Google loves Squidoo. You can get a high ranking on Google with a well written Squidoo lens by placing important keywords that you wish to target within your lens. A Squidoo lens allows you to provide content to your reader, with pictures and other widgets to make it more interesting. So with content-driven Squidoo lens, how can you make sure that it ranks on page 1 of Google for keywords that you have targeted?
To make sure that your lens gets into first page of Google, you need to insert your keywords in important places within a lens. First of all, your keyword should appear in the URL of your lens. This is an extremely important area and you cannot afford to not put your most important keyword here.
Next, you make sure that your keywords appear in the titles within your lens. In your first paragraph, write content related to the product that you are promoting and do not forget to insert keywords within the content to make it relevant to Google. You should always bold your important keywords so that the spider from Google will give more importance to them.
As long as your content is well written and with keywords strategically placed, your lens is on the way to rank high on Google. However, work does not stop here. To ensure that your lens gets into first page of Google, you need to focus on your link popularity too.
What you can do is to visit other Squidoo lens that have content similar to your lens and write comments on them. Your comments should provide links back to your lens. You should also submit your lens to various social bookmarking sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit. If you want to generate even more back links, you can write articles about the topic written in your lens. For every article that you have written, place a link in the Author Resource Box and point back to your Squidoo lens. This will help to get more back links for your lens.
Once you have mastered on how to get your Squidoo lens to get into first page of Google, you will be able to drive tons of targeted traffic to it. Within your lens, you should place various call-to-action statements to entice your readers to click on your affiliate links.
Squidoo is definitely a great marketing tool that all affiliate marketers should master. It is free after all, and the traffic that it brings to your merchant's sales page may bring you affiliate sales years down the road.
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