I was sitting here thinking of better way to run my SEO campaign to get my sites to the top 3 pages of Google when I thought of using Squidoo. Now, when I say using Squidoo, I don't mean for the backlink/social bookmarking purpose, I mean use it as my actual web page for my affiliate products. I work a lot with different affiliate programs that pay pretty well per conversion and my sales have been low because I am not listed where I need to be in Google for my search terms. So I figured creating a Squidoo page for my main affiliate products would work well. Let's say I am going for the keywords "stop smoking." The competition is going to be hard, but it seems like using a Squidoo page would be much much easier to get to rank in the top 3 pages of Google. It already has domain age, a very high index count, very many backlinks to the site as a whole, it's listed in Yahoo! and DMOZ, and it's a very trusted and authoritative site. If I were to do the backlinks that I am doing now to Squidoo pages that tell about my products do you think it would be easier to rank than using my newly bought domains and such? Also, one more question. If I made a Squidoo page, will it show up and rank in the UK? I do lots of business there as well.
since squido has a .com domain google will rank it high in the UK as well. I have recently started using squido but for different purposes (link wheel creation) but i have yet to see any real traffic being generated. From an seo standpoint ur idea seems to be great but perhaps you should first try this method with a less competitive keyword to see how good it is before you try to tackle 'stop smoking'
This is only a possibility. Ultimately if you create a page on Squidoo and focus all your efforts there, then Squidoo has benefitted, owns all your content and can control what you post, and you own nothing. I would say it is much better to focus on content and seo on your own domain, that you can control, and then link wheel with Squidoo and Hubpages etc. Yes Squidoo will have more authority on the domain, but the page itself won't.
Squidoo is basically a fancy article directory. I don't know too many people who earn much income from it. The good thing about squidoo is that you can control the pages that you build. Overtime they accumulate pagerank, and show up in natural search rankings. I would always want to have my own landing page for sales, so I could tweak it, run split testing, and have detailed analytics of everything that's going on. In terms of an ecommerce perspective, a squidoo page is not great, because it has all sorts of external links, and squidoo branding everywhere - so it's super easy for your visitors to click and go elsewhere. On other interesting idea about squidoo - and not so related to this, is someone seems to have started a secondary market for squidoo lenses (sell my lens dot com). It's an interesting idea - because these lenses do build up PR and rank over time.
I've used Hubpages to rank high for long tailed KWs. I believe that Squidoo is similar to Hubpages - so I would focus more on long tailed Kws than just two words (quit smoking for an example).
Is squidoo really a must when doing internet marketing? Can someone show me an example how it boosted a campaign significantly?
Squidoo is great tool for IM.You can use it as a sale page,as backlink provider and etc.Yes,you don't really own the lensES,but you can place your lens on page 1 with minimum efforts-200-300 backlinks.Try with your own site or blog and you will see the difference-you gonna need 1 year to achieve that spot.So it is your choice-take the money as soon as possible or hope your site will be kissed by G. SOMEDAY.