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Promoting a Website With Squidoo – Last in Series

Now let me tell you how to make your presence felt in the various Squidoo groups. I know that sounds lame but it’s important. Make your lens informative and interesting. The most difficult part is to ensure that a user’s first visit does not end up being the last.

The brighter side is that if your lens impresses the visitor, you earn yourself a spokesperson. Your visitor may refer your lens to another visitor and so on. Make your content easy-to-read, highlight important content and make your page lively.
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Promoting a Website With Squidoo Part 8

So we’ve been told and told some more about the miracles of a Squidoo lens. Now comes the little glitch. Your Squidoo lens is not the only one out there. It’s the marketing tool these days so you can’t expect others to sit still, right? They’re all there, creating lens after lens after lens, trying to drive more traffic to their website.

However, there are several ways to make your lens rise above the clutter. Heard that line before? OK, let me tell you more so that you believe me.

The secret code to high ranking lenses…

…does not exist. Secret codes make for good stories but this is business. If you want your lens to rank high, you have to think and work smart. It’s not very difficult but requires you to be agile. Let’s begin with a few simple tips.
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Promoting a Website With Squidoo Part 6

Squidoo.com also uses modules to promote lens pages. Modules are nothing more than information boxes with content in them you add to your lens page. Typically you include modules after your introduction.

There are many customized modules you can add, including those offered by Amazon and eBay, promoting products listed on these pages. You can use one of these customized modules to promote your book or other products on Amazon or eBay for example.
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Promoting a Website With Squidoo Part 5

For every item you add to Squidoo.com you can create 20 tags for your lens. A tag is for all intents, a meta tag. Tags are similar to site descriptions, so you want to create tags that or “labels” for your lens that are filled with keyword rich terms or phrases to promote your site and improve your page rank.

You should always use research to identify the best keywords to use as tags for your lens. For example, use the keyword selector tool at Overture.com to identify popular keywords or keyword phrases you can use as tags for your site.

Just like the content on your sales page is important for the success of your Website, so too is the copy you write for your lens page. Your introduction and the body of your lens page should include strong and compelling copy that will encourage visitors to click through the links you have on your page.
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Promoting a Website With Squidoo Part 4

Welcome to part 4 of our Squidoo series and now that you sure you have a nice niche its time to start making your money making lens. Most people will set up there lens in around 10 minutes and we have covered the basics already.

A recap of the important stuff:

1. Register with Squidoo.
2. Use the site wizard to create your lens.
3. When taken to this page, select the do your own thing option.
4. Choose a keyword rich title for your lens.
5. Select the URL you want your Squidoo.com page to point to; tmake sure you place your keywords in it.
6. Next choose your lens keywords.
7. You will then be taken to a page that asks you how you want to get paid. This page sets up your account to pay you for any income you receive from clicks through Adsense, eBay, Amazon or other commissions.
8. Reconfirm your content.
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