Do you Squidoo?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by blogspot, Jun 30, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    Who here uses Squidoo?
    Have you found any benefits from using Squidoo to promote your site?
    What things do you do to keep your lense ranking well?

    Thanks
     
    blogspot, Jun 30, 2008 IP
  2. alemcherry

    alemcherry Guest

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    Squidoo and the "lenses" is just another free webpage hosting. It is as bad or good as having a googlepages page. You dont get any special SEO benefit from a so called "lense"!. Ofcourse if the Squidoo page is having a good PR, the link from that helps, but so is any other page on the web. Only noobs and ameatures get excited by these silly things. Search engines doesn't get excited by over hyped useless stuff and say "wow I found a squidoooo lense!"

    Thats my personal opinion and would like to hear any counter arguments.
     
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  3. jacky8

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    wow! blogspot!
    Suidoo pages are about making any lens. They even allow adult lenses. They have their own ad management system, i guess.. Squidoo is a big site. . . you can make a lens about just any single topic.. thats what the lenses are all about..
    Ofcourse you can post an anchor link there..
     
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    jacky8 Active Member

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    SEOs will never tell you how they SEO. its bcoz no one loves giving the hints about how they do business.
    SEO is a big and competitive business and there are many secrets methods.. You can get the free..

    Now thats a single instance of how SEOs use squidoo.
    If you are interested in doing seo using Squidoo, i would suggest you to have a big article there.
    and have a single anchor link there. Then bookmark that Lens on few social bookmarking sites.. i hope it helped.....
     
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  5. clinton

    clinton Well-Known Member

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    I signed up for it yesterday, It seems to be a very popular thing nowedayss
     
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    It doesn't hurt to have a Squidoo landing page, might as well try everything you can to get better SEO for your site..
     
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    Squidoo pages rank well and make an excellent extra incoming link to your main sales page.
     
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  8. Reprobate

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    Yes, I "Squidoo".

    I use it as is. I'm not using it to send traffic to another site or blog. I send my traffic to my Squidoo lenses.
     
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    its basically parasite hosting and a way to dominate the search engines with your keyword of choice.,
     
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  10. Cryogenius

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    Me too.

    I tried using it to send traffic to my website, but I found it was more satisfying to build lenses that attracted their own traffic, and make revenue directly.
     
    Cryogenius, Jul 2, 2008 IP
  11. seo4china

    seo4china Well-Known Member

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    I have never bought in the concept, nothing beats traditional SEO. How many people would actually purchase anything from a squidoo site?? squi what??
     
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  12. usasportstraining

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    Exactly!

    It can be fun and pretty lucrative to make lenses on topics that interest you. It's funny that once people figure out the benefits of Squidoo, they start directing their traffic to it, instead of away.



    *If you're going to listen to anyone about Squidoo, Cryogenius and Reprobate are two of a handful that are serious Squidoo experts.
     
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  13. leontai

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    i SQUIDOO, why not, they pages are there and in my opinion its the always better to have asmany of your links out there as possible.
     
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  14. PlateFish

    PlateFish Banned

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    I used Squidoo a couple of months ago and didn't see much from the site. It's fun to do and I did get a lot of comments and ratings etc. It's a shame what they've done now. I've created 2 lenses and Squidoo won't accept them because some robot with a terrible algorithm thinks everything is "spambait"... I've contacted them quite outraged saying I can't have my lens published because of some retarded bot that thinks I'm trying to spam their site.

    Really irritating. There's not 1 link promoting my site on the lenses.
     
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  15. business opportunities

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    I have used Squidoo for the last couple of months and it has turned out pretty well for me.

    One of my lenses is responsible for increasing the revenue of my proxy websites by about $5 per day - just because of one lens.

    I have some lenses that are just designed to stand on their own, as well as a couple that are there to funnel traffic to my money sites.

    All in all, it has been a good experience for me.
     
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  16. Cvent

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    Results from Squidoo obviously will benefit you based on how much time you spend on your content, layout, etc. The better the content, the better the results!

    A nice feature of Squidoo is that they provide a way to import content for your lens which you've established through other social media sites, such as YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, etc.

    Cvent
     
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