The name of your lens is reflected in it's URL, which helps in ranking.ģ. Pick the combination you wish to rank for and name your lens. Now when you have the idea of a nice blog post to create a lens, it's time for a keyword research. No one cares about the books when there is Megan Fox around LOLĢ. Basically that's why Megan Fox's Tattoos lens ranks way better than Book Care and Repair lens.
What I mean by "valuable"? I mean that it must be interesting to all audiences and, of course, it should be trending. Only a valuable blog post will go viral, attract links and dominate search. Think of a Squidoo lens like of a blog post. Now let's see what it takes to create a successful lens:ġ. All the benefit it brings ( except for high Domain Authority) is that you can go and comment some top lenses to leak some link juice from them or sit there and hope that some lensmasters with tough lenses will link to yours in some way. In addition to that, if the topic that you're building your lens around is not very hot & trendy - you'll most likely fail (like I failed with lens dedicated to our website builder). I naively thought that Squidoo does have some special tools to boost your page metrics and help it to reach the top of the SERPs. The metrics are really tasty:īut here is where the " Not so fast!" part of the tale begins. You can also check the " Top 100 Lenses On Squidoo" list and apply Mozbar to each. I bet many of you would like to have a backlink from a PR5 lens like this one: " Lady Gaga Costumes" (1st in Google for "lady gaga costumes" term). What's the SEO value here? With the Page Rank of 8, Squidoo is a choice platform to gain high quality relevant links to any pages of your website. Traffic estimates from Compete show us that Squidoo is pretty a decent resource to put some effort in: make money by redirecting visitors to Amazon & stuff.create a nice lens, which will cover the chosen topic.keyword research for some decent longtail phrase to name a lens.It seems like that's enough to get some search traffic to your lens and make money. "Squidders" just create one-page-websites on Squidoo, add monetization plugins and do some basic linkbuilding. It's hard to tell the exact definition of the service, but here's my understanding of what it is being used for:Įxperienced people launch websites & blogs and monetize them with affiliate programs, referral programs, Adwords or whatever. I was struggling into Squidoo for a couple of weeks, hoping that there's some value behind it that can spice up my SEO/SMM strategy.
I'm sure many of you have met some recommendations to use this service for link building or online promotion, but I've never seen any good overview of this service from a SEO perspective. Today I want to share some of my experience digging into social service called Squidoo.
of which you'rs just happens to the recommend business in your industry.Hi, fellow mozzers. You could also include a directory of links of recommended business's in the area. Include information about places to stay, places to see, events, restaurants, etc. You could build a lens for your hometown. I haven't truthfully messed with it to this extent, as most customeres I deal with are not "hi-tech" people, and it takes more explaining than its usually worth. This can certainly be used as a marketing tool. The idea is to share your knowledge on a topic for others to learn from you. You could build your lens to include links to good poker playing websites, links to books on that people can buy about the topic, add Google map links to the locations of the WSOP, etc. Think of a lens as a mini-encyclopedia on one subject, and you are the author.įor example, let's say you want to build a lens about. It's pretty simple once you understand the true concept of the site.
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