Build a Niche Marketing Business – Step 12: Set Up Your Squidoo Lens
Here is another powerful way to naturally get traffic to your websites. As we’ve already agreed, the more targeted traffic, the better!
Veteran Internet marketer Seth Godin and his team have come up with, perhaps, the ideal social book marking site ever made for people who are trying to market stuff on the Internet…it’s called Squidoo.
Go to http://Squidoo.com and create your free account.
Seth has set it up so it’s REALLY easy to get started on Squidoo…and a LOT of fun!
Basic Instructions For Creating A Lens
1. Registration- To get started, you need to create a FREE account. To do this, simply go to http://squidoo.com, click on ‘Join Community’, and then fill in your account details. Once you have registered, you’ll need to…
2. Tell The World A Little About Yourself- Enter some text about yourself in the form field:
3. Choose how you want to get paid- Squidoo puts Google AdWords ads on your lens (plus offers you other options like Amazon and eBay), and you can choose what you want to do with your cash (if you generate any, of course):
4. Create a lens URL- You now create a lens URL, which, generically, is http://www.squidoo.com/lensname
5. Give Your Lens a Title- Come up with your lense’s title. For some reason, if you put hyphens between the words, you’ll get a higher Squidoo ranking. Not quite sure if that helps with Google or not.
6. Pick a main category for your lens.
7. Add Your Tags (A Minimum Of Five)- Add your trusty keywords that you worked so hard on back at the beginning of this book.
8. Should everyone see your lens?- Of Course!
9. You’re DONE! Now your lens is created. All you have to do is add some content to it
What you’re gonna want to do with your lens is to post one of your best articles…your original articles…to it. But make a few changes first. Just change the title and maybe the first sentences of each paragraph.
Squidoo allows you to use HTML, so at the bottom of the article, use your BIO BOX and link to your main site…like this:
IF YOU LIKED THIS ARTICLE, YOU CAN READ MORE AT
<a href=”http://www.YourWebSite.com” target=”_new”>Your Website Name</a>
Of course, you’d change it to your TITLE and URL.
You’ll probably want to look through the other modules that Squidoo offers you. The guestbook is a good one and MAKE SURE you add the YouTube module…you’re going to need that here REAL soon!
Don’t worry about messing things up, you can edit or delete almost anything you do!
Take a look at the groups on Squidoo, maybe there are a few that will apply to your niche, if not, set one up! It only takes a minute.
The whole idea here is to establish ANOTHER, powerful way to get traffic to your site. Add this traffic flow to the others we’ve established, and you get a great chance at getting a LOT of visitors and Many More sales!
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February 23rd, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I finally decided to write a comment on your blog. I just wanted to say good job. I really enjoy reading your posts.
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Great to see you keep putting up quality stuff on your blog. Great job and continue the good post.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Brett,
A Squidoo lens is a powerful tool. There are many ways to increase your website traffic with Squidoo.
There are even some tricks to do so.
Great post.
Fred
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February 23rd, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Squidoo is fantastic! It’s so easy to use and get set up. It’s a good way to get ranked higher in the search engines, as Google likes Squidoo pages.
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