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.!
This lens was Blessed By: Squid Angel
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 12/26/2009) 
Small Is the New Big and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
Amazon Price: $10.38 (as of 12/26/2009)
Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers
Amazon Price: $19.00 (as of 12/26/2009)
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Amazon Price: $9.32 (as of 12/26/2009)
All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World
Amazon Price: (as of 12/26/2009)
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
RedGage
When it comes to other places to put your links, you can also generate extra income. RedGage is a place where you can place all of your links creating backlinks and generating possible visitors for your page. But the best thing is you can make extra money. They offer daily, weekly and monthly raffles, you generate money by people visiting your links, you can get extra points by referring others to the site AND some of your links may be awarded with bonuses.
It is really a win-win opportunity!
WhiteOak at RedGage
RedGage gives you the power to share your blogs, p more...0 points
ArtByLinda's Profile | RedGage
ArtByLinda's profile where you can view all the bl more...0 points
WindyWinters at RedGage
RedGage is a website that pays you for your conten more...0 points
Likaholix
I am new at Likaholix. But you can generate income here also, plus place all of your links. At Likaholix you generate income by referring others, and they have many different contest. I really like it there so far.
WhiteOak at Likaholix
Park your links which means backlinks, referrals b more...0 points
More Squidoo Books
Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable--Includes new bonus chapter
Amazon Price: $14.93 (as of 12/26/2009)
Free Prize Inside: How to Make a Purple Cow
Amazon Price: $5.18 (as of 12/26/2009)
Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync?
Amazon Price: $15.57 (as of 12/26/2009)
Survival is Not Enough: Shift Happens
Amazon Price: (as of 12/26/2009)
The Bootstrapper's Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money
Amazon Price: (as of 12/26/2009)
Squidoo-List your Lensography here
If you have already written a Squidoo Lens, you know of all the wonderful advantages there are. But what if you are a new visitor from the web, and you too want to earn extra income? Take a look at some of the wonderful lensmaster we have. But what is a lensography you aks? It is all of your Squidoo Lenses combined into on Lens. I like separating my lenses into different catagories. If you have 10 lens or more about the same subject matter, you can write a lens just for that catagory. I Love writing Halloween Lens, so I have one lensography just for my SquidBOO's.
Katinka Hesselink Online
Going crazy trying to keep up with myself online. more...1 point
Katinka's lensography of lensographies
About spirituality, green living, squidoo and more more...1 point
Always Juggling on Squidoo
Always Juggling? Married....four children.... two more...1 point
AJ2008 a Lensography
This Squidoo Lensography is a different sort of Le more...1 point
WhiteOak's Squidoo Journey
I have decided that it was time to take the journe more...0 points
Art By Linda's Lensography
Hmmmm, can you say addiction? I am definately addi more...0 points
Fanfreluche Lensography
A compilation of all lenses written by lensmaster more...0 points
Jewels of Awe lensography
Here is a collection of my lenses all in one place more...0 points
WindyWinters List of Lenses
Hello and Welcome to my Official List of Assorted more...0 points
Zimbo
Zimbo is another social network where you can add your links.
Profile - WhiteOak50 - Zimbio
Profile - WhiteOak50 - Zimbio1 point
Profile - spirituality - Zimbio
Profile - spirituality - Zimbio1 point
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).
This site can also give your exposure.
WhiteOak T. - LinkedIn
View WhiteOak T.'s professional profile on LinkedI more...0 points
HubPages
Another place to write articles.
Katinka Hesselink on Hubpages
I've been on hubpages for some months now and more...1 point
WhiteOak on HubPages
I am a self-taught artist. I have never gone to sc more...0 points
Squidoo Tips
- Squidoo Tips Index
- Like me, you may have come across many great Squidoo tips lenses in the time that you've been with Squidoo. You've probably favorited them (and they're in that list of hundreds of favorites, kind of all mixed up together).
- Squidoo Lens Tips From The Sphere
- SquidU's Lensmaster Lounge: Help for New Squids; Squidoo SEO: Help Search Engines Send Traffic to You; Squidoo Tips: Building Web Traffic; Convert Your Prius to a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV); Make a Fancy Table of Contents ? ...
- Squidoo Lens Ideas – Online Marketing Wizards
- Online Marketing Wizards is geared toward Internet Marketing information, tips and practices. Not only do we want to share Internet Marketing strategies and information with you, we hope you'll share with us too! ...
- Purple Stars Awarded Week Ending 12/25/2009 « Giant Squid ...
- I thought I'd highlight a few great blogs maintained by lensmasters sharing their best Squidoo tips. We spread plenty of link juice to lenses directly so I thought it's time we give a little love to the blogs. My top 10 squidoo tips as ...
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!!
Always Remember
Try to fill your lens with as much information as possible..
Try to use your own words and just cut/paste from other sites...
Most Important, Have Fun!!
Other Helpful Squidoo Tips
-
SEO/Marketing Mentor
-
This is the official squidoo SEO mentor help lens. You can come here with your questions about attracting traffic to your lens, though I hope this lens will help solve many of them out of the box. SEO = Search Engine Optimization In practice SEO can...
-
The Tools Mentor
-
Welcome! I am Jewelsofawe, your tools mentor. Tools are a wonderful way to make your squidoo experience easy and fun. It can help your experience here be a better one. I will list the tools that I can help you with and that will help you have a bette...
-
How-To Choose Great Google Keywords for Your Lens
-
It's a question you hear a lot on the web. If it makes you throw your hands in the air and say "I've no idea what this means!!", then read on... I wrote this lens to help out anyone who is confused by choosing keywords for their Squidoo lenses. It's...
-
Squidlog.net - Top Blog for Squidoo Tips and Lensmaster Support
-
At Squidlog you will find lensmaster profiles, great lens reviews, cool Squidoo tips on traffic and lensrank improvements, top blog recommendations and their most important articles, HTML tutorials and image manipulation tips, irreverent cartoons, in...
Finished my lens, now what?
- WhiteOak50
- aka WhiteOak50
- 495 followers
- 505 following
-
- You are ready to take a little spiritual journey these days, b... More for Aquarius http://twittascope.com/twittascope/?sign=11
-
- You don't want others to see how disciplined you are today, bu... More for Aquarius http://twittascope.com/twittascope/?sign=11
-
- I just updated my Squidoo page: Burning Black Candles / http://tinyurl.com/yav789e
-
- You might avoid making promises about your schedule because yo... More for Aquarius http://twittascope.com/twittascope/?sign=11
-
- I just updated my Squidoo page: The Scariest Places on Earth / http://tinyurl.com/5rz4gx
Feedback is always important and greatly appreciated!
-
Reply
- WindyWinters WindyWinters Dec 15, 2009 @ 3:09 pm
- Great Tips! I have too many eggs in one basket and need to focus on other sites in the New Year! Happy Holidays!
-
Reply
- spirituality spirituality Dec 1, 2009 @ 3:57 am
- :) another squidangel blessing. Links working, thanks for the feature.
-
Reply
- aj2008 aj2008 Nov 27, 2009 @ 11:27 am
- What a very helpful lens. SquidAngel Blessings for you.
-
Reply
- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Nov 20, 2009 @ 1:27 am
- Ooh! I love the flower!
-
Reply
- spirituality spirituality Nov 11, 2009 @ 6:37 am
- :) is this new? Unfortunately I think the links you put up to my profile and blog are not working. Otherwise: great lens.
- Load More
A little more about me
Lensmaster WhiteOak50 has been a member since February 3 2008, has rated 1,430 lenses, favorited 990, and has created 120 lenses from scratch. WhiteOak T. 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
Check out these great lenses...
-
- The Scariest Places on Earth
When I first created this lens back in August 2008, I had full intentions of writing it about the hit reality series Scariest Places on Earth. That was one of my favorite televisions show and I thought it would make a create lens for those intereste... view lens -
- Using Plexo's
I remember a couple of years ago; when I was first told I could copy a plexo from one lensmasters lens to my own, just by following a few simple directions. At first I was very confused, but after seeing how they work I have learned a lot. Basically... view lens -
- Christmas Recipes
By the time autumn gets here until after Christmas, I cook up a storm. It is around this timeof the year when the weather is cool and inspiration sets in for bringing back some old time traditions! I love to cook! But I really enjoy cooking and givi... view lens -
- Finished my 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... view lens -
- WhiteOak's Squidoo Journey
I have decided that it was time to take the journey of writing my first Lensography. I am sure as time goes on, I will learn more about what I am doing and I will be updating often. Since I wrote this lensography, I have added a lot more lens. So I... view lens
by WhiteOak50
I am Eva aka WhiteOak. I have been with Squidoo since February 2008. I made Giant Squid in my year with Squidoo and in my second year I made it in... (more)
Explore related pages
Promote Your Lens: Website Promotion for Squidoo Lensmasters- If you've built a Squidoo lens you have taken an excellent first step toward...
.gif)
Search Engine Optimization - Getting Spidered Quickly by Search Engines- Your title should be keyword rich and your first 300 words should be keyword ric...
How To Become An Internet Mogul- So you want to be what Donald Trump is to real estate to the internet. You didn'...
Haunted Adventure through SquidBOO- Everyone has their favorite thing here at Squidoo, mine happens to be SquidBOO!...
WhiteOak's Squidoo Journey - I have decided that it was time to take the journey of writing my first Lensogra...
WhiteOak's Spiritual Walk at Squidoo- I have been spending a lot of time lately going through many other wonderful len...
