Squidoo Secrets Revealed: Drive Unstoppable Traffic To Your Home Business

17Feb2009 Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Home Business, Home based Job, Marketing, Money, Online business, Traffic, start a home business, work at home, work from home Author: Bikash

You have probably heard of Squidoo. Squidoo is very popular among Internet Marketers. Squidoo is popular because it generates lots of traffic to sites. Would you like to learn how to use Squidoo to generate non-stop traffic to your business? Why people are raving about Squidoo?

Why is Squidoo Different

Squidoo is different than other social networking sites. Squidoo lets you sell products as you want without worrying about getting your account shut down. The same thing you cannot do in MySpace and other social networking sites. Squidoo is mostly used by grown up Internet Marketers and so you will not see flashy pages in Squidoo.

In Squidoo, you can create a page called as “Lens.” It is like a small site that can contain any topic. For example I created a simple lens on “How to Get Google Traffic.” You can create as many lenses you want. Every lens can be used to guide traffic to your home business site.

First create the lenses and socialize with other lens masters to create a linkweb of traffic.

The Secret To Squidoo Success

You will have to provide good and useful information in your lenses to be successful. People look for good information and when you are able to provide good information, people not only read your lenses but also visit your websites. It can work as a landing page for your home business. A good lens (a good landing page for your business) will bring in more traffic to you. It can also act as an affiliate product marketing page because people will believe your recommendation if your lens is really good.

How To Generate Traffic Using a Squidoo Lens

1. Put the main keywords in your lens title

Squidoo lenses rank well in search engines. When you use the keyword in the title, there is ore chance of a better ranking. A link from a good ranked lens will help you own home business site.

2. Make sure the url has your primary keyword. This helps in better ranking and more traffic as a result of better ranking.

3. Use long tail keywords to tag your lens. While creating the lens, you can use the lens creating wizard to do it.

4. Add a RSS Feed- Add the RSS feed of your home business site or blog. RSS feed is good for you because search engine love such frequently changing content. You can add RSS feed o your lens using the available Squidoo module while creating the lenses.

5. Keep updating your lens several times a week. You can do it with minor changes. If you can update it with content, that’s better.

6. Link your related lenses. More lenses mean more visitors. When you add lenses, you accumulate traffic and you can guide the accumulated traffic to your work from home site. Related lenses with higher traffic will help you to rank better in Squidoo.

7. Create lenses when the masters recommend you to create lenses based on long tail keywords. Create specialized lenses for your niche to dominate it.

8. Use your lens like a blog. Create quality content in several modules and then make it a great lens with lost of information. Then link your lens to your website for work from home businesses.

9. Visit other lensmasters’ lenses so as to socialize. Comment on their lenses. This results in one way links.

10. Add keywords in your lens. While writing the content, make sure it includes lots of keywords. Use different keywords so that you get benefits of all of them. Do keyword research and then use these keywords in the lens. If you are selling an affiliate product, then do research to find out what are the keywords that are converting to sales and use them in your lens.

11. Make your lens useful and for that show people how to do something. Help people with accurate and useful information, and people will flock to your lens and then to your site.