Promoting Your Squidoo Lens

You build a Squidoo Lens for many reasons like sharing your expertise or Marketing your product to the internet. Once the lens is up and running you next want to use Marketing to draw people to your page.The question becomes how do you market your Squidoo Lens?

The real good juice comes from "meaningful" backlinks and reviews. Meaningful Marketing as it is sometimes called simply means getting a website with content relevant to your Squidoo Lens to link to you. Relevant lens directories like Brand Squid not only give your lenses more exposure they give you a strong backlink. So if your lens is about apples then you want backlinks from websites that have anything to do with apples. They could be Apple growers,pickers,apple sauce makers, bakers and one and one.

Social Networking like Facebook and Myspace are also good places to let your friends know about your lens. Bookmarking sites like Delicious can help get you noticed and of course Twitter, Plurk and Ping.fm will help you get the word out for new lens and for updates.