Squid Who?

I know your asking what is Squidoo. Well in Part 3 of our Traffic series you are going to learn what squidoo is and how to use it to drive traffic to your site.

What is Squidoo ?

Squidoo is a website that was founded by Seth Godin in October of 2005. Seth is an avid Blogger, Speaker and Author. Now one of the top 500 tracked websites by Alexa for traffic it is a network of user generated pages called lenses.

Lenses can give your point of view, recommendations or expertise on any subject.

How to Use Squidoo to drive Traffic.

You will need to take the following steps:

  • Setup a squidoo account.
  • Create your lense.
  • Add a link to your squeeze page.

We will now talk more about this in detail.

To setup your account you will go to http://www.listadvice.com/resources/squidoo.php. Click on the signup link and then follow the easy steps.

Squidoo is a very modular system you can add all sorts of modules to your lense. As defined earlier your lense is simply your page on squidoo. Some of the basic modules that are available are:

  • Amazon
  • Del.icio.us bookmarks
  • Ebay
  • Flickr Photos
  • Google Blog Search
  • Guest Book
  • Link List
  • Orbitz!
  • RSS : Add your own feed
  • Text/Write Module
  • Text List
  • You Tube Videos

As you can see you have alot of modules that you can add. They have other modules in the following categories:

  • Basic
  • New!
  • Money Makers
  • Plexo
  • Search A-Z

Some other Squidoo features

Squidoo is very different from other sites as you will get to share in the money made from adsense or any of the modules you setup on your lense.  You can give your share to charity,  split it and give a portion to charity and a portion to youself, or keep it all for yourself. It has been said that if you give your proceeds to chartiy or at least share it you will get better rankings.  I’ve not tested this but I give a portion to charity just because it makes me feel better. Making money with squidoo is not the focus of this article but it is a nice to know. We are using squidoo to get people to signup for our list.

Setting up your link 

Now to get your link on the squidoo site you will want to add the Text/Write module or you can add it to your introduction page.

How should it look

When you all done your lense will look similar to the one I setup. While you’re taking a look why not rank my squidoo page. You do this by clicking on the stars that say your rank. 5 stars is the best. If you think the information I have given you here has helped you I would greatly appreciate if you would reciprocate by giving me a good ranking.

http://www.squidoo.com/buildyouremaillist/ 

Squidoo Traffic

You will see that this ranking system is how you can get your site viewed more. The better your site ranking the higher you get listed in the squidoo search system.

You can raise this ranking by sending people to come and rank your lense just as I have asked you to rank mine. Also you can join groups within the squidoo system to help promote your lense.

As of the writing of this article squidoo has an Alexa Rank of 487.  With that you can be assured that your page on squidoo will be picked up by the search engines which in turn will bring you some organic traffic as well.

Once again thank you for reading my Traffic Series. In part four of my Traffic Series I will talk about PayPerClick advertising and places where you can purchase clicks for one cent.

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Sincerely,
Glen Barnhardt