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I have just created my first Squidoo Lens, now what?

So you have just created your very first lens!  How exciting and congratulations!  I am sure your first lens is about something wonderful and exciting to you.  Perhaps your first Squidoo Lens is about an important subject matter to you.  Regardless, whatever your lens is about I am sure it is wonderful and somewhere in the back of your mind you are wondering to do with it now.

When I first joined Squidoo February 2008, I remember how excited I was to create my first lens!  Do you want to take a look at it?  I wrote Faeries, Faeries Everywhere.  I actually came across Squidoo from a site that was giving hints how to promote your business.  I will admit, my whole purpose was to promote my Inspirational Faeries that I handmade.  It also did not take me long to created my second Squidoo lens, than my forth, so on until I have now reached (116) I believe.

I was totally in the dark about what to do with my Squidoo lens in the beginning.  I was also in the dark about how much Squidoo has to offer.  I am still learning even today, and the one thing I can say without a doubt is Squidoo gives you the tools to take your goals where ever you want to go.  Of course you cannot just sit there and do nothing, you have work with the tools.  When you are doing anything online, you cannot expect to become a huge success over night.  It takes a lot of time, patience, determination and w.o.r.k.!

Keywords and Tags are very Important! 

As you are looking through all of the wonderful Squidoo Lensmasters lenses, you will find so much powerful, informative information that at first you may become a little overwhelmed. That's okay; I am sure will have been there. Take just a deep breath, work at your own speed and read each link at a time.

During the Summer I attended Squidoo's first Giant Squid Summer School. It was so much fun; I will talk about the Giants program a little later on. Anyway, during this eight week course, I spent a lot of time learning from one Squidoo's lensmasters and I learnt so much! Her name is Spirituality. You will find that each lensmasters page you visit who offers suggestions and tips will have a focus on certain things. Spirituality's pages taught me a lot about using Key Words.

Keywords are so IMPORTANT in getting your Squidoo Lens visitors from various search engines including Google, Yahoo, Bing and so on. The more visitors you receive the more recognition your page gets which could lead to more Amazon and eBay sales. Spirituality has an eBook she wrote which is fantastic and will teach you so much! The link is: Marketing Spiritual

Squidoo Books 

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 11/23/2009) Buy Now

Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers

Amazon Price: $18.00 (as of 11/23/2009) Buy Now

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

Amazon Price: $9.32 (as of 11/23/2009) Buy Now

Backlinks 

This is the definition for Backlinks from Wiki: Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. In the search engine optimization (SEO) world, the number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (though other measures, such as PageRank, are likely to be more important). Outside of SEO, the backlinks of a webpage may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.
In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node. Backlinks are also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.


To be very honest, when it comes to Squidoo, I am learning something new every day. I am not able to give anyone this sound proof experience that is going to make your new squidoo lens fly off of the charts, but what I can do is explain how important I have found backlinks to be.

Squidoo offers buttons on each lens for Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Digg, Stumble, Delicious and a button to "Lensroll." What does "Lensrolls" means? It gives you the option to place a link onto other lens that are similar in nature to your's. Not only can you "Lensroll" your lenses over to your own, but when you visit other lensmasters lens and you have the option to add their lens to yours from their pages. Also your visitors that write Squidoo Lenses can do the same thing when they visit your page.

It is fairly easy to set up an account at Facebook, MySpace, Stumble, Delicious and Digg. So you know there are four places right off of the bat where you promote your new link. I am going to add a few plexo's where you can also sign up for other free accounts and place your links there.
Each place you put your Squidoo Lens is considered a backlink and that means more exposure for your work

More Squidoo Books 

Free Prize Inside: How to Make a Purple Cow

Amazon Price: (as of 11/24/2009) Buy Now

Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync?

Amazon Price: $15.57 (as of 11/24/2009) Buy Now

Survival is Not Enough: Shift Happens

Amazon Price: $16.46 (as of 11/24/2009) Buy Now

SquidUtils-Utilities and Toolbar

When we join new communities, you know how there is always that one person that you would consider a hero. That is how I feel about the fluffanutta You will have to be sure to check out the many helpful lens fluffanutta offers. Here is a good one to start with Squidutils-toolbar But once you start going through fluffanutta's lenses you will learn a lot!!

Try not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 

A fantastic way to get the word out about Squidoo is placing your Squidoo links in your other blogs. I understand how addictive Squidoo can be. I have spent many hours, days, weeks doing nothing but working on my Squidoo Lens, either writing new lens or updating my older ones. As much as you want to just focus on just Squidoo, really it benefits you more if you focus in area others as well.

Whatever your niche is, it can be incorporated into many different areas. You want to try and make each Squidoo lens you create strong. You want to put as much of your knowledge as you can into a super written piece and then branch off of that onto another blog, referencing back to your squidoo link.

There are several other sites where you can earn money, write about things you enjoy and the way I see it, every site teaches you a little more about online writing. As an example, let's say you have a Squidoo lens about making cookies- I belong to another site called eHow were you write short articles explaining how to make some of these cookies. This way you have your homebase (Squidoo) and a tiny part-time job (eHow).

Squidoo Tips 

So You Want To Be A Giant Squid?: bdkz's Best Squidoo Tips
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I haven't been posting the next Squidoo tips before today since I've been overbusy those last days. Indeed, in addition to the English classes and the huge homework we get from the teacher, I also have entirely redesigned It's Christmas ...
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Most of the tips are super simple and don't take any extra time. Some will help you make Thanksgiving even more fun, such as making a pumpkin pie from scratch, shopping at your local farmers' market, and using a fresh plant for your ...
Baby Names: Tips for Choosing a Name For Your Baby
Whether you are having your first, second, third, or fourth baby...choosing a name for your baby is a big deal and always a tough decision. By following these tips, the process of choosing a name for your baby will hopefully be easier.

You can accomplish many things at Squidoo

-Become a Giant Squid by completing 50 really good lenses
-Join the Squid 100 by completing 100 lens and get some extra goodies!!
-Have your Lens Blessed By: Squid Angels
-Be surprised when your lens is awarded a Purple Star- (Only 1000 of these are awarded a year)
-Join Squid Forum and keep learning, sharing and meeting other Squidoo Lensmasters
-Add your lens to groups that has the same interest as you

The list is endless on what you can accomplish and achieve at Squidoo!!

Squidoo Videos 

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Always Remember

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Most Important, Have Fun!!

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A little more about me 

Lensmaster WhiteOak50 has been a member since February 3 2008, has rated 1,364 lenses, favorited 923, and has created 117 lenses from scratch. WhiteOak Thomas donates their royalties to Squidoo Charity Fund and Humane Society of the United States. This member's top-ranked page is "The Scariest Places on Earth". See all my lenses

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