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If you want your squidoo lens to be an automated money making machine, then you need to get traffic flowing daily to your lens, and this will not happen if you do not know how to promote your lens correctly.

There are all the obvious methods first that you should try in promoting your lens.

• Viral Marketing
• Article Marketing
• Forum Advertising
• Email marketing

There are additional things that you can do on squidoo itself to raise the lens rank, increase the number of people that see your lens and get your keywords high up in the search engines

Keep your content Fresh.

Keep making Changes on your lens, everyday for the first 2 weeks then change it to every other day. Do not delete a module completely as this seems to affect rather than enhance your page rank, just make a few changes on an existing module.

To make a change to your module, just go to your squidoo dashboard and select which lens module you want to edit.

If you do not have anything new to add, a good trick is just to delete a word or two, save the module, then go back to edit the module again and type the word back in. Then just Publish your lens.

Join Relevant Squidoo groups .

We all know how important backlinks are both within a site and externally.

Do a search in Squidoo’s groups and join every group which is relevant to your subject, you will have a lot more incoming links from Squidoo.

Check out the most active groups as well to see if there are some easy to find popular and relevant groups that you could join.

Add a comment.

Go find lenses again that are relevant to your topic that have a guest book as 1 of the modules, so you can leave a comment and a back link to your lens. To leave a comment you must be logged into Squidoo, then select how many stars you want to give that lens, leave your comment and a back link, simple.

You can rate the lens and leave a nice comment in the guestbook telling the lens master that you have rated their site. This may result in them visiting your lens and rating your lens too.

Another method to try is to send the lensmaster an email and suggest that you do a  rating exchange or put each others lenses on the lens roll or favourite list. To find the  lensmasters email address, there is usually a “contact me” link under the profile.

Adding more tags.

Adding additional tags to your lens will also help you with search engine rankings.
Really put some thought into what search terms a visitor would enter to find the content on your lens. Go back to the keyword research that you did at the beginning of the lens creation process and see if there is any other words that you ccan add to your  own tags.

Another good idea is to have a look at related lenses again and see what keyword tages they are using for their own lenses.

Participate in Squidoo’s forum.

If you are a fan of forum marketing, then it makes sense to become a active poster on the squidoo forum and drum up some traffic by including your squidoo lens in your signature.

This forum is also a great place to learn new squidoo tricks and tactics

Conclusion

If you are not getting decent traffic to your Squidoo Lens, then you are wasting a fantastic oppotunity to make money online, improve and enhance your Squidoo Lens, by becoming a Squidoo Guru, you will soon have traffic flowing to your lens in a matter of days.

Regards

Alan 

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Most of  us these days have a Squidoo lens, and we all know how to put a lens together, but many people,  do not know how to get more traffic to  their Squidoo lens.

If you are promoting an affiliate link or your  own product on your lens, and you are not getting a daily constant flow of traffic, then your Squidoo lens will be a wasted opportunity

So  by doing a few tweaks and  minor changes to your site, you will soon see a difference on your site.
Tip 1 Organic SEO
 First we need to establish why Google is not sending you traffic, and like any normal web site SEO is as crucial for your lens, as what it is for a normal website .

 First See if your lens is being indexed by Google and Yahoo.

Next thing to do is view your source code and see what the <titile >tag is on your lens, after that check your keyword density
If you want to improve your search engine optimisation, then do the following,

• You need to make it easy for a search engine to Figure out the topic of your page.
• Find Appropriate keywords or key phrases and use them in the title, in the page heading, in the introduction, throughout the lens, in the meta description,   in bold or italics etc
• Use word variations and synonyms throughout your page.
• Get links from other lenses.

A good tool to use is a web page analyser, run your page through the program, see which faults you can pick up and rectify.

If you want more advice on SEO optimisation, just do a search in Google, you will find thousands of articles on this subject

Tip 2 Submit  to main directories
The more high quality links that you have pointing to your lens, the more impressed the search engines will be and the higher your Squidoo lens will be ranked.

Another good reason for submitting your lens to search engine directories is that your listing can last for years, if the task of submitting to directories is a boring and tedious task, then get a 3rd party to do it on your behalf.

If you have a niche lens then you can submit your site to niche directories, for example directories on health or dating etc

Tip 3  distribute useful articles to Article Directories.
By writing useful and interesting articles and submitting them to article directories will ensure that other websites will pick up your articles and use them on their site.

When writing your article, not only do  you need an eye -catching heading, but you also need to give people a strong incentive to visit your lens.
By Adding a link back to your lens in the “About the author” box at the bottom of the article, not only are you boosting your reputation, you also get hundreds or thousands of links pointing back to your squidoo lens.

Tip 4  Publish a mini course
This is also a great idea to get people to keep on coming back to your Lens, you can decide on the format whether you want to  publish a  long or a short mini- course, what is more important is that you provide genuinely useful content.

After you have won the trust of your readers start weaving relevant affiliate links into your mini-courses.

To retain your readers interest, at the end of  each  message, give them a little teaser by telling what will be in the next message of the mini-course

Conclusion

Building a Squidoo lens is not hard, the hard part is to keep it fresh with good content and quality backlinks, your Squidoo lens needs all the attention and marketing that a normal web site needs. If you want to learn more about getting traffic to your lens, the get Squidoo Guru, even if you want to enhance and improve your Lens, get Squidoo Guru.

Regards

Alan

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