Squidoo Marketing Strategies - Trade a comment for a quality backlink

Every day I receive emails from internet marketers like
Derrick Van Dyke, Michael Fortin and Brad Callen.

Nowadays, these emails offer a free report, video,
ebook and/or blog post.

It is only recently that I have come to act on the
"invitation to comment" included at the end of these
emails.

I might be invited to add some comment on a video
or blog post.

Often the comment link will take me to a blog/website
with a high Google ranking (4 or 5).

This represents the perfect opportunity for me to
create a high quality, one-way backlink to my own
Squidoo lens or blog.

These top internet marketers love your comments - it
gives them much needed feedback and also boosts (or
maintains) the Google ranking of their site.

Why not keep your eye out for these invitations and
act on them to boost your own lens rank.

You can even get direct traffic to your lens from the
comment.

Here's an example:
I posted to Rosalind Gardner's blog, Net Profits Today,
on one occasion and put in a link to Rosalind's own book,
the Super Affiliate Handbook. Someone sent me an email,
said they appreciated my post and bought Rosalind's book
through my affiliate link.

Rosalind's blog has a Google ranking of 5. At the moment
she is looking for feedback on the use of Technorati tags and
is keen to hear about the challenges you face as an affiliate
marketer.

In the meantime, you could leave a comment about this
blog post (with a hyperlink to your lens/blog) in the
comment area below.

This blog has a Google ranking of 3 or 4 (depending on the
whim of Google on the day).

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Squidoo Marketing Strategies: Digg-it and Reddit your Squidoo lens

Jonathan Leger, creator of $7 Secrets, has come up with a
great strategy to get your lens crawled fast, and get
high-quality one-way links to your blogs/web sites.

Here's Jon's strategy in full:

"As you may or may not know, I'm working to rank for the
phrase "coolest guy on the planet" in Google. My site
is currently #6 out of 984,000 results for the phrase,
and it's taken me less than two months to get there.

The site catalogs my efforts to rank for the keywords,
so I suggest you read over what I'm doing if you haven't
done so recently:
http://coolestguyontheplanet.org/

The latest trick I discovered, that sent my site from
#8 to #6 in 48 hours, was creating a Squidoo lens and a
few free blogs, each at a different free blog server,
and linking all of them to the site. This created
one-way backlinks, which is no surprise or secret.

What WAS new to me, though, was a method I tested to
get the lens and the blogs indexed in Google FAST
(within 48 hours).

To accomplish this, I submitted links to the lens and the
blogs as Digg.com stories, and also submitted them as
del.icio.us and Reddit.com links.

Since those three sites have very high PageRank (Digg and
del.icio.us are both PR8, and Reddit.com is a PR7), the
links to the lens and blogs were crawled within hours,
and the sites showed up in Google within 48 hours.

This means that the links pointing to the "coolest guy"
site got picked up in that same 48 hour period, and it
appears that Google applied the effects of the links
in that same period of time, jumping me up 2 slots from
#8 to #6. In addition to that, I also submitted links
directly to the "coolest guy" site to Digg.com,
del.icio.us and Reddit.com, adding 3 more high-powered
one-way links for Google to crawl and count.

How much difference does 2 slots make in traffic? A lot
more than you might expect! At #8 I was receiving 15 to
25 visitors a day to the site. After moving up 2 slots,
I'm now receiving 30 - 65 visitors a day -- more than
double!

So if you're trying to move up in the ranks of Google,
create some good content blogs and a Squidoo lens
and link them to your site, then submit stories to
Digg.com, del.icio.us and Reddit.com to get them crawled
and indexed fast.

Jonathan Leger
www.AskJonLeger.com "

NOTE: Emphasis added - do not create empty or spam blogs
as some people are doing. This will incur the wrath of
Google and Squidoo!


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http://www.squidoomarketingstrategies.com

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Squidoo Marketing Strategies: The Squidoo-Google Dance

How do you get multiple listings on Google's first page?

You do what I did and create the Squidoo-Google Dance.

This strategy builds on a previous post:
Use Squidoo to Leverage Your Writing

Here are the basic steps for the Squidoo-Google Dance:

1. Create a Squidoo lens on "Your Keyword"

2. Start a blog on "Your Keyword" (or re-focus an existing blog)

3. Write an article on "Your Keyword" with the resource box
linking to your blog AND your lens.

4. Submit your article to article directories.

5. Create links from your Squidoo lens and blog to your article(s).

6. Set up an RSS feed from your blog to your Squidoo lens.

7. Start posting to your blog with "Your Keyword" in your post title.

8. Ping the blog directories for your blog and lens with each post.

So what is happening?

You have created a dynamic interaction (dance)
between your blog, your Squidoo lens and your articles.

• Your blog and Squidoo lens are being updated simultaneously.
• Your articles are creating backlinks to your lens and blog.
• Your blog and Squidoo lens are creating backlinks to your articles.

By PINGING you are inviting Google to join the dance!


P.S. Make sure you have submitted your Squidoo lens and your blog
to the blog directories and search engines.

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Marketing Strategies eBook (includes regular
updates):

http://www.squidoomarketingstrategies.com

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