Do you use  Squidoo to help promote your sites? If not you should. Another great use for Squidoo is to promote affiliate products. Sort of a Bum Marketing tactic. I’ve used it for all these items and have quite a few lenses I have created on various subjects. One of the most powerful features of Squidoo is the speed with which a lense will gain search engine rankings in Google and they will also get some decent page rank with just a little promotion. You can then use your lenses to get other websites a visit from the Google Bot.

But one thing that has always been missing from Squido was a stats package. If you wanted any information about where your traffic was coming from or anything else about your visitors you where forced to put some third part tracking code on you lenses and then you where only allows HTML tracking code which severely limited the type of stats you could gather. Well its not that way anymore. The team at Squido have rolled out a new feature that gives you information on where your visitors are coming from as well as what links they clicked on. Great stuff. If you have not looked at your account today, you may want to check out the features.

[tags]squidoo, stats, lens, affiliate, bum marketing[/tags]

Well a week has went by in the Squidoo Challenge and I’m holding the number one slot with a rank of #89 for my lens at http://www.squidoo.com/affiliate-marketing-guide

I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to hold onto this position as there are some very talented people in this contest and several are coming up fast. I’ve actually learned a lot about Squidoo as a result of this contest and I really want to share some of it. Alot of people focus on the stars and think that has everything to do with gaining rank, I’m not so sure that has a lot to do with actual rank. I’m sure it is considered in the ranking formula, but I don’t think its as important as some of the old time lensmasters think. One of the most important aspects of ranking is fresh content. You have to keep the lens fresh or it won’t continue to rise in the ranks. There are also some other tricks that will help you rise even more. The key is to read the help files and observe what modules the most popular lenses use. I believe the modules you employ also contributes to how your lens ranks. I have no hard evidence to this but its would appear that certain modules can help you rank better.

[tags]squidoo, modules, squidoo ranks[/tags]