Sunday, August 12, 2012

How to Achieve Higher Rankings with Your Squidoo Lens

By Paul Santana


It is still possible to achieve a high search engine rank for your Squidoo lens if you choose the right keywords and take care of the optimization. But you should understand that this does not mean you can easily rank any highly competitive phrase just because you have Squidoo behind you. What we have in mind is to walk you through several steps that are required if you want to accomplish this task with your lens.

There are a few noteworthy on-page SEO items you can use with your content such as proper keyword optimization and making them bold in a few places. We will explain, for the benefit of those who are new, why this must be performed. Well, this is called keyword optimization for your content, and it is one thing that will help your lens to rank. It is not necessary to bold, but doing that will actually help your page rank for the term you want. Naturally, even if you are on the first page at the top, it is necessary for your listing to make people click on your listing. You will have to look at the other listings on the page you are on to see if they are doing the same thing, but this has to be done anyway.

If you are interesting in using your lens as a traffic funnel, then that can be done provided you can get it ranked highly. The preliminary research for this is exactly like any site, and you need to make sure the SEO competition on page one can be beaten without too much trouble. If you choose the wrong phrase, in terms of level of difficulty, then you will most likely not be able to get decent rankings. You will quickly discover that you may have some difficulty finding your ideal URL, but that is all right and still can be ranked well. The quality of your content will obviously play an important role, and that is why you cannot relax on that point. One analogy is having a smaller but more targeted email list is more profitable than a much larger list that is less targeted; it is the same principle involved.

Now this may not seem like it's directly related to getting your site ranked high on Squidoo - it actually is. If you pay attention to what is talked about at Squidoo, you will notice that a lot of conversations have something to do with a controversy. Take a look at your lens topic and see how you can work this method into it. The only thing about this is it really needs to be in line with your lens topical theme. This is definitely worth looking into because you could stumble onto something that really takes off and even generates a viral nature about it.

Always do what you can perform on-page as well as off-page SEO as that will obviously help you to rank.




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