Web Marketing Matt | 12 Jun 2007 09:10 am
Marketing Minute – Squidoo
Time to give away a secret. Squidoo. This site allows you to create a page on something you’re interested in (a lens). On this page you can include items for sale that you’d get a cut from, books from amazon, itunes tracks, etc. The cut you end up getting is pretty small though. The big benefit of Squidoo is the authority given to page in google results. Search for my daughters name, Georgia MacDougall (search) or how about Learning Adobe Flex (search). You should see my Squidoo Lenses as result #3 at the time of this writing.
I didn’t give any marketing related thought to either of these pages and still ranking is pretty solid.
Think about it a bit and put up something useful on Squidoo … you’ll end up becoming an authority on the subject pretty quickly.
on 12 Jun 2007 at %I:%M %p 1.MrLewisSmile said …
Hi Matt,
I have a blog about Squidoo tips and tricks you may like!
It’s at Squidoocool.com. Nothing is for sale, and everything is free. It might be useful, and over time I’m planning on adding as much content to it as I can possibly write to create a massive powerhouse of free Squidoo help info.
It might also be useful for some of your readers who join Squidoo because of your recommendation!
Nice blog post Matt,
– Lewis
on 12 Jun 2007 at %I:%M %p 2.Matt said …
You’ve got some good tips there Lewis. I like this one in particular about the long tail of squidoo.
-Matt
on 12 Jun 2007 at %I:%M %p 3.MrLewisSmile said …
Thanks Matt!
– Lewis