Backlinking strategy for Squidoo lenses

We all know how important SEO and backlinks are for your Squidoo rankings and your Squidoo earnings. There are numerous articles and tips about backlinks and search engine optimization that will help your lens to be seen on the first page of Google and if you want to achieve this goals you can find all the answers by browsing through the Answer Deck on Squidoo and search for SEO related lenses. If you want to make some money creating backlinks for your lenses please check out my lens Make Money with Backlinks.

Below is a simple but very powerful image that shows a link wheel for the best backlinking strategy that will boost the ranking of your lens on Squidoo and surely get your lens found in all major search engines. Click the image to view it in full size and than save it on your computer. Print it if you want. Put it on the wall near your computer. This is the ultimate strategy for creating a good SEPO strategy and using free sites for creating high quality backlinks and boost your lens rankings and earnings.

The main page in the image represent your chosen Squidoo lens in our example. The image shows the best blogging platforms, article submission  sites, bookamrking sites and some other SEO tools that you need to link from in order to start a great SEO strategy for your Squidoo lenses. Put some work into this strategy and I can assure you that your lensrank will boost very soon!

How to Check out Page Rank of your Lenses

Webmasters and bloggers know that page rank is an important part of SEO and it also benefits for advertising reasons. In this post I want to show you an awesome tool to quickly check out page rank of any website, blog or Squidoo lens.

If you're making Squidoo lenses to support your blogs and other projects than it's quite cool if you have lenses with high page rank and links from these lenses to your other online projects. Google simpatize with these pages and you will improve positions of your pages in search results.

A lot of advertising network also rank their publishers based on page rank of their submitted sites. Some of them even reject your submissions if your website don't have a required page rank for qualification. This comes handy if you try to monetize your Squidoo lenses with some other affiliate and advertising networks.

So how to check out page rank of your lenses? Simple! Check out free Page Rank Tool. You can go to the page and check it there or use the embedded tool below. Just enter the link of your Squidoo lenses and click "Check PR" button. That's it, you're done!

Check Page Rank of your Web site pages instantly:

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5 Tier 1 Lenses! WOW!

Today is anoter day for celebrating :) I will surely drink a beer or two to celebrate the latest lensrank update on Squidoo :) I now have 5 lenses in Tier 1! 2 new tier 1 lenses in one lensrank update. Ben 10 Coloring  Pages and Me Gutsa Meme climbed up to tier 1 :) Awesome :)

So what have I done to reach this?

I think that two things count the most to get the best rank on Squidoo. Traffic and clickouts. I've done a little analysis of my top 5 lenses on Squidoo and this are the two things that they have in common. Traffic and clickouts. My top lens that is ranked #130 doesn't have a single sale in almost a year. It doesn't have much backlinks! But it receives 10.000 views per week and few thousands clickouts per month. And it's my best lens.
I compared this lens to my other 4 tier 1 lens and they all have quite a lot of traffic and a lot of clickouts. Not as much sales, backlinks and likes. So I guess this is it.n Clickouts and traffic.

Increase Clickouts and Traffic to Improve your Rankings

I will surely work hard to improve next 5 lenses that rank best in tier 2 to get them into Tier 1. And you should work on your lenses too to get better rankings and get more money from AdPool. And you can see that sales and likes don't count that much in terms of overall rankings so be sure to concentrate on traffic and clickouts. Be sure to add Link List Module, Link Voting module, Amazon Modules and include related and interesting links in your text modules, pools and intro. This will surely increase the number of your clickouts and improve your rankings. Try it and observe!

Google +1 Button is now live on Squidoo!

Google recently offered bloggers and sites to add its +1 Button to their articles and content. Google +1 button is a simple bookmarking button, very similar to Facebook Like Button, that can help both bloggers and users to promote and explore good content. If you want to know more about this new Google feature please read my article Google +1 Button for Bloggers on my blog Blog of Zoso.

Google +1 Button is currently available just for Giant Squids.You can read the official announcement about this new feature and testing on Squidoo HQ Blog.

How Can This Improve My Lenses?

If you +1 a lens it will be recommended to your community and friends. So if your friends search for a specific keyword related to your lens, your lens will appear higher in search results and Google will show your recommendations to your friends and your network. This can help you to increase your traffic and gain some quality readers that are interested in the topics you're covering. People will more likely to check out something that someone has recommended to them.

What Google says
Here’s what Google has said about their goals and how this might positively affect SEO:

Content recommended by friends and acquaintances is often more relevant than content from strangers. For example, a movie review from an expert is useful, but a movie review from a friend who shares your tastes can be even better. Because of this, +1′s from friends and contacts can be a useful signal to Google when determining the relevance of your page to a user’s query. This is just one of many signals Google may use to determine a page’s relevance and ranking, and we’re constantly tweaking and improving our algorithm to improve overall search quality. For +1′s, as with any new ranking signal, we’ll be starting carefully and learning how those signals affect search quality.

Example
You’ll see the +1 button on Giant Squid lenses, next to the existing Facebook and Twitter social sharing buttons. New button looks like this:

The Google +1 button on a Giant Squid's lens

What do you think about this new feature? Do you think this new button will help to grow your traffic and rankings? Share your thoughts in comments.