Squidoo Lenses are a super-easy way to create a basic website with lots of backlinks to your websites, videos, articles and other projects. You can create Squidoo Lense at http://www.squidoo.com.
The site can be a little confusing at first, so here are 8 tips to get you started, a little beginner tutorial Squidoo:
- Use a good article as the main content – it could be a variation of an article you’ve already submitted to Ezine Articles or other article submission software.
- Use photos or other pictures – they should be royalty free photos to which you’ve bough the rights, for example from Istock Photo. Otherwise you can get royalty free photos from Wikipedia or Flickr.
- Add an RSS feed for another one of your websites or blogs to add additional content and create backlinks to your sites.
- Add a video from your YouTube Channel where appropriate – this creates additional content and increases the views of your video if your Squidoo lense gets lots of traffic.
- Do not mention any topics that are forbidden on Squidoo, these include debt, finances, sex, and more. Check the Squidoo Terms and Conditions to be sure.
- Make use of the “health” button at the top of the page as this will give you some clues to improve your lense while you create it.
- Don’t forget to add links back to your blog by adding in
< a href="http://yourdomain.com" > keyword < /a>
There is no obvious way to add links but using the html code works after you hit the publish button.
- Add tags that relate your keywords in the right hand column.
What are your favourite Squidoo Lenses Tips? Leave a comment below