The Things You Can Do With Squidoo
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
What is Squidoo…
Squidoo is a website that allows you to make a webpage called a lens. This lens focus on a topic of your choice and gives you a lot of customization options.
It’s a fast and powerful way to get plenty of free traffic because Google is practically in love with Squidoo pages. It tends to give them first page rankings even for competitive keywords and you can make as many Squidoo lenses as you want.
This makes Squidoo a perfect back linking tool even more so than article submission sites. Think about what that means for a second. If your a veteran webmaster, then you know that the effectiveness of article marketing has diminished in recent years due mostly to the recent Google updates Panda and Penguin. Now I’m not saying that using article submitters don’t work, but Google is much more likely to crawl your page if it’s coming from an authority platform such as Squidoo.
Don’t underestimate the power of that fact.
When starting your first lens, do one that promotes yourself as a leader and expert on your chosen topic. Then if you have an opportunity to offer, you can start promoting that.
Alright so lets get you set up. Remember our goal is to get you a ton of qualified leads and affiliate sales from your lenses.
Setup your Squidoo account in 4 easy steps
- Go to www.squidoo.com
- click on the ‘sign up’ tab and follow the registry steps
- fill out your bio, add a photo, and add more keywords/tags relevant to your topic
- add a text module to your lens by clicking on the ‘Add Modules’ tab.
Before you begin writing, your going to want to browse around and see how the successful writers set up their Squidoo lens. Browse categories like ‘How to & Education’ and take notice of how the top writers structure their pages and mimic that structure.
When your ready to begin writing, the first thing you need to do is come up with a benefit driven headline. Writing headlines for Squidoo is no different than writing a headline for an ad or anything else.
I won’t go into great detail on that, but if you want to know how, visit “How To Peel Hard-Boiled Eggs Without Peeling”
Once you choose a headline, proceed to write your article. Don’t worry about how long it is, just get your point across and provide as much value as possible.
Add picture and videos to make it more visual. To do this just add more modules.
At the end be sure to get your reader to take action by clicking on a link that gets them to your website where they can opt-in and become a lead. You can also have them go to a high converting capture page or wherever you want to send them.
One last piece of pure gold…
If you really want to dominate Google and generate tons of leads. After you set up your Squidoo lenses, repeat the process on www.hubpages.com
It’s a very similar to Squidoo only instead of calling an article a lens, they call it a hub.
Google also loves Hubpages and ranks them just as well as Squidoo lenses. Take advantage of this love triangle. Use and abuse these tools and see your pages rank higher and higher.
Have fun getting absolutely FREE leads.
Until next time…
Here’s a more visual tutorial in case I was to brief