How to Promote a Squidoo Lens
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Top 16 Ways in How to Promote a Squidoo Lens
Here are Sixteen Tips to help you get traffic Promote and Market your Squidoo Lens
Start with the Lens. A good quality Lens will help bring in the search engine traffic and impress the folks who land on your page. The first four tips feature tips and tricks to get you started.
Show off your Lens to other Lensmasters. There are many helpful and active Squidoo members who can give you help and advice. The next four tips provide helpful advice on how to get visits from other Lensmasters. Also, if you have a especially good Lens, you might get some "thumbs-ups" or, even better, an Angels Blessing!
Do some promotion outside Squidoo. The key to success is to get visitors from outside Squidoo. The last four tips show you how.
Here's to your Squidoo success!
Start with the Lens. A good quality Lens will help bring in the search engine traffic and impress the folks who land on your page. The first four tips feature tips and tricks to get you started.
Show off your Lens to other Lensmasters. There are many helpful and active Squidoo members who can give you help and advice. The next four tips provide helpful advice on how to get visits from other Lensmasters. Also, if you have a especially good Lens, you might get some "thumbs-ups" or, even better, an Angels Blessing!
Do some promotion outside Squidoo. The key to success is to get visitors from outside Squidoo. The last four tips show you how.
Here's to your Squidoo success!
What's Here
Quick Find Table of Contents
- How to Promote a Squidoo Lens page Find top ways in Promoting and building Targeted Traffic
- Start with the Lens
- Enhance Your "Brand"
- Show It Off
- Trumpet It To The World!
- Free Books
- Quick Squidoo Lens Promotion Poll
- Learn More About the Marketing Power of Squidoo
- Promotion Advice From Squidoo's Founder Seth Godin
- More Bestsellers From Squidoo Founder Seth Godin
- Squidoo Lens Promotion Guestbook
- About Me
How to Promote a Squidoo Lens page Find top ways in Promoting and building Targeted Traffic
Squidoo Lens Promotion and Traffic Generating Strategies
How to Promote a Squidoo Lens page Find top ways in Promoting and building Targeted Traffic to your squidoo lens page All these tips and strategies will help in Getting More Traffic to Your Squidoo Lens
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Start with the Lens
Squidoo Lens Promotion Tips 1 to 4
1Create Squidoo lenses that focus on a very specific topic, product or idea. Pick subjects that you are interested in and know a lot about. This will both make creating and editing Lens fun and help you produce better quality Lens. Carve out a niche or micro-niche for yourself and people with similar interests will find you. Include as much relevant content as possible and watch the fluff.
2Use headings and sub-headings within your lens. Change any default Squidoo headings to something of your own. This includes the guestbook; nothing screams "Unfinished Lens!" more than a default guestbook title.
3Make sure that all of the content in your lens is original and not published anywhere else on the web. Even you have published it elsewhere on the web yourself, reword the content for your lens. This makes it much more attractive to search engines and helps you avoid accusations of plagiarism.
4Choose 10 or 15 relevant keywords for your subject. Squidoo allows up to 40 but this will give you a good start. Add a combination of single words and phrases. Consider what keywords you will use if you were using a search engine to look for that particular subject.
2Use headings and sub-headings within your lens. Change any default Squidoo headings to something of your own. This includes the guestbook; nothing screams "Unfinished Lens!" more than a default guestbook title.
3Make sure that all of the content in your lens is original and not published anywhere else on the web. Even you have published it elsewhere on the web yourself, reword the content for your lens. This makes it much more attractive to search engines and helps you avoid accusations of plagiarism.
4Choose 10 or 15 relevant keywords for your subject. Squidoo allows up to 40 but this will give you a good start. Add a combination of single words and phrases. Consider what keywords you will use if you were using a search engine to look for that particular subject.
Enhance Your "Brand"
Squidoo Lens Promotion Tips 5 to 8
5Enable the Contact me button via your Squidoo profile. This allows visitors to make contact, without you having to give out your email address. It also gives buyers more confidence when they know that you can be contacted. If somebody does contact you with a question or comment, be sure to answer within a day or two if possible. This reminds them that your Lens exists and makes people feel like you're on your toes.
6Make use of the Lensroll feature, the smiley face you see on the top of Lens when you're logged in, to link your Lens together. Also be sure to use the My Lens or Featured Lens modules to tie related Lens together. This lets interested visitors know you have other Lens on this subject.
7Join the fan club of other Squidoo lensmasters - especially those with a quality portfolio of lenses, as they are obviously active on Squidoo. They may return the favor. Also, be sure to send out regular Squidcasts so your fan club knows about your latest updates.
8Create a lensography. This is a Squidoo lens that uses the featured lens module to showcase your lenses. You can organize them by category and even feature your favorites in a Most Popular or Most Recently Updated module.
6Make use of the Lensroll feature, the smiley face you see on the top of Lens when you're logged in, to link your Lens together. Also be sure to use the My Lens or Featured Lens modules to tie related Lens together. This lets interested visitors know you have other Lens on this subject.
7Join the fan club of other Squidoo lensmasters - especially those with a quality portfolio of lenses, as they are obviously active on Squidoo. They may return the favor. Also, be sure to send out regular Squidcasts so your fan club knows about your latest updates.
8Create a lensography. This is a Squidoo lens that uses the featured lens module to showcase your lenses. You can organize them by category and even feature your favorites in a Most Popular or Most Recently Updated module.
Show It Off
Squidoo Lens Promotion Tips 9 to 12
9Visit the SquidU forum. Squidu has its own server, so it is usually up even on the rare occasions that you can't connect to Squidoo. You can browse around, get to know the regulars, and even post a question about Squidoo if you have one. Many of the most experienced Squidoo members are very helpful, so you will likely get a good answer.
10Add your lens to Lensroll.com and Squidom. These sites are similar in principle to Digg.com and are exclusively for Squidoo Lens.
11Add your lens to Squidirectory, a categorized lens directory similar to Dmoz, and Squidlog (a link directory for Squidoo, HubPages, Gather, AssociatedContent and LaunchTags)..
12Any time that you update the lens, go straight to SquidUtils and use the Advanced Lensmaster Dashboard ping function. This alerts blog search engines that your lens has been updated.
10Add your lens to Lensroll.com and Squidom. These sites are similar in principle to Digg.com and are exclusively for Squidoo Lens.
11Add your lens to Squidirectory, a categorized lens directory similar to Dmoz, and Squidlog (a link directory for Squidoo, HubPages, Gather, AssociatedContent and LaunchTags)..
12Any time that you update the lens, go straight to SquidUtils and use the Advanced Lensmaster Dashboard ping function. This alerts blog search engines that your lens has been updated.
Trumpet It To The World!
Squidoo Lens Promotion Tips 13 to 16
13 Take advantage of free classified ad sites like Craigslist. Be sure to pick appropriate categories for your postings.
14 Create a website for your Lens. One good site that offers free hosting is Webs.com. This gives you a central point outside of Squidoo for promoting your Lens and lets you set up a categorized list of links.
15 If you have a small advertising budget, consider Bidvertiser Wonderful, which lets you place bids on advertising space.
16 Tell all your friends on Facebook and Myspace. You can create fan pages or post links to your Squidoo Lens. You can also tweet about your Lens on Twitter
The above is certainly not an exhaustive list of Squidoo lens promotion tips, however, they provide a great launching pad for spreading your ideas on the web.
14 Create a website for your Lens. One good site that offers free hosting is Webs.com. This gives you a central point outside of Squidoo for promoting your Lens and lets you set up a categorized list of links.
15 If you have a small advertising budget, consider Bidvertiser Wonderful, which lets you place bids on advertising space.
16 Tell all your friends on Facebook and Myspace. You can create fan pages or post links to your Squidoo Lens. You can also tweet about your Lens on Twitter
The above is certainly not an exhaustive list of Squidoo lens promotion tips, however, they provide a great launching pad for spreading your ideas on the web.
Quick Squidoo Lens Promotion Poll
Squidoo Lens Promotion Feedback
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Promotion Advice From Squidoo's Founder Seth Godin
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SynchronicityHouse
Feb 13, 2012 @ 8:31 am | delete
- What a great idea for a Lens and you have shared so much info - lots I didn't know and need to check out now. So thank you so much!
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ChrisImamshah
Feb 13, 2012 @ 8:13 am | delete
- Great tips. I learned a few new things to do here so thanks. Gave you a Squidlike.
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desertdarlene
Feb 11, 2012 @ 10:52 am | delete
- I'm going to try some of these right now.
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Tianna_Silver
Jan 31, 2012 @ 10:01 pm | delete
- I love this lens! I'm still pretty new to Squidoo and am really looking for ways to get my lens' out there to more people. I'm gonna be using all your tips! Thanks so much for sharing all this info.
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andyisnt
Sep 11, 2011 @ 12:52 am | delete
- I'm new to squidoo, thanks for your help. I'll be sure to take it on board when promoting my lens.
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Mia-Mia
Aug 24, 2011 @ 6:32 pm | delete
- I've been visiting a lot of lenses, especially the "how to" type for the Squidoo community. I'm learning a lot, and I sure have a lot to learn.
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acisni Aug 9, 2011 @ 8:22 am | delete
- super stuff - much appreciated. Good advice especially for newbs
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KaneshiaKelly Jul 11, 2011 @ 2:15 am | delete
- Great Tips. Thank u.
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TableTalk
Jul 3, 2011 @ 8:54 am | delete
- Thank you for the tips. This is my second day and first lens with Sqidoo. Now I look forward to seeing some visitors to comment about what I created. Thank you again.
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asianxkutiee
Jan 29, 2011 @ 1:28 pm | delete
- Thanks for all the good tips and websites! Some of which I didn't even know existed! ^^ This was a very useful lens! Thanks again! :)
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AllyVuitton
Jan 21, 2011 @ 12:10 am | delete
- Really helpful stuff! I really need to go and submit my lenses to a few more sites, but it takes so much time. Thanks for reminding me! Blessed.
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thesuccess
Jan 16, 2011 @ 7:54 am | delete
- great info, well presented
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Bookworm25
Jan 15, 2011 @ 6:52 pm | delete
- Very informative, great lens! :)
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adamlanger
Jan 12, 2011 @ 4:35 pm | delete
- very useful information thnx for dat..
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tanvii Jan 12, 2011 @ 12:53 am | delete
- Very useful tips..
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dragonlow Jan 7, 2011 @ 8:15 am | delete
- Great lens with good info. I love it.
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chrissuard
Dec 18, 2010 @ 1:56 pm | delete
- Nice lens, thanks for the great tips. Blessed by a Squid Angel.
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Retro_Loco
Dec 13, 2010 @ 1:35 pm | delete
- Great tips here on promoting Squidoo lenses! Thank you so much for sharing. I will put a lot of these tips to use after the holiday rush. Thumbs up! ~Vicki~
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shadow102
Nov 13, 2010 @ 1:21 am | delete
- Thanks for sharing these great tips.
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LisaAuch Sep 11, 2010 @ 12:46 pm | delete
- Thankyou for these reminders on how to promote our lenses
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