To Squidoo Or Not To Squidoo?

By Rick C Kern

Squidoo works alot like my brain. It allows me to go off in a lot of directions at the same time. Yes I am ADD. I can build lenses(is that the plural of lens?) on Bicycles, cell phones, web hosting and or multiple lenses on each subject. They will all fall under the umbrella of my lenses but I can also easily link my lenses together that are on the same subject.

Building Your First Lens It can be confusing it is simple and you will get the hang of it. You don't need to understand everything on your page to begin with, that will come in time.

This page is really simple and I built it to show how simple it is to get started on Squidoo. So you can follow along with my description go to http://www.squidoo.com/TacoSalad/

I signed in to Squidoo
I clicked on "build a lens"
I typed "Taco Salad" in the "My lens is about:" go to step 2
I put the dot on "I want to get the word out on ----" goto Step 3
Pick URL I put in "tacosalad"
I clicked on "Food & Cooking" and then put the dot on Yes my lens is family friendly.
The best keyword for my lens is "Taco Salad" I put in taco recipe ,taco meat delight, best taco dinner,

This is not really important these actually will be the meta tags for your article just put in some words you think someone might search for your page with.
Then copy the security word.
Then click at the top of the arrow.
your page is already named.
In the introduction put in a couple of sentences about what the page is about.
Now go down to the Test/Write Module and click "edit". I put in The Meat Recipe and then went on to explain the meat recipe. If you click on the arrow next to the edit button you can move the line below the line that is currently below your line. I moved the Guestbook line to the bottom of the page.

Add another Text/Write Module
I clicked on add modules because I wanted to add another text box. Text/Write Module didn't show so I clicked on next page. I then clicked on add text/write module twice. I clicked "Save" and it took me back to my page.

Move your Modules
I moved the guestbook down below the two write modules and wrote the rest of my article. Click on the Down arrow on the Module Bar.

Add Titles
When you open a module and don't change the title you will get the default title to that module and it will look strange. As you finish a module click on save. When you are done click on Publish. Your first page is done. Please if you found this starter lesson helpful leave me feedback--I would be honored if you sign my Guestbook.

The modules you do not use will not show up on your published page. Except for Guestbook.

Article Marketing and Getting Paid
Squidoo is getting great ratings from the search engines so far. This is another twist to the article marketing twist Squidoo shares Site revenues with the article authors. If you are an avid article submitter this could become a significant extra source of income.

Rick Kern Check out article marketing that pays http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/referral/zbikenut Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rick_C_Kern

Social Bookmarking And Site Promotion

By Marx Lomas

Firstly let’s all get up to speed and cover social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is the process of storing you bookmarks or (websites added to your favourites) on a publicly accessible website. This allows people to essentially store their favourites on a website which will be available wherever they are and whatever PC they are accessing the internet from.

Social Bookmarking sites are predicted to make huge gains in popularity in the near future as the boom around user generated content increases and the internet increases in size making finding quality sites harder. Yahoo acquired del.icio.us in December 2005 and they have experienced a 300% increase in their user base since then which shows the growth of these sites.

So now to the main point, can social bookmarking sites be used for website promotion? In an attempt to stop marketing and promotion SPAM most social tagging sites have implemented the now famous nofollow attribute tags (like Wikipedia) meaning no link popularity can be passed on from these sites.

However despite the attempts to prevent any link popularity and SEO benefit being gained, there are still some great benefits to be had by submitting websites to the social plethora of social bookmarking sites. Most enjoy good search engine ranking and appear high up on a huge amount of search terms, this can provide some excellent search engine visibility by population for listings with your sites links.

This provided with searches from the bookmarking sites can provide some good traffic. This can work especially well if used in conjunction with link bait or viral marketing, as a sites exposure increases exponentially as it gets more “bookmarks”.

The increased traffic and search engine listings can increase brand awareness and can be especially useful when launching a new site. So despite the nofollow’s social tagging sites can yield some very impressive results especially when used in conjunction other SEO and link generation methods.

Look out for the next article which will explain how best to go about submitting to social bookmarking sites and what content to use for maximum benefit.

Written by Marx Lomas SEO Specialist TopMarx Solutions Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Marx_Lomas

Social Bookmarking and Increasing Web Traffic

By Lance Winslow

One of the newest ways to increase traffic on your website and get your business ranked higher in the search engines is thru social book marking. In fact social book marking is all the rage. Moreover it is a natural tendency of to think in this way and it is helping smaller website entrepreneurs and Bloggers get their messages out to society.

Social Bookmarking and Increasing Web Traffic was recently the number one topic on the ezines of the top online website marketing consultants and already there are over 300 eBooks out on the subject and available online to help you develop your own Social Bookmarking Strategy to increasing your Web Traffic.

Social Bookmarking is an evolution of the social networking revolutions occuring on the Internet with the next up and coming generation of Internet users and surfers. Although just recently social bookmarking has become popular it actually started in 1996 when the Internet was just really getting going.

If your website has more people bookmarking it, your rankings will go up and it will drive more traffic to you, thus it makes sense to work with others doing the same thing to advance both you and them. Search: Social Bookmarking and learn all you can and then develop a strategy to insure your website is viewed and bookmarked by the most number of people.

Social bookmarking works, do not let yourself be left behind, this train is leaving the station. Toot, toot, All Aboard! I certainly hope this article is of interest and that is has propelled thought. The goal is simple; to help you in your quest to be the best in 2007. I thank you for reading my many articles on diverse subjects, which interest you.

"Lance Winslow" - If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is a guest writer for Our Spokane Magazine in Spokane, Washington

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