An important aspect of successful network marketing is the ability to identify and use marketing resources that are both low cost (preferably free) and effective. If Squidoo isn't on your current list of resources, it should be. Here are seven tips on how to successfully use Squidoo in your network marketing efforts:
1. Do a good job on your Squidoo lens. Make sure you fill it with interesting and helpful content. Readers will rate your lens so give yourself every chance of receiving good ratings as they influence the amount of readers you will get.
2. Make your lens search engine friendly so that people searching on particular terms will be able to find your lens via search engines. The first step to achieving this is to do your own keyword research before even creating your lens. You can discover the most searched terms on Yahoo and Google so that you can write your content to reflect your target audience's interest. You can also check Squidoo's own tag clouds which show which words or phrases are most highly searched. Include your chosen keyword phrase in your title and add them to your lense's tags. Squidoo allows you to have forty tags per lens so it is a good idea to find keyword phrases to take advantage of all tags. This will make your lens even easier to find.
3. Don't be afraid to say you are an expert. We are all experts at something! You can sell yourself and your expertise in Squidoo's bio area. Include your photo and make sure you are using a professional username.
4. Squidoo provides a social networking opportunity so make sure you make it easy to get your readers involved. This is an important free marketing tip for Squidoo as your readers can increase your traffic by recommending your lens. Here are some great ways to get your readers interested:
- Be controversial. Don't be afraid to provoke debate or disagreement. Your aim is to get people involved.
- Utilize the Guestbook module to stimulate debate.
- Allow other people to link your lens to theirs using the Plexo module. Doing this will help your lens ranking increase while at the same time providing access to more content for your readers.
5. Update your lens regularly with new content. An easy way to keep your lens updated with new content on a daily basis is to use the RSS module. You can have your lens updated with RSS feeds from your own blog or from other blogs in order to keep the content fresh.
6. Attract return visits. One of the easiest ways to keep your readers returning to your lens is to set up an autoresponder by which you can notify them of changes. If you have your own blog you can link from it to your lens. If you guest blog you can include your lens URL in your bio information. If you comment on other people's blogs or in forums you can provide a link to your lens in your signature.
7. Take advantage of pinging and social bookmarking services. By using sites such as Only Wire and Social Poster to bookmark your lens or the RSS services of blog pinging sites such as Pingoat or Pingomatic you will be able to create back links to your Squidoo lens. This is a great way to generate traffic to your lens.
A Squidoo lens provides a wonderful opportunity to market your network marketing product, service or business. If you follow these free MLM marketing tips you will reap the rewards of a highly effective yet free strategy.
Related Articles
The Time For Micro-Blogging
By: Kevin Sinclair | 24/03/2008 | Technology
Facebook and Bebo were the social networking sites of 2007. However micro-blogging is what is in store for the year 2008. You may be asking yourself "what is micro-blogging?" And the answer to your question is that micro-blogging is a form of blogging using short texts.
I Just Don't Get It!
By: Dale A. Simmons | 28/05/2008 | Entrepreneurship
And again, unfortunately they just don't get it! If you're downline is successful, then so are you! Have you heard this statement, "throw mud against the wall and see what sticks"?. This is not what Team ProVision is all about. We are here to assist you in any way possible to assure your success!
Running for the Hills
By: Dale A. Simmons | 28/05/2008 | Entrepreneurship
The Direct Marketing and MLM businesses are thriving and thriving well. You can and will make a lot of money with the correct knowledge and tools. I must reiterate, you must have the right tools to be successful. Many successful leaders will not reveal their secrets on how they built these huge businesses. So you may be now asking yourself what are the secrets they are not telling us?
MySpace - A Social Networking Site
By: Kevin Sinclair | 17/01/2007 | Online Promotion
MySpace is a social networking website where people tell others about themselves and their interests, and interact with other members.
That Damn Box!
By: Dale A. Simmons | 09/06/2008 | Entrepreneurship
You know, if people would just realize they can achieve anything, anything at all if they would get out of that “Damn Box”. Or as I say basically “get out of your own way”.
Get Free Website Traffic With Squidoo
By: Carlos Scarpero | 20/02/2007 | SEM
One of the hottest sites to come out of the Web 2.0 phenomenon is Squidoo. If you are not building sites to Squidoo, you are missing one of the quickest and easiest ways to build free traffic for your website or blog.
Top 10 Reasons To Use Email Marketing
By: Kevin Sinclair | 09/06/2007 | Email
Ask any marketing expert and they'll tell you "the money's in the list". Email is a powerful and easy way to build a list and communicate your marketing messages to leads and customers. Here are the top 10 reasons to use email marketing.
How To Have An Internet Marketing Focus
By: Kevin Sinclair | 20/11/2007 | Internet Marketing
There is so much to learn about the complicated business of Internet marketing. How to build websites, understanding search engine optimisation, auto responders and emails are all a part of it.
Latest Internet Marketing Articles
Important Reasons to Build a Landing Page
By: Ila Bhatt | 27/07/2008
This right here should give you the biggest reason to build a lead capture page. Lead capture pages are very easy to promote. Your goal with a lead capture page is to get the name and email address of your visitor. The landing page that you build will help you do that.
Blogging Websites- Guidepost For New Bloggers
By: deepak kulkarni | 27/07/2008
I am sure your quest for blogging websites has come to an end as you read this article. Yes, gone are those days when we have to search endlessly for blogging websites information or other such information like make money blogging, popular blog, create a web log or even photo blogs.
Autoresponders - Your Most Important Marketing Tool
By: MemberSpeed, Inc. | 26/07/2008
An autoresponder service makes it easy to set up a sequence of emails to send to your subscribers on a time scale that you specify. This can be used to deliver quality content, product promotions, courses or any other material that you deem relevant to the interests of your subscribers.
Link Building: Proven Strategies for Effective Link Building
By: MemberSpeed, Inc. | 26/07/2008
Link building is a necessary part of website promotion. The only true way to have your website ranking well in the search engines is to build quality backlinks to it.
Google Adsense Dont Lay Traffic in One Basket
By: Kanwaljit Kaur | 26/07/2008
Don't lay all your eggs in one basket. If the basket breaks or gets damaged you will loose all your eggs in one shot.
Read the above sentence once again and sink it in your brain. It could probably save your internet business.
Product Review - Jimmy D.brown List and Traffic Review
By: Kelvin Lee | 26/07/2008
List and Traffic is a membership site set up by Jimmy D.Brown, a renowned internet marketer with the purpose of providing other internet marketers with list building information.
Traffic Generation Secrets - How to Drive Traffic, High Quality Traffic to Your Site Instead of Traffic That Don't Buy
By: Kelvin Lee | 26/07/2008
Congratulation, you have a great website, a very good design ebook cover as well as a very enticing salesletter. You mean you got zero sales? How could that be?
Search Engine Ranking Secrets - How to Get Your Website in the Top 10 Spot in Google Using Articles
By: Kelvin Lee | 26/07/2008
Having your site at the top ten spot of Google or Yahoo can be a real solid boost to your web traffic but the problem is how can you get into the top ten spot of Google and Yahoo.
More from Kevin Sinclair
Classical Guitar Playing - What Exactly Is It?
By: Kevin Sinclair | 27/07/2008 | Music
Classical guitar playing is what is participated in when using a classical guitar. This kind of guitar has no electronics and no pick-ups. In general it has six strings although there are some classical guitars which have twelve strings. The thinner strings known as the trebles are made from nylon and the bass strings are nylon with brass wire wrapped around them.
Training Strategies For The Best Learning Outcomes
By: Kevin Sinclair | 26/07/2008 | Training
New members of your downline will look to you for training and advice or assistance to help them get established in the business. They will be keen to succeed and highly motivated to learn. Here are some important tips to help you be effective in training your distributors.
Understanding The Connection Between Thoughts And Actions
By: Kevin Sinclair | 26/07/2008 | Advice
Your thoughts are driven by the way you feel about yourself and the level of your self-esteem, and it's these thoughts which turn into actions or deeds. The key factors of getting what you want out of life are the actions that you take. Therefore, if you are not reaching your goals and ambitions, take some time to carry out an assessment of how you actually feel about yourself.
How You Can Be Your Own Worst Enemy
By: Kevin Sinclair | 25/07/2008 | Advice
Today, we have a lot of things that we think of as our enemies; terrorists, pollution, global warming, the shrinking middle class, and many other issues are in the forefront as things that can cause us troubles. However, these are things that in many cases, we only have limited control over.
Seven Days For A Winning Edge
By: Kevin Sinclair | 24/07/2008 | Advice
We can't avoid the headlines and magazine covers sporting photographs of the rich and famous are flaunted at supermarket checkouts. Celebrities seem to live glamorous, fairy tale lives.
Crank It Up! - Industry Standards For Recording
By: Kevin Sinclair | 24/07/2008 | Music
We've all been in this situation before: you are watching a TV program when suddenly, the commercial break comes up. The commercial is much louder than the program you were watching. You turn down the volume, only to have to turn it back up once the program resumes.
Finding Hidden Freelancing Markets And Getting Clients
By: Kevin Sinclair | 23/07/2008 | Home Business
How to get new clients is something which comes up on a regular basis whether you have been in freelancing for years or you are relatively new to the business. Many freelancers spend sleepless nights worrying about the lack of new clients and try to find hidden markets in existence that they did not previously know about.
Giveaways - Do They Really Work?
By: Kevin Sinclair | 21/07/2008 | Email
Unless your computer crashed ages ago, or you have been in a coma for a very long time, you will be extremely familiar with Giveaway Events. All Internet marketers are informed that Giveaways are sure to build lists. But do they really work?
Internet 
| Posted: 26-02-2008 | Comments: 
