Squido Lenses ...... what is that

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by mircea007, Jun 29, 2009.

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    i heard this term in a lot of seo forums and blogs

    what is it and how does it help you


    thank you
     
    mircea007, Jun 29, 2009 IP
  2. pcxmedics

    pcxmedics Peon

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    There is a web 2.0 site called "squidoo." just google for it. You make a page that is like squidoo.com/something. It's easy to make a page, and they rank well with google. It's good to be your squeeze (money making) page, or to gain backlinks to another site, because they get indexed fast.
     
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  3. stephen082

    stephen082 Active Member

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    Squidoo is a blogging platform such as Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad etc. In squidoo you make a lens about a particular topic. A lens is a single page in which you can write about your views. Squidoo is filled with many cool features. You can know about Squidoo more by visiting their Official site: http://www.squidoo.com
     
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    Only the Squidoo lens itself can earn you some income if your lens is popular enough. For example, you can make it an affiliated blog.
     
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    cool to know
     
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  6. ericajoieake

    ericajoieake Guest

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    lenses can help your site ranks well in google it is a counterpart of google pages where you can also create pages.
     
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    mrandrei Peon

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    Squido lenses are pages in Squidoo that you can create for other readers. They are content-based pages and can be used to generate traffic to your site.
     
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    chris busa Guest

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    Yes suidoo lenses do rank well in google, also you can use hub pages these rank very well in google as well. But before you make a lens or hub page make sure your are going to be providing value and if done right you can make some money from them, link them to relevant content sites and to your money site and you will do well.
     
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    Your site will got higher PR after submit to helpful sites, such as Squidoo.

    It's really cool :)
     
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  10. merlinseo

    merlinseo Well-Known Member

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    Squidoo is a user-generated website which uses the concept of a lens as its primary feature. In his ebook "Everyone's an Expert," Godin describes a lens as "[filtering] light and [showing] us what we need to see." Specifically, a lens can be treated much like a blog, except it is on a single subject, and can contain links to Amazon.com, Ebay, and other external sites.[4] Users creating lenses, called "lensmasters," can be anyone with a passion for a specific subject, and do not necessarily have to be renowned experts. In Squidoo's early stages, Godin notes that Martha Stewart and Jane Goodall's lenses did not receive large amounts of traffic, whereas lenses on MySpace and the online game line rider were among the site's most successful.[5] Squidoo has a Top 100 lenses list by topic, by rank, by group and for Giant lenses. There are about 22 different topics such as Health & Medicine, Food & Cooking, and Business.

    Although lenses can technically be built independently as a webpage or a blog post, Godin notes that the site owes its success to two factors. Firstly, Squidoo users can build pages without learning code.[5] Secondly, pages can achieve built-in popularity due to their association with thousands of other pages, an attribute which Godin names the "proximity effect."[5] Due to this, Squidoo is self-sustainable, underscored by the fact that Squidoo has just 6 employees, whereas other companies like Digg or Mahalo have a few hundred.[5]

    Squidoo also employs a unique payment scheme: 5% of its revenue goes to charity, 50% goes to the lensmasters, and 45% goes to Squidoo. The lens and Squidoo rely on advertising and affiliate links to create revenue.[6] Nearly half of lensmasters donate their royalties to any of 65 featured charities, ranging from NPR and the American Heart Association to smaller organizations like Chimp Haven and Planet Gumbo. In October 2008, Squidoo donated $80,000 to charity.

    A new description in common use is Lensography. This is a Lens or webpage, that is used to bring all Lenses by the member into one point. It can be considered as a type of sitemap. The originator of the word is unknown.

    Reference : wikipedia
     
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    sam787 Banned

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    squidoo lens is just like a webpage created on squidoo. they get indexed quickly. You can try out creating a lens at squidoo.com
     
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    Yeah its a blogging Platform and it would bring you good traffic
    cos it ranks good in Google.
    The Lens is about the Page you created in squidoo.
     
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    Really?I have created 2 lens on squidoo,but no effect i found ,maybe i should write more usefull lens.
     
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    Use the Squidoo Lenses to put links to your money sites. The lenses get indexed fast, so you can get traffic to your sites easier and quicker, plus it will get your money sites indexed faster, and the backlinks will help get some Page Rank.

    If you' want more info on what Squidoo can do for you, and how to make effective pages quickly, check out this Free Squidoo Guide:

    http://surveysisters.cosmicdebri.com/goto/freesquid.php​
     
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    www.squidoo.com we can say, its web2.0 mini site or one page site which is rich in content and u can put ads code and earn money if u r not good in website designing.
     
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    Read Seth's eBook here: Everyone's an Expert
     
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