How effective is Squidoo?

Squidoo pages work for me great, some of them rank even higher than my blog for keywords. Hubpages also.

 

can't say i've had too much success with squidoo, though I just started using it recently, have 6 featured lenses, but these lenses only get a handful of visitors each month...not sure how to build up the lenses more. i put time into each one

eric128--the thread you posted doesn't seem to exist anymore

any advice on how to make my squidoo lenses more popular?

 

squidoo was kinda useless for me :S

 

Once you 'get' what Squidoo is about and how it works, it can be very effective.

Checkout http://SquidUtils.com/ for some tools to help you maximise your lenses...

 

Never knew that squido links are dofollow. Looks like i gotta make one pretty soon.

 

Squidoo is a great way to not only direct traffic to your site but to it is a great backlink.

 

I am not currently using squidoo but I think the reason some folks here are not having success with them (besides keyword/copy) is that they are not promoting them thru articles, social bookmarking, and other kinds of link building.

In fact, squidoo is a great place to "try" your crazier ideas (like massive link building in a short time) since you are not pointing stuff at your own site.

 

I've had some ok success with Squidoo, but I seem to have more luck with Hubpages. My hubs always seem to rank higher on Google than my Squidoo lenses.

 

One idea would be to type your list of keywords into goog and see what free hosting (squid, hub, wordpress) shows up higher. Then you can figure those are getting more "trust" from goog. Then build on them.

Howie Schwartz says check pages for 'buy viagra' and see which of these types show higher. Then build on them, as goog is obviously trusting those sites with a highly competitive phrase

 

using squidoo is white hat seo?

 

Building squidoo is white hat, and you can point a dofollow link to your site. Then you can promote your squidoo.

 

Like anything else, if you and build 1000 pages on free wp blogs everywhere and on squidoo and on hubpages, and then point them all to your domain... technically it should not hurt your domain, but who knows what a manual reviewer would think.

Better to do it slowly and sensibly.

 

The backlinks are good, the RSS reader is good. It's fine for funneling traffic as it does well in the search engines (usually).

 

I used to build Squidoo lenses like they were going out of style and I got a lot of traffic from them, but that was the past. Affiliate marketers have hit Squidoo so hard that Google seems to be allergic to many of their pages. You will still see some of the older Squidoo lenses ranking well in the SERPs but lately, all of my new lenses are hardly getting anything.

It is definitely not the best use of your time for building backlinks.

 

I still get lots of traffic on some of my squidoo pages, and do get a lot of affiliate commissions ... not all squidoo pages are useless ... depends on the topic

 

Yes, provided you stick to white hat techniques.

 

I think 2 main points that are lost on beginners is first of all 1 lens won't help you much, build 50. And second that you also have to build backlinks to your lenses. Once you start down the road of article marketing you soon realize that it is a never ending and tireless job.

 

Any idea how can i use squidoo effectively?

 

Step 1) Use it.

Step 2) The more you use it the better idea you will have of using it effectively.

 

should i use different content for different lenses?