Hi there,

I know a few people signed up to affiliate windows after my previous post. I wonder if you have made a squidoo lens? Is it sitting there doing nothing? Have you made any money yet? Are you getting traffic to your lens?

Putting up a squidoo lens is not enough to make you loads of money. If it was as easy as that, everyone would be doing it.

What you need is links. Links mean Google can see who you are linked to, and you get kudos by association. The more links you have the more possibilities for traffic to your lens.The more traffic to your lens the more likely you are to get sales!

If you have something you are passionate about, and you make a lens on that, it is easier because you probably know a bit about your subject.

That is great because you can add value to your lens, and it will make it more attractive to traffic.

But you do need to let people know you are there.

One great way to do that is to use forums. Most forums allow you to add a signature to your postings. If you put the address of your lens in there, then whenever you post your lens link will be seen and possibly clicked on.

I have a link, just one, on a forum and that link alone gets me 5-15 visitors a week to one of my lenses.

Obviously the best forums to choose are ones that get a lot of traffic themselves. Find one where there are other people passionate about your subject, that ask questions. When you answer the questions you will get publicity for your lens. A busy forum is a great resource!

Another way is to post comments on peoples blogs. Don’t just go to any old blog and write about your subject, find people with similar interests.

If you go to www.icerocket.com you can put in the keywords you need and it will come up with blogs that have postings on those keywords.

If you like you can use one of the many free page rank checkers to find blogs with high page rank. Google ranks pages from 0 to 10, 10 being the highest. For example, squidoo.com is currently ranked 8 I believe.  Not every site has a ranking, but as soon as your site gets ranked you will see a sharp rise in traffic.

Anyway, I digress, back to links and your squidoo lens.

Another way to get links is to use your rss feed. If you look on the left of your lens you will see the symbol used for rss feeds, the orange square. You can click on that, and you will get the code for your own personal rss feed. This can then be submitted to various rss feed directories. Try feedage.com and feedest.com.

Another way to get traffic is to join squidoo groups. First make sure that your lens comes up on Google though, put the full title of the lens in “” and do  a search for it. If it comes up then start joining squidoo groups. There are groups for every subject plus there are general groups also. By joining these you can increase your traffic as people will visit you from your group. Be sure to return the favour and rank, lensroll and favourite your new friends lenses.

Another way to increase your web presence is to make more than one lens.  You can link the lenses together using the introductory module, and this makes you look like more of an expert in your field.

Don’t limit yourself to squidoo lenses. Try eHowto.com, and hubpages.com.

You could even set yourself up a weebly website which is easy and free. You can start yourself off a blogger blog, again easy and free, and write in it regularly.  Add links to your lenses and also add the rss feed of your blog to your lens, that way your lens gets new information on it regularly to help attract traffic.

Here are a couple of video tutorials you may find useful:

Do let me know if you have any questions, I am here to help.

Best wishes,
Ruth