Squidoo Tips Part 1: Why Use Squidoo?

Why Use Squidoo?

I guess that's the most obvious question to start with! It also perhaps gives me a way of explaining a little about why I like it so much!

Let's just recap on what Squidoo actually is! It's a community of people who are building web pages, which they call lenses, in a diverse range of subjects. In fact the range of topics is incredibly diverse!

The other great thing about Squidoo lens building is that it is easy! As hopefully by now you will have discovered, you have a series of modules that you can pull together and develop.

It's almost like one of those "drag and drop" type website builders. You will soon discover that you have the opportunity to tweak them as you become more adept with using their system.

Now let's think about why we as Internet Marketers should use Squidoo. Well let's first see what those nice people at Squidoo said when asked why you should use them:

1) It's free;
2) It's amazingly easy to set up;
3) People with lenses get more traffic to their blogs and other sites;
4) People with lenses earn money from the lenses themselves - In fact I use that last one to donate some money to Charity so you even get the opportunity to feel good using them!

From a Marketer's perspective this is ideal! It gives you a great opportunity to create a series of lenses around what are termed the "long tail" phrases within the niches in which you operate. You can drive visitors to your other sites in the niches in which you operate and to your blogs and of course to your affiliate links! For those of you who like me use Firefox they have also added a rather nifty Firefox extension!

In fact what I have been using Squidoo to do is:

1) Generate Affiliate Income;
2) Drive Visitors to My Websites and Blogs;
3) Generate Subscribers;
4) Turn PLR Articles into money Generators;
5) Achieve Top Ten Ranking on Google For Keyword Phrases;
6) Explore a possible niche to see what the level of interest is and also what level of knowledge I can develop;
7) Make Donations to Charity!

It appears at the moment that our friends at Google really seem to like Squidoo. So we want to take advantage of that don't we? I know that with the majority of the lenses I create I can fairly rapidly get into the 1st to 3rd page of Google Search Results. Indeed, I recently did a demonstration Lens for the folks over at my client office and within a week it was in 10th position out of 9 million results. Not a bad result in a week I am sure you will agree!

Okay Kanicen, I hear you say, you have got me interested! What do I need to do to make my first lens?

Just browse around squidoo and learn things or two.