by Dr.Mani on February 9, 2008
RE-TWEET IT!
You can use today for either creating 3 more lenses on your chosen keywords, or doing more promotion for the lenses you have.
Here are some more things to do today:
Go to the popular lenses that are ranked high for your keyword or phrase. Check to see if they have a guestbook.
Then leave a comment about that lens – with a quick blurb about yours, and a link back. But don’t ruin the spirit of the community by spamming everyone’s guestbook at random. Please.
Set up your bookmark on Digg and Del.icio.us. Place the button on your lens so Squidoo visitors can bookmark it.
Email your list.
Link to the lens from articles in directories or blogs.
Run a link swapping campaign with other lens masters in your niche.
Now, depending upon how fast you are at doing this, and how much time you have available to work on your Squidoo strategy, the entire program I have outlined could take you 5 days – or 10, or even longer.
What matters more is that you get it done.
And keep doing what works, dropping the tactics that don’t give you good enough results for the time and effort you invest into it.
Squidoo is here to stay. Building your Squidoo network, and making Squidoo an integral part of your marketing and traffic generating strategy is a smart decision.
And Squidoo has a charitable focus too. Part of all revenues generated by lensmasters is donated to various charities and non-profits. And the tools and structure is designed to help non-profits get more visibility and involve their volunteers and supporters in the effort of growing awareness.
You have helped by participating in the ‘Squidoo for CHD’ challenge. Thank you for your support for ‘A Day for Hearts – Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Day‘.
The “CHD Social Media Challenge” is a project to spread Congenital Heart Defects awareness. There are 4 mini-tutorials and 1 firesale making up the ‘challenge’. You can join in and help too – click here to see how.
by Dr.Mani on February 7, 2008
RE-TWEET IT!
You’re becoming a Squidoo ‘expert’… and so I expect that you’ll be handling stuff better, doing your tasks quickly and therefore have time to do even MORE!
If you fall behind, don’t worry. Take it easy. Get the unfinished tasks done – and push back the schedule by one more day. Don’t miss out on any, because each step layers on the previous one, and adds more value to your Squidoo network.
Today you will:
* Create the third lens in your network
* Promote your second lens
* Updating and promoting your first lens
Step 1: Create Lens #3
Not much for me to say about this. A lot for you to do. Go for it!
Step 2: Promoting Lens #2
This again is a repetition of the steps you did for your first lens yesterday.
Step 3: Updating and Promoting Lens #1
If your lens is ’stagnant’ for too long, it will slowly drop in rankings. On one of my early lenses, I lost some good ranking because I let things slide and didn’t post updates.
When I revived the lens with a small update, and linked it to a few more recent lenses, the ranking came up again to #3,540.
Another determinant of good ranking seems to be how large your lens is. Add new modules from time to time. Write a short article (250 to 300 words seems best). Throw in a few new links. Keep things growing.
But don’t make your lens too big. If there’s more stuff to share, build another lens – and link them together.
Squidoo aims to provide its users with a pleasant search experience, where they can find all the information on a topic right there on one lens. And so, not surprisingly, Squidoo rewards lensmasters with many OUTBOUND links with a higher ranking!
Go on and link to other authority sites on your topic – including your own.
Write articles. Keep them related to the topic of your lens. Use keywords that match your Squidoo lens tags. Link the keyword in your article back to the lens. Submit articles to the various directories.
Other activities you can do to get more visibility (these are optional):
Buy text links on high PR sites.
Run banners, classified ads, or even pay-per-click ad campaigns for your lens
Do link exchange campaigns with outside websites back to your Squidoo lens.
Don’t miss ‘Digg-ing’ your lens at Digg.com – it could get some traffic boosts.
Join StumbleUpon.com and ’stumble’ your lens
Pick a news story that’s hot – and related to the topic of your lens – and send out a press release or note about your lens.
Get interviewed on radio, or for a magazine. You could even be on T.V., if you do it right!
The “CHD Social Media Challenge” is a project to spread Congenital Heart Defects awareness. There are 4 mini-tutorials and 1 firesale making up the ‘challenge’. You can join in and help too – click here to see how.
