Harness the Power of the Squidoo Lens

Web 2.0 is revolutionizing the internet experience and Squidoo is a powerful new platform that harnesses the full power of the Web 2.0 phenomenon. So what does web 2.0 mean and how can you exploit this new development in your internet marketing and internet network marketing business? By building a Squidoo Lens and optimising it for maximum traffic, that's how.

The internet is going through a bold new transformation that is being powered and led by web 2.0 applications like Squidoo. Squidoo is nothing more than a simple website that you, the user, can control, build and modify using a very easy interface. Web 2.0, simply put, is user generated content. Blogs, squidoo lenses, social networking sites, youtube and video services are all web 2.0 applications because they are all controlled by individual users who can write, video, post and journal about anything and everything.

Squidoo gives you the opportunity to share your experience and knowledge with the world in a unique and simple way. Squidoo allows you to build a powerful portal on any topic that you like by incorporating blogs, videos, text modules and more into a completely unique content rich website for all to see. Because of the nature of Squidoo, it is viewed by Google and other search engines as an Authority site and can allow you to achieve a significantly higher position in the natural search engine results which, of course, equals more traffic.

So how exactly can this help you drive a ton of high quality traffic to your site, your affiliate links or your opportunity? Simple, build a Squidoo lens, that’s what a squidoo website is called, about an area you have knowledge and experience in, incorporate an rss feed and share it with the world. Let may break it down for you in an easy step by step approach.

1.)      First step is to build 4 or 5 blogs. Blogs, or weblogs, are basically online journals and are usually offered for Free. I recommend using Wordpress or Blogger. It just takes a couple of minutes to sign up, just be careful to pick a keyword rich blog title as this will help you get more relevant traffic to your blog. Post on your new blogs every day for the first week or two to build up your content. This increases the activity by the search engine spiders and will help your blogs rank higher in the search engines.

2.)      While you are posting to your blogs begin to build your first squidoo lens. Remember to use keywords when you pick your squidoo name just as you did in your blog titles. Also use your keywords in your headings on squidoo and also on your blog posts. Add as many modules as you can as this helps your placement in the search engines etc.. (more content is always better) Add photos and video if you can. You can post a generic video from Youtube or one of your own.

3.)      Next step is to link your blogs to your squidoo lens and link your squidoo lens to your business opportunity or affiliate links. You will want to link all your blogs to your Squidoo Lens and cross link everything else together

4.)      Next step is to ensure you add the RSS feed module on your Squidoo lens and make sure one of your blogs is entered here. Then be sure to update your blogs on a regular basis.

5.)      Ping your blogs and your Squidoo lens. Yes you can Ping a Squidoo Lens! Just go to pingoat.com and fill in the form and press enter. This will make sure that the major blog directories etc. will know your blog or squidoo lens has been updated. Do this every time you update your lens and your blogs for maximum exposure.

6.)      Last step is to sign up for a FREE BlugRush account which can, literally send massive amounts of traffic to your blog and consequently your Squidoo lens which in turn will have more people clicking your affiliate links or opportunity site links. Blogrush is simply a Free widget (just some special code) that you can add to your blog that will allow you to gain more free traffic.

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That’s a pretty quick summary but it should get your mind thinking in the right direction. Web 2.0 and Squidoo specifically are great ways to easily build a significant traffic stream to your web pages. Relevant, high quality traffic is the secret to making a lot of money online and will always be a great way to spend your time.