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Using Squidoo to drive Traffic.

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I know your asking what is Squidoo. In this article you are going to learn what squidoo is and how to use it to drive traffic to your site.

One of the top 500 closely watched sites by Alexa, Squido founded by Speaker and Author Seth Godin is a network of user generated pages which they call lenses.

When you create a lense you fill it with your own topics, views or recommendations on just about any subject you like.

How to Use Squidoo to drive Traffic.

Here are the steps:

Create your Squidoo Account. Build your lense. Create a link to your site.

To Create your Squidoo Account you will go to http://www.squidoo.com. Click on the signup button at the top.

Once you have signed up you will need to design your page. Using the squidoo modules you will be able to simply create the page. The Basic modules are Ebay, Del.ico.us bookmarks, Flickr photos, Guest Book, Google Blog Search, Link List, RSS, Text/Write, Orbitz, Text list, and You Tube Videos.

Some of the other modules are contained in other categories like New!, Plexo, Search A-Z and Money.

Squidoo is very different from other sites as you will get to share in the money made from adsense or any of the modules you setup on your lense. You can give your share to charity, split it and give a portion to charity and a portion to youself, or keep it all for yourself.

I haven't tested it but I read that if you share your money with charity you will get a better ranking. We are not really building the page for money but rather to drive traffic so we will continue on.

Now to get your link on the squidoo site you will want to add the Text/Write module or you can add it to your introduction page. It's a good idea to have something to offer. Like a free report.

Let's take a look at a completed squidoo page. As you visit my page how about giving it a quick rank by clicking on the stars. 5 stars is the best.

http://www.squidoo.com/buildyouremaillist/

To get your site ranked higher the ranking system is how you will get your site listed higher in the listings. Which will give you more traffic.

To get a better ranking just send people to rank your site. Another method is to become active in the squidoo groups.

As of the writing of this article squidoo has an Alexa Rank of 487. With that you can be assured that your page on squidoo will be picked up by the search engines which in turn will bring you some organic traffic as well.

Thank you for reading my article on using Squidoo to drive Traffic.