A Squidoo Lens Can Help You Market Your Website
Squidoo has been around for years, and it has a lot of great tools to allow even the most novice user to build one. At first, it may seem intimidating. After a little practice you will get the hang of it.
The most important thing is to figure out the many different modules available. They are all free, and you can easily add Youtube Videos, Flicker Photos and more.
You can even make yourself some money by promoting Amazon.com and Google Adsense. You can donate it all to charity if you’d like, or keep a percentage of it.
This screenshot shown is a car dealer’s in Kissimmee Florida. I made a few different lenses for that dealership, and I didn’t make them expecting to make 10 extra sales a month either.
I made them to get backlinks to the dealer’s main website, which in turn will help the dealers website in free organic traffic. The best backlink you can get is one that comes from a website with relavant content. Once you have at least 5 modules on your lense, the links will be dofollow.
Check out the Squidoo Lense for car dealers I made. This lense will show you different options you can use for various calls to action you can enable.
My favorite one is the embedded RSS Feed. You can take your inventory and have it update automatically. Every time your dealer website is updated, this module will as well. Click the link above to see an example.
You can also mash your blog and inventory RSS Feed together using Yahoo Pipes. If you want to jazz up your feed further, you can send your Yahoo Pipe or regular RSS Feed to Feedburner. Feedburner is easy to set up, and you can use either feed to update Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites. This won’t cost you one dime, it’s all free.
You can even use a Feedburner feature called “Buzzboost”. You find this under your publicize tab. There are some great things you can do with this program, the software actually takes your RSS Feed and converts it into HTML. Check out what we used it for in this Tampa Car Dealers Blog.
Sometimes a regular RSS Feed supplied to you from your website vendor will not show the photos. If your RSS Feed appears to include photos, but they don’t show when you use it, try this. Just take your feed and run it through Yahoo Pipes. Sometimes this will fix the issue.
You can also use these RSS feeds to update your Facebook, like Napleton Orlando does.
So now, when you make your Squidoo Lense follow these simple instructions:
1) Be sure to utilze at least 5 modules to obtain maximum benefits.
2) Ask some friends to sign up for Squidoo and rate your lense, this will give some some credibility.
3) When your done, you need to get a few backlinks to it. If you have a blog, write a post about it and link to your public lense.
4) You will not obtain backlinks if you add it to Facebook or Twitter, but if you have many friends or fans they may help you promote it.
5) You will not see instant results, Squidoo makes you work for the backlinks.
Be sure to check out our live lens to see the possibilities.
One more thing about Feedburner
It will give you a code you can copy and paste on just about any website. This code will help get you more subscribers, like this one (go ahead and try it):
