Squidoo in your web marketing plan
I enjoy playing around with some CG (like the one i made for T shirts), it’s addictive. Making a lens in Squidoo.com is addictive, too. in turn, making a ‘custom tee shirt design’ lens on squidoo is extra addictive.
So what’s Squidoo?
Squidoo, according to their own, is…
Squidoo’s goal as a platform is to bring the power of recommendation to search. Squidoo’s goal as a co-op is to pay as much money as we can to our lensmasters and to charity. And Squidoo’s goal as a community is to have fun along the way, and meet new ideas and the people behind them.
Though i like the idea of making charity, i rather take the website as a simple and instant way to create very presentable webpages that make full use of the web 2.0. wanna try it? you can actually start a lens right here! it only takes three steps to complete a lens. 
How i got started?
It all began when i wanted my own lens on squidoo for web marketing purpose… at the very first moment i got onborad, i found it’s actually F-U-N playing around with their built-in module. i started to spend more and more time on them… and now i think i’m addicted to this creative website.
I mean, blog is cool – it enables anyone who can type to contribute their knowledge on WWW (ideally); lens on squidoo is even much cooooooooler, it’s simpler and you can have lots of things on squidoo done in seconds. imagine you are just a few clicks away from a custom built guest books, list ranking/voting system like digg (plexo), link exchange among lens (lensroll), multiple addon modules like Flickr YouTube iTunes, and with correct way of doing it, you can even make money (tons of it!) from your lens!
(Hey, fun is not enough for Internet biz guy to jump on it)
Yeah, i know… so here’re the rest of the reasons (from the business view) why i think you should take a look on them.
- Squidoo lens normally bypass the sandbox and get search engine index + ranking lighting fast! – my lens actually already started to rank well on quite some competative SERP… that’s less than one month!!
- Build up traffics from the community – make good lens and promote among squids… squidoo itself is a very big community website, you can actually draw massive traffics from them
- Lens building is simple – again, if you build blog to promote your website, i cant see why you shouldnt spend 1/10 of the time spent on blog to build a lens – its real fast and easy!
Currently i’m still experimenting and looking for ways to make full use of them… well, if i got any new tricks and tips (that i can afford to share out here), i’ll share out here.
Resources for starting off in Squidoo
Useful links
To get you started, here are the useful direct links…
By the way, it’s actually okay if you dont get started… who wants more competitors? 
Soufulow’s lens
Hey by the way, wanna see my lens? check them out!
- Cool custom T shirt designs
- Naughty tees idea
- …more to come, for sure!
Let me know in case you want some jumpstart… we can lensroll each other and share some ideas on how to promote your lens on no cost at all!
p/s: the links to starting a squidoo lens actually is my referal links, but squids actually dont make money directly by refering members… (too bad).
Sha said,
Wrote on July 6, 2007 @ 3:24 am
Nice to see you are having fun with squidoo. I still a bit confuse about squidoo. I’ve been using technorati, digg and reddit but I still a bit blur on squidoo. Do share more about it.
Thanks,
Sha
soufulow said,
Wrote on July 6, 2007 @ 9:50 am
I believe Squidoo is very different from technorati, digg, or reddit. in fact they are not in the same category at all.
The problem i see with Squidoo is might be they are ‘over-creative’ in naming their system (which i think it’s cool personally)… If you’re not use to their terms, it might be confusing in the beginning. Words like Plexo, Module, Lensroll… and such will caught your head spinning.
Nevertheless, the overall work flow in Squidoo is very simple and user friendly – i bet it wont takes long for you to get familiar with them. (man, it’s a blogspot alike thing!)
@Sha: in case there are any specify questions… i hope i can help.
Jonathan Treiber said,
Wrote on August 3, 2007 @ 2:13 am
Great post. Thanks for the info. I’m a newbie on Squidoo and just getting my feet wet. I don’t fully understand how it will help me but I’m learning. Any other advice or tips you have to help me promote my squidoo lens would be huge. Thanks!
soufulow said,
Wrote on August 3, 2007 @ 9:48 am
Thanks Jonathan…
The best thing I saw with Squidoo it’s that you can leverage the site’s reputation (or link authority) to bypass the Google sandbox; and more over, the lens that link back to your website pass valuable link juices.
Will share more whenever is possible.
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