Steps For Creating Squidoo Lens

It's really easy. Just sign up and follow the wizard. Maybe if you do one for yourself first it will give you a bit of practice, it doesn't take long to make them if you have some content ready to use.

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I think the experts have laid bare to you no need for futher tips

Some basic tips: You need to have about three 300 word text modules before your lens will be "live". Less than that and you will get a message saying it is under construction. There are two things I consider: What Squidoo wants to give your lens a good Squidoo ranking (so it shows up at the top of the list when people search there for your keywords), and what Google wants for it to show up well in the Google rankings. They do not want the same things!

Your lens will get a higher ranking on Squidoo the more junk you throw in. In addition to your text modules Squidoo likes YouTube video modules, RSS feeds from blogs, link lists, Flicker photos (not sure if they still have that module), "duel" modules, etc. You will see those modules listed when you build your lens. The more of this stuff you have, the better your rankings will be IN SQUIDOO.

Huge, huge tip: Squidoo won't say this, but one of the largest factors in getting your lens a high ranking on Squidoo is the number of "star ratings" people give you at the top of your lens. If you can get 8-10 people to give you a 4-5 star rating, I can almost guarantee you will get to the very top of the search results for your keywords.

Caution: People "game" Squidoo here. I know they do and I have turned them in for this--I won't detail this but you can figure it out. I have seen lenses with dozens and dozens of 5-star ratings and they have absolutely horrible lenses, no subscribers, no friends, and no comments. You can figure that one out yourself. These scum-monkeys game the system and it pisses a lot of honest affiliates using Squidoo off big time. Dont' do that--you will get caught.

But do suggest to visitors that they rate your lens before clicking out. Just a few good ratings will shoot your lens ranking up a lot.

I can't verify this, but I believe that having comments posted to your lens helps your lens ranking on Squidoo too. Also, joining a lot of groups will get your lens exposure and thus visitors. Don't try to game this either--I know what you are thinking and you will get caught!

I shoot for a keyword density of about 3.2% and that seems to work well for Google. Vary the anchor text in any affiliate links you include. if you have a dozen links going out to the same affiliate product you promote, don't have each one use the product name of the anchor text. Use a little variation.

Possible Good Tip: I am experimenting with this so don't accept it as gospel, but on a few lenses I have intentionally created an outgoing link or two to high authority sites like MSNBC, NBC, Reuters, etc. I try to find an article on one of these sites related tangentally to the product I am promoting.

Some people would argue this technique, but Google likes to provide searchers with quality content and I believe that including a link or two to a high authority site like I mentioned makes Google believe you are providing visitors with pathways to more relevant content. This seems to work for me, but I do not have sufficient data to make it statistically valid yet. But you might try it and see what you think. Don't overdo it because too many outbound one-way links can drain PR away from you.

NOTE ON LINKS: Links you put in your text and in your profile are DOFOLLOW on Squidoo so they can get you some Google love, i.e. link juice. You have to use HTML for the links (the href thingie) for them to be active. If you just type a link in, it will simply show the way you type it and it won't be clickable.

Links in comments are NOFOLLOW to prevent mulch-sucking spammers from posting.

Oh, I came close to having a nervous breakdown when I started on Squidoo. I don't like to read directions, so I had this problem. If you try to upload images from your site to your lens make sure they are .jpg format. Squidoo won't take .png images and it took me actually reading the directions to learn that the hard way. Don't know about other formats, but .png's won't load.

Sorry, I'm a rambling, Boorish, poster tonight. It will be my undoing!