Creating a Squidoo Lens
Squidoo is a Web 2.0 platform that allows the user, you and me, to put together pages of content similar to other sites such as MySpace, Face Book and Blogger. You are able to build up a profile and market your products without getting in trouble for spam. Over at Squidoo these profiles are called lenses.
Within the lens you will find there are different modules available for you to use to add your content to the platform.
There are many Modules available such as a Guestbook, Poll, RSS Feed, etc.
Modules are just the different ways you can add content in an easy click here and there kind of way.
Now why Squidoo..??
Search Engine’s love Squidoo and Squidoo has a good PR.
It is very easy to get first page results on Google targeting Long-Tail Keywords.
The Search Engines love this kind of Web 2.0 site and any that produce quality content.
Creating a Lens
Get over to Squidoo.com and join as a new member. Choose to create a Lens and follow the steps outlined below.
Step 1. “My Lens Is About” - Follow the on screen instructions over at Squidoo and make sure you target your Long-Tail keywords.
Step 2. “What do you want to do with lens” - just follow on screen instructions
Step 3. “Title and URL” Create your own title and URL - Think headlines, benefit and curiosity. Make sure you include keywords
Step 4. “Add more Keywords” - Put more related Long-Tail keywords in there
Step 5. You now are met with a blank canvass - Click on Introduction Module and click edit. Here you ad the Lens title and description.
Step 6. Click on add modules. There are plenty of different modules you can add from this section, all self explanatory.
Click the add button and your modules will be added to the lens ready for editing.
For example you could add a RSS Module and have articles from your Blog refreshing every 6 hours or from any other URL.
Creating a Squidoo Lens is all about content. If the content isn’t up to scratch then your lens won’t be read.
The content MUST relate to you Keywords.
The idea of the Lens is to get traffic to it and then onto your other links within the Lens.
Task -
1. Choose Long Tail keyword found during the research undertaken in Task 1 Week 1 (Less than 40,000 competing results)
Keywords that make sense
2. Register Account over at www.squidoo.com
3. Include the following links within your lens
Lee-McIntyre.com
ProjectNewWeb.com
LeeMcIntyreNewsletter.com
MentoringWithLee.com
MailingListsUnleashed.com
FreeMarketingClassroom.com
StandingStartProfits.com
A brief introduction to your lens (include your keyword phrase once)
A guestbook
An article - select an article that you wrote for a previous task but didn’t submit as part of the submit an article task
An RSS feed module to Lee-McIntyre.com
A recommendation (if you think it’s deserved) to join the freemarketingclassroom.com.
A call to action to download Six Months of Magic (this is the free download at standingstartprofits.com
Long-Tail keyword to target - “Make money online at home work from home on the internet”
Searched 29 times a day and has 892 competing sites
SQUIDOO LOCATION -
http://www.squidoo.com/Making-Money-Online-at-Home_Work-from-Home-on-the-Internet
(Week 3 Task 2 of Intern Program)
