Squidoo Web Pages
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Squidoo web pages provides one of the easiest ways to publish Internet web pages. Squidoo is described by Wikipedia as ” a community website that allows users to create pages (called lenses) for subjects of interest. “. Lenses are much like blog posts, except they’re on a single subject. Squidoo currently has more than 1.5 million lenses on different subjects.
Squidoo can be considered as a good alternative to blogging and has the advantage of allowing you to publish free web pages without any need of having to purchase your own domain.
Squidoo provides everyone with the ability to create a free web page that can be used to discuss any topic. Squidoo web pages (or lenses) are all hosted on Squidoo.com and are complete free to use. Moreover SEO is built in and is very easy to update for your lens. This built-in SEO is one of the biggest reasons why you often see Squidoo lenses near the top of search engine search results.
Another advantage is that it allows you to enter affiliate links in your lenses and has also some specialized sections for Amazon and Ebay.
How to Create Squidoo Web Pages (lenses)
Creating a quality Squidoo Lens can be done in just a few hours and is normally easier than other website development software like WordPress or Joomla. As an example we show you below how to build a Squidoo Lens. We’ll build a Lens around the topic of Website Design & Development. Follow the steps below and you’ll have your own Squidoo Lens up and running in no time!
Step 1. Determine the topic for your Lens– Let’s go with a topic of “Making Your Website Tablet Ready”
Syep 2. Title Your Page– Add a Title to your Lens, setup your URL, and fill out the topic and sub-topics for your Lens. This improves the SEO for your Lens and helps people find your Lens when searching both through Google (and other search engines) and searching through Squidoo.com.
Step 3 Add Tags to Your Page– Create 3 main tags for your Lens so that people can find it when searching. This is part of the built-in SEO.
Step 4. Configure the “Earn Money” Settings– As I mentioned above, you can make money through ads and affiliate links on your lens. You can either turn this on or off and, if you decide to make money with your Lens you must also decide if you want to keep your earnings or donate it to charity.
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Step 5. Start building your Squidoo Lens. You can use modules(building blocks) to add different kind of contents to your Lens. There are modules for everything you can think of. A few examples are:
Step 6. Add Tags– Squidoo allows you to add even more “tags” to our lens. Again, think of tags as keywords which will help the right people find your lens. Add as many tags as you think makes sense.
Step 7. Preview Your Lens– Once you’ve added all of the modules that you want to your Lens and you’ve added all of the content you need to add to each module, you can Preview your Lens to make sure you didn’t make any mistakes. Correct any mistakes you may have found and…
Step 8. Publish Your Lens – It’s that simple. Once you have completed your QA, simply go ahead and Publish your Squidoo Lens for the world to see. If you decide later that you want to change something, you can do that at any time
How to Use Squidoo Web Pages (lenses) for Affiliate Marketing
You can easily add affiliate links to Squidoo Web pages and Squidoo offers also some specialised modules to add Amazon and Ebay ads to your lens.
References
Increase Website Traffic with a Squidoo Lens
One Week Marketing Affiliate Marketing course