Would you like to learn how you can use Squidoo to generate non-stop traffic to your legitimate home internet business? Squidoo is considered a social networking site, however from an internet marketing perspective, it is vastly different from other social bookmarking sites. Why are so many work at home business entrepreneurs raving about this unique leading web 2.0 property?

Why is Squidoo Different

One key difference is that Squidoo lets you sell blatantly without worrying about someone shutting you down like MySpace and a few other sites. Another unique feature of Squidoo lies in the fact that it is a social networking site for adults so if you like flashing graphics that you find in MySpace, you won’t find them here for sure. It’s a great place for grown up internet home business owners to interact and we like it this way.

Squidoo lets you create what’s called a lens, which is essentially an information portal about any topic you want. Here’s an example that I created very recently about a top rated affiliate marketing. Squidoo allows you to sign up and create as many lenses and categories as you want. You can very easily use these lenses to drive targeted traffic to your home business sites.

Once you have created your lenses and specifically targeted to your home business niche, you then start the socializing with like minded marketers on this social networking site.

The Secret To Squidoo Success

The secret to succeeding in using Squidoo is to provide good and helpful information to people in your niche who are hungry for this information. The use of a good landing page can be used effectively to drive targeted traffic to your home business opportunity. If you are already a respectable internet marketer, people will be more willing to buy an affiliate product based on your recommendation.

How To Generate Traffic Using a Squidoo Lens

1. It is vitally important to put your main targeted keyword in your lens title.

This is because lenses are pages and they can therefore rank in the search engines like your legitimate home internet business home page.

2.Choose a URL for lens with your primary keyword. Do remember this as it will help your search engine rankings too, because that URL is what you’ll link to from other places.

3.“Tag” your lens with other long tail keywords. Look for the Squidoo lens creation wizard to give you the chance to do this when you first set up your lens.

4.One of the most important things you should remember is to add an RSS feed so as to make your lens popular with search engines. There’s a Squidoo module for RSS feeds, and search engines just love that kind of unique, frequently changing content.

5.Update your lens several times a week at the minimum. You do not need to make major changes but quick and easy ones, just tweaking a little here and there and click “publish”. Although an RSS feed will help this, it is equally important that you also add hot new contents in your lens.

6.Link your related lenses to each other. This is a good technique as it is known to be a good traffic building tip. You also build more links and more links means more visitors which ultimately give you higher ranking for your Squidoo lenses.

7.When Squidoo masters recommend you to create many lenses, they actually meant create more specialized lenses based on long tail keywords in your niche. As you would already have a list of your keywords for your niche, you should start to dominate them. If you have a lens on work at home business, for example, you could create a more specialized lens called “Work At Home Business For Retirees”.

8.Use your lens like it’s your blog and link to your legitimate home internet business sites. This is such an easy yet powerful technique. Search engines love Squidoo and so links from a high-ranking lens to your work at home business site can really boost your traffic.

9.Remember that Squidoo is firstly a social networking site so get sociable by visiting other internet marketer’s lenses to give comments on their guest book. This also gets you one way links which generate traffic for you too.

10. Now, the trick to Squidoo is to not only have proper keywords in your lens, but to add many keywords to your lens. If your lens sells a product, more traffic translates to more sales. You can check out what keywords people are typing in search engines to arrive at your lens and easily add those keywords to your list

11. Here is the final secret you can use. Make your lens useful. One good way to make your lens useful is to present your information as “how-to” lesson within your topic. This helps you build a good lens and your audience finds what they are looking for easily.

What’s your opinion?

I am sure you may have other squidoo success tips that you’ve used which helped your squidoo rank or there were other good techniques you tried which you found to work well for you. Do share it here so that we can learn from you.

It may take you some time to get used to creating your squidoo lenses, but most people find it easy to learn while others get hooked on in creating interesting lenses to promote their home business opportunities. For something which you can learn easily and is free, loved by Google, and can bring lots of targeted traffic to your work at home business sites, it’s no wonder many people just love Squidoo and can’t stop creating lenses and having so much fun just making them.

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