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While I do realize that a lot of you may have already heard of Squidoo, I still wanted to make a post about it to let the users who haven’t heard about it get a chance at using it, as well as being able to use this post as a reference in future link building posts.
Squidoo is a huge community powered site that allows users to write about topics they are “experts” in. In return for writing these articles (they call them lens’), Squidoo shares half of the advertising revenue with you and also gives you anchor text backlinks inside your articles.
Squidoo has previously been hit with a Google penalty for being so heavily spammed with pharmaceutical and casino related articles, but it is still worth the time to write a lens about something and include links to your site/blog in it, as nobody can compete with free backlinks! Even after the penalty has hit them, hundreds of their pages still rank in the first few pages of Google and send monstrous amounts of traffic to the pages.
This is part 25 of my series called the link building cookbook that aims to be the ultimate link building resource on the web.
I haven’t used Squidoo because I haven’t seen anyone break it down as well as you did… nice and simple.
Squidoo would be good to build a backlink to like your main page, and 3 internal links, all with the anchor text of your choice.
I use squidoo to post articles as well and include more than the normal 3 links that article directories allow you.
Squidoo is indeed worthy to have a try.
Good information and using Squidoo is a great way to generate traffic and links back to your website. Don’t worry you new guys, its easy to set-up and easy to build a Squidoo lens, just follow the instructions.
Pugsley
Squidoo is really a lot of fun,easy to use and is a way for people to create their own web page that can discuss anything that is relevant to their lives.
I love your link building guide.