How Can Squidoo Increase Website Traffic?
Written by George Manty · December 4, 2006
I got a comment the other day on one of my posts asking:
I still don’t get it. What can Squidoo can do for you to increase pagelink?
First of all, website traffic 101 tells us that the more links you get to your website the better.
How does Squidoo help you get links to your site?
When you create a Squidoo Lens you create tags for it. These tags are used to categorize your lens. Your lens and other lenses have links to these tag pages. The tag pages link back to all of the lenses that use that tag. This means that when you create a new lens your lens automaticly gets links from the tag pages on the Squidoo site. Which increases the PageRank for your Lens.
Now we have a Lens with Links to it. How does this Lens help your webiste?
Let’s use my first Squidoo lens as an example. Click here and take a look at the lens.
Notice that the first link on the Lens is a link to our homeschooling wiki.
If you do what I did and create a link on your lens to one of your websites, you will have a new link to your website. Which is good, because some people will find your lens, click on the link to your site, and bring your site traffic.
This link is also good, because almost every link you get to your site will help it rank higher for Search Engine terms.
Another way that this link helps is that you are getting a link from what is known as an Authority site. Most people believe that Squidoo is considered an authority site. Authority sites are sites that are considered an authority on a specific topic and have lots of links to them. For instance, I think it is pretty safe to say that CNN is an authority site for news.
When you get a link from an authority site it is considered more valuable than a link from a non-authority site.
The Search Engines will see the link on the Squidoo Lens as a link from an authority site. Therefore this link from the Squidoo lens is going to be a good quality link to your website. Ulitmately, this one link isn’t going to make any site rise to the top of the Search Engine rankings, but it will help.
Thanks for the article. I’ve used Squidoo and noticed that it does have some positive effect on ranking and traffic.
BTW, would you want to trade links? I’ve already added you on my site.
Sure, you have the making of a very nice blog yourself. Keep up the good work! I will add it to my every growing list of feeds.
Thank you for that explanation. I use create a squidoo lens for my site.
I already knew squido, but you highlighted the fact that it is an authority site.
I like to do everything that can help my ranking.
You are welcome.
We Love Squidoo so much we are devoting most of our site to Web 3.0
Though squidoo is an affiliate website , the recent slap by Google on it’s search ranking can be a concern for us affiliates. How are your lenses performing now ?
I haven’t been checking my lenses recently, because I have been super busy with other things. I will have to do that sometime this month.
Hi George ,
All the squidoo pages which i have not updated in the past seem to have gone down in serps.I am now shifting focus to other sites such as hubpages.
Jatin,
I have seen a similar thing with my pages.
This is a really iformative post! To be honest I am a complete blog and social networking newbie. I have spent the last few days just figuring out all these sites!
I just found out what digg was 2 days ago! LOL
I guess it is time I get out of the stone ages…
Great post. A+ Thanks
Thanks for clearing the air about tags and links from squidoo. I have a couple of lens in squidoo and they were indexed so fast I couldn’t believe it. Not once did I submit any of my lens to the search engines but they found them anyway. ( the tags and links helped I guess..) Of course, I recieved a reciprocal link from linkhelpers.net and found them to be a great help in the indexing process. Thanks!
Fast indexing is only one of the benefits of Squidoo. Great backlinks and high pagerank which is made even better after the July Google “slap”.
It’s forced lensmasters to increase the quality of the material on their lenses and each lens now seems subject to the “rules” of Google for backlinks, quality keywords and not just junk thrown up on the site.
I’ve been following the Squidoo story on this blog, http://mymarketingexperiences.info/category/squidoo and using http://www.ultimatesquidoo.com to increase my pagerank on Google.
It’s been amazing using Squidoo and I highly recommend you check it out!
This was just the type of article I was looking for. I have just begun to try to get my ducks in a row, and add some of these new fangled ideas to increase traffic and pr and this site has definitely made me more informed. I have just begun to build a blog at http://localheatandcool.com and will be using your information to make it more Squidoo smart..
Thanks for a very nice post.
Tom
I am going to seriously start using squidoo to get traffic to my websites, and rank for keywords. There are many competitive keywords squidoo lenses rank for in Google. Now is the time to take advantage of it.
Another good thing about squidoo lenses is you will normally see traffic quicker from a lens then when building your typical content site. Plus you don’t have to pay for a domain name
I have found Squidoo to bring occaisional traffic, but I believe if your keyword research is done first either using Google Traffic Estimator or Google Trends, your keyword links will be more popular since you choose the right ones.
I gave squidoo a try, it’s funky but didnt do too much for me. I still visit seth godin’s blog quite often though
Do you still feel the same about Squidoo>?