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Squidoo - Backlinking Advice, Please!

by Neoglitch
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Hi there fellow warriors! Thanks for passing by.

I want to ask you advice on the following: I have a killer Squidoo lens that I want to rank for certain keywords (If it helps, the main keyword I want to rank for has 33,100 GMS and 400K+ results using the "intitle: inanchor:" test).

I was able to rank one of my lenses on first page for a 480 GMS keyword by just building backlinks myself (primarily by blog commenting), but for a 33,100 GMS keyword... I will need "professional" help. That is, I want to outsource the linkbuilding of my lens.

I've always heard "no no no, rank your OWN domain, not articles or Squidoo lenses!", but in this case I believe ranking the lens is a good option. A lens works very similarly to a sales page: Only one page, scroll down, very few distractions. The difference is that I try to provide very valuable content through the lens, while recommending an off-site guide (which is the one that gives me aff-commissions!).

With that said... guys, do you recommend a specific service for someone in my situation (wanting to rank a recently-created Squidoo lens)? Maybe on a thread here on the WarriorForum? Or maybe through a specialized website?

I was thinking about using a service at SubmitEdge, where they create 100 articles with links to your site for US$20; it looks like a serious and quality place, but I'm afraid of being surprised with the "uhhh, sorry we don't backlink to Squidoo lenses" thing. I was also thinking about using someone in Fiverr, but all I see is a bunch of "we'll create 33K links to your site using Xrumer, YEAHZ" gigs... and I DON'T want my lens to get de-indexed for years to come!! xD But oh well, what else would you expect for $5?

People, what service (or maybe thread here in the WF) do you recommend? Have you used one yourself? Have you seen good results? I'd like to use a service that implements gradual link generation (which is 10-20 new links every day instead of a blast of 10K in a couple of hours). There is just so MANY options out there... and I want to spend the very few bucks that I have in a good quality service.

Well... thanks for reading!
#advice #backlinking #squidoo
  • Profile picture of the author Alan Eight
    Hi Neo,

    Prior to Feb 24th, I had a great deal of success using Unique Article Wizard to get my ezine and articlesbase articles to rank well on google. But after Feb 24th the vast majority of my articles lost their top rankings.

    But I did build a few lenses along the way and used UAW to rank them up as well. To be honest, before I read your post, I had not thought to check to see where they were ranking......I checked and some of them are still on page 1 for their targeted keywords! But their combined total revenue was only 70 cents.

    Good luck with your lens making.

    Hope this helps,

    Alan
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  • Profile picture of the author hzwill
    I just set up a blog three days ago.

    And I did nothing about back links except Ezinearticle submision and a suidoo lens.

    This is my first try, I don't know if it works.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Agency
    Good idea!
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    • Profile picture of the author Neoglitch
      Originally Posted by SEO Agency View Post

      Good idea!
      What? What is a good idea?
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  • Profile picture of the author Sojourn
    Neoglitch - It's not so much the number of searches that determine the amount and quality of backlinking you'll need to your lens but more the strength of the competition on the first page. You may already be aware of the distinction but I didn't want to assume that was the case and then have you spend more time and money than was necessary to rank your lens.

    I use Squidoo regularly and for various reasons so I can relate to your thinking that it might suit you best in this particular situation as compared to doing your own site. Only you can - and should - make that decision for yourself.

    As for specific services, I'd hate to point out one or two and have missed others that I just haven't used but would be as worthy. You might want to cruise through the review section in WF and see what comes up. That might be why you're getting rather empty responses.
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  • Profile picture of the author JustSomeWarrior
    I think that this is a fantastic idea. I would definitely use blog comments. My gut reaction was to use BMR, but that's not gong to work for squidoo lenses. You could definitely post links to a place like good blogs, triond, and article marketing sites.

    If I had to do this project on my own, I would use those three: comments, triond/good blogs, article marketing sites.

    I would find the article marketing sites that allow me to submit duplicate content. I would write unique posts for triond/good blogs, and submit them. When they are approved, I would then submit them to as many article marketing sites as possible to get the back links.

    The commenting I would do manually as opposed to through something like comment kahuna.

    Good luck, I'll keep an eye on this thread to see what you learn, as I really think this is a good way to make some cash without needing to buy domains!
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    • Profile picture of the author Sojourn
      Originally Posted by JustSomeWarrior View Post

      I think that this is a fantastic idea. I would definitely use blog comments. My gut reaction was to use BMR, but that's not gong to work for squidoo lenses.
      You actually can use BMR with Squidoo. I forget the BMR verbiage but it is an allowed domain. I am in the process of testing how well BMR posts help boost my Squidoo lenses right now and have had the domain linked to my BMR account for a month or so. (No results yet but I have started to put up a few posts pointing to my lenses.)

      Unless you meant you already know whether or not BMR has any impact on rankings of Squidoo lenses? You might be able to save me some time..
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  • Profile picture of the author clever7
    You don’t need to spend money in order to get more traffic.

    Create many lenses about similar topics and get traffic from Squidoo, from the Discovery Tool.

    Learn more about this matter at this lens:

    http://www.squidoo.com/passive-income-website-traffic-squidoo-beginners-guide

    Be a regular member at the Squidu forum, post your lenses, and leave many comments in various lenses (not related to your topic). Your lenses will also get many comments from many lensmasters. Answer to these comments when they are not merely a ‘Thank you’, and Ping your lens each time you have a new comment.

    Another good traffic generating method is answering questions at Yahoo answers and Quora, and posting your lens’ link as a complementation of your answer.
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  • Profile picture of the author inhwanie
    I haven't seen someone trying to build backlinks to their squidoo lenses as much as people who try to use the lens to build backlinks to their domain sites but if you insist on doing so there's backlink services you can find easily on fiverr.com or on the WF if you're looking for higher PR backlinks
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  • Profile picture of the author kevinw1
    Er - no distractions on Squidoo? Squidoo pages have about as many distractions as you can fit on one page without it exploding
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    • Profile picture of the author Neoglitch
      Oki doki...

      @Alan Eight:       Unique Article Wizard... yes, that's a good way of getting backlinks, as long as you create the article yourself and carefully power-spin it yourself... and submit it to good directories. I was thinking about getting The Best Spinner... but for now I think paying for an Article Marketing service would be good. Hehe, 70 cents? From Squidoo itself that's not rare, but I'm monetizing with an affiliate offer, which is not linked to a Squidoo module.

      @hzwill: Uhm... well, keep building backlinks. Try some blog commenting; it has worked really well for me.

      @SEO Agency: So... "ranking a Squidoo lens" is the great idea? Most people would frown to that because "ranking somebody else's domain is nonsense, even if your content is in there!"... but meh, I don't have enough cash for hosting and a domain name yet, so I think a lens is a good solution.

      @Sojourn (Erica?):       I know, for actually ranking the most important thing is to analyze the strength of your competition. That is why I mentioned that for the "intitle: inanchor:" test for my keyword there were 400K+ results... a freaking lot, but I'm determined to rank for that keyword, even if it takes several months.

      Also, I think I might lurk a bit more in the review section, or maybe even create a thread in there. Thanks for the good advice!

      @JustSomeWarrior: Yes, that's what I've been doing too: Comments, article marketing AND also Q&A marketing in Yahoo Answers!. Although I'm totally unfamiliar to BMR, good blogs and triond... I will check those sites out. The thing is that for this keyword... there's only so much I can do during the day, which is why I'm seriously considering a backlinking service.

      Thanks for the encouragement, man! Although I don't agree that this is a "quick" way to make cash. Ranking a lens by yourself can take several months; I know because I managed to rank one, and I've already made my first 3 sales (yay!)

      @clever7: Good ideas! Before posting in this thread I've commented in other people's lenses, I have my discovery tool activated, and I recently joined SquidU and spotlighted my lens (I should try to be more active there!). I also use Yahoo Answers! to give advice to people in that niche and also point them to the lens, or an article that points to the lens.

      However... traffic from Squidoo alone will never cut it. Any successful lens (and page) has traffic coming from several different sources, primarily SEO traffic =D Thanks for the link and your ideas!

      @inhwanie: I only checked a bit, but form what I saw at Fiverr it's just a bunch of people offering 1k, 10k, even 33k link pyramids made using Xrumer for 5 bucks... which is just plain black-hat and can be damaging for your site. As for the WF I saw a post by "mattlaclear", where he guarantees an eventual one-page ranking for your page/site for $99... if that promo doesn't end soon, and I manage to get the money before it does, I think I will take that service. He seems to be one of the "good guys" xD

      @kevinw1: =_= ... I know, I know! xD ads at the top and the very bottom, and the right bar is full with ads, related lenses, spotlighted products and what not... but you can un-clutter it a bit by opting out of the ads, turning the discovery tool off and not spotlighting anything...

      Ok yes I admit it, it HAS potential distractions, but what I LOVE about Squidoo is the "content customization": You can have text modules, video modules, polls, images hosted at imageshack... well yes, you can do this in your own site too, but I love how everything can be neatly organized using the modules! I prefer to use Squidoo than a Blogger blog or Hubpages for that reason.
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