Squidoo : the importance of blogging

I can't stress enough the importance of blogging
to support your Squidoo lenses.

Blogging will boost your Squidoo lensrank and Google
PR rank as well as bring you targeted visitors and
increased income.

Adding your blog's RSS feed to your lens will provide
fresh content whenever you update your blog.

[Note: even though the feed from your latest post
shows on your lens, you still need to edit and publish
the revised lens to get acknowledgement of the
update in your Squidoo dashboard - I've checked this
over multiple lenses.]

The value of a blogging is beyond dispute. Both Squidoo
and Google love fresh, unique content.

I had real proof of the impact of a blog feed on Squidoo
Lensrank over the past few weeks. Two of my new lenses,
with different blog feeds, achieved a lens rank of around
1,200 within two weeks of creation.

I attribute this to two key actions:
1. daily updating (however small the change)
2. incorporation of a blog feed

So create a blog today and get the RSS feed linked
to your lens - you will be presently surprised.

If you want a comparative review of blogging
products to help you blog, check this site out:
http://www.squidooaffiliatemarketing.com/howtoblog

Here's some further blogging resources I have created
on Squidoo lenses:

Review of Blogger's Paycheck
Write great blog content
Create a Blog Today
Latest changes to Blogging
State of the Art Blogging Training
Blog Success Case Study (with principles of sound blogging)


COMMENT

Giant Squid, thefluffanutta, left this comment on my post:

"Unfortunately, because of how the RSS module has
been implemented, Google and other search engines
cannot see your feeds. All they see is an empty
module, with no links, and which doesn't get
updated. You can observe this yourself by looking
at the source code, or looking at the 'text only'
cache of the lens on Google.

The RSS Module is still good for real visitors
though, as it showcases your most recent blog
posts. This brings traffic to your blog, and the
clickouts from your lens will help its Lensrank."

RESPONSE from Ron

The RSS feed, as thefluffanutta mentions, does
not impact Google.  However, the original post
itself does and the more frequently you post on
your blog the better (provided it is on the topic
of your blog's focus). By way of example, I
noticed recently that one of my earlier posts
ended up in the 5th position on the first page of
Google results for a targeted keyword that had
4.3 Million results. In summary then, regular
blogging helps your Google ranking/positioning
and the RSS feed to your lens, helps to boost
lensrank.

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Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and
Giant Squid. He provides free resources
for Squidoo affiliate marketing on his Squidoo lens:

http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies

To learn more about Squidoo Affiliate Marketing

check out:

http://www.squidooaffiliatemarketing.com

Subscribe to Ron's free Squidoo Marketing e-course:

http://www.smsecourse.squidoomarketingstrategies.com/

Ron is the author of the ebook:

Squidoo Marketing Strategies

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Squidoo Marketing Strategies: Create a Squidoo Group

You can create a Squidoo Group and establish yourself
as an expert in your area. All the lenses in the group
will point to your own lens.

As Groupmaster, you control the content of the Group
lens.

The process for creating a group is very similar to that
of creating a lens. To create a Squidoo Group, go to your
Lens Dashboard and click on the "My Groups" Tab and
then click on "Start a Group".

Think about the name you use (the URL) but do not
use the name of an affiliate program. Then create your
description so that it reflects your theme and core
keywords.

You can develop an introduction to orientate potential
group members and incoprorate a hyperlink.

As Groupmaster, you can control the settings for
the group, e.g. deciding who can join your group and
rejecting Lensmasters who do not contribute to group
goals.

The key aspect is that you can control the
content of the group lens. For example you can
create these modules:
- featured lensmasters (with their icon)
- featured lenses
- new lenses (automatically generated for new members)
- links plexo
- poll module
- Amazon plexo
- text/write module

You can also add RSS feeds and include links to your
own blog feed (or other feeds with your ID embedded
- see below for RSS Ground *).

Be sure to add a Group Discussion (guestbook) module so
that visitors can add new content to the Group Lens via
their comments. You can facilitate this by asking them to
comment on some aspect of the theme of the Group.

Besides the excellent Group exemplars already available
on Squidoo, there are some great resources to
help you establish a group:

1. Margaret Schaut's lens which gives you tips on how to
brighten up your Group Headquarters
(Group Lens):
http://www.squidoo.com/headquarters_tips/

2. The Squidoo Design Team that will create
logos for your Squidoo group at no charge:
http://www.squidoo.com/groups/squidoo-design


Well, I decided to put my own recommendations into
practice. Here's my Squidoo Marketing Group that I
published for the first time yesterday:
http://www.squidoo.com/groups/squidoomarketing

If you have a lens related to this group topic, please come
and join my new group.


*RECOMMENDED PRODUCT/SERVICE

RSS Ground generates affilate-coded RSS feeds for Clickbank,
Amazon.com and Ebay. You just add your keyword and your
relevant ID (e.g. your Clickbank username) and RSS Ground
will generate the code for your affiliate-embedded RSS feeds for
your Squidoo lens, blog or website. RSS Ground also provides
RSS code for news, video, blog, audio and tag feeds. You can
check it out here:
http://www.mgwaycorp.com/cmd.php?Clk=2030602

If you want to see RSS Ground in operation, check out the
Clickbank RSS feed on Squidoo ebooks and reports on my
lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies

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