When you think of Squidoo traffic power, you’re thinking of it in two ways - how to get traffic to your website using Squidoo and how to get traffic to Squidoo lenses in the first place! What you need is a Squidoo traffic power plan, and I have one for you.

First things first - let’s figure out the best ways to get your lens tuned up for maximum Squidoo traffic power. Here’s what you have to do to GET the target audience in the door in the first place:

1.) Optimize your lens using tags in the right places. See my other posts here for more on that.

2.) Provide plenty of content using a wide range of broad and narrow keywords.

3.) Now go get ‘em! Get online and bookmark your lenses using StumbleUpon, Digg, Del.icio.us, and every other bookmarking system you can think of.

4.) Tweet your lens creations. If you’re working with Twitter and are developing a decent following, you should have plenty of Twitter Traffic funneling to your lenses.

5.) Put it in your sig file! Created a lens about alternative health? Join a forum on the topic and put the link to your lens in your signature. Then participate in the forum for targeted traffic.

6.) Blog about it. Go ahead and set up a free blog on Blogger.com or WordPress.com if not on your own domain and send people your way! For example, right here inthis post I can blog about a relevant lens I created at http://www.squidoo.com/squidooresidualincome

7.) Email your list about it. You don’t have a list? Uh oh! My list made me over $7,000 last week with an email that took me just 2 minutes to whip up. Lists are vital. Sometimes when I email my list about a tip, I’ll just stick a URL to a lens beneath my name. It gets clicks even though I didn’t point it out and tell them to go there!

8.) Join and start groups on Squidoo to not only provide more eyeballs to your lens URL but to get Googlebots scouring your lens. Group pages, unlike tag pages, still have follow tags in place!

Now you’ve got ‘em there, what do you do to get the Squidoo traffic power momentum continuing so they hit your domain?

Well not everyone wants to send their traffic to another stop. If not, you can sell right there from your lens! Sell tangibles from Amazon, sell your digital downloads, sell affiliate products. But if you’re using Squidoo as a pitstop to warm up your visitors for a conversion into buyer, then here’s how to put your Squidoo traffic power plan into action and keep them clicking through:

Some things are obvious and rehashed, but necessary:

1.) Provide valuable content. If your lens sucks, so will your product. So make it a good one. Impressive, “bookmarkable.”

2.) Give them plenty of content. In addition to quality, make sure you have enough quantity on there. Just enough to whet the appetite, not enough to provide an entire solution so they don’t need you anymore.

Other things aren’t so obvious to the masses:

3.) Add a link to your domain and its DEPTH pages thoroughout every module where it’s possible. This includes text hyperlinks in write/text modules, in the description of guestbooks, polls, and even Amazon modules. Add a link in your bio box on that lens!!

4.) Hyperlink your poll options.

5.) Hyperlink images. Host a picture of your ecover on your server and use normal HTML code to hyperlink it to your domain. Align it next to your text so the words wrap around it.

6.) ASK PEOPLE to click through. You didn’t forget your call to action, did you? Not everyone sees a link and clicks through. Tell them what to do.

7.) Offer incentives. Go ahead and bribe. On my lens at http://www.squidoo.com/InfoProductKillerReview I have a stickynote that declares I have a code that gets them $68 off the public price of the product.

8.) Keep them in your funnel by using the Featured Lens module. This way, if one lens isn’t up to snuff, the others might be able to convert into a click-through for you. And if you see that one lens isn’t converting, roll up your sleeves and put some elbow grease into it to get it working better for you.

Having a Squidoo Traffic Power Plan in place makes it a whole lot easier for you to get visitors to your lens and then off your lens to your domain.
Tiff

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