Tips on How to Get Your Squidoo Lens Noticed with More Traffic

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How to get your squidoo lens into the top 100 & other great tips

I have had two lenses make the top 100. My first broke the top 100 in the summer of 2009. http://www.squidoo.com/baby_kids_freebies made it into the top 100 Squidoo lenses and it took it just 43 days to get there. My second top 100 lens happened in the summer of 2011 it http://www.squidoo.com/free_stuff_for_teachers made it into the top 100 Squidoo lenses

Here are some tips on what I did:

* Be sure to have at least four modules (so your lens gets featured on Squidoo)

* Add as many tags as you can (you can use 40) about your topic so it is indexed higher when searched--Try to use phrases that people will actually enter when searching

* Post comments to other lenses so they will hopefully return the favor & visit your lens to comment, rank, and favorite. I also post messages in groups & forums online. I use the forums; Yahoogroups & Cafemom regularly.

* Search other lenses about tips to making a good lens.

* Add Widgets to get more traffic. Lensmaster, thefluffanutta, has created a number of widgets you can easily add to your lenses. Check out his Love this lens? lens to get them. Love ya Fluffa...you create awesome stuff!!!

* Search for lenses to make money with Squidoo.

* Search other lenses on your topic to see how they did theirs. You don't want to make one that is already covering your topic...or you will want to make it differently...

* Make sure your title is also your primary tag. Also list your primary tag again in your tags.

* Create back links to your lens by posting messages with your COMPLETE lens address to blogs, social networking sites, forums & groups. Be sure to have your lens URL in email, blog & forum signatures lines too.

* Spread the word about any new content to your lens. Use a Squidcast, Twitter & Facebook first. The lens I was promoting is for Baby & Kids Freebies so it was easy to send out messages (posts) to my groups & blogs about any new freebie finds. I really concentrate on making sure the freebies are legitimate and I think that helps get return visitors to my lens & website because the freebies are real not a bunch of surveys & trial offers you have to fill out to get the freebie.

* Social bookmark your lens on sites like digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Facebook & Twitter. Make sure your Squidoo bio has set up the Twitter setting so you can send updates to Twitter with a single click!

* Be sure to "Ping" your lens. Do this every time you have a significant update to your site. Pinging your lens sends out a notice to search engines that your site has been updated. This helps your lens, blog, or site so it may be noticed sooner by google, yahoo, msn and the other search sites when they crawl the web. You can Ping your lens easily at SquidUtils.com after logging in and going to the "advanced dashboard".

* When creating a lens address use something that is a short phrase or words that would be searched on your topic and use an underscore or dash between the words. Ex: Use special_education_tips or special-education-tips not specialeducationtips.

* Let all of your friends know you have published a lens and ask them to visit, rate, comment, join and favorite. Friends will help you like that. :-)

* Add the google blog or news search to your lens (usually at the bottom). A lot of lensmasters use this module. I like it too. I usually mention how often it is updated too. This is a easy quick way to keep your lens updated without doing a thing. When search engines crawl for updating sites yours will be one of those. I usually set mine to update 1 x per day.

* Include a comment module on your lens. People like to comment. And, people like to read what others have to say. It is a useful module. It really bugs me when I have something on my mind to say and there is NO comment area. Plus again this keeps your lens updated (in the eyes of search engines).

* Include a links plexo for visitors to add their lens, blog or website. Great way to give others a way to get "Back Links".

* Look through the module selection list and play around with what is available. There is lots of great modules and more being created.

* Search Squidoo for "How to Monetize your website or Blog" & "How to get more traffic". Great tips can be found.

* Search Squidoo for lens that give tips to improve your lens--there are a lot of helpful lenses already made. (I am going to make a lens that highlights the lenses that I have found most beneficial to me--I just do not have it done yet) Here some places I found helpful ~ The Squidoo Answer Deck and for sure the best resource.... Squidutils.com

* Be sure to go to "my dashboard" and find near your picture "edit bio" and be sure Allow Contact is set to yes so others can contact you through Squidoo. This has been a great help to me. It is very frustrating to want to contact a lensmaster and this feature is turned off.

* Save all of your hard work! Back-up your lens. To do this you must be in the "edit" feature of your lens in the (lensmaster workshop). Look along the right column of "Lensmaster Tools" under tags & lens settings you will see Save my lens text to my computer. Click that to save (back-up) your lens. I recommend saving it to a specific folder in your hard drive in html format.

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Squidoo Tips & Sites for Lensmasters

Squidoo : Bookmarklet Info
With the Squidoo Bookmarklet in hand, you are only ever just one click away from adding great content to your lens. Easy to begin using immediatedly.
Published Lenses | Squidom
Login/register submit your lenses and search for others too. This will help you to get some BackLinks.
SquidU Forum
Helpful how to's for publishing lenses, moderating groups, supporting charities, and promoting it all. Show off your lenses. Learn some stuff along the way. Sign up for the weekly SquidU email newsletter. Powered by lensmasters.
Webmaster Center - Live Search - Great tools for Lensmasters!
Use the Webmaster Tools to troubleshoot the crawling and indexing of your site, submit sitemaps and view statistics about your sites. Live Search Webmaster Center Take advantage of everything Microsoft has to offer and get the best results possible for your business or site.
Learn how to make more money from your lenses.
Learn tricks, tips, & proven methods to see more traffic & more sales from your lenses. Easy to use!
Squidoo Lensmaster Blogs
A place for lensmasters to feature their lenses and blogs
Squidoosphere » Aggregating Squidoo Blogs on the Web
Aggregating Squidoo Blogs on the Web
Web Designs by Kathy - Colours
Html color codes. Easy to use and copy.
The Joy of Squidoo Pdf File
The official (free) recipe guide-by Seth Godin and Megan Casey
SquidUtils - Utilities and Tools for Squidoo Lensmasters
SquidUtils has complementry utilities and tools for Squidoo Lensmasters. Tools include: the advanced dashboard, lensmaster feeds, plus Amazon links and feeds.
Squoogle Article Link Directory
make a web directory with ease
The Isle of Squid
The Premier Squidoo Link Directory
About The Isle of Squid is a Directory of the Best lenses on Squidoo.
SquiDirectory
A Best of Squidoo Directory. Featuring helpful information on a variety of interesting topics.
LensMasterWorld.com
Squidoo lensmaster directory to post your squidoo lens or find popular squidoo lenses
Alltop - Top Squidoorati News
All the top lenses on Squidoo.
Squidoo Lens Reviews: We Are Squidoorati!
A great blog by a lensmaster for lensmasters. Check it out.
181 Free Twitter Buttons, Badges, Widget and Counters to Help You Find Followers
One of the best ways to find new followers for your Twitter account is to leverage any other online profile that you might already have.
I am addicted to Squidoo . . . are you? Read on.
This is a blog for Squidoo Lensmasters to find tips, comment to get backlinks, and find out what other lensmasters are doing.
The Best Squidoo Blog Ever | Captain Squid
A blog about Squidoo and making money using Squidoo
SquidooCool.com - Making a living on Squidoo
Making a living on Squidoo - Great site to help lensmasters get the maximum from their lens making efforts.
Traffic and List Building Strategies and Solutions
Great tips and resources for lensmasters and webmasters alike. If you want to build traffic here is a place to visit.
Add to Any - Share, Save, Subscribe, Bookmark Buttons and Widgets
Help visitors share, save, bookmark and subscribe to your content with Add to Any widgets
Use this Free Link Checker...very easy to use.
This is a simple link checker to help you find any dead links on your webpages, lenses & blogs. Just enter the URL you want to check for dead links on and click
Squidoo Marketing - Better marketing with Squidoo
Get better results with your Squidoo marketing. This is an online group for Squidoo Lensmasters to get tips, tricks and share with other lensmasters.
Squidaholic
***** Squidoo addicts, listen up! With one little click you can find out who's talking about your lens, keep up with the latest scoop on your topic, and get all kinds of nifty ideas for promoting your lenses. Not to mention keep an eye on your competition. Very cool!!!
Alltop - Top Squidoorati News
See all the top lenses on Squidoo by category
Free e-book from Seth Godin
Great e-book you can print or read online. Check it out.
Squidoo Top 100-See top 100 of various categories
See who is in the top 100 of each category. Nice resource for lensmasters
Blog Article: Google Strikes Again! Why Your Links Are Now Worthless
It is no secret that Google shifted from content based ranking to link based several years ago.
Squidoo Twibe - Squidoo Twitter Users
This page is for Twitter users interested in Squidoo.
The Art of Writing Great Twitter Headlines from Copyblogger
Twitter has become the place for sharing content links. If your content catches attention on Twitter and spreads, suddenly you're getting significant traffic from people. Great tips!!

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After all that hard work

You can add your lenses here for more traffic and you can also make money if you are an Adsense user. After you join modify your profile and add your Adsense ID (with pub- in front of the ID.) Great way to add a backlink to your lens too.

http://www.lensroll.com/user/view/profile/Teddi14

Try Ask Sponsored Listings

Businesses large and small are aggressively looking for ways to bring more customers to their site.

Ask Sponsored Listings (ASL) is a great way to reach qualified consumers. They drive quality traffic through ASL's network which is comprised of over 100 search sites, meta search sites, portals, lifestyle, technology, travel and business sites. Some examples of these properties include sites such as Ask.com, Excite, evite, Match.com and Gifts.com.


Try Ask Sponsored Listings

Why add the Google News or Blog to one of your Squidoo lens Modules....

How about this for cool. I was reading a lens about Xomba (the link to it is on my site under "reward & affiliates programs") and the lens had the google blogs module at the bottom of her site and OMG my blog was listed there talking about Xomba.

Pretty darn cool. I felt a little like what a singer must feel like when they hear their song on the radio. LOL...

Having this module on your lens also will help your SEO. by setting up this module to be updated a minimum of one time a day it will keep it "fresh" when it is crawled by search engines.

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dpethealth says:

Love you tips. I wonder if RSS could play a role to better discover/index new lens?

nandun says:

You have listed many tips, I don't have any more things to say. I always trust that good content will drive more traffic to your lens. Also you can share your posting on various social bookmarking sites like digg.com, eggig.com, reddit.com and stumbleupon.com.

PatriceBeaulieu says:

Try using Google's keyword tool to find tags with a high number of traffic. The keyword tool is free and you don't need a Gmail account to use it.

kar351 says:

Hard work, lots of research and dedication.

Tolovaj says:

Your list is great. Maybe I did missed something but I think having a blog which features some of the lenses can bring some traffic (works in my case) and add some PR juice which bring lenses higher in google.

willywang says:

it's very useful, thank you!

yammi says:

Thanks for the great Insights.

Holger

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shoaibishrat says:

Thats really useful info..

nichevalue says:

Clickouts are the most important factor for lens rank, so try to design your site to get as many clickouts as possible using link plexos, amazon plexos, etc...

bt55 says:

Put dog treats in as many places as possible, where your dog can easily find them.... It will make your pup happy and it couldn't hurt.

Nope, you got 'em all

Sfthomas says:

I'm still new at this, I'll try out your tips.

Netlexis says:

I wish I did!

yarddog2k says:

You covered everything I knew of and much much more. Wow, that's a lot of information. Took me awhile to read this lens. Lots of great tips and info. Thanks

efriedman says:

Good suggestions. Thanks for the help.

anne_mohanraj says:

Lots of great points

A lot of great points

A lot of great points!

RenaissanceWoman2010 says:

You have done a great job of covering the key tips. Thanks!

collettehrock says:

I just learnt one in your comments box this must have taken you ages to do thank you

Mclure2 says:

Squid away?

concept247 says:

Thanks a lot for the advice :)

TeacherRenee says:

Really great ideas, thanks.

 
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