Friday, October 24, 2008

Squidoo Marketing - 3 Techniques On Squidoo

By Jane Kozlinski

A powerful web 2.0 website is getting the attention of Internet marketers from around the world now that they realize they can promote stuff and build their brands using the site.

Succeeding on Squidoo requires more than slapping up a web page using their handy drag and drop widgets. To be successful, marketers are required to connect with other users at Squidoo, and start building up links to and from the lenses they create. Linking to the lenses from outside Squidoo is also important.

To get you started, here are 3 quick ways to use Squidoo to increase your traffic and website income:

1. Be active on the Squidoo forums. The forums let you meet and chat with other Squidoo lensmasters, and by being nice and helpful, you can build up a network of other users who help you build your rankings for your lenses, and even bookmark your pages on other social bookmarking sites. You can even befriend advanced forum members called Squid Angels, and have them bless your web pages, and get yourself higher rankings and more traffic.

2. The Squidoo Groups - these groups are collections of one or more lenses, categorized in some way, and you can join some related groups and become active on that page by leaving comments, answering polls and voting on things. When you get your lens listed in other groups, or even your own groups, it creates more links back to your lens, and thus generates higher rankings and more website 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.

Another cool built-in feature at Squidoo is the ability to bookmark your lens on the most popular web 2.0 sites, like Digg, Stumbleupon, Myspace and Twitter. If you want to become fast friends with someone, bookmark their lens with a nice comment, and then leave a comment about what you did on their lens. They will want to return the favor.

Effective Squidoo marketing teaches you the importance of working with others, and when you master that skill, you can succeed in life no matter where you go. So don't be afraid to lead in the acts of kindness, and watch how others reciprocate and help you out, which will really help to boost your rankings and income. Try seeing how far you can take your Squidoo earnings now that you know the main secrets. - 15790

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