Hi, Recently I have heard a lot of people talk about creating Squidoo Lenses in order to get backlinks and promote their websites? Does anyone have experience with Squidoo and would want to explain how it exactly works and what their experiences are? Thanks
Squidoo can be a powerful tool. If you build the lenses right and do a little promotion on the lens, you can easily rank on first pages of google for your search terms. Also backlinks from a Squidoo lens can be very beneficial as well!
It has worked well for me. You may want to search on DP as Squidoo has been discussed on this forum dozens if not hundreds of times already. Those posts have a wealth of information, as does the SquidU forum.
You really have to search a lot before create a good squidoo lens. You can just create 1 and expect it to hit page 1 of google for long tail keywords. Believe, I have tried it and it's not that easy as one might think. So, before doing anything stupid and wasting your time, better do some research and then go for the kill.
I've made a few squidoo sites but haven't really got any traffic from them. I guess you have to know what you're doing.
squidoo is a powerful web 2.0 site and only about couple of years ago, squidoo pages used to rank real high on google. lot of abuses have been done by spammers who ruined it for the rest of us and google now no longer allow special treatment to Squidoopages as it has been negore. but regardless, the site still has some authority and a Squidoo lens still passes backlink/link juice to your site
I recommend Squidoo and Hub pages - both similar - images, links, modules and area for some extended text
Check out my highly ranked squidoo page: http://www.squidoo.com/watch-family-guy-online-free It's also featured on Squidup: http://squidup.org I get about 50 uniques a day from Squidoo according to analytics.
Squidoo has strong spam policy and wont link your article from any inner page if your article looks like self promotion. Few back links from authority sites might skyrocket your squidoo page on serps tho.. They do have some authority on google, the ts for sure.
just to keep it simple, they are getting back on top. For further details or if you want to check out some lens just refer to my threads! good luck
Hey Friends, Yes, Squidoo is effective to a good extent, I would suggest squidoo if you can write quality articles and just not for the heck of writing. if the articles are unique and users are finding it useful, a well crafter lens with enough content and information , even squidoo will drop cash into your paypal account. and link backs from squidoo are benifitial, but unlike google, squidoo users checks if its a spam or not, you might be boo'ed by users if it does look spammy and addy ! regards Joshu Thomas, Orangecopper
Squidoo is solid platform from where you can get relevant backlinks surrounded by your keywords. Plus their category also help you to get niche base links. Many people expect to get traffic from Squidoo but instead of that they should take squidoo lens as good backlinks provider, add 500 - 800 words with original contents do the social bookmarking and see the results. Keep adding new contents once in a week.
Squidoo is pretty much just a waste of time. There are so many links on each lens (page) that doing this for the backlinks is just plain stupid. If your goal is to rank for these lenses, you are better off buynig your own site, as squidoo lenses convert like shit and the extra trust-boost (in Google eyes) people are talking about is overrated. In terms of link-building, no one really wants to link to a squidoo page.
is it effective? Yes IF you choose long tail subjects by doing your research what people are likely to click on and then write good to very good lenses that are seo optimized. YES if you submit it to social bookmarking, get other quality back links to the lenses and you update the lenses, submit them to squidoo and other groups and I still don't think it is worth the trouble. Squidoo MAY return to its former glory and then again may not. As easy as it is to get a squidoo lense started many think that squidoo will do all the work for you, they won't never did, never will and after all that is entirely up to you.