High Ranking Squidoo Lens but Low Traffic??

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Ghazgrim, Sep 27, 2008.

  1. #1
    I've been looking to drive traffic and popularize my squidoo lens Ultimate Taekwondo Guide!

    Yes it's ranked high in squidoo itself but i still only get about 20 views per day. So far i've signed up to basically every martial arts forum and made a thread about. I also update it very frequently and ping it every day. I know I've got great content, how can I get more people to know about it?
     
    Ghazgrim, Sep 27, 2008 IP
  2. vstar

    vstar Well-Known Member

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    The key here would be to optimize the lens for your target market which to me would appear to be people who are interested in buying Taekwondo equipment and books

    Your lens is too optimized for the broad keyword "Taekwondo" and therefore you have over 14,000,000 competing web pages indexed in Google

    Now if you were to optimize the lens for a key phrase such as "Taekwondo books", you would only have about 3,000 pages to compete with, which would be very easy to get ranked in the top 5 of Google (in my opinion)

    You could even go a step further and optimize the Lens for the key phrase "buy Taekwondo books" and you would only have 2 (yes I said 2) competing pages

    See where I'm going with this...

    Now before you go ahead and start optimizing your lens for longer Key phrases you will want to do some keyword research to be sure that there is enough search volume to warrant it

    But also keep in mind that although the search volume on a long tail keyphrase such as "buy Taekwondo books" will be much lower than on a broad phrase such as "Taekwondo", it will be much more targeted and more likely to lead to a sale
     
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  3. elitesystem

    elitesystem Well-Known Member

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    vstar! great advice!!
     
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  4. Ghazgrim

    Ghazgrim Peon

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    Even though I have a few books and things on the lens I'm not really looking to sell anything.
     
    Ghazgrim, Sep 27, 2008 IP
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    Dear Ghazgrim,
    The organic search engine optimization company dedicated to ensuring that your business succeeds online.and one of my friend his SEO company had done what they said they would do -- get him ranked highly for some specific keyword phrases and good sales also.its very easy to do.
     
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    have you done a proper keyword research to see how widely your topic is searched? or maybe try to make your article more interesting
     
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    vstar Well-Known Member

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    What's your motivation, Just curious? :confused:
     
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  8. R-ampage

    R-ampage Banned

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    Write a few more articles and submit it to some article directories
    Post the articles on the martial arts forums
    Do some basic keyword research to find some nice keywords to rank on and adjust your lens accordingly
    Wait a few months - traffic to Squidoo lenses takes time
     
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  9. sultanofseo

    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    what is your lens ranking within squidoo?
    what is the ranking in the lens category?

    unless you are on the top 100, you dont realy expect decent traffic from squidoo. but a decent ranked lens with some PR like you have can help boost your own site ranking which is a great benefit
     
    sultanofseo, Sep 28, 2008 IP
  10. Ghazgrim

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    The lens was in the top 100 until today.
     
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    It really all depends on what keywords and the amount of traffic to those keywords. For instance since you are using martial arts lets say you made a lens for "Brazilian ju jitzu", you are not going to get much traffic because there are too many other competing but if you went with "brazilian ju jitzu in mma" then the keyword is longer tailed and you will still get traffic but you wont have as much competition. Keyword research if tough but once you learn to master it then there will be a lot of traffic coming to your websites through len's, article marketing, and more.
     
    primeelite, Sep 28, 2008 IP