Squidoo is one of the most popular and SEO friendly web 2.0 site. Its one of the best destination for internet marketers, bloggers and websites. Today more than 25 million visitors from US approach to this amazing site in search for guides, reviews and articles.
Squidoo was established back in 2005 by one of the most popular internet marketer, author and entrepreneur Seth Godin. Main purpose behind its development was to offer regular internet users with perfect platform to improve their web presence & that’s for free.
And today with more than million of users it’s truly one of the biggest and perfect destination for knowledge and entertainment. So in this post, I will try hard to present five different ways in which you can use Squidoo.
How would you like to use Squidoo
I have total of 5 suggestions for you :
- Build up your web presence.
- Generate traffic to your website.
- Increase then umber of dofollow backlinks.
- Make money with Squidoo.
- Explore something new for fun.
Improve Your Web Presence
Remember, your first impression is your last impression.
Squidoo is very strict when it comes to copyright violations and plagiarism. They have automated systems which detects copied contents, links to blacklisted domains and checks for the error in your content. In simple terms you won’t be able to post software generated articles.
So never ever use any article scraper or article spinning tools, as it will only do harm to you and to your reputation.
If you are able to write articles that are unique and useful, people will subscribe for your feed and will give you squid likes. The more you get likes and visitors the more trophies you win. It not only shows your reputations, but also attracts many new readers to your lens and will even make it highlighted in the homepage.
Overall, in order to use their service you need to be unique and informative. That’s the only fact that matters the most.
Use Squidoo To generate Traffic
Now I have already said that squidoo is SEO friendly and I really mean it. You can see lots of lenses on topics like SEO, design, reviews, beauty guidance and theme on Search result pages. Actually Squidoo provides you with perfect and search engine optimized template for creating articles. It allows you to enter anchor texts, post videos, add graphics and all of their headlines are made H2.
Apart from that you have ability to add custom meta keywords, power to link to authority websites, lots of modules to create polls and to gather latest news feed.
I think these many options and features are good enough to make you sure that you will be able to rank on SERP using lenses. So now if you are able to build good authorship and position on result pages, their are high chances that visitors would like to move to some other important links, including yours.
Using Squidoo For Backlinks
It is a pagerank 6 site. And the most important thing is, it is dofollow. Now you have full potential to generate unlimited number of link backs to your website or blog or any particular post. This site is very sensitive to unique contents. So if you are thinking that this is right place for dumping articles. Then you are wrong, Squidoo will just remove your content.
You content should be very unique and well written. You have full rights to choose any topic and write almost anything.
- Go to Squidoo and register their, if already done very good
- Now create new lens
- Chose any Title, almost anything ( don’t think of SEO )
- Now chose your right category
- Add best tags ( really important )
- After verification you are ready to publish your contents.
Squidoo allows every one to add maximum 10 links pointing to any one domain name. All of them will be do follow. Read this post : Squidoo vs Hubpages
Add unique content, add images and videos and then publish it. Now your lens is published, but it will take almost 24 hours to verify the content. Remember that Google will not index the back links until they are available to them.. So follow these steps
- Do commenting. 10 squid lens and 3 to 5 comments on hq.
- Now share your article with friends.
- Share it on social bookmarking and networking sites.
- Submit to StumbleUpon for huge traffic.
- Now sit down and see the traffic.
Make Money With Squidoo
There are hundreds of popular and features users who make hundreds and thousands of dollars with their lenses. With squidoo you have full control on what you earn. You can add Amazon module or ebay module to show related products or books.
You can even create any affiliate product review or can promote your own service for free to millions of visitors. Apart from that you have options for Adsense, in-text adverts and many more.
- Using the ads features, which is available in payment settings. You can allow Google Adsense ads
- Allow infolinks ads.
- You are allowed to promote affiliate products. You can also add banners since HTML is completely allowed and also you can use scripts, java scripts.
- You also have features to add amazon products in lens, or you can add eBay products.
- There is one locked widget, that is sidebar widget, that allows you to add amazon, or eBay ads in sidebar.
Get Inspiration Or Idea For Creativity
Squidoo is one among the website which is very popular in female internet users. And it actually reflects in the homepage, since maximum of featured lenses are based on cooking, beauty, jewellery or some cosmetic product.
It’s also one of the perfect place to seek for information in SEO, marketing and for in-depth reviews on various products or tools. Especially for webmasters and common blogger, it’s a finest place to get inspiration to write your next article or post.
Overall Squidoo allows you to play with content marketing. Over here you don’t need to worry about SEO since if your article doesn’t rank well then you have option to edit it. Unlike your website where you always have fear about Google panda or penguin updates.
Please kindly share your thoughts on this amazing free web20.0 service.
About Vivek Kumar Poddar
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Really nice love this!
That was a really good read, because I’d made one lens 3 or 4 years ago and hadn’t looked at it twice since then.
Good to see you over here. Actually squidoo is one of the perfect web2.0 property to perform article posting. And many chances are their that it will rank very well on SERP since their domain authority is really high.
This is a great write-up about Squidoo. I have been using it for over a year and have been getting good results. However, a word of warning – Squidoo does not allow any Black-hat methods of promoting your content. If you do any buying of backlinks, etc. or do anything that promotes the ranks of your content in an unnatural way, your account may get deleted. (I learned this the hard way, and lost everything.) I am going to use them again, because the results were good – this time I’ve learned my lesson though, no more Black-hat methods!
That’s great. Using blackhat SEO methods is something which might give you some small term benefits but in long term race you will lose for sure. I wish you will use squidoo wisely and it might help you generate some extra bucks.