Steps to create a Squidoo Lens

Are you aware of squidoo? If not then probably you are missing a very big opportunity. For those, who are hearing this word for first time, Squidoo is a web 2.0 website which allows you to create a free blog. Squidoo has got a wonderful user interface and even people with less technical knowledge can create blogs. Squidoo is a free program and there are lots of people who use this website to share their thoughts. Squidoo also have high page rank and it have millions of users. This makes this squidoo important tool for webmasters and internet marketers. It can also be used as to tool to promote your products in affiliate marketing.

Squidoo can be a big source of traffic for your website. This can also be used as link building and promotion of your blog. The important thing is creating a squidoo lens is very easy. You need not to be a computer geek; all you need is a little bit of creativity. Our main idea is to create a squidoo lens and put link of your website there.

Follow the given steps and you are done:

1. Open the squidoo website www.squidoo.com and sign up for your free account.

2. Click on the “Start Building” button. Pick a subject. Note that this subject should be the main keyword of your website. This keyword will attract people to your squidoo and lens.

3. Squidoo asks you to mention your reason to create this squidoo lens. Be creative here as this will attract people to visit your blog.

4. After that write the title of your squidoo lens. Preferably use “how to”, “what is” in the title. This makes your title more attractive. Also include your main keyword in title. Do not choose irrelevant keywords as this can decrease your search engine standing.

5. Then you will be redirected to layout page. Select suitable layout for your squidoo lens and save these changes.

6. You can also add more modules by clicking on “Add Modules” button.

7. Do all the required changes and your page is now ready to publish. Press publish button and your squidoo lens will be published on internet.

Squidoo allows you to edit your lenses even after publishing. Just go to the dashboard and edit them. Creating a squidoo lens is very simple. The best thing is squidoo lenses do not need much maintenance.

Take care while selecting content for your squidoo. To rank your squidoo higher in search engines, you need to have good keyword density of your main keyword. This thing will not bother you if you are a good writer or else you can hire a freelancer for this work.

Squidoo lens allows you to add videos and pictures in your lens. This makes your lens more attractive and search engine optimized. Make a good use of this website and publicize your blog and products.