Comments on: Should You Squidoo?

By: cchiovitti

cchiovitti — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:26:48 +0000

I’ve been on Squidoo since last May and I’m really pleased with it so far. One thing that I have noticed is that unless you have some serious link juice going inbound, you really need to work your butt off to promote them for a while. It takes about 3 months for a lens to really be able to be sustainable as evergreen content.

By: Fery

Fery — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:11:54 +0000

Actually I’ve joined squidoo for year but I still don’t use it for anything, may be from now I can start using that as you suggest

By: SEO for Beginners

SEO for Beginners — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:33:08 +0000

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By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:41:12 +0000

I should have added: Evan, I think you would like Squidoo. There are a lot of folks there who purely want to share information about what they care about. Yes, there are plenty of more obvious “marketers” too, but it’s a very friendly space if you primarily want to share your enthusiasm and expertise.

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:38:34 +0000

@Evan, Squidoo is more like a very-easy-to-update static Web page than a blog. It’s not really intended to add article-style content to regularly, it’s more static than that. (Which is nice because you can ignore them for quite awhile without doing major damage. Within reason, and obviously they do better if you put more into them.)

Also, the squidoo.com domain has tremendous credibility with Google (the Squidoo Google slap is long gone, IMO, since Squidoo got very tough with any kind of content that smells like spam), so you can get a first page listing surprisingly quickly and easily depending on what keywords you’re trying for.

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By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:33:57 +0000

“By the way, the best kind of marketing doesn’t look like or seem like it, such as building genuine relationships with people and giving with no expectation of return.”

Well said! The power of recommendation…. permission marketing… what ever you want to call it. Stop selling and sell more.

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:32:29 +0000

@Evan - that’s a great question. How much traffic does a new blog get? About none. So the big difference with something like Squidoo is that it already has a lot of existing traffic. This is a case where competition isn’t a bad thing because you know people are searching on those keywords.

By the way, the best kind of marketing doesn’t look like or seem like it, such as building genuine relationships with people and giving with no expectation of return.

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:22:14 +0000

Thanks Michael.

I’ve never really checked out Squidoo and so haven’t really known what it’s all about. Also I’m naturally averse to marketing of any kind (which doesn’t help in a whole range of ways).

My question: it seems that a lens is just another blog. What are the advantages of a lens compared with setting up another blog (if any) - it seems like you need to be writing content in the same way?

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:19:01 +0000

@Jennifer - Those are some impressive numbers! Now you make me feel even worse for not keeping up with my lenses! I will update them soon and add to them, I promise!