Build Your Squidoo Lens

color="#339966">your word or phrase</b>

There you go. That should be all you need for now. HTML is not very difficult. You just need to learn a handfull of tags and you can do a lot. If you more help, just leave me a comment with your email address and I will get back to you.

Take notice that in my lens intro I created a link to my Hub page and two links to the Grafixplus home page which is our ultimate target. One of the links used our target keyword phrase and the other used Grafixplus. If I was promoting an affiliate product, I would do the same. One link to the product affiliate page using the keyword as anchor text and the other link using the name of the product. I used the same linking strategy on my Hub page. Two links to Grafixplus and one link to my Squidoo lens that targets my keyword phrase for Grafixplus.

OK, back to the Squidoo lens set up. After you create an awesome intro lens you can use the base package to get started. Go ahead and set up an RSS module. Try not to use the same feed that you used on price levitra your Hub page. If you are in a hurry you can but make sure you go back and change it after a day or two. The same goes with the You Tube module, look for another video.

I used the same videos on both because they are really high quality vdeos, created by the guys at Stompernet, with extremely relevant contenet to my keyword phrase. Also, the owners at Grafixplus are working on a video that I will use on which ever page is in the lead. It is always better if you can create your own video but I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. There are usually plenty of good videos on You Tube to chose from.

I would go ahead and use the Amazon module and then make sure you change the title on Guest Book. If you don't set up at least the intro and 3 modules, your lens will not be published. It will be listed as under construction. You have enough with the intro, rss, youtube, and amazon modules. You can always use another text module to add more content but I wouldn't go over board at first. It is better to set up a basic lens and see how it does in the search results. If hasn't done what you want in a couple weeks then you can slowly start adding modules.

That doesn't mean that you can't do it now. If you feel frogy then go for it. Click on the add modules button and browse through the screens. There are over 100 different modules you can add. I like the link modules and the poll modules. The poll modules let your visitors interact and the link modules give you a chance to promote some of your stuff. I belong to a program called Squidoo Secrets that I always set up a text module and promote on all of my lenses.

That should get you going on your Squidoo lens. If you need any help feel free to leave me a comment. I didn't go over this in baby steps because most of it is straight foward and self explainitory. You want to make sure that you put your keyword phrase in the url, if possible, and in all of the module titles. Use the same setup as your Hub page but try and use different rss feeds and videos to prevent any duplicate content penalties that Google is know to access.

When you finish with your lens, make sure you click on the "Publish" button and your site will be live. Then make sure you submit it to Onlywire. The next post we will start promoting in earnest. I want you to sign up for accounts at the following Web 2.0 sites:

Stumbleupon, Technorati, Digg, Propeller, Shoutwire, Reddit, PlugIM, Newsvine, and MarkTD.

If it takes me a while to get the next post up, (I'm soooooo busy), then go ahead and submit your Hub page and Squidoo lens to all of the above except for Digg and Propeller. These two are very picky and will ban your account if you do anything the least bit spammy.