Squidoo Lens Creation - Squidoo is Great for SEO

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By katrinasui

Squidoo is a community website that allows users to create pages (called lenses) for subjects of interest.
Squidoo is a community website that allows users to create pages (called lenses) for subjects of interest.

Squidoo Provides a Great Platform for SEO Purpose

Squidoo is a very popular site nowadays. It is a third party blogging platform where you create lenses instead of creating blogs. They are called lens as they are focused on one narrow topic in a single page website. Squidoo lens creation is not only very easy but also free.

It provides multiple options of various modules that can help you create cool pages with attractive features in very less time for example you can integrate YouTube videos, display chosen RSS feeds, have a guestbook and lots more. Moreover, the more lens you make, more modules you unlock.

Being a third party, Squidoo provides a great platform for SEO purpose. It has the ability to create lens that will add authority to your main site as well as help you pick more traffic specially after your lens becomes popular.

You can create your very own Squidoo lens easily and quickly. All you need to do is put together some textual content, YouTube Videos and add RSS feed and there you have your lens ready to go. By creating lens keeping in mind search engine optimization, is sure to give you many returns in the long run.

While carrying out research of key words, long tail keywords should be selected. Make sure that you do not want your lens to compete with your site rather it compliments your site. While naming your lens as well as choosing URL for the lens, use that long tail keywords phrase.

While creating content module ensure to add picture in each module as without pictures it will not be attractive enough to get the attraction of the viewer. Public domain picture sites are great sources to get pictures from. While creating lens, the basic aim is to inform everyone as what is your lens about and then create main content in which you can give more details. Your content should contain at least 400 meaningful words. Make a deliberate effort to craft these words for best results.

By using html add links in your content, however make sure you do not overdo it. Carry out the survey of existing modules and once you are satisfied, go ahead to publish your lens. Although, it is easy to create lens, incorporating Squidoo marketing into your overall SEO game plan is time-consuming. There are many ways for using lenses for SEO Purposes.

One of the utility of using Squidoo lens creation is promotion of RSS feeds of related sites. For example, while building red widget on Squidoo, pull RSS feed from red widget main site, you will be creating links back to your site. Certain variations are

  • If you use RSS feed aggregator like Xfruit or Feedsite to aggregate your feeds, you can actually place this feed in your lens. Then it will pull RSS feed where so ever any site (that is aggregated) is getting updated.
  • RSS feed on Squidoo page can be used to pull RSS feed from any social bookmarking site you use such as Delicious.

Lens will gain popularity and credibility after you promote lens through link building. In turn, you will be getting referral traffic and links from that particular lens to your main site will increase manifold.

Comments

khmohsin profile image

khmohsin Level 2 Commenter 6 months ago

Yes,Squidoo is the most popular content sharing website.I have used it and made lens and familiar with all its modules.Through this hub you covered all the information.vote up. keep writing :)

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Ania L Level 4 Commenter 6 months ago

I had no idea you can unlock more modules if you write more - interesting. I guess it's time to register and give it a go. Thanks for motivation :)

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Lady_E Level 7 Commenter 6 months ago

Very interesting. I will have to admit that Squidoo has been a challenge for me. I don't even get regular payments there, there due to the "rankings" system they have. (maybe $5 every 3 months)

I joined Triond about a year after Squidoo and it's more worth my while. Payments every month plus Adsense. (I don't get Adsense from Squidoo)

I'm not putting people off Squidoo. It works for some people who are lucky to have articles that rank well. Squidoo has a good reputation. I just find it hard to crack it. I wish you well there.

Just my experience.

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rsusan Level 5 Commenter 6 months ago

You motivate me to try with Squidoo again, katrinasui. Looks like it can still be worth it. It is tough to find time for all the options out there.

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katrinasui Hub Author 6 months ago

khmohsin, thank you so much for visiting this hub. Anila, I am glad to know that you liked this hub.

Lady_E, First of all i am really thankful to you for visiting my hub. i am also using Triond and i have published many articles there. Triond is also a good website. Squidoo definitely works for those people who have high rankings of their lenses on search engines.

rsusan, You should try Squidoo. Try to write articles on topics which have low competition and easy to bring on the top of Google. Best of luck:)

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prasetio30 Level 8 Commenter 6 months ago

Very inspiring hub. I am a member of Squidoo, but I am not too active. I should come back and write more in this site. Thanks to remind and you have valuable tips here. Thanks for share with us. Rated up!

prasetio

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Bendo13 Level 6 Commenter 6 months ago

The only problem with Squidoo is that if your lens stops getting steady traffic, then eventually they tell Google not to crawl your lens anymore, your links become no follow and it's de-indexed (dropped) from the search engine results.

So if your lens is labeled as a "work in progress" it does you no good... whereas even your worst hub on HubPages will still be indexed by Google.

molometer profile image

molometer Level 8 Commenter 6 months ago

Very interesting hub on squido,

I do have an account there but have not really spent much time there.

I will have to go and have another look.

Triond? doesn't seem to work at all for me.

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katrinasui Hub Author 5 months ago

Thank you all for your kind feedback!

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parentsreview Level 3 Commenter 5 months ago

I've been reading a lot about Squidoo, but I haven't tried it, yet. Maybe it's time. Good Info!

Madurai profile image

Madurai 3 months ago

As I have declared that I am a hubber in Hubpages, squid has banned my account there..sorry to say. Thanks for SHARING:)

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