Squidoo is a great tool for affiliate marketers. So what exactly is Squidoo? It is a social networking platform which allows anyone with a Squidoo account to create pages (also known as lens), and talk about any topic that they like. Google loves Squidoo lens. If you have a well written lens, it may rank high on Google, driving tons of targeted traffic to your website.
Now that you know what Squidoo is, you may ask how to start using Squidoo in affiliate marketing? The trick here is to create lens with content about the topic of your affiliate product, and making sure it ranks on first page of Google for important phrases and keywords related to the affiliate product that you are promoting.
For example, if you are promoting an e-book on losing weight, you may wish to create lens and share some tips on losing weight effectively. You will insert keywords such as “how to lose weight” and “how to lose love handles” in your lens so that your lens will be relevant to Google when someone types in “how to lose weight” in the search box. This will make Google returning your lens as a relevant result on the first page of the search result page. With this, you will be able to drive tons of targeted traffic to your lens. Then with your lens, you can entice them to click on your affiliate links and bring them to your merchant’s sales page.
So in order to start using Squidoo to promote affiliate products, you need to register a free account with them. During registration, you will be asked to name your lens. It is very important for you to include the keyword in your lens’s URL so as to get a good ranking on search engines. Then, you will need to create content for your lens. At this point, be sure to have your content ready. Also, it will be good if you can add in some pictures in your lens as readers love to see pictures.
Once you have your content ready, it is time to place affiliate links within the content of your lens. It is important to note that you need to entice your lens reader to click on your links. So, adding call-to-action statement such as “Click here to find out more” will help to improve your click-through-rate from your lens to your merchant’s sales page.
Once you think that your lens is ready, click on the Publish button at the top right hand corner and your lens will be live on the Internet. You can type in the unique URL of your lens in your browser to view it.
Now that your lens is live on the Internet, you can now start to drive traffic to your lens. Do take note that organic search engine traffic will take time to come in. So, use other methods such as article marketing, pay-per-click, social book marking and forum marketing to drive traffic to it first.
Squidoo is definitely a great tool for affiliate marketers, especially if you wish to test a particular product or market. With Squidoo, you do not need to have any website to promote an affiliate product. This makes it ideal for you to test out products, and only create websites and set up auto-respondents once you see that the product starts to sell.
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Vivek N on January 22nd, 2010 at 4:03 pm says:
How to promote affiliate mini sites?
I’ve just started out with affiliate marketing and have made a mini site for a particular niche but how do i get traffic? i tried promoting it on squidoo and similar places but i just don’t seem to get enough traffic,any good free SEO techniques?doesn’t matter if they are black hat
silent on January 22nd, 2010 at 9:05 pm says:
what niche are you in? you may try using entrecard.com. it works well with lots of blogs, it may do wonders to you as well…
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http://pinoybizblogger.com/2008/04/the-blogrush-experiment/
eww on January 22nd, 2010 at 9:07 pm says:
An affiliate mini site is promoted the same as a traditional website. You are on the right track with Squidoo and similar - the main idea with promotion is to "get the word out".
The absolute best way to get SUSTAINED traffic is with on-page SEO:
*do keyword research and select words/phrases that are relevant to the topic of your affiliate item(s)
*utilize your <title> and <descriptin> tags
*have readable content on the page, including your keywords.
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http://www.spiderseeker.com
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domado16 on January 22nd, 2010 at 9:09 pm says:
this is so my answer
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Ego Fatigo on January 22nd, 2010 at 9:11 pm says:
The best way is to make your affiliate minisite a content based site too - make it a real website rather than a so-called "thin affiliate" website. You’ve got little to no chance with getting lots of traffic to one of these sites these days.
But a top-notch website with great content (that also promotes your affiliate merchant) will always be popular…
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comps on January 22nd, 2010 at 9:13 pm says:
Write articles about your website or ideas.
Submit your website for users to review, free!
Go to Famous Pages
http://famouspages.info
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shamoo01 on January 22nd, 2010 at 9:15 pm says:
Hey,
To promote your site you might want to try http://www.linkreferral.com or similar sites also write articles about certain topics your affiliate products are on and keep using sites like squidoo, digg, facebook, myspace etc to get your site out there
Good luck with it.
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jean_rennick on January 22nd, 2010 at 9:17 pm says:
You were on the right track with squidoo, but you have to keep going. Article marketing, directory submissions, adding more content to your mini-site, etc. are all ways to build your traffic.
You can’t expect to build a site and immediately see traffic. Search engines base at least part of their algorithm on backlinks to, or votes for, your site. You need to be constantly adding to those backlinks to improve your rankings in the search engines, and get increased traffic.
Blackhat techniques can get you tons of untargeted traffic in the short term, but that traffic may not be buyers, and in the long run, you may get your mini-site banned from the search engines.
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vijay on January 22nd, 2010 at 9:19 pm says:
There are plenty of ways to promote your site.
1)Article Marketing
Really a powerful method in getting audience. Write a good article based on your niche topic and submit it in article directories. Just go to google or yahoo and search for "free article directories". It will suggest you a host of directories that you can easily submit your writings. When people surf in that certain directory, they might stumble into your article and you got all the fame needed to be successful in Internet Marketing.
2)Blogging
This method is just like the article writing. You write what you want but good contents for your audience in blogs. The better you got, the more audience you get. You can also submit the same contents that you wrote in blogs in article directories. You get instant viewers if your article is in top 10 within your niche
3)Offer free stuffs
It’s always good to get free stuffs. Everyone likes it.So offer some free stuffs such as e-books or software for your audience. You will get a good, loyal and repeating audience. If you are looking for FREE e-books to market it in your site, check out this link.
http://www.abc-netmarketing.blogspot.com.It provides a host of e-books on internet marketing. The e-books will be updated weekly. So hurry up and get your best one soon.
4)E-mail Marketing
It’s as easy as ABC. Just promote your site to all your online contacts using e-mail.Write a good email that will attract your audience. If you got the contents right and able to convince your contacts , you are on your way to success.
5)SEO-Search Engine Optimization
Check out
http://www.ezinerticles.com for HOT tips on SEO
6)You Tube Videos
Use free videos from you tube and paste the links in your site. People like video tutorials better than articles or e-books.
7)Google Adsense
I strongly suggest you to visit http://www.abc-netmarketing.blogspot.com and learn about google adsense.If it’s not the best, atleast one of the best income generator for your websites. Visit the link and watch the video tutorials for FREE.
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Jessica S on January 22nd, 2010 at 9:21 pm says:
In addition to creating your own site, you can also promote the products you are marketing through Google AdWords. I have a great e-book that explains this very concept - how to partner Affiliate Marketing with Google AdWords and make good money. Just another way to get your products sold…
http://www.netpreneurstrategies.com
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http://www.netpreneurstrategies.com
Nyams J on January 22nd, 2010 at 9:23 pm says:
HI,
At first when you start your website it will take you quite a time to get traffic.It will not come immediately and to me to get the traffic it depends with the content in order to get recognised by search engines.Your traffic begins with rich information which people are searching on the search engines.So try your best to make sure the search engines recognises your contenet that is the key words you use,once its recognised you will be ranked at the top then your site will be found
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