I recommend getting "Marlon Sanders - Traffic Dashboard". This will help not only for Squidoo but any website/blog you need traffic too.
Also, promote it internally within Squidoo first to get some traffic going to it. Use the SquidU forum to post in the 'new lens' thread, then try publishing a link to it on your social media avenues, facebook, twitter etc
Upload your squidoo lens in different social bookmarking sites, do also social networking, like facebbok, twitter and friendfeed.
There are lotz of ways of promoting the squidoo lenses.The best technique is comment on other squidoo lenses probably the lenses which seems similar with yours,Social bookmarking,forum signature they also work well.
I would agree with what's already been said. I've had good luck with forum signatures. When you do start to get traffic from search engines, look at the terms that people have found your lens with (this is in the Squidoo stats) and add those as tags. In some cases the terms people found my lenses under were different than what I had optimized for. For instance I had one lens I had written about Natural Treatments for X and it got no traffic. At some point the few places where I had used the word 'holistic' were enough for the page to rank and get traffic as 'Holistic Treatments for x' -- so then I changed virtually all the uses of the term 'natural treatment' on the page to 'holistic treatment'. It's still no blockbuster, but it's doing better. The other thing is that sometimes it takes a long time for the traffic to get going. Not always, but sometimes.
we can promote our squidoo lens on all social bookmarking sites,social networking sites as well as forum posting.
The best way is to participate on other people's lenses. Update your squidoo lens from time to time. Update new unique content.
just build backlinks around them, the search engines love squidoo so it should be easy to rank page one
As you promote regular site or blog: Social bookmarks Web 2 links(Hub and Ezine) Forum posting Blog commenting link exchange Get social - Twitter and Facebook I quit using directory submission, because I do not see any positive effect.
There are lotz of ways of promoting the squidoo lenses.You can do use your social network for squido lens and some blog commenting,bookmarking ,document sharing ect....