When most people first hear the word “Squidoo”, they have no idea what in the world that means! It is a funny name for a site, however this particular website certainly packs a powerful punch when it comes to driving traffic to your own websites. Because Squidoo has garnered such a great page rank and important with Google, you can use it to give “juice” to your own site.

Let’s say for example that you want to target a keyword phrase such as “lose weight for your wedding”.

Right now, that phrase may have stiff competition. If you created a website of your own, it may take years to even begin to crack the top 10 on Google. There are likely many sites on page 1 that have been around a long time or have a lot of back links.

To overcome them, you would have to do a lot of work on search engine optimization, back linking, article writing and more tasks just to attempt to over take them. However, you want to start making money now, right?

A better idea is to create your website, but then also create an adjoining Squidoo lens (these little mini sites are called lenses). Because Google tends to like Squidoo, you could rise to the top much easier using a Squidoo site.

However, you DO still want to have your own website because it will be something you own that you can control.

You just use Squidoo to point traffic to your own website. So, you will create a Squidoo lens which uses the keyword phrase that you are targeting. Google will pick that up and start sending people to your lens.

On your Squidoo, you will use anchor text to point people to your website. However, you must be careful that you do not violate any of the terms of service at Squidoo as there are certain topics that they no longer allow because they were too spammy.

Also, make sure that you do provide valuable content as well as a lot of interaction for your visitors so that they will want to click through to your website.

The more content you have, including polls, comments and video, the better chance you will have of getting a higher ranking and thus more traffic from Google. Using Squidoo is one great way to generate more traffic to your website very quickly.

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