Samy's Projects Series - Squidoo

Create a Squidoo Lense

Squidoo.Com is a fairly new site and it allows users to create their own "lenses" of information. Lenses are basically short pages of content along with links on the subject area. It is a kind of "Wikipedia" but a much more concise version, although I cannot say that the information is as credible as what can be found on "Wikidpedia". Regardless of that, it can be used for online marketing purposes because it is a well-ranked site, and we can use it for backlinks and promotion of affiliate products. You can create as many lenses as you like.

Head over to Squidoo.Com, and click on the sign up link and create an account. It's simple and only takes a minute or two.

Once you have created your account, you can easily creat new "lenses". The provided wizard makes it real easy. Here are some screenshots of a sample lense:

• First choose a subject area - this will become the title of your lens.

   

   

• Next, specify what you want to do with your lens. I choose the last option. Depending on what you use, you will get different editing features. Choosing the last option "I just want to do my own thing" option gives you more flexibility to create your lens as you wish.

   

   

• Next, specify your title and URL, and a suitable category. Try to make sure your URL is keyword rich as it will help rankings in the search engines. Google likes Squidoo pages.

   

   

• Finally, add some relevant keyword phrases. Squidoo will add these keyword phrases onto your lens in the form of links - another way it helps your lens to rank in the engines.

   

   

Squidoo.Com is a very good resource for online marketing. If you choose a right niche area and the right keywords you can get top ten rankings in Google.

You can use a lens in the same way you use a blog. You can use it to either provide authoratitive information in a given subject area and drive traffic to it, you can review products and use your affiliate links, you can also add links back to other sites that you have. There is a lot you can do with Squidoo lenses. I'll leave the rest to your imagination.

Summary

• Congratulations! You've just learned about a great and amazing tool that allows you to add leverage to your efforts.

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