SQUIDOO

The following was excerpted from an article entitled Web 2.0 Traffic Secrets written for Magnetic Sponsoring by Ferny Ceballos and Raymond Fong.

Back-door SEO: How to Leverage the Power of Existing Systems to Shamelessly Promote your Business
Most people’s understanding of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is to:

1. Spend loads of money buying links and hiring experts to optimize your site.
2. Spend loads of time doing the meticulous SEOing yourself and just waiting.

Man, what a pain in the butt!

Well, thanks to Web 2.0 and social content websites, SEO just got much simpler. One such powerful social website is Squidoo.

Squidoo is a social content website that encourages you to shamelessly promote your business and yourself. You, as the author, would put together what is coined a "lens"—which is basically an assortment of content and modules you publish—which gets hosted and featured on Squidoo.com

And in that lens, you would encourage your reader to go visit your business website—resulting in more traffic for your website.

The cool thing about this is that Google loves Squidoo lenses and likes to rank them on the top 10 search results. As a result, your individual lens itself will get highly ranked quickly by the search engines for the keywords you choose to optimize your lens with.

We’ve often seen cases where the lens a person puts together will outrank the person’s actual business website. This is the power of Squidoo.

While your website may not get good rankings on the search engines, your Squidoo lens will. And through those highly ranked lenses, you get the same amount of traffic as if your very own site was that highly ranked.

You can create as many keyword-targeted lenses as you want, which funnel traffic to your website. So you can take over the top spots of the search engines, one lens and one keyword at a time—so go nuts!

The following was excerpted from the Introduction of a most-informative eBook we purchased when we decided we wanted to use Squidoo to generate a whole lot of traffic for this website—and later for our many other sites (you can go here to see what they all are).

We’ll spoil the surprise now and reveal to you that that eBook, written by Internet guru Terry Jett, only costs $7, that it contains 23 pages of very detailed, precise and helpful step-by-step information that allowed us to create our first lens on Squidoo in less than an hour. And a very good one too. You can check it here.

If using Squidoo to generate traffic to your site and boost your business is of interest to you, then we highly recommend you get a copy of this eBook. It is one of the best $7 eBooks we’ve bought, and we buy MANY!

Here is Terry’s Introduction entitled What Is Squidoo?

"At first glance, one might view Squidoo as just another social networking website. They might alternately view it as just another blogging community. In fact, Squidoo is a combination of blogging and social networking, taken to an ultimate level. Squidoo is more of a social effort than a social networking site, wherein the effort is to easily find the things on the Internet that matter to specific groups of people.

Squidoo essentially gives you a place on the web to direct other people to the places that you want them to visit. You build your page based on what matters to you — the things that you know about and want to teach others, or for things that you want to sell, such as your products, or affiliate products.

Through Squidoo, you can not only get more traffic to your own blog or web pages, and make more sales, but you have the added bonus of being able to earn half of the revenue that is earned by the creators of Squidoo from your page.

Squidoo, all summed up, becomes the ultimate ‘word-of-mouth’ tool on the Internet today. Users have found a real community exists at Squidoo, and they have also found that they get increased traffic to their other sites, and that they ultimately make more sales — and you can too, if you know what you are doing.

At Squidoo, you can create a lens, which will be covered in more detail later. Each lens — which you set up for FREE — essentially consists of one page, and that one page has links to more pages — either to your site, to other lenses, or to other web pages altogether — and you control where your Squidoo lens page links to.

You may already be thinking ‘Oh no, not another profile page that I have to keep updated and stay on top of and keep up with in general...I don’t have time for this!" In today’s online world, it seems that we each have five hundred different ‘social networking’ sites to keep up with, keep updated, and more. It becomes quite time consuming, and very overwhelming. Obviously, you don’t have time for another site that you have to keep up with.

Relax. Squidoo isn’t what you are thinking, and in fact, once you’ve got your Squidoo Lens set up, you really don’t have to mess with it much at all. It’s very simple to set up and maintain. You are looking at about an hour or two of setup, and maintenance, if you do it right, probably takes less than fifteen minutes per week, if that. Some people never have to ‘maintain’ their Squidoo Lenses at all."

Terry Jett’s eBook is entitled All About Squidoo—Discover How to Properly Use Squidoo to Bring More Customers and See More Profit. As we pointed out earlier, this is one of the best $7 investment we’ve done this year—possibly EVER!

Click here to go get your copy now, get "Squidooing" today, and see the results... today!

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