Gaining Traffic and Subscribers With My Squidoo Lens

Well I decided to see what all the buzz was about and join Squidoo. I had read some good reviews about the program in the past and found some interesting information on peoples lenses before. I have also found that they rank well in Google if the titles are relevant. I am going to update my lense just one time per day, most likely with a list since that does not take very long to do. Then chat the results and see if this site is helpful or just overhyped.

It is a platform designed to make it easy for anyone, for free, to set up a single page on a topic he or she knows or cares a lot about.

Squidoo is a network of user-generated pages called lenses. These are single pages that highlight one person’s point of view, recommendations, or expertise. Lens’s can be about anything, such as ideas, people or places, hobbies and sports, pets or products, philosophy, and politics. Lenses aren’t primarily intended to hold content; more emphasis is placed on recommending and then pointing to content on the web. Annotation and organization and personalization delivers context and meaning.

Here is a better explanation taken from their FAQ. I added a bit to some parts for my thoughts.

WHY SHOULD I BUILD A LENS? Great question! Here are just a few reasons to get you creative muses flowing:
• Share knowledge: Not everyone knows what you do, share your area of expertise with the world.

• Increase your profile: A popular lens gives credibility to the Lensmaster. A popular lens reinforces your role as an “everyday expert.” And a popular lens makes you the go-to authority for those looking for help.• Increase your traffic: Your lens points (if you want it to) to your blog and to your website. Lenses have huge credibility with search engines, so your lens can help your other sites rise to the top of Google searches.

• Earn a royalty for you, your organization, or your favorite charity. A single lens might not earn a lot, but if you imagine hundreds of lenses working to your favor, or fundraising for a charity, it can really start to add up. The lenses take less then five minutes to create you can have this many in notime at all.

In order to get my lens popular I am going to have to be part of the network it looks and peek around to see what others that have been successful are doing that makes it good. I like the fact that they are giving me 50% of the revenue that the lens makes. I doubt that even with a bunch of traffic that would be very high which is why I am going to make one lens per day. Please checkout my Squidoo page and let me know what you think of it by making a comment.