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Day 17- Squidoo & HubPages
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Squidoo™ (http://www.Squidoo.com) is a social bookmarking (or social networking) site.
Unlike other social bookmarking sites that focus on socializing, Squidoo allows you to sell.
Most social bookmarking sites let users create pages about themselves, build networks of friends and generally get to know other people. One very popular site among younger people is myspace.com. It is strictly for socializing.
However, Squidoo™ is different - you can socialize as well as promote your products or services. It lets you create a lens, which is basically an information portal about any topic you want. You can promote your SFI affiliate program, products and services.
The beauty of this site is you can create as many lenses as you want in as many categories as you want.
You can make a lens that sends donations to your favorite charity for free.
Why is Squidoo a great resource in your Internet business?
1. Squidoo gets DOMINATING SEARCH positions: As powerful, if not more than Ezinearticles.com. Beating out 10,000 to 20,000+ optimized results.
2. NO APPROVAL PROCESS. That's right. You can post whatever you want. No inspection or approval required.
3. AFFILIATE LINKS are OK!
4. You can add youtube videos, audio, opt-in forms, rss feeds (keeps you fresh and google
loves it) and loads of other stuff.
5. Fast and simple to do with a teeny bit of know how.
6. IT IS COMPLETELY FREE! A TRUE help for guys on a tight budget!
Lenses help you get discovered on-line. If you're trying to get the word out about something (your business, product, passions, a big idea), you gotta have a lens.
Squidoo is an incredibly easy platform that allows you to build a lens, all by yourself, in less than five minutes. Build a lens to help your website.
It's important you select the categories that best fit your products or services because Squidoo visitors log in to the categories they are interested in. Here, you provide good, helpful information about your products and services that these people want.
Then, you can point them to your pre-sell pages - your Gateway Websites. That gets you laser-targeted traffic that’s much more likely to buy the products or services based on your information.
You assemble a lens from modules which let you put different kinds of content on your lens. It could be something that you’ve written, a video clip, a set of links and RSS feed… you could put about anything you like.
Getting your lens up is easy. You can use a pre-made layout from Squidoo or you can make a custom lens. There are great tutorials on the site to help you.
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Okay, let's talk about how to use Squidoo to generate traffic to your lenses.
Here are some tips that can help get visitors to your sites.
* Create your lens title based on your targeted keyword. Doing so get search engines to pick up your lens. Remember, lenses are web pages and they can rank in the search engines.
* Tag your lens with keywords. This function is unique to Squidoo. The lens creation wizard allows you to do this when you’re setting up your lens. If you don't know what are your keywords, don't worry! It's simple. Just visit other lenses that have the same theme as yours and copy their keywords.
* Update your lens as often as you can preferably 2 or 3 times a week. You want to add the latest news or developments that visitors love to read.
* Add an RSS feed to your lens with the Squidoo module for RSS feeds. You can then have frequently changing content on your lens which search engines love.
* Review products in your market and point to affiliate links on your site.
* Use images, pictures, graphics etc. They make your lens more professional and interesting and they are great for visitors to click on.
* If you have created several lenses, link your related lenses to one another. More links means more visitors and more visitors means higher rankings for your Squidoo lenses.
* Use your Squidoo lens like a blog and link it to your websites. Search engines love Squidoo and links from a high-ranking lens to your sites can really boost your traffic.
* Write good content and develop a reputation as an authority in your market. You could see massive traffic from Squidoo.
Don't be afraid to try new ideas. It's through trial and error that you will find what works best on Squidoo for your lens.
Go and create a lens at Squidoo.... 
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HubPages is another social-bookmarking or social networking website!
A Hub is a rich web page that you write and design. Each time you want to write another article, you'll create another Hub. It's just like in a website, which has multiple web pages. You have the capability to add text, pictures, videos, and links in your Hub.
You can easily publish information on a topic you love to write about. Simple to use, 100% free, HubPages allows you to:
Publish online with easy, non-techie tools
Be widely read thanks to the heavy internet traffic of HubPages
Create ongoing royalty opportunities with Google, eBay and Amazon and Kontera.
What's a Hub?
A Hub is a rich web page that you write and design. Each time you want to write another article, you'll create another Hub. It's just like in a website, which has multiple web pages. You have the capability to add text, pictures, videos, and links in your Hub.
What's a Hubber?
A Hubber is anyone who creates a Hub.
How do you make a Hub?
There are four simple steps.
1. Create: You’ll need to create an account (It only takes a minute or two.)
2. Name: Pick a title for your Hub, and add some tags that describe it.
3. Add: Create the content capsules of your choice (Text, photo, products, comments, etc.)
and fill them with whatever you’d like.
4. Publish.
WRITE EXCELLENT, INFORMATIVE AND UNIQUE HUBS
PROMOTE YOUR HUBS
PATIENCE
How does the program work?
The HubPages “Royalties” provides you with an easy way to take advantage of the Internet’s top ad revenue and commission generating tools.
* You can set up affiliate accounts with Google, eBay and Amazon.
* Google automatically displays ads in your Hub that are relevant to your topic.
* eBay and Amazon products can be featured in your Hub – you decide which products to light.
* Kontera contextual link ads can be turned on or off either on all your Hubs, or on a Hub-by-Hub basis.
HubPages earns its revenue from these ads, so they split the impressions with the writers.
Go and create a hub at HubPages....
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