I thought I would try Squidoo see here http://tinyurlz.com/squid Has anyone else tried this with any results?
Yeah, I've tried making pages about websites. They don't do much, because you still have to promote that page just like you'd promote your own site. It's better to make a Squidoo page about a similar topic and then link to your site. If the page is useful it will be easier to get it in groups and lensrolls. But still, it takes some promotion to get any traffic or PR on the lens, let alone your site.
Exactly! A lens about a website is boooring. Best to write an original article, and link to your website.
Folks, Squidoo is powerful marketing medium for us bum marketers. So long as you create a Squidoo lens in the "proper niche" with the "proper" keywords, within less than a day you can dominate Googles 1st page of natural rankings...Which mean bookoo free traffic! You can check out one of mine if you like, its a dumb test lens anyhow (testing interest in a niche); you can see it at; squidoo.com/do-pheromones-work I'm not spamming a link or anything really...Anyhow, this Lens went live on 1/21/08, has since generated 9 commissions, and as of right now has a 29.5% conversation rate! All for a free marketing medium which cost me nothing to put online, but a few hours of spare time. Oh, and I don't link to a my traditional website, just to another blog and directly to the merchant! So far roughly 11.5% of the visitors that actually click through to the merchant actually buy something! And I pay nothing in advertising costs. This is just one lens...Multiply those results times 60+ doing the same and then we can talk about how effect these free methods are.
I have had good sales results with Squidoo. The key to success is to focus each lens on a very specific niche.
Thank you...You got it! Focus on a very specific niche (or sub-niche even), and optimize for keywords you know you can dominate with Squidoo's PR6 leverage = free traffic+monetization=profits with no overhead!
Yup, that's it, go for long tail keywords, monetize the lens itself and make sure to link your own sites from there as well. Works in a similar fashion with hubpages.com, btw.
Squidoo is great for driving traffic to a website. Build a few lenses with each one focussing on a specific product or topic related to your website content and linking to it.
Which keywords you use depends on the topics or products promoted on your website. With Squidoo lenses it is important that you use phrases as tags and not just single words.
No pulling necessary...The last Squidoo Lens I create hit the top 3 natural rankings of Googles 1st page within 17 hours...I see you are not aware of this little strategy. The whole trick is to focus on niche keywords that you "know" you can dominate...Not rocket science dude.
Yeah, I just put up a lens and it was number one on Google the next day. You really have to work on promoting your lens through groups and linking to get your lens rank up so it will be more visible. It use to be really effective for getting traffic for high competition keywords, but now it's a little harder but it still rocks.
I've seen no traffic from Squidoo to any of my sites. For a short while one of my Squidoo pages did have a PR2, but that dropped as of the last update. Other than that I don't think it's of much use.
You are thinking about Squidoo in the wrong way...Your Squidoo overall rank, and category rank DOES NOT MATTER!...Really, I have never seen it truly effect ones organic search engine ranking. To use Squidoo as a marketing tool, you MUST target a specific niche or sub-niche in which you know you can dominate over the competition (you exploit Squidoo's PR!). If you do not do this, you will see no or little results, because you are doing it wrong! Go to Google: type in "who loves money" - the 3rd listing - the Squidoo review site is a case in point ( ranked # 209 within Squidoo - Who cares!) this fellow who I chat with on occassion, slapped this lens up quite sometime ago, by properly selecting his niche keyword (with no competition at the time)...Its still sitting there! And I wont go into how much money it makes while just sitting there! Squidoo is basically about targeting low competition long tail keyword phrases within a niche or sub niche..If you use it for "that" purpose - you will make money for months in return for a couple hours work. Those that try to use Squidoo to compete with the Big Dogs that own a keyword niche - are doing it wrong - you'll find yourself on Google's 15th page or something crazy like that! Do it once, do it right, set and forget!
I am using squidoo for a month or so now. I have a learnt a lot about how to use squidoo using this forums. As of now of my 25 days aged lens has got me 12 affiliate sales. But in the last 4 days it has disappeared from google search results completely. I am doing some link building stuff for it like Social bookmarking and article submission. Waiting for it to appear in search results again. It's really disappointing no sales in the last 5 days. In my very short experience I can say that squidoo lens do superbly in google if your lens has original quality content. One main thing for which i can use squidoo is niche research. Instead of spending in adwords and checking which niche works , I can do the same using squidoo for free. Then I can promote that niche using adwords
That does happen...Ok, I'll give away the quick trick of the trade...The minute your Squidoo Lens goes live, social book market in mass, then Sumble it, then Digg it, then Furl it, and then reddit it! After that, at it to delicio.us as a bookmark...Once you've done this, your lens will be stabilized by the immediate traffic, and eventually by the inbound links...Then submit anywhere from 5-10 articles regarding your topic to Ezine Articles for more quality PR6 inbound links, and its immediate flood of traffic...Now your set for quite awhile.
But what is the quality of the keyword/s that is the number one result? And as quickly as a person can get in, they just as quickly can drop. Don't get me wrong, I'm a BIG fan of Squidoo. But people should be aware of the fickle nature of Google.
Wow thanks for sharing. I better try this marketing medium. I've been eyeing it actually for weeks now but didn't know if it's really effective.