SEO Tip #2 - Using Squidoo for Backlinks

If you haven't heard of Squidoo.com than you had better take a minute and check it out. Squidoo is a web 2.0 community of webpages on just about every topic. The web pages are called lenses and they are user created so you can imagine how many different subjects there are.

The biggest reason why so many SEO experts use Squidoo is that Google tends to favor Squidoo in the search results. Google also tends to give Squidoo pages a page rank of around 3 in a matter of weeks. SO you can really leverage Squidoo by building quality lenses and linking them back to your money site. The best way to go about this is target the lens around some keywords with moderate traffic so you can try and direct some of that traffic to your site.

Depending on how big of a niche your business or site is in, you might want to think about making a Squidoo profile dedicated to your site. For example you would use whatever your site's main keyword was as your profile name and build lenses around topics in your niche.

That way you could wind up building 5 to 10 Lenses and having tons of high page rank back links to your site. Squidoo allows you to edit with html so you can make anchor text links with in the content of the lens and they always have the follow tag as long as your lens is featured.

There are even marketers out there who's main promotion tool is making Squidoo lenses. They build lenses and get them to rank extremely well in the serps in sometimes highly competitive markets. This is definitely something to say about the authority of the Squidoo domain and value google places on Squidoo lenses.

If you decide to build a Squidoo profile and promote your site you definitely won't regret it. Just make sure you put in a solid effort to the content you create and make your lenses good resources on your subject. You also have to promote the lenses individually with a few bookmarks and various back links. Than you can just give it some time and Google should give the pages some love.

Check out Squidoo and use it to strengthen your search engine presence today!

http://www.squidoo.com

Good Luck!