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Online promotion: directories, blogs, forums?

October 6th, 2008 by spirituality | Filed under Squidoo tips 3 Comments »

To be a successful lensmaster you have to create various skill sets for yourself. One is, obviously, to create great lenses.

The other skill is somewhat illusive: how do you get traffic to those bundles of joy? You have to get links.


3 Comments »

  1. mulberry said :
    October 6, 2008 at 1:09 pm

    Thanks for the information about how you promoted this particular lens; general instructions are always good but real life examples are often the most useful. Good advice!

  2. EelKat said :
    October 7, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    I like that you mentioned not just posting links on Twitter. That always bugs me. I mean, sure go ahead and post links, that’s great and I do a lot of link clicking from Twitter, but chat too! If I’m online, my Twitter page is open and I check it about every 15 or 20 minutes to see who’s saying what; and if I see a topic I want to chat about, I’ll jump in and start talking with whoever it is.

    I hate it though, when you see link after link after link, and zero conversation; it’s like they don’t care about anything other than promotion, and you know what? I like to get to know the person behind the link more than I want to click the link. Plus, I’m more likely to click the link if it was sent by someone who does a lot of chatting on Twitter.

    My 2 cents on that anyways.

    I used to send my sites (I’ve more than just Squidoo lenses) to directories all over the net, but than I’d check my traffic stats over the next few months, and I realized that I was getting maybe one or two hits a month. Plus I found that a lot of directories shut down less than 6 months after they started. So eventually I stopped using them, except for a few that have been around a while.

    Nearly all of my traffic comes from links in forum post signatures, so I switched over to just adding links to my forum signatures and set out to doing what I do best: chatting with other people on forums!

    Anyways, great post here, I totally agree with you.

    ~EK

  3. Tiddledeewinks said :
    January 7, 2009 at 5:32 am

    Thanks for the info. I get 900 plus hits a week on my 150 lenses, hoping to gain more!

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