Traffic Ballon

Are you wondering why people keep on recommending Squidoo.com? Well, it is because Squidoo.com is one of the powerful and fast growing Web 2.0 sites available free for web publishers and marketers to make money online. Squidoo allows you to create web pages called lenses which can be posted with whatever content and information you want to share with the world.

By being part of Squidoo, you will be able to use Squidoo lens as the marketing tools for your online business. You don’t have to worry about the rules and regulations of Squidoo as it is perfectly OK to promote your affiliate products, business website or anything else you like to promote on your lenses.

To make your Squidoo lense work for you, the lense has to be attention-grabbing so that it can attract traffic constantly. Those visitors come to you lense not just will read your content but also will click on your affiliate links or business website to find out what you are offering. As a result, you may end up turning these lense visitors into paying customers.

Below are a few strategies you can use to attract attention and traffic:

Create an Impressive Profile
Building a Squidoo profile that appeals others isn’t very difficult. Squidoo lets you upload Youtube videos, Flickr images and much more. These features are great help for making your profile attractive. And the bio photo of your profile, make sure you upload a quality one.

Include Your Target Keywords
Your lense have the ability to attract search engine traffic. So, the content in your lense should contain your main keywords to let the search engines better understand what your lense is about and send you the most targeted traffic. But, don’t overuse keywords in your lense as this could cause your lense blocked by Squidoo staff.

Tag Your Lense
During the process of building a new lense, Squidoo lets you add a title and suggest some keywords. Those are actually your tags. For the entire lense to be effective, you need to tag your lense appropriately which means you should add tags (keywords) that are directly relevant to your topic.

Add in Interesting Images
If you browse on Squidoo lenses, you will find that most of the lenses have the similar format and look. This is a good chance for you to make your lense look unique and interesting. You can do this by placing images and photos to your lense. The images you use must be interesting and have a relation to your content. This way you will make your lense different from others, giving you advantage of drawing more attention.

Network in SquidU
SquidU is much like a bulletin board created for members (Lensemasters) of Squidoo to learn everything about Squidoo. SquidU can be very helpful to you as you can connect with people who know more than you. They can help you optimize your lenses, create attractive profile, and guide you on the effective way to use Squidoo to market your business.

Struggle to Become Lense of the Day
Every day the chief of Squidoo editor will pick a lense that stands out from the crowd and feature as Lense of the Day. The Lense of the day probably will experience a great increase in traffic and exposure. So, you may think about getting your lense to become Lense of the Day. I know this doesn’t sound easy, but you should set a goal to make it to Lense of the Day and struggle to achieve it. One marketer shares a method which is to target topics that are of current interest, such as Olympics. Big news items or clever lenses can end up featuring on the Lens of the Day in the Squidoo blog and gain a lot of traffic overnight!

• Guaranteed Traffic Companies Are Ripping You Off!

Have you ever purchased a package of hits from a company that sells guaranteed traffic (aka wholesale traffic), only to find that you haven’t made a single sale by the time the package runs out? You’re not alone! The truth is that most of these companies don’t actually send visitors to your website; they show your site in a small pop-up window. Obviously, pop-ups are much less effective than if a person was actually sent to your website. Plus, pop-ups will only show a small corner of your website, so visitors don’t actually know what your website’s about and there’s very little chance that they will take the time to find out. Also, many of these companies have been known to use tools that inflate the number of actual hits being sent to your website, meaning you don’t receive anywhere near the amount of traffic that you paid for.

• Getting a Decent Search Engine Ranking is Costly!

There are millions of websites across the internet and everyone wants a top search engine ranking. Do you see the problem? Getting a decent ranking for a popular keyword has become nearly impossible if you don’t shell out big bucks. First you wait 6 weeks for your site to even show up in the search engines (unless you pay $300 for a quick listing in Yahoo), then you hope for the best. If you’re not listed in the top 20 for a keyword, you won’t be getting many visitors from the search engines.

• Most Forms of E-mail Marketing Are Now Considered SPAM!

SPAM has become such a broad term these days and will get you into a lot of trouble, even if you have not violated any laws. Most forms of e-mail marketing, including direct e-mail and bulk e-mail, are now considered SPAM by nearly everyone. You can follow all legal guidelines when sending out your mailing and still risk being labeled a “spammer”. In reality, it doesn’t much matter whether you think you’re a spammer – it only matters what the recipient of your e-mail thinks. One safe way to market through e-mail is by building your own opt-in list, but even then people will often forget that they subscribed to your list and report you for SPAM anyway! If you are reported for SPAM, you can lose your ISP, website, e-mail account, and much more!

• Traffic Exchanges Require Hours and Hours of Clicking!

Traffic exchanges (also known as startpage/click exchanges) are popular because they offer a free way to earn traffic. The idea is simple – you view other people’s websites in exchange for traffic. However, most traffic exchanges make you view a website for 30 seconds to earn a credit, then require 2 credits for each hit they send to your website. That’s 60 seconds of clicking for just 1 hit! You could click for an hour straight and still only get 60 hits. You’ll be very lucky to make a sale off of 60 hits, even after all that work!

• FFAs and Classified Ad Sites Are a Thing of the Past!

Belive it or not, there actually was a time when Free-For-All links (FFAs) worked. As most of you have realized by now, that is no longer true. There are so many FFA pages and automatic submitters these days that there’s very little chance anyone will ever see your link – no matter how many times you post each day. Since everyone uses automatic submitters to post their link on the FFA pages, they don’t ever view the page that has your link on it. Their link goes on top, knocking your link down another spot. With so many auto-submitters being used, your link quickly slides off the FFA page, without ever being seen by human eyes.