Is squidoo.com really worth the effort to promote my site?

[affiliatetools]

I just start a lens a month ago and it rank well at google for the keyword at choose it and you can take the rest in this forum at this thread:
3892-squidoo-affiliate-marketing-2.html.

[john238]

I have never used this Squidoo, but by the sounds of it, if you have to do alot of work then I would guess that if you done the same amount of work on your site then overall you would have done better by doing your site than Squidoo. It's hard enough promoting a website than helping to promote other sites that you don't own just so you can gain a little extra traffic from it.

I could be wrong as I have never tried it.

[myfreeforum]

Hi,

I really only takes a couple of minutes to make a Lens - that's the thing. I don't see it really sending traffic to your other sites. In fact, you really need to give it a couple of links from somewhere. However, as has already been stated, I do see it getting indexed. I see lenses sort of like article submissions. The main payoff is not really in traffic most of the time, but indirectly through getting indexed and sending SE love to the other places you have indexed.

Ha Ha. I did make .26 from my Squidoo page.

[david788]

I used Squidoo..it worked on about 1/12 lenses sending me regular
but small traffic.

Worth at least investigating...

[john238]

I guess Squidoo is only any good if you have time to spare. I have never really had much time to look into Squidoo.

[John Guanzon]

Squidoo is a great weapon for those affiliates that learn how to use it.

The trick is to build a lens around an affiliate product with a high keyword density and your affiliate links attached.

What happens is that the Google and other search engines LOVE lenses and rank them high, very quickly.

If you got in the habit of throwing up a lens when new affiliate programs launch you could be sitting pretty very shortly in the search engines (usually spot 1,2,and 3) for each of those programs.

You haven't missed the boat on this one as high lens rank isn't the goal behind those who know it's true value. It's what it how easily it ranks in the search engines.

Another little tip is making one for your blog and making sure that a blog feed is active on your lens too as it will bring your blog listing up too.

[andrewwee]

Using a Squidoo lens depends on your overall strategy.

I'd say to have a concrete traffic and lead gen in place.

All these pieces - MySpace, CraigsList, MyBlogLog, Friendster, Hi5, Squidoo are just a tiny piece of the puzzle.

You need to have your sales funnel in place and know how you're going to direct traffic to an opt-in, collect leads, then follow up aggressively with them to get a sales conversion.

The trick to squidoo is to incorporate RSS feeds so the content is constantly being refreshed regularly...a big plus in Google's eyes.

I've tried articles, squidoo, linked in, myspace... all these pale in comparison to have a high authority blog. it basically just overshadows whatever else you might have out there...

[Firefly Wings]

If you write read-worthy lenses, then Squidoo will definitely help you hit the spot.

[psp]

These days as the SQUIDOO is being spammed, all the lenses lost its SERP in the google.