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How do you get people to find your Squidoo Lenses
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 linking to you. There is an ever increasing number of Squidoo friendly directories and forums where you can promote your lenses and get backlinks in the process. There's also other search engines, directories, and social networking sites where people might find your lens.
Google is usually the main source of traffic to my lenses, but to rank well in Google takes other websites linking to you. There is an ever increasing number of Squidoo friendly directories and forums where you can promote your lenses and get backlinks in the process. There's also other search engines, directories, and social networking sites where people might find your lens.
Squidoo-related Directories and Social Sites
These Squidoo-friendly directories are made for submitting your Squidoo lenses!
- Lensroll.com
- This is like DIGG For Squidoo lenses. You submit a lens, tag it with categories, and hope that people vote for it so it makes it on the front page.
- Squidom
- Another site to submit and vote for Squidoo lenses.
- The Isle of Squid
- Directory for Squidoo lenses only with tons of categories.
- The Squidirectory
- Directory for Squidoo Lenses. Check out the directory and add your link.
- Squoogle Article Link Directory
- Squoogle accepts quality content from Squidoo but also other sites like HubPages, Gather, Associated Content, and LaunchTags.
- Squidoo Directory - SquidUtils
- Get listed in this directory automatically by logging in to SquidUtils, but you must have "sensible primary tags" for your lenses.
- LensmasterWorld.com
- A directory for Squidoo lenses.
- Squiddit
- Squiddit is like Reddit for Squidoo. Vote for your favorite Squidoo lenses. Only editors can add lenses to prevent spam. Details at SquidU.
- Squidtop
- Captain Squid announced SquidTop, which is a site that lets you blog about your Squidoo Lenses. Check it out at squidtop.com.
- Squidoo Ink Pot
- A new directory for Squidoo Lenses.
How to Promote your Squidoo Lens with Social Networking
Information on using popular social networking sites like Facebook to get traffic to your lenses.
- My Facebook Experience
- An interesting lens about promoting your Squidoo lenses using Facebook groups.
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The Best Squidoo Lens NOT To Do
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Oh, yippee yay! This is all about me and my Website and what I want you to buy. I am not going to add any of my personality or give you any information on the lens topic, because that would waste my time! In fact, I don't have a topic! After all, all...
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Zimbio and Squidoo
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I just made this great cover over at zimbio. It is a place I have only recently been submitting my lenses to. I thought I would share with you a little about Zimbio and you can submit your lenses there also. Here is the cover I made there. We could...
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Browser Toolbar for Squidoo
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This new browser toolbar from SquidUtils.com puts powerful tools at the finger tips of Lensmasters. Featuring quick links to all your Squidoo accounts, lenses and groups, and easy access to all the social functions, this toolbar will be indispensable...
Here's my favorite link:
What is the best thing you can do to get your Squidoo lens noticed?
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Squid-What?
If you don't understand what Squidoo lenses are or don't get Squidoo terminology, check out this lens:
Squidoo Terms
Forums
Forums that you participate in are a great way to promote Squidoo lenses and perhaps get a backlink. Of course don't spam, but if the forum allows it you may be able to add a link to your lens in the signature.
Squidoo's forum, SquidU is a great place to start as other lensmasters are good company and you can learn a lot about Squidoo in the process.
Squidoo's forum, SquidU is a great place to start as other lensmasters are good company and you can learn a lot about Squidoo in the process.
- Rocking The Squid
- Squidoo Lensmasters can promote their non-adult lenses here.
- List Of DoFollow Forums For Backlinks
- Some of these forums that you can get backlinks from may be appropriate to promote Squidoo lenses. Disclaimer: I haven't really used any of these for Squidoo lens promotion but it looks like it could be a good list. It will be time consuming to check each forum's rules.
- Firestorm Forum
- This forum has a Squidoo sub-forum where you can share your Squidoo lenses.
Squidoo Tags
Check out Squidoo Tags have no seo effect.
Sites Like Squidoo
Get Your Lenses some attention by linking to them from other sites that are like Squidoo.-
Sites Like Squidoo
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Squidoo allows you to create a webpage with no html knowledge. There are other sites like Squidoo out there that let you create a webpage such as hubpages, but they may not be exactly like Squidoo. Check out the list below and vote for your favorite...
Social Bookmarking Sites
Here are a few great social bookmarking sites that you can submit your best Squidoo lenses to. Make sure to add other interesting sites besides your own lenses to keep the site useful and your account active.
Check out the Add your profile lens to connect with other lensmasters on social bookmarking or social networking sites. Add links to your profiles.
Check out the Add your profile lens to connect with other lensmasters on social bookmarking or social networking sites. Add links to your profiles.
- Stumbleupon
- Stumbleupon is the social bookmarking site that I have had the best luck with as far as getting traffic. If people like your site, they will give it athumbs up and it will get a lot of hits. So make sure you have your lens done and looking good before submitting or you might not get too many hits from it. Check out this great Stumble Upon lens for more info.
- del.icio.us
- del.icio.us is another top social bookmarking site to submit quality lenses to.
- Blue Dot
- A social bookmarking site where it seems the emphasis is on having friends.
- furl
- Social Bookmarking site by LookSmart.
- Social Bookmarking Sites
- If you would like to submit your lens / site to tons of social boomarking sites, try this Squidoo lens with a list of 150 Social Bookmarking sites.
- LensRoll
- Submit and vote on Squidoo Lenses.
- Shareaholic: Firefox Toolbar to Promote your Lens Instantly!
- This lens talks about a toolbar for Firefox will let you easily submit your lens url to multiple sites without having to visit each one separately.
- Onlywire
- MyKidsInheritance commented "don't forget services like Onlywire where you can submit to several sites at once. Great time saver."
- Social Marker
- Submit your url to 46 of the best social bookmarking sites in under 15 minutes!
- You SHOULD Submit Manually to Social Bookmarking Sites or Should You
- This article talks about how you may be better off submitting to social bookmarking sites manually rather than clicking a button that adds your site to multiple social bookmarking services. It also has a nice list of social bookmarking widgets and tutorials!
Twitter!
Twitter is a mini blog/social networking site where you can add friends, make updates about what you're doing and add links to your Squidoo sites or other sites. You can only type 140 characters in each update including URLs.
You might get followers who will check out what you're up to. Check out Writertiff's Twitter Traffic lens for a good explanation.
This SquidU Post has some good advice about using Twitter and not spamming.
The Twitter Module has arrived, thanks to the SquidooCool blog for getting the word out.
If you aren't sure what to do with twitter, check out 50 Ways to Use Twitter by bdkz.
Find other lensmasters on Twitter and add your twitter page.
You might get followers who will check out what you're up to. Check out Writertiff's Twitter Traffic lens for a good explanation.
This SquidU Post has some good advice about using Twitter and not spamming.
The Twitter Module has arrived, thanks to the SquidooCool blog for getting the word out.
If you aren't sure what to do with twitter, check out 50 Ways to Use Twitter by bdkz.
Find other lensmasters on Twitter and add your twitter page.
Fefe's Tweets
- fefes
- aka fefe
- 72 followers
- 51 following
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- I just updated my Squidoo page: Michael Jackson MP3 Albums / http://tinyurl.com/n824q7
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- Cool Mr Spock video http://bit.ly/2paDV
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- I just updated my Squidoo page: Best of Will Susan Boyle's Outburst hurt her chances to win Britain's Got Talent? on Twitter / http:// ...
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- I put together a list of sites like Squidoo, only a few so far. http://tinyurl.com/brf43g
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- Waiting for the next MacHeist 3 Mission.... made a lens about Macheist in the meantime. http://tinyurl.com/bdqydc
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Squidoo Tips from a Giant Squid. Great tips about creating lenses from an experienced lensmaster.
Squidoo Newbie Mistakes is also a good one, especially if you are new to Squidoo.
Submit Squidoo URL to other Web 2.0 sites
- Squidoocool article about Bumpzee
- Check out this article about using Bumpzee to get some quick attention for your Squidoo lenses.
- LaunchTags
- Create a LaunchTags mini-page and drive a little traffic to your lens. You can also earn money from your mini-pages.
- Euerekster - create a swicki
- Create a useful Swicki about a subject and include your Squidoo lens and other webpages.
- Stumpedia.com
- Check out this Squid U Post describing submitting links to Stumpedia.
SQUIDAHOLIC
Get stats about your lens traffic, who links to your lens, and more at squidaholic.com.
Directories
- DMOZ, The Open Directory Project
- Submit your site to DMOZ, the open directory. This will help with your search engine rankings if you are lucky enough to get listed here. This page explains how you can add your site.
- Sootle Link Directory
- Add your site to Sootle, a human edited directory. Requires that you link to them if you submit for free.
- Librarians' Internet Index
- Suggest site to the Librarians' Internet Index.
- SurfGopher
- SurfGopher appears to be a Searchable directory. Requires that you link to them in order to get your site listed.
- squidlink.com
- Found out about this directory from LMP on SquidU. It's not a Squidoo directory but accepts some Squidoo lenses. In the forum post, it is mentioned that this directory may not be free for long, and to read the terms before giving them your e-mail address.
- Internet Search Engine Database
- Find specialty, and other free and paid web directories.
Tips from Other Lensmasters
Squidoo tips from Bloggers, SquidU Forum, and other lenses!
Victoria Neely's Squidoo Diary is filled with many excellent Squidoo tips that you can use to improve your lenses!
thefluffnata posted on SquidU about using rss syndication to promote your lens. Check out the lens How To Get Deep Links with RSS Feeds.
Check out thefluffnata's post on the SquidUtils Blog: Spreading the Social Butter.
Squidoography has a great Squidoo SEO article where Andrew explains how he makes and optimizes lenses.
Squidoocool recently mentioned using Bumpzee and I have found that when I submit my lens URL to Bumpzee, google will find it in an hour or so. (2/16/09- Bumpzee site taken down with message saying it will be back)
Captain Squid suggests promoting your lens with Zimbio. Zimbo is nofollow but I do get hits on my lenses from people clicking through from Zimbio.
PotPieGirl has an article about How To SEO Optimize a Squidoo Lens
thefluffnata posted on SquidU about using rss syndication to promote your lens. Check out the lens How To Get Deep Links with RSS Feeds.
Check out thefluffnata's post on the SquidUtils Blog: Spreading the Social Butter.
Squidoography has a great Squidoo SEO article where Andrew explains how he makes and optimizes lenses.
Squidoocool recently mentioned using Bumpzee and I have found that when I submit my lens URL to Bumpzee, google will find it in an hour or so. (2/16/09- Bumpzee site taken down with message saying it will be back)
Captain Squid suggests promoting your lens with Zimbio. Zimbo is nofollow but I do get hits on my lenses from people clicking through from Zimbio.
PotPieGirl has an article about How To SEO Optimize a Squidoo Lens
Search Engines
The Big 3
The big 3 search engines are Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft's MSN. I get the most hits from Google, then Yahoo! and a few from MSN. It's better for these search engines to find your lenses themselves than to submit your URL to them. They will find your page when other pages already in their index are linking to it. Sometimes it takes Yahoo a long time to notice my lenses but it is nice when it does.
There are some links below to other search engines you can try out but I don't really submit to these anymore because I did not get a whole lot of traffic from them.
The big 3 search engines are Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft's MSN. I get the most hits from Google, then Yahoo! and a few from MSN. It's better for these search engines to find your lenses themselves than to submit your URL to them. They will find your page when other pages already in their index are linking to it. Sometimes it takes Yahoo a long time to notice my lenses but it is nice when it does.
There are some links below to other search engines you can try out but I don't really submit to these anymore because I did not get a whole lot of traffic from them.
- Scrub The Web - Add URL
- Add Your URL To Scrub The Web. Requires e-mail confirmation.
- Walhello Search Engine - Submit URL
- Under their "Priority Submission" there is a place you can submit your url to them for free, but they won't guarantee it will be listed.
- SearchIt - add your site.
- Submit your url to Search It.
- Gigablast
- Add your URL to GigaBlast. This one is annoying because you have to enter a CAPTCHA then often get this message "Error. 3 urls have already been submitted by this IP address for the last 24 hours." So I guess they only let 3 URLS from Squidoo be added a day. Good luck!
Got Squidoo Questions?
If you have Squidoo questions, check out The Answer Deck.
If you don't find an answer there, you can ask your fellow lensmasters at SquidU, Squidoo's official forum.
Squidoo Groups
Squidoo Groups are a good way to get traffic, or better yet, backlinks to your lenses. check out A Guide to Groups for Lensmasters to learn more about groups.
You can join groups that others have created or create your own at Squidoo Groups. Check the PageRank of a group (or any webpage) here. PageRank is on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best. Basically, Google will like you more if you are linked to from pages with higher PageRank.
You can read a simple explanation of PageRank here if you are new to the term.
It's best for your lens to be linked to from the main page of a group which will probably have a higher PageRank than the link to all lenses in the group.
If you have a MonkeyBrain lens be sure to add it to my new MonkeyBrain group! It's new so it doesn't have PageRank yet, but lots of great lenses are joining. I'll put you on the main page if I accept your lens (I'll likely accept it if it isn't spam.)
You can join groups that others have created or create your own at Squidoo Groups. Check the PageRank of a group (or any webpage) here. PageRank is on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best. Basically, Google will like you more if you are linked to from pages with higher PageRank.
You can read a simple explanation of PageRank here if you are new to the term.
It's best for your lens to be linked to from the main page of a group which will probably have a higher PageRank than the link to all lenses in the group.
If you have a MonkeyBrain lens be sure to add it to my new MonkeyBrain group! It's new so it doesn't have PageRank yet, but lots of great lenses are joining. I'll put you on the main page if I accept your lens (I'll likely accept it if it isn't spam.)
Lensmaster Tools and Utilities - Custom Google Search for Squidoo
Lensmaster Tools and Utilities by thefluffanutta has custom Google search engines for Squidoo groups and lenses that seem to work better for me than Squidoo's search engine! The group search engine would be a great way to find Squidoo Groups to join to get your lens more visitors.
The lens has a lot of other good stuff too, so check it out. The custom search engines are really useful because sometimes Squidoo's search doesn't find exactly what I want.
The lens has a lot of other good stuff too, so check it out. The custom search engines are really useful because sometimes Squidoo's search doesn't find exactly what I want.
Squidoo Images
You can use pictures in your lens to liven them up and even get hits from Google Images! Make sure you have permission to use whatever pictures you put in your lens. If you don't know where to find pictures, one site you might be able to find something at is pdphoto.org. That's where I found the macro picture of the dollar. Sometimes I use pictures from Wikipedia Commons. Another place to check is Gimp Savvy - their photos are mostly animal, plant, and space photos there thanks to 3 US government agencies that seem to take a lot of pictures.Check out the Traffic from Image Searches lens for some tips on getting traffic to your lens from image searches.
For more resources to find pictures, check out this great lens by BookMama: Free and Almost-Free Graphics for Webpages, MySpace or Blogs.
If you want an easy online way to edit images for your lens, check out this lens about flauntR by Kimberly Dawn Wells.
If you want to enhance your lens photos with almost no effort at all, check out the lens Making Your Lens Pictures Look AMAZING by Mr Lewis Smile.
If you are looking for a logo for your lens check out Squidoo Designs by Janasz.
ALLPOSTERS - put images of posters in your lenses
If you become an Allposters affiliate, you can setup links to their posters and google images may even drive some traffic to your lens. This has helped a few of my lenses get more traffic and poster sales! I wish Squidoo would make a poster module to make it easier!
Others' Squidoo lenses that may help get you more traffic to your lens
Check out other Squidoo lenses that have information about getting more traffic to your lens or site! The info on making lenses is great since content is king.
- Off Site Lens Promotion
- Information on places to promote your Squidoo lenses.
- How to Make Your First Lens
- Well, this lens is how to create your first lens, but you have to have a lens before you can get traffic to it! :)
"So you want to make a lens? Terrific! These screenshots and step-by-step instructions will let you get your first lens up in no time." - 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 deciding to take the plunge and become a lensmaster? Click here
- Building Website Traffic 101
- Building Website Traffic 101 lens
- How To Get One-Way Backlinks
- Talks about getting other sites to link to you, which is important for webmasters to do!
- The Free Squidoo Guide
- Just about everything I know about Squidoo... I learned at Squidoo! I put this lens together to start to make better sense of all the free information I've found for how to use Squidoo and how to build better lenses. My recommendations are based on what I find easy to understand and what seems to re
Squidoo Resources & Tools
- Squidoo: Buttons & Banners
- Create a button or banner with the Squidoo logo for your lens, then put it on your own site(s) to advertise your lenses!
- SquidU | Where lensmasters know best!
- SquidU is where you can find all kinds of tips and tricks about Squidoo. The forum is especially helpful where you can talk to other lensmasters.
- Types of Lenses on Squidoo
- A lens with the different types of lenses you can create on Squidoo, for example SquidLit, SquidWho, MonkeyBrain, etc.
Get Squidoo Tips & Info at the Squidoo Cool Blog
- Could you run an Offline Squidoo Business?
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Make Money with Affiliate Programs
Squidoo is great because you can earn money from Amazon or eBay affiliate programs, but what if you want to branch out and make money using other affiliate programs? Here are the ones I like!
Hey Webmasters! - Add hundreds of thousands of images to your site - Free!
Join the AllPosters.com Affiliates Program and get access to hundred of thousands of images for your site. AllPosters.com has images from popular movies, music groups, sports teams, fine art, and much more. Adding these images to your site will enhance your content.
Furthermore, you get paid for improving your site with poster/print images! All of the images you use will link to AllPosters.com where your site visitors can make purchases. When they buy something, AllPosters.com pays you 25% - 30% of the sale. If the visitor decides to purchase within 10 days of their last visit from your website, you'll still earn commission on the sale! It's easy to sign-up, build links, and track your sales.
Sign up today!
Hey Webmasters! - Add hundreds of thousands of images to your site - Free!
Join the AllPosters.com Affiliates Program and get access to hundred of thousands of images for your site. AllPosters.com has images from popular movies, music groups, sports teams, fine art, and much more. Adding these images to your site will enhance your content.
Furthermore, you get paid for improving your site with poster/print images! All of the images you use will link to AllPosters.com where your site visitors can make purchases. When they buy something, AllPosters.com pays you 25% - 30% of the sale. If the visitor decides to purchase within 10 days of their last visit from your website, you'll still earn commission on the sale! It's easy to sign-up, build links, and track your sales.
Sign up today!
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