Squidoo Marketing - 3 Tips On Squidoo
October 12th, 2008 | by Carl Michaelson |Internet marketers around the world are waking up to the fact that Squidoo is a powerful web 2.0 marketing system that lets them promote things and build their brands.
Squidoo makes it easy to create a web page (they call it a lens) because they have so many useful features that add content with just a few mouse clicks. Yet the most successful Squidoo marketers have discovered that linking their lenses to other parts of Squidoo has a powerful impact on their marketing results, as does linking to their lenses from outside of Squidoo.
Squidoo marketing can be improved using 3 easy steps that boost website traffic and brand recognition. They are:
1. Use the forums at Squidoo. Squidoo calls the forums SquidU, but they still let you connect with other community members and create friendships. By becoming friendly with other lensmasters, you can get others to link to your lenses and bookmark them on their web 2.0 accounts. You can even get senior forum members called SquidAngels to come and bless your lenses, which always leads to good things, like higher rankings.
2. Squidoo also has groups - so join some, and create some. When you get involved in a group, your link can get listed their, and since the search engines love these group pages, you will get another link listed in search results, and this can lead to better lens ranking and more traffic.
3. Be active on other related Squidoo lenses - read their lens content, and post relevant useful comments with a link back to your lens. Don’t just leave a “visit my lens” spam comment - be useful first, and then you can link back to your lens. If you feel the need to provide advice to the lensmaster, you might want to do that in private, rather than leave it where it might be misinterpreted.
There are buttons on every Squidoo lens that lets anyone bookmark a lens on the most popular social bookmarking websites, like Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon, and others. One good idea is to bookmark the lenses that are related to yours and who get more traffic (higher rankings), and then leave a positive comment and a note about what you did. Then the lensmaster will often come to your lens and bookmark yours.
Squidoo is a great place to learn highly effective social behavior that leads to greater success and income. Simply do useful, kind things to others, and what how your prosperity and income rises with the number of good deeds you do. Try applying everything you have learned, and see just how much income you can make using Squidoo.