In October of 2005 Author, Speaker and Blogger Seth Godin founded Squidoo. Squidoo is a network of user generated pages which they call lenses. Currently one of the top 500 sites that are closely tracked by Alexa.



Lenses contain your ideas, expertise, views and recommendations on just about any topic.

Using Squidoo to drive Traffic.

Follow these easy steps:

Create your Squidoo Account. Build your lense. Create a link to your site.

To Create your Squidoo Account you will go to http://www.squidoo.com. Click on the signup button at the top.

It is easy to design you page using Squidoo as they have a modular design. The basic modules are You Tube Videos, Text list, Orbitz, Text/Write, RSS, Link List, Google Blog Search, Guest Book, Flickr photos, Del.ico.us bookmarks, and Ebay.

There are other categories which contain additional modules. Plexo, New!, Money and Search A-Z

Squidoo has a very nice revenue sharing module. Your site modules and adsense ads will generate money and you can contribute that to charity, take it all for yourself or split it between charity and yourself.

I haven't tested it but I read that if you share your money with charity you will get a better ranking. We are not really building the page for money but rather to drive traffic so we will continue on.

You will need to have a link to your site. You can do this by using the introduction or using the text module. Including a free report here is also a good idea.

Now would be a good idea to take a look at how a page looks. While your browsing my page how about giving it a quick rank by clicking on the stars at the top. This ranking system is how you will get your site ranked higher and get more traffic. 5 stars is the best.

http://www.squidoo.com/buildyouremaillist/

You will see that this ranking system is how you can get your site viewed more. The better your site ranking the higher you get listed in the squidoo search system.

To raise your ranking you can join Squidoo groups and send people to visit your site and rank it.

With a Alexa Ranking of 487 having a page on squidoo will most certainly get listed in the search engines.

Thank you for reading my article on driving traffic using Squidoo.