Hi all, This is my first forum post. Pleasure to be on board. I was just wondering whether anyone is having any success with Squidoo, specifically article marketing? I have a number of lenses made in various niches all optimized for long tail keywords complete with copy optimization for the keyword and I can't find them indexed on Google. I have given them enough time to do so, 3 weeks and counting. Surely it doesn't take that long to crawl. My previous estimations for crawling time were 2-14 days. I thought it might be a problem with submission so I took the liberty of manually submitting them all to Google. Still no luck. In fact I am not getting any traffic at all to my articles. I thought I would ask if anyone had any ideas as to why this is happening. Needless to say I'm stumped! Thanks for your time.
Welcome to DP! First you should look if the lens are indexed, If you don't have unique content it will be harder to rank. Bookmark them using http://www.onlywire.com/ Leave comments(not spammy) on other lens with your link, then ping the lens you commented on. Hope it helps, good luck! Art.
In fact, I found that submitting manually is better than using onlywire. I have not used onlywire for a long time. But it did not work on some of the social bookmark sites ...
Squidoo isn't a form of article marketing like an article directory site. Think of it more as having a page on someone else's site. You still need to promote it like you would a page on your own site. You can do a lot of the promotion from with in Squidoo (other lenses) or getting links from other sites.
Thanks for all your prompt replies. I forgot to mention that I am already using Onlywire, but thanks anyway. What I am looking to target is Google traffic. I'm not too concerned about traffic directly from Squidoo. So are you saying that if I am not indexed in Squidoo I won't be in Google either? I am not using any content modules so I know I won't be included in Squidoo's directory but they say that the page should still receive traffic from Google. My main concern is that I don't appear to be listed anywhere on Google. Some keywords that I have targeted only have around 500 optimized results so I should be on page 1!
its hard as hell to market a clean squidoo site. I made a random adult squidoo site with barely any work put in and it shot up to #120 in two days. While my clean site that I put every single keyword I could think of, submitted to all the search engines, dugg, stumble, etc. only got 1 little view. But the squidoo forum is very helpful especially the angel section. It's a group that goes around pushing traffic to your site.
Squid Angels don't push traffic. They simply give a blessing (if the lens is deserving of one) which gives a Lensrank boost.
I've had some very good success with Squidoo, my advice is create unique, informative content-a couple text boxes containing 200 words or more per box (use various word phrases in order to be optimized for multiple long-tail keywords), add some videos and maybe an RSS feed. Add some fun, related pictures wherever you can, have a good author bio, and drive traffic/link build from ezinearticles, other sites you own, blogs, etc. I've gotten good success from just using ezinearticles, but I'm sure other ways couldn't hurt. Hope this helps some.
Really? Wow.. I've started using Squidoo but haven't gotten around to actually promoting it yet and spiffing it up. I'd do more by the time the weekend gets here. Thanks for the information guys!
If your lens is not yet indexed, you can make Google notice your lens by blogging about it. If you have an existing blog, it would be even easier.. Just write a blog post for the same topic (use different content though). And use a link with your keyword as anchor text. After publishing, simply ping it using pingomatic That should do the trick Cheers, Anup
Squidoo used to be a big thing, google loved it and promoted the lenses. Today, I think you can get traffic from it but not too much... it is easy to setup so...
I am also facing problem with squidoo page indexing. Now after long search I comes to know that, If your lens already have lots of competition in squidoo community then you need to survive to get index by search engine. Find more on this Squidoo Indexing Problem at my blog
Unique content, Social Bookmarks, and 3 or 4 articles with a proper resource box should do the trick for traffic.
I believe the slap came down on lenses with crap content. Previously you could publish anything (duplicate content) and you'd rank high. But the slap came and now you'll find it very hard to rank well with scraped content. Original quality content is still rewarded.
having a high rank lense does not mean anything to google either. I have one thats #43 and I did everything I could think of.
Which brings up the question- why not just publish the article on your own site and promote it? That way YOU own the traffic, not Seth Godin.