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 Posted: Mon Mar 5th, 2007 10:06 am

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squidoo is a great place to put up something about you , or your products

have 2 lenses now and there both doing really well and bringing me loads visitors.

plus there highly ranked in google so will help rank your sites as well



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 Posted: Mon Mar 5th, 2007 04:02 pm

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Do you have any particular tactics or strategies with your lenses? I must admit this is not something I have looked into before but I'm wondering if this just another blog type strategy that we need to add to our arsenal.

Look forward to understanding the different approaches

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 Posted: Mon Mar 5th, 2007 05:09 pm

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Thanks for the reminder David. I have a couple I need to get back and update.

I started to get a group to network together featuring home towns

http://www.squidoo.com/garland

and another on a product ingredient

http://www.squidoo.com/adaptogens

I'll probably go back and work on those in the next few. They use to have rankings from 3000 to 1100 but I've ignored them so long they have drifted way down the chart.

If anyone wants to build a lens on their hometown you can and then add a section called Hometown Hook Ups list mine and perhaps one or two others that you find that you like then let me know and I'll survey it and add it to my Hook Ups section.

The idea is athat you also include a small section linking to your business or other lenses then when folks travel from city to city they are also exposed to your products or business opportunity. It took a little work to promote than I had thought but if it gets going a little stronger the viral opportunity would accelerate the promotion. 

 

 

 

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 Posted: Tue Mar 6th, 2007 09:43 am

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i have bob jenkins squidoo secrets, which is a great rescource,

i must admit i did my main one before learning anything, but my network attached storage lens uses the secrets I have learned from there

im still working on it but its got a list of posts that link to my network attached storage blog

and gery yeah great idea , I just started a new I love croydon , blog and myspace page, and will start on an i love croydon lens soon

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Hi,

I also think Squidoo is great and not many people yet understand how powerful it is. I have some 20 different lenses and not all of them are MLM related.

Here are some of the steps I follow:

-Always select the keyword first, you can use http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ to see how much searches each keyword has. Keyword can be something like "mlm success.... " or your company name or something similar

The longer the keyword the better. If you choose "mlm" as a keyword it is not targeted and you have too much competition in Google.  "MLM in Las Vegas" is much better and more targeted, plus there is less competition

- Check that the keyword has less than 1.5 million results in google, less than 1 million is better

-When you do your lense, but the keyword in the title of you lense and also in the url of your lense, like "http://www.squidoo.com/mlm-in-las-vegas"

-If your text is 400 - 500 words, mention your keyword 4 - 5 times in the text

Thats pretty much it, if you follow these steps you should see your lense in the first page of Google within a week.

Its good to start testing this with 3 - 5 different lenses and see the results. I do not quarantee that this works everytime, but for me it has been working well. The most important thing is to select a keyword with not much competition

Hope this helps

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I've always wondered about Squidoo and its popularity. The info i picked up here will definitely be useful in promoting my sites. thanks



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 Posted: Mon Aug 6th, 2007 03:31 am

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I am new to squidoo and could use some tips. I tried putting Amazon entries, but they wouldn't show up on the lens. Any ideas?

Any other tips would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.



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I've been hear about Social Bookmarking but i don't understand what it is. Could someone explain it too me what its all about.



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 Posted: Wed Sep 12th, 2007 01:24 am

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Hi Ojack,

I'm not an expert on social bookmarking, but I have been using http://www.Digg.com and http://www.Del.icio.us recently.  The idea is that when you make an new post to your blog, or put up a new webpage, you should save it to these social bookmarking sites as a way of gaining links, and additional traffic.  What you're hoping for, is that other people will also bookmark your site, and it will thus become more popular.

One thing I would caution people against, is only submitting their own sites.  If you're going to use these sites, actually use them.  del.icio.us is actually a pretty cool way to organize your booksmarks (with tags instead of folders).  And on Digg, I've actually discovered quite a few interesting bloggs and websites by browsing through what other people have posted ... and Digging the ones I like myself.

Hope this helps,

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Thank You

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Social Bookmarking is one way of letting other people know that you have created something new or posted new article in your blog.

Social Bookmarking is a community of people with various interests. Just find other people who's interest is inline with your interest. It is really effected in generating traffic to your website or blog.

You can also learn a lot of things by registering to social bookmarking site.

These are just some of the high PR social bookmarking sites http://www.technorati.com and http://www.facebook.com

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Major Networking sites are nothing new. Personal Profiles filled with information and gossip are rampant on the internet and in the life of many of today’s university and college students.

Larger corporations with lots of cash to spend on advertising can definitely take advantage of the large public obsession of these networking sites and can collaborate with the big guys to advertise directly on the website itself. Large social networking sites can take your companies name and make sure those who are most age and hobby appropriate for your company see that name.

Network Marketing is possible even if you don’t have piles of money to hand over. However, there is another aspect of networking which the media and general public has not latched onto as strongly- networking communities that are oriented around extremely targeted interest groups are popping up everywhere. Just a few that I found were a penguin group, a Vietnamese models group, and a society of Paul Bearers. What does this mean for you as an advertiser? It means you have a powerful marketing tool!

By joining specialized groups whom are your target market, you have access to the popular opinions, desires, and thoughts of your target audience to take the place of or at least to supplement your surveys and market research and, if not to advertise directly [depending on the network’s policies] than at least to bounce ideas off of and more thoroughly understand the target group’s mindsets.

Advertising does not always need to be point blank, either. As you delve into social networking sites which entertain the thoughts of your ideal network for marketing, you will develop relationships in which you can mention what you do for a living and what you can offer to your new friend. Engage, advertise, and socialize within an online social network that is passionate about what you have to offer, and you have an open market just waiting to buy.



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Yes this is true. I love social networking. It is a great place to build relationships with people in your target market.



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    I recently started marketing one of my services on myspace and I’ve gotten 30-40 hits A WEEK to my website through the redirect that I set up on my profile. The profile itself is growing like crazy, I started using it for my business almost two weeks ago and I already have over 3 hundred friends. Also it has gotten a little over five hundred hits, but for some reason I can’t get these people to follow the link to my website. The traffic that I’m getting is targeted, so I know that it relevant to the people viewing it.
 
So if anyone out there has any advice on how to remedy this problem please post.

P.S. The other methods I learned from a couple of online courses I took are working quite nicely but I feel that myspace is an untapped resource that could greatly increase my traffic.

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Yes, social networking sites are good places to connect with people.  You can do a google search on the top 100 social networking sites.  This list should keep many people busy.



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Have you spoken to each of these 300 people, added value, built a rapport and converted them into sales?  Social Networking is an excellent means to building a relationship with real people.  It is very easy to focus on building a large friend list on sites like MySpace.  I was guilty of this myself.  I learned how to use MySpace to qualify people before I accepted their friend request.    As my grandmother used to say, "Son, everyone's not your friend." 

Closed_lips_open_mind wrote:     I recently started marketing one of my services on myspace and I’ve gotten 30-40 hits A WEEK to my website through the redirect that I set up on my profile. The profile itself is growing like crazy, I started using it for my business almost two weeks ago and I already have over 3 hundred friends. Also it has gotten a little over five hundred hits, but for some reason I can’t get these people to follow the link to my website. The traffic that I’m getting is targeted, so I know that it relevant to the people viewing it.
 
So if anyone out there has any advice on how to remedy this problem please post.

P.S. The other methods I learned from a couple of online courses I took are working quite nicely but I feel that myspace is an untapped resource that could greatly increase my traffic.



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I don't participate in social networking sites just to build a database of friends.  Most of the times, what I do is share or help others in some way by offering them some useful suggestions or comments. 

This help I give to anybody who is interested.  This too is a good way of connecting with others.  Because I offer help, suggesions or comments, I have had people pm me asking for more help and even inquiring about my business.

Also, social networking sites are a good way to get you and your business out there. The personal information talks a little about the business but I also try to share some interesting personal facts about me, who I am.   I try to be more personable so that others are not offended by the "get them in the deal" that runs rampant in many forums and social networking sites. 

It seems to be working, but even when it doesn't I do get a lot of comments from others who have stated that what I posted or shared was very thought provoking.  Such comments make me realize how much I have grown because not too long ago I was a newbie on the internet and I was very intimidated by the arena.  Many people can be cruel and I have had to learn that one just has to develop a thick skin.



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I have seen many roadblocks on this lately, it seems places for social sites do not want them used for business reasons. Can anyone verify this, I have been finding some say yes, some say no and can not get a definite answer anywhere.

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Yes, there are some that do not allow you to promote your business.  But, it is still a good way to build relationships.  What I do is establish a repport with people within a social networking site. Once this happens, trust and even friendships quickly develop. At this point, you can share with them your business opportunity, or they may even inquire all on their own. 

Building relationships is key to building a successful business.  It does not matter whether you are using the internet to build an online business or your are building a business offline.  You cannot accomplish success unless you somehow communicate with others and focus on building a relationship with them.



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Are you talking about news groups, here? Or are you talking about online communities such as myspace or facebook?



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