Squidoo review

What it is

Squidoo is a special type of SEO software. In fact, it is a free giant portal. On Squidoo, users can post short articles – lenses. In every lens you can put text, pictures and what is more important back links to your page. In this manner, Squidoo serves as a supporting web page for your main (landing) page. Here are few reasons why you should join a Squidoo team:

  • As the portal has thousands of unique articles, it is highly rated in the eyes of search engines.
  • Squidoo domain name itself is quite old so you benefit from domain age as well.
  • As you can choose the URL this is another factor of SEO that you can benefit from.

How to Squidoo

Once joining for free you enter a Dashboard. First fill few basic things in your profile. As Squidoo lenses can be linked across the site it is quite important to integrate into community. Also in your profile you can put various links to your Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other popular Web 2.0 sites. This entire links are visible if one clicks your profile (including search engines).

After filling out your profile you can start writing your first lens. First you have to define URL. It is always in the form of: www.squidoo.com/url-of-your-choice. Next you have to define a Title of your lens (which will also be a meta title of your Squidoo page) and tags. Both are important. Except the URL, you can change all elements of lens later.

Next step is to fill in modules. Modules are containers of different type. The basic one is text module. A special module is Introduction module. It defines the meta description text of your Squidoo page. Good idea is also to use Table of Contest of this module. It makes especially long lenses much more organized.

Fill at least 4 modules and Publish page.

Modules

  • The most useful is text module where you put text, pictures and back links.
  • YouTube – You can automatically publish 5 videos based on a keyword
  • Amazon and EBay – Fill in your Amazon/EBay account information and start earning money directly from Squidoo site.
  • Guest Book – Allow others to comment your lens.
  • There is much more modules available...

 AdSense

You can earn money with Squidoo lenses. Every lens comes with AdSense ads. There is option to withdraw all earnings or share a part with Charity Organizations that Squidoo supports.

Dashboard

In your Squidoo profile Dashboard, you can see detailed statistics about earnings, number of visits, number of click outs on your links in the lens, from which site visits came from, internal (Squidoo) ranking of your lens and comments posted to your lens.

Obtain back links the most natural and easy way. Join Squidoo !!!