Tips on How to Get Your Lens Noticed with More Traffic

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

One of my lenses http://www.squidoo.com/baby_kids_freebies made it into the top 100 and it took it just 43 days to get there.

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...

* Join Squidoo groups for even more exposure for your lenses.

* Create back links to your lens by posting messages with your full 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 tagfoot, 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. :-)

* Lensroll lenses to yours that are appropriate and send a note or comment to that lens owner and ask them to do the same with yours.

* 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. Look along the right column of tasks under tags & lens settings you will see "Export". Click that to save (back-up) your lens. I recommend saving it to a specific folder in your hard drive in html format.

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.

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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.

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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.


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Why add the Google News or Blog Module.... 

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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Lensmaster

partybuzz wrote...

Lots of great information here! I learned a thing or two! :-)

ReplyPosted July 01, 2009

Lensmaster

ajgodinho wrote...

Excellent lens...I lenrolled it to my SquidSchool for Squidoo Newbies lens! 5*s of course, favourite and fan club!

ReplyPosted June 30, 2009

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masterbuilder4u wrote...

Great lens, I found it by a tweet you gave me on Twitter, thanks and I will use this info to build on my lens and share it with others!

ReplyPosted June 30, 2009

Lensmaster

AJ2000 wrote...

Great Lens! I've researched using Squidoo before making my first lens. And now that my first lens is finally live I'm glad to have found your lens here! I was able to pick up some new information, gold nuggets at that!

Thanks so much

ReplyPosted June 28, 2009

Lensmaster

Sojourn wrote...

Great lens! How did I not find this yet? And as for tags - I always forget to add more and everytime I've found a lens languishing at the bottom of my list, it's usually had so few tags it's not even funny. Shortly after I update them and add more to the lens, they seem to climb there way back into Google. Really helpful tips!

ReplyPosted June 27, 2009

Lensmaster

AntionetteTate wrote...

Hi. I am following you on Twitter. This is a very resourceful lens. Thank you for sharing your experiences. 5*

ReplyPosted June 24, 2009

Lensmaster

packman57 wrote...

Wow, Super informative!! Guess I should search for help more often! Thanks for sharing 5 stars

ReplyPosted June 23, 2009

Lensmaster

CCGAL wrote...

I'm not a noob, but I learned some stuff from you on this lens. Thanks!

ReplyPosted June 21, 2009

 
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Do you have a better tip than the ones I mentioned? 

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GabrielGadfly says:

As with any website, offline promotion shouldn't be neglected. Tell your friends, your family, put your address on business cards, or put up flyers. It might only bring in a trickle of traffic, but it's worth it.

Posted May 27, 2009

johnrapp says:

Nope, I sure do not.

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Posted April 27, 2009

Teddi14 says:

That is a great tip for getting more traffic. I have not used RSS feeds yet. I will have to look into that. Thanks for commenting!

Posted February 26, 2009

ElizabethJeanAllen says:

What about RSS Feeds? I get a lot of traffic from Feedest and Feedage.

Posted February 26, 2009

johnrapp says:

Step 1: Smoke marijuana; Step 2: Get on Squidoo. Somewhere in between Step 1 and Step 2 you'll definitely figure it out.

Posted February 05, 2009

Nope, you got 'em all

lakern26 says:

This lens was packed with so much useful info that I'll have to reread it a few times to let it all sink in. What a great contribution! Thanks:)

Posted July 04, 2009

anjoh says:

I don't think its possible to come up with better tips than these! Thanks

Posted June 29, 2009

TheresaMayhew says:

I don't have anything to add at this time. I'll drop by with anything if I come across something worth adding. Thanks for the excellent resource.

Posted June 26, 2009

Norbert_Sczepanski says:

Hi teddi,
gr8 lens, gr8 work. Congrats :-)
YOU are really a GIANT (squid)
So I did this:

Rated your lens 5 stars.
Your lens is now favorited AND
on the lensrolls of ALL
my lenses = more than 100.

I myself created a lens about twitter:
"How to get TONS of followers 4 free"

And this is your invitation to visit my lens
and to profit from it to the
utmost extent!
http://squidoo.com/sczepanski-on-twitter

Thus, again thx for your gr8 work :-)

I admire you cause of your gr8 knowledge and
your ability to explain in plain english
whats up :-))

Norbert Sczepanski, Cologne, Germany

Posted June 25, 2009

kayhunter says:

All I can say is "Wow!". This lens is packed full of fantastic info. I will be referring to this lens for some time. I am a newbie, with alot to learn- this is the place I'll come to do that. Thanks for the info! 5 stars

Posted June 24, 2009

Spook says:

No Sireeeeeeeeeeeeee, I'm impressed.

Posted June 20, 2009

ClassyGals says:

Great job! I think you covered just about anything one can do to get their lens noticed.

Posted June 10, 2009

johnrapp says:

Yes I do:

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Posted April 27, 2009

bry says:

Are you kidding? You're the seasoned pro! :)

Posted April 25, 2009

Four_Eyes says:

No, I do not! Great tips lens!

Posted April 25, 2009

 
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