Squidoo Lens SEO Method

Why would you put your efforts to rank someone's sites instead yours? I understand that ranking a Squidoo lens is much easier than yours, this is good if you want to get some referral traffic from your lens. However, does it really worth spending all that time ranking someone's site? Remember, all that benefit is for Squidoo's owner.

Buy some good Gigs on Fiverr related to social bookmarking, web 2.0 link pyramids. If your keyword is not super-competitive then you might hit the first page with the right kind of gigs.

Stay away from mass link gigs, specially for tier 1. You may use them for tier 2.

Hi odesk, there are some things you need to do. first optimize your lens for your desired keywords,make sure the keyword is not too competitive to make it fast. After that, getting your lens index in search engine is next, make a blog post about your lens, go to google webmaster tool under health,click fetch as google,fill in the post url (the post about your squidoo lens) in the empty field and hit fetch.Your blog post as well as your lens will be indexed within 24 to 48 hours because whenever google are indexing a page they follow links on the page they are indexing.So a link of your squidoo lens on your post means google will follow the link to your lens and of course index it as well.To help your lenz rank high,you need to submit your lens to to squidoo directory,use your lens url as signature in this forum and of course bookmarking them will also help.This is a bit of work,but if your want to use your lens for backlinks then the effort is worth it.The good thing is that squidoo is an authority page and will rank better than your blog in search if your blog is still very new.

You can simply go on Fiverr and find someone who will drive traffic to that squidoo page you want to promote.
that could mean people sending traffic to it or backlinking.
but using social media definitely helps in keep the google police off your back.

(note: "google police" for anyone actually worried that they're being watch)

Social media really helps and is very important for making whatever you are promoting more worthy in google's eyes.
So get social bookmarks, signals and backlinks. it will all be beneficial and work out for your squidoo lens.

Just curious, does a level 5 Squidoo account carry more weight in the SERP's or won't Google recognize any of that (seems kind of impossible right).

Yes, Squidoo can be get to top ranking on Google with minimal compare to a domain which is not more popular. The reason is, Squidoo has more authority in terms of Google , so, our big "G" does not hesitate to give better place for it.

To drive traffic to your Squidoo lens, of course, you have to work on SEO for it. Treat is same as a webpage and start building links and make sure the content is unique and etc. From your profile, I noticed you are "certified SEO" - I thought you might have known all these before :p (Kidding)...

It is wise to drive some of your traffic to Squidoo lens to your site as well, because, in many cases, it is easy to get sales via your own webpages rather than Squidoo, the reason is, your web-designing ability is limited with modules in Squidoo, but when it comes to your own page - sky is the limit for you to covert visitor into customer.

Use Social Bookmarking along social media (FB, Twitter, Pintrest, Stumbleupon etc) on regular bases and also Blog commenting to get more quality links towards your lenses.

Aside from the nice suggestions above, I also suggest that you try to widen your Squidoo network by also dropping relevant comments to related squidoo lens.

Contrary to popular belief, it really does pay off to have a strong lensmaster profile. For example, I have a pagerank 5 lensmaster profile, and it's a whole lot easier for my Squidoo lenses to reach the first page of Google. With that said, I currently only have 3 .