How To Generate Traffic Using Squidoo

Squidoo is a social networking site which can be used to drive large amounts of traffic to your website. It is very easy to use. With Squidoo, you can make pages which are called lenses.  Each lens can be used as an information portal for any topic which you may like and can be used as a blog.  Squidoo is among the top websites in the world and any page you create on Squidoo gets easily listed in the search engines. The main strategy is to drive traffic to your Squidoo lens and then redirecting the traffic to your website or blog.

Each Squidoo lens is automatically integrated with Web 2.0 features like RSS, Tag and Ping and social bookmarking features like Digg and Del.icio.us.  RSS helps you to let your lens readers know when it has been updated.  Similarly, you should always ping your lens after you add content to it, to let the search engines know about the update.  Natural progression will let the engines find it eventually, but a ping certainly can’t hurt.

The following steps should be followed to start generating traffic through Squidoo:

• Create a free account with Squidoo. On your profile, add a picture and write a few lines about yourself. You must also add the link to your website or blog.
• Choose a URL for the lens which should contain the primary keywords. Use the main targeted keywords in your lens title.
• Before adding content to your lens, you have to choose a module. You should choose the ‘Write Module’ which allows to write articles on your lens like blog posts.
• Your lens should be updated regularly, preferably several times a week. You do not have to make major changes. Just do some simple tweaking and click ‘publish’. But new content should also be added frequently.
• You should link your related lenses to each other. This link building will help your lenses to get more exposure and more traffic. You may also list your lenses in the relevant groups.
• To rank high, each lens should generate star ratings by other lens masters.  So, you should rank other lenses and ask the lensmasters to rank yours. You can also join the forums and do some forum marketing.

That’s today’s tip for generating traffic using Squidoo, have fun!