Using Squidoo to Generate Traffic--Tips

 

One of the best strategies for generating traffic from Squidoo is to:

 

 Choose a topic carefully. You want your Squidoo lenses to be focused around a specific topic, rather than spread out to cover multiple niches.

 

Once you have traffic flowing into your Squidoo lenses, you can quickly expand your outreach by developing additional lenses on other topics.

 

Create 10-20 articles on your chosen topic, being careful not to keyword stuff! You want you incorporate relevant keywords into your content but you want to be careful that your material is comprehensive and won’t be penalized in the search engines or deemed inappropriate by Squidoo.

 

Create a Squidoo lens for each of your articles.

Your articles should be between 500-800 words long. You can write one lengthy article per Squidoo lens and break it up into smaller segments, utilizing Squidoo’s option to incorporate content boxes within your lens. Include images whenever possible to represent and highlight the information.

 

Use Squidoo’s tagging system to assign relevant keywords to each of your Squidoo lenses.  You want to be careful not to include too many keywords however!   Good rule of thumb is to keep your keyword tags below 10 per lens.

 

 Internally link each Squidoo lens to each other. This will help your content retain link juice and will funnel traffic from one lens to another.

 

Include a direct link to your squeeze page or sales page from each lens, and enable modules within your lens, so that it’s more interactive, encouraging comments and feedback from visitors.

 

Continue expanding your Squidoo network by developing new lenses every week.

 

You want Google and other search engines to quickly index your Squidoo lens and based on Google’s changes involving how they update content within the Web Index, you can quickly publish your Squidoo lenses and have them appear within Google in a matter of a few short hours!

 

Here’s how:

 

Once you have developed a handful of quality lenses that contain 2-3 articles, various modules to promote interaction, and you’ve assigned tags and keywords to your lens, visit http://www.Mixx.com to bookmark each lens.

 

Tip: Remember to use anchor text to link to your site.  Anchor text is the text that is used to link to a site.  For example:

 

<a href=”http://www.link.com”>Your Anchor Text</a>