squidoo query

A lot of people do strange things.

Don't imagine that all the "internet marketing advice" you see is sensible or reasonable.

Some people like building backlinks to other people's sites for them. It happens in article marketing, as well: there are people (not many, but a few) who imagine that it's a good idea to build backlinks to an article directory rather than simply to their own sites. :rolleyes:

On the contrary, it's a far from silly question: it suggests that perhaps you understand a little more than the person whose article you were reading, giving that advice. At the very least, you knew that it was right to question it.

I can't remember now, sorry (others who can remember will reply!). They keep changing the rules. This is what happens when you use websites you don't own: you're totally dependent on their changeable terms of service, policies and procedures, and you don't own and control the site yourself, and you can never tell what might happen.

I'm not suggesting that Squidoo's useless, just that you probably shouldn't be using it for any more than "a part of your backlinking strategy" (it can be good for that).

For myself, I certainly wouldn't be willing to give them previously unpublished content: I write that for my sites, not for anyone else's.

Thankyou.

If/When I start doing this it is only going to be part time as I also work full time, just not sure if I will have the time to write articles for the main site, then articles to promote the main site, then articles for squidoo and articles to promote squidoo lens.

Seems like it will take up a hell of a lot of time.

Far from it. Unlike many people would have done, you knew that the information you read in that article about building backlinks to other people's sites was, at least, "questionable", and you were absolutely right ... because that makes very little sense (even though some people do it).

I replied in detail here, so I won't repeat it all here too; hope it helps.

I would not write articles specifically for squidoo or other Web 2.0 sites/article directories at the expense of writing new quality content on your blog.

You can take your blog post and manually rewrite it to make it unique and put it on squidoo and link back to your site.

For article directories you can just re-publish it exactly as it is, but I think the Web 2.0 sites are more fussy about having the content unique.

With Web 2.0 sites, I like to get a bit of a link wheel going (to promote my main website) and have a link on various web 2.0 sites back to my website, and then link each of these web 2.0 sites together.

Kind of like:

hubpage > wordpress > blogspot > squidoo

With 2 links on each one: 1 link to your main website and 1 link to the next web 2.0 site in the wheel. Apart from the last site in the wheel, which just has a link back to your website.

And use the same keyword anchor text for all the links in the wheel and try to include that same keyword in the title of each page as well.

And then for article directories you can just re-publish your original blog post (already published on your website first) in its original form.

So don't write one-set of articles for your blog and then another set of articles for directories/web 2.0 sites. Just re-use your original blog article elsewhere (maybe with a bit of manual re-writing if a web 2.0 site) once indexed on your own site.

But, that's only the begining.

You then bookmark each page to as many bookmarking sites as possible.

And, you ping each page. I recommend Pingler.

And to really CRUSH it, you then promote the promoters by using the same system for each page in the first set.

Can you say "Outsourcing"?

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