I made my lens,got my article submitted & accepted now what?

write more articles, rewrite them and submit to some other directories Start a free blogger blog and post to it. Ping the blog, bookmark the blog.

There is tons you can do!

the more articles you have the more traffic you will get try and write two per day for the next 30 days!

another tip is that overtime when your lense gets google traffic you will see the keyword used to find your lense in your lense stats page.

Use those keywords as article topics and blog posts to really dominate that search term

I am wondering what program you are using for your training?

It should have told you what is important, how to write the article for SEO so people will see it, and point to either your merchant site or your own site which links to your merchant site, in the case of Ezine.

And with the training I received, I was instructed to keep going. Write more articles. Find another product in your niche and write about that. Direct the reader to the merchant page. I also suggest you include the links in your article.

I hope I did not sound harsh..did not mean to, just want to be sure you have everything you need to succeed in this business.

Ping it, SquidU it, Review on SquidU--"check out my lens", add links in your articles to the lens..

Hi all,

Thanks for all the replies and advice. I am doing this on my own with the help of members on this great forum.So technically no training-just taking action!Again thank you-now off to work with me.

Deanna

Deanna, I am following your foot steps on how to do "it" myself. Thks for the question on this thread.

Hi Deanna,

Enter your keyword phrase into Google. Get the top 50 sites returned. Type your competitor's URLs into YaHoo Site Explorer and find where they are getting their backlinks from. Go there and get your own backlinks. You have to find what your competitors are doing and do it better!

Look at the domains for all of the top 50 sites competing with you. If you see something from Quizilla--go there and post something yourself. If you see something from WetPaint--go there and post something yourself. Use keyword density, LSI (don't argue), and appropriate headlines in everything you post. When you put links on your stuff to your Squidoo page (or whatever) make the words you use right before the links and after them rich in related words.

If you've got a Squidoo lens, Start every text module with the keyword phrase you are going for. Bold your keyword phrase a few times to. Make the last words in your lens your keyword phrase.

Once you publish a text module in Squidoo don't change it. You can add more text modules if you want, but Google doesn't like already indexed stuff to change much--Google is a fickle woman indeed!

If you do these things I can almost guarantee you can beat the pants off your competitors in any small to moderate niche. Also, Google will only show two sites from any domain in any search result. For example, you will never find more than two ezinearticles returned for any search result.

This is also true of Squidoo lenses like you have. Scroll through the first 5-10 pages of Google results for your search term. Are there any other Squidoo lenses showing? If so, you are going to have to "out-SEO" those two lenses to even show in Google for your search term.

If any Squidoo lenses are showing on Google for your search term--visit them and see why the hell Google likes them. Then out-do them at it and you'll get the listings you want. Google also gives some credence to the age of the sites she lists. If you are in an older, well established niche--even if your SEO is better than your competitor's--that may work against you.

Also, with newer things like Squidoo lenses, Google often gives a "honeymoon period" to them. You might show well for a week or two then drop out for a while. Be persistent. Google may do a quick crawl of your site or lens and index it, but put it in queue for a deep crawl at a more convenient time. This, with the fact that competitive sites are constantly being indexed by "G" means that even if you get your lens to show--it may bounce around a bit. Don't panic.

Also know that the things that give your lens a high ranking in Squidoo--are not at all the same things that give you a high ranking in Google.

For example, Squidoo rewards you for having lots of irrelevant modules in your site. It rewards you for having a lot of comments. It rewards you for having high star ratings. You can get a high Squidoo ranking doing those things but they don't mean jack squat to Google.

Good luck.