Squidoo Lenses?

It is easy to set- up an account at Squidoo. Simply sign- up page, follow directions, enter some basic information about yourself and continue to register. Squidoo is a network that emphasizes one’s point of view, recommendations, or even expertise, which will refer to as lenses. Lenses can be ideas, people, places, hobbies, sports, philosophy, politics, ets, products or any topics of interest. Lensmastres are users who created lenses using available tools online to make links, feeds, abstracts and lists. Their role is to promote products, services, opinions, expertise, causes and personal agendas.

There are many modules that you can use to customize your page. You can configure by the “edit” button. Add photos from Flickr, plain text, list, You Tube videos, and much more to provide fun and interesting content for your visitors.

You actually create tags when you create Squidoo lens in order to categorize it. And these lenses will have links to these tag pages. In other words, creating a new lens will get links from the tag pages on the Squidoo site, which increases your lens’ page rank. Some people may find your lens, might able to click on the link to your site and will bring site traffic. Furthermore, it is believed that Squidoo is considered an authority site. An authority site means a site which has an authority on a specific topic and has many links to them, as CNN is considered to be an authority site for news. You get more valuable when you get a link from an authority site than from a non- authority site because the search engine will see the link on the Squidoo Lens as a link from an authority site.

Another benefit of creating Squidoo Lens is you will also know how to focus on your writing and how to promote your writing. You can hone your web writing lens by narrowing down and focusing on the content. You build some keyword phrases and topics by starting out with one idea until you make one topic. Also, as you create your lens you may come up with new ideas.

Squidoo search results tend to come up in Google searches ahead of all the social bookmarking networks. You can actually test out keyword phrases fro popularity and web traffic by accessing the dashboard which lists statistics and check how many visits your lens has received in a week.

Squidoo will not make any changes in your life until you create an account, create a lens, write an introduction, write a bio, add RSS feed and publish. It will only take 10 or 15 minutes to create a basic Squidoo lens. Why not give it a try? It will not only give you a way to build a fun entry-point for your website for free, it will also give you money in your account at the same time.