharing.
Ladymermaid
-
Reply
- Nnamdi546 Nnamdi546 Oct 13, 2009 @ 4:18 pm
- This is a wealth of info,,,thanks, I'll be sure to check out those tips once in a while
-
Reply
- smoore6 smoore6 Oct 3, 2009 @ 8:09 pm
- Great Information on promoting a lens very helpful to newbies on squidoo or even veterans! There are a lot of resources and informative tips!
-
Reply
- Pukeko Pukeko Oct 2, 2009 @ 2:23 am
- Thank you for taking the time to share all of this valuable information with us. I can't wait to give some of it a try.
-
Reply
- momto4 momto4 Sep 23, 2009 @ 10:43 pm
- Great lens! Can't wait to try out all your tips!
-
Reply
- ShirlW ShirlW Sep 21, 2009 @ 6:47 am
- Wow - Jam packed with info and it's all useful. I found you through the Senior Squid group where I'm a new member. Thanks for all the tips.
-
Reply
- akuchey akuchey Sep 1, 2009 @ 10:43 am
- thank for the info..i hope we'll come out a new way to be top ten
-
Reply
- thewishpearl thewishpearl Aug 9, 2009 @ 10:45 pm
- Great informative lens, Linda. I will use it as a reference tool. I don't have problems thinking of topics to write about, but as you said, it is to get people to read them that is challenging! Rated 5*'s:)
-
Reply
- Marelisa Marelisa Aug 2, 2009 @ 2:28 am
- Hi Linda: I think that Tagfoot is no follow now (I guess there were too many people bookmarking their Squidoo lenses to never be heard of again). There's a lot of great advice here, I'm coming back later to get a better look at it.
-
Reply
- Gail47 Gail47 Jul 22, 2009 @ 2:06 pm
- Thanks for this great lens. All of mine are probably at the low end for their topics, so these tips and links will come in handy.
-
Reply
- monarch13 monarch13 Jun 29, 2009 @ 8:35 am
- Thank you so much for my Blessing! You are featured on "Angels who Touched My Life and Lenses". Thank You Again!
-
Reply
- rmyskd rmyskd Jun 26, 2009 @ 2:40 am
- Golden information!!! Thanks for sharing.
-
Reply
- LindaJM LindaJM Jun 21, 2009 @ 3:52 pm | in reply to renee22093
- Sorry to say, that site (Mixx) banned SquidXX because the Squidoo lensmasters were too prolific, I guess. Anyhow, thanks for reminding me to take that site out of this page.
-
Reply
- renee22093 renee22093 Jun 21, 2009 @ 1:28 pm
- Really great lens! I signed up for suidxx but when I tried to submit my lenses it said that URL is not valid in their system...what the heck? Any tips on what I'm doing wrong?
-
Reply
- StephenC StephenC Jun 17, 2009 @ 8:58 pm
- Enjoyed the lens, good tips, gotta try some! Thanks!
-
Reply
- spirituality spirituality Jun 16, 2009 @ 8:37 am
- These days myspace links too are redirected - so don't count as backlinks in google. Otherwise, good overview of the webspace :) blessed :)
-
Reply
- California_Dreamin California_Dreamin May 10, 2009 @ 3:58 am
- Thanks for putting all of this information together Linda. I really had no idea about how to promote my lenses, but I've been following this advice little by little and it's been super helpful. Thanks a lot.
-
Reply
- sandyspider sandyspider May 9, 2009 @ 4:12 pm
- Great lens packed with information I added this as a feature in my resource lens. http://www.squidoo.com/lensrank-traffic
-
Reply
- EverythingMouse EverythingMouse May 9, 2009 @ 11:11 am
- Brilliant resource giving great information. Angel Blessings to you
-
Reply
- 2Eklectik 2Eklectik May 7, 2009 @ 4:44 pm
- Thank you for all the great information!!
-
Reply
- poutine poutine May 2, 2009 @ 10:21 am
- This is a SUPER SUPER lens.
It deserves more than a 5, I wish I could give you more.
Poutine
-
Reply
- A_RovingReporter A_RovingReporter May 1, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
- This is one great lens that I wished I had discovered earlier. Have five-starred, favorited and lensrolled this lens.
-
Reply
- DougP DougP Apr 29, 2009 @ 11:21 pm
- I was skeptical at first, but was pleasantly surprised to see how helpful it is. Thanks!
-
Reply
- ChineseKitesforKids ChineseKitesforKids Apr 28, 2009 @ 7:46 pm
- I really need this lens. I am new here and not really sure what's going. I just kind of bumble around from lens to lens trying to get ideas for what makes a great one. By the way, this is a great one!! 5 stars!! Come check out my daycare school online lens and my sign language lens and let me know what you think. I would love to hear some feedback from a Giant Squid...thanks so much. Have a blessed week!
-
Reply
- scss scss Apr 27, 2009 @ 4:52 am
- This lens is awesomely helpful, I have bookmarked it as it will take many, many visits to absorb all of this - thank you for sharing!
And thank you for your Angel Blessing on my http://www.squidoo.com/detox-diet-recipes custom squidoo - it is very much appreciated.
Helene Malmsio
-
Reply
- Nochipra Nochipra Apr 20, 2009 @ 10:48 pm
- Wow! Great info! One of the best I've seen on the subject!
-
Reply
- PaulineIllsley PaulineIllsley Apr 19, 2009 @ 5:55 pm
- Nice lens, great information, thanks!
-
Reply
- alteredkat alteredkat Apr 16, 2009 @ 11:42 am
- Great tips here ***** thanks for the info!
Very helpful!
-
Reply
- WendyArt WendyArt Apr 13, 2009 @ 2:14 pm
- Thank you, thank you, thank you. What a great lens! I really appreciate all the helpful information and links.
-
Reply
- x3xsolxdierx3x x3xsolxdierx3x Apr 10, 2009 @ 1:14 pm
- Great lens! 5 stars......favorited......and I joined your fan club...........personally, I use facebook groups to promote my squidoo lens......
http://www.squidoo.com/my_facebook_experience
-
Reply
- Floraluniverses Floraluniverses Apr 7, 2009 @ 4:44 pm
- Great lens with very useful information. Thanks for sharing and 5*.
-
Reply
- kohuether kohuether Apr 2, 2009 @ 9:43 pm
- This is a very comprehensive lens about promoting on Squidoo. I found it very helpful!
-
Reply
- AndrewShim AndrewShim Apr 1, 2009 @ 8:55 am
- Whoa... loads of good stuff here. It's almost midnight where I am, so I'm gonna bookmark this lens and slowly digest it later. Thanks for sharing Linda...
-
Reply
- daryllau daryllau Mar 30, 2009 @ 5:43 am
- Extremely helpful lens... Thanks a bunch!
- Load More
If you liked this lens, you might also like...
-
LindaJM's Squidoo Journey - part one - 2006 through 2008
-
It took some time for me to warm up to the idea. I'm usually so busy, I don't have time to investigate new sites on the web. I have blogs to maintain, a job to attend to, and a family. Plus at first Squidoo didn't seem like something I w...
-
Expert Blogging Advice Helping Bloggers Succeed
-
Blogging has evolved to new standards of professionalism, and we must evolve to meet the challenge of competing with the best. I've been blogging since 2001. I've studied the experts extensively and have lots of information and links to share with yo...
-
Squidoo Message Board Forums
-
You have to do it. You have to let people know about your lenses - but HOW? One of the best ways is to network with other Squidoo lensmasters on Squidoo message board forums. There you'll meet lots of other lensmasters who have been where you are now...
-
In Praise of the Squidoo Guestbook
-
I recently finished reading a long and interesting lens - and was inspired to tell the writer how much I enjoyed her work. But to my dismay, there was no guestbook. No contact link either. I was so disappointed that I couldn't network with the autho...
-
...when you visit a Squidoo lens
-
Besides building and writing your own lenses, the most important thing you can do on this site is to visit other people's lenses. What you do there will make a big difference to everyone involved. If we as a huge Squidoo community can band together t...
About the author
Lensmaster LindaJM has been a member since June 11 2007, has rated 1,575 lenses, favorited 678, and has created 111 lenses from scratch. This member's top-ranked page is "To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee". See all my lenses
My Bio
I live in the Klamath River Valley of Northern California. I share my life with my partner, Bob. We like to watch movies at home on DVD, swim, hike, and prospect for gold in the Siskiyou Mountains.
You can learn more about me by reading my lensography or this page about my novels.
I have two other Squidoo accounts:
1. Politics - AmericanCitizen
2. Spirituality - Geniyyah

Are you a Squidoo lensmaster over age fifty?
Come join the Senior Squids!
Check out these great lenses...
-
- Image and Video Mentor
Welcome! I'm Linda Martin, your Image and Video Mentor here at Squidoo. I love working with images and know you will too once you have the right software and a few simple instructions. This lens lists sites where you can find free images on the web.... view lens -
- Ten New Lenses by LindaJM
Only the newest, the fledgling, the fresh out of the box lenses made by me, LindaJM. This page shows the lenses I've made most recently. Often I've gone to bio pages of other lensmasters and wondered what they've done most recently. This lens is my... view lens -
- Writing Topics from A to Z
Ever felt writing-obsessed? If you're a writer, most likely you'll identify with that term. We who write are usually thinking or learning about writing when we're not actually doing some writing. I like to write novels, but in my spare time I write... view lens -
- An American Citizen's Lensography
We're such a diverse bunch of people, I don't think anyone can narrow it down to what exactly American citizens think of their country, their government, their land. So take this as just one solitary American citizen crying out in the midst o... view lens -
- Geniyyah's Lensography
Hello, I'm Geniyyah, the spirituality-seeking alter-ego of lensmaster LindaJM. I've brought this series of lenses into their own account because I want to keep them clustered together for clarity's sake. You see, in the very long list of... view lens










