Content Development, SEO, Squidoo Lenses and Assorted Mayhem

Being able to link lenses effectively from your links, link to your main content pages and to affiliate sites is critical, and Squidoo gives you great tools to make that easy and effectively channel traffic where you want it to go. Here are a few of my favorite methods – Linking Squidoo Lenses

More article submission philosophy and application, with some sites thrown in for good measure. I think my other article lens is better for sites that you will actually use. – Article Traffic.

Bonus: Here is the first lens promoting people that I’ve referred to Constant Content. I’m still serious. If you sign up using my referral link, and produce content, I will promote you. Win/Win. – Terisa Green – Constant Content Author

Alas, the developing coolness that was LaunchTags is gone.

LaunchTags was a great little site where you could make minipages and monetize them. They were great for promoting a bunch of related Squidoo lenses, where you could provide some content and then list related lenses at the bottom.

It was simple to use, looked clean and was another high quality promotional tool, as well as having it’s own good little community.

If you guys are out there, your site was rising in ranking, people were using it. Give it another chance!

On the plus side, the domain is available, so considering all of the sites that are pointing to it (Google: launchtags), someone might be able to get a nice boost to whatever they put there (ideally, another minipage site).

It’s been a while since my last post, so It’s best if I be useful!

I’ll start by posting my series of helpful lenses, those that help you improve your lenses on Squidoo, and additional lenses that give you information about certain modules and functions on Squidoo.

Today’s featured lenses:

My Favorite Squidoo Backlink Sites – These are the sites I use to develop backlinks to my Squidoo lenses, including Squidoo directories and of course, Squidtop itself.

How to Submit Articles for Backlinks and Traffic – Alternate content on alternate content rocks, and finding good article sites to post your content to can give you incredible range, more traffic and quality backlinks. Check out my list and my philosophy behind article traffic.

Also: Constant Content Guide – I created a guide to help users get started with Constant Content. It isn’t directly related to Squidoo but if you have original content including photos and drawings, then you can use them there and make some money, or modify your original text content on Squidoo to be sold as blog posts or whatever. CC is just getting started, and not everyone is aware of it, so I promote it at every opportunity. It’s a great original content machine that can earn you real money.

Soon: I’ll post my promotion lenses for CC referrals. That’s right! If you sign up to use Constant Content using my referral link, I’ll promote your content. We both win!

Cheers to the Squidtop team for getting everything back up!

It wasn’t enough to create a list of sites that are excellent lens submissions sites, but with the rash of sites going down, I created a lens that shows my favorite sites, and which are up and running as opposed to those that are down for maintenance or worse.

I also talk about my favorite article and press release sites, and other sites that are Squidoo-friendly for putting the word out and getting backlinks.

Check out My Favorite Squidoo Backlink Sites.

In my quest to find more and better places to submit Squidoo lenses to, I’m in the process of playing with Stumpedia,  LaunchTags,  JumpTags and I am just getting into the complexity that is tagfoot.

Stumpedia organizes your links and lets people vote them up or down, and updates the home page with recent changes.

LaunchTags allows you to create mini-pages and you can add your adsense to the pages, of which you split it evenly wth LaunchTags

Jumptags efficiently organizes bookmarks and makes them public to everyone.

Tagfoot allows you to submit bookmarks and even wishlists.  Tagfoot also allows you to incorporate adsense and they developed this video to combine tagfoot, Twitter and Adsense and get some cash for your clicks.

Some Squid Directories have undergone changes and I have discovered some more so I’m updating my list:

Article Troll – Recently revamped to be an all-Squidoo site. Allows 2 backlinks for every submission. No registration.
Lensroll – Still a great standby -  a Digg-like model with a top 100,000 Alexa rating.
Squidom – Another Digg-like directory, not as well ranked as lensroll, but a good place to put links.
Squoogle – Currently down to catch up on submissions.
BumpZee – Highly respected site, but is currently on hiatus – more info here would be appreciated.
Isle of Squid – Another good resource.  Was attached to Squidpedia, which seems to be down now.
Squidoo Mixx (Mixx for Squidoo members)
Squidixx Mixx (Also Mixx for Squidooers)
Lensmasters Mixx (Another Squid Mixx site)
Tower Promote – Just submit your link – no registration. You can upgrade your listing for $5.
Best Free Forums – A forum devoted to Squidoo Lenses only. Each Squidoo category is represented.
Lensmasterworld – Multiple subscription levels to promote your lenses, including a free subscription with less bells and whistles. The site is apparently also for sale if you want your own lens directory.
Squidoo Ink Pot – Add a lens, no registration.

I have these sites in my SquidU signature, but tried to add more and ran out of room, so I thought this was a good place to add them.

If you have lenses, and I know you do, you want to go to these sites and promote them there.

All of these sites WANT you to submit lenses there so go ahead, don’t be shy.

Lensroll
Squidom
Squoogle
BumpZee – Not just Squidoo but very well respected and they love Squidoo
Isle of Squid
Squidoo Mixx (Mixx for Squidoo members)
Squidixx Mixx (Also Mixx for Squidooers)
Lensmasters Mixx (Does anyone know if a link submitted in one place goes to all 3?)
Squid Directory
Tower Promote – Just submit your link – easy.
Best Free Forums – A forum devoted to Squidoo Lenses only.
Article Troll – An article link directory that loves Squidoo.

Hi!  I’m JHF SEO.  I’m a west coast content developer, SE optimizer and more importantly, lensmaster at Squidoo.

Thanks to Loyalis and ZachG for another cool tool for Squidooers.  I normally use Blogger and WordPress, so this will be a good new haunt for sure.