30 Ways to Increase Squidoo Traffic

Proper promotion is one of the keys to SquidSuccess, and here I’ve made up a list of ways to promote lenses that I have found particularly useful. Have any to add that I missed? Feel free to add them in a comment below.

1. Make something worth talking about and repeating.

2. Add unique, updated, and useful content to your lens.

3. Add new tags to your lens. You can have up to 40.

4. Submit your lens to one of the many lens groups, or create your own.

5. Join StumbleUpon and submit your lens.

6. Add your lens RSS feed to Zimbio and submit your lenses to appropriate Wikizines (Zimbio’s groups).

7. Submit your lenses to Lensroll (but only a couple a day please!)

8. Post to social bookmarking sites such as Digg and Del.icio.us–but don’t be spammy about it!

9. Comment on other people’s lenses with related, useful comments and links.

10. Comment on related blogs with a link to your related lens.

11. Start up your own blog, completely free, and promote your lenses there.

12. Build a few lenses on the same topic and cross-promote them.

13. Write good articles about your lens topic and submit them to places like ezinearticles, of course don’t forget to link to your lens.

14. Promote your lens on social networks like MySpace and Facebook.

15. Put links to one or two of your lenses in your signature at forums you hang out at.

16. Ask for feedback and help about your lens on SquidU.

17. Tell your friends about your lenses.

18. Include a link to one of your lenses in your email signature.

19. Build your lenses around specific keywords with low competition, by using tools such as Google’s Keyword Tool.

20. Start up a Monkeybrain and disagree with someone about something. Create a (fun) controversy.

21. Include interactive stuff in your lenses like polls, plexos, and guestbooks.

22. Focus on a few things about a topic in your lens; don’t try to include everything.

23. Ping your lens and notify the search engines and some directories of its creation or change.

24. Submit your lenses to Squidoo directories like Isle of Squid, Squoogle, Squidom, and LensMasterWorld.

25. Build linkbait lenses–lenses that people find useful and interesting and will likely link to, thus bringing you more traffic.

26. Improve your writing skills by taking a class at a local community college or something. It’s worth the investment.

27. Be original and creative about your lenses. Don’t copy other people’s work–they will hate you for it and so will the search engines.

28. Edit your lenses often and add more UUU (unique, updated, useful) content. Can’t emphasize this enough.

29. Fill a need. Find something people want badly and build the bridge that takes them to it.

30. Above all, don’t spam. It pays to take the time to create something of quality.