Need to further boost my Squidoo lens in Google Search...

[Genycis]

Hello Warriors,

I wanted to inquire from you all, as to what you thought or recommended to be the best "mass backlinking" option I could choose based on your experiences, for a Squidoo lens. Let me explain before the "Mass backlinking" backlash is replied. Lol, I know Google evoked the massive Penguin of Death. However, when I mean "Mass Backlinking" I mean options that may help generate 10 backlinks a day or something reasonable for a period of a few days or so. Maybe a Fiverr gig you bought that was well worth it for you without spamming the masses of 1000's of backlinks?

Anyhow, I ask because this is my scenario regarding my Squidoo lens. I chose a particular keyword to use for a Squidoo lens that I've made. I added a few affiliate links within this lens throughout the lens itself.

Since putting it up in February, the lens has recently made it to Page 1 in Google as the 5th ranked site. However, as of the last couple of days, it has slowly been dropping to #7 and now #8.

The keyword itself, is a high competition keyword netting (per Google keyword tool search) roughly 12,000 searches a month as Exact. And to be able to make it to Page 1 of Google for this keyword was shocking to me! I actually made a few CB sales within the last month (two over the last couple of days) as a result.

So, my question is this: What is the best recommended options to help jolt this lens from #8 on Page 1, to maybe #3 if not #1?

The pages ahead of me when I do a Google search, are two Youtube videos as #1 and #2, and then 5 other sites in between, one which is a PR3, another a PR2, and the rest (per SEOQuake) which are PR:0 sites with no Alexa rankings at all.

I'm sure that my lens can at least crawl up to #4 possibly. And I've been posting the link here and there via FB and Twitter. However, oddly enough, it climbed up in the ranks on its own as I didn't do much promoting of this lens not even thinking it could climb up to where it is now.

However, now that it is where it's located, I am wanting to try to get it to #1 or at least #3 or #4 if possible.

Any help is greatly appreciated regarding suggestions towards getting this further up in the search rankings before it potentially drops.

Thanks in advance!!

[williamk]

I recommend that you try out some of the scrapebox blasts from the WF forum services section. That should give you some good backlinks and some decent amount of views.

[Charanjit]

Personally I would stay away from the scrapebox spam, if you are all ready on the first page then you need to do some work to push it back up, I would try fivver, firstly try edu back link pyramid with a generic anchor text i.e home / site / website / www.squdioo.com . Now even thu the spam filters are set higher with d authority, do you really want to take the chance with spam links with 0 to nothing link juice. If I was you I would try find guest blogging posts related to the keyword, play the numbers game, if you email 100 you are bound to get 1% and that 1 pr4 or higher related link would be worth say 100k scrapebox spam links, scrapebox is a great tool if used right, i.e the live / indexed checker is good and the Manuel posting is great but the auto spammer only good for getting link juice to tier 4/5 links i.e helps them get indexed.

[seoace]

Backlinking a Squidoo lens is no different than backlinking your own TLD site.

Its just the same except a Squidoo lens can take more links than your normal 2 months old website.

If you got some balls, do a Scrapebox blast with <100 OBL to your site with constant link velocity.

OR if you want to play it safe, get some web 2.0 backlinks to your site and the maybe some other links which I don't want to reveal here.

and btw, I would weigh backlinks to the page more than PR.

[redtaksaka]

First thing first: Edit and add-up some more content to your Squidoo lense! Because you want to make "impression" to google bot that your page has new information in it. Than..

1. Make 3-5 more Squidoo lenses that linking back to your primary lense. There are fiverr gigs for this service.
2. Make 6-8 web2.0 blogs, again, linking back to your primary lense. There are also fiverr gigs for this if you're too "busy" to make 6 spokes. Just ask the seller for the username & password, and add more articles. Because I found it that a free blog with 6-10 articles in it carry more weight.
3. Now, get a SB blast or wiki blast gig (I shamelessly add the "Wiki blast option" since I offer this kind of service at fiverr, if you know what I mean *smirk) to blast all the spokes and other lenses (not your primary lense).

Well, those steps work wonder for my lenses and articles so far. Tell me how you finally decided to backlinks your lense.

Red

[aaron86]

I recommend to use white hat method of back links for better ranking and look natural in Google's eyes.

[Genycis]

Hello all, thank you all for the suggestions. I appreciate it.

I actually did wind up adding a new module to my lens for another paragraph, and made it of course focus on the keyword that I had been using on all the modules within the lens as well. I'm guessing that's what helped me to rank to begin with to my surprise, given the high competition for the keyword I was using.

I have since also been tweeting it again a bit and using Ping.fm (while it's open) to send a message with URL to my sites. Hoping that will help. Had thought about using Onlywire but wasn't sure how that'd play (I wish they didn't change the plans to what they are now).

I also actually paid for a Fiverr gig that will send my lens URL and description to a few social bookmarking sites within a 7 day timeframe so hopefully that will also look like slow building rather than spam links.

I don't intend on using anything that blasts the masses with 300+ links in 24 hours at all, even if it is a Squidoo lens versus my own website. I am crossing my fingers and hoping it to climb up to the #1 spot or at worst, #5, as it was on 6 or 7 and giving me decent traffic and two affiliate sales as well as a result.

I'm not even going to mess with Scrapebox as I don't know anything about it and don't want to pay someone to SB it and me not know whether they did it properly or not and make my lens disappear forever. lol!

I thank you all again for your suggestions. If there are any further suggestions, by all means, feel free to share them. Thanks again!

[JSProjects]

Originally Posted by williamk

I recommend that you try out some of the scrapebox blasts from the WF forum services section. That should give you some good backlinks and some decent amount of views.

I'd say to be a little careful about this. Both Squidoo and Hubpages seem to be pretty notorious for shutting down accounts that use mass backlinking techniques.

[Genycis]

Originally Posted by JSProjects

I'd say to be a little careful about this. Both Squidoo and Hubpages seem to be pretty notorious for shutting down accounts that use mass backlinking techniques.

Thanks for the warning JSP, I wasn't intending on going that route anyhow as I don't want anything that looks like 100+ backlinks built in one 24 hour span or even something like 1000 backlinks within a week's time. I do want it as natural as possible and as related to the topic and category of my niche and content as possible as well.

Good to k now though about that as I didn't know they were notorious for shutting down accounts due to that. Thanks for the heads up.

[daisy172]

Before you go making external backlinks to your Squidoo lens, make sure you have taken advantage of their internal linking. Squidoo has a lot of strong internal pages that you can leverage to rank your lens higher in the SERPs.

Here's a pretty good checklist of things to try (scroll down to where they talk about internal linking on Squidoo):

Making money with Squidoo

[Genycis]

Daisy, thank you for the information, I appreciate it. I've done some of what's on there but the forum I had no idea about, SquidU. I joined it today and will look to be active on that forum so as to build some possible links that way as well. I've been commenting on and liking people's lenses, as well as making sure my lensmaster profile was in tact as well. Thanks again!

[krenisis]

Originally Posted by aaron86

I recommend to use white hat method of back links for better ranking and look natural in Google's eyes.

Hahaha the same generic advice over and over. Iam surprised you didnt use the word " organic".

[Genycis]

Well, just like that... in a day or two (and mind you, I didn't even do any mass backlinking or black hat link building or anything of that nature), I went from the #6 / #7 spot, to #21 and it hasn't moved back up at all. Oh well, guess that ship has sailed. Hoping the Fiverr gig I opted for will help, though now it seems like it won't at all. It was nice while it lasted for the short time that it did. lol. Don't know what else I can do to get it back on page 1 now... seems like Google officially had it set sail away from the page 1 docks. lol

[skeffling]

Do you have all 40 tags filled out for it with overall niche, and keyword phrases? Think of those as 40 internal links. If you want to populate them quickly, use the free Squid Utils browser add on program at the url of the same name, I can't post links yet here as a newbie . I always fill in all 40 and recommend others to, with relevant tags. Most of my product articles are at least PR3 and I do negligable back linking.

[platnumcn]

It's easy and best way is try to get real and relable traffic from others, if all the people here click my signature, you will see my site rank will have a huge boost, you are in the same way. Why not leave your wite in signature to let us know.

[Logan Sargent]

There's definitely some good advice here, let me recap the most important ones plus add to it:

1) Internal linking. The PR you can suck up from getting listed in category pages is huge. Also getting the sidebar links from related lenses can make a significant impact. Commenting on other people's high PR lenses can funnel PR through your lensmaster page back to your lenses.

2) Relevancy. Check "related searches" for a keyword in Google and tie some of those into your module headings which will end up being your h2 tags. Don't have have module title s just be the exact keywords, but stick them in the middle of a sentence.

3) Don't over do it on tags. 15-20 should be fine, and avoid underutilized tags. Install the SquidUtils "Workshop Addon" for browsers and check the color coding of your tags. Go to the Squidoo tag directory and find frequently used tags. "dir.squidutils.com". Use larger tags from the cloud in your category (as long as they're relevant). Don't use read tags and stick towards the green.

4) There's a million approaches to linkbuilding, but linking with other web 2.0 properties is a "safe" quick bet. Squidoo already has authority, you don't need to blast it to see results. You probably just need to optimize your on-page seo better.

5) Consistent buzz signals via the social widget will help push you up to the top and help keep you there.

6) Consider modifying your title tag to get improved click through rate from the serp page. The more clicks you get, the more relevant Google thinks your page is for that search queiry, and you'll start to get some positive movement from that as well.

7) Link to other lenses and link out to related, but non-competing authority pages. You can even disguise these links by changing the styling of them to match the color of the rest of the body text and and applying an inline style attribute of "text-decoration:none" to these links.

[JSProjects]

Originally Posted by Genycis

Well, just like that... in a day or two (and mind you, I didn't even do any mass backlinking or black hat link building or anything of that nature), I went from the #6 / #7 spot, to #21 and it hasn't moved back up at all. Oh well, guess that ship has sailed. Hoping the Fiverr gig I opted for will help, though now it seems like it won't at all. It was nice while it lasted for the short time that it did. lol. Don't know what else I can do to get it back on page 1 now... seems like Google officially had it set sail away from the page 1 docks. lol

Could just be dancing around a bit. Where are you now? (About a week later.)

[LilBlackDress]

If you have optimized the lens like Logan suggests (proper tags, commenting on other lenses etc.) and the lens needs some backlinking, slow and steady can be helpful.

Bookmarking, article directories, web2.0 will go a long way. Also submit the feed to aggregators and take advantage of the places that allow you to promote lenses in the link Daisy shares.

[fazamania]

Originally Posted by Logan Sargent

There's definitely some good advice here, let me recap the most important ones plus add to it:

1) Internal linking. The PR you can suck up from getting listed in category pages is huge. Also getting the sidebar links from related lenses can make a significant impact. Commenting on other people's high PR lenses can funnel PR through your lensmaster page back to your lenses.

2) Relevancy. Check "related searches" for a keyword in Google and tie some of those into your module headings which will end up being your h2 tags. Don't have have module title s just be the exact keywords, but stick them in the middle of a sentence.

3) Don't over do it on tags. 15-20 should be fine, and avoid underutilized tags. Install the SquidUtils "Workshop Addon" for browsers and check the color coding of your tags. Go to the Squidoo tag directory and find frequently used tags. "dir.squidutils.com". Use larger tags from the cloud in your category (as long as they're relevant). Don't use read tags and stick towards the green.

4) There's a million approaches to linkbuilding, but linking with other web 2.0 properties is a "safe" quick bet. Squidoo already has authority, you don't need to blast it to see results. You probably just need to optimize your on-page seo better.

5) Consistent buzz signals via the social widget will help push you up to the top and help keep you there.

6) Consider modifying your title tag to get improved click through rate from the serp page. The more clicks you get, the more relevant Google thinks your page is for that search queiry, and you'll start to get some positive movement from that as well.

7) Link to other lenses and link out to related, but non-competing authority pages. You can even disguise these links by changing the styling of them to match the color of the rest of the body text and and applying an inline style attribute of "text-decoration:none" to these links.

Thanks for your tips.