Making of Squidoo Lens

If you want to learn another way to drive traffic to your website then you must consider making a lens at squidoo. What is a lens anyway? A lens is a user generated single page that contains one person's point of view, recommendations, or expertise. Lenses can be just about anything; such as places, people, hobbies, etc.

Creating a squidoo lens is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Here is the steps on how to make a lens:

1. Create an account at squidoo.
2. Choose a topic that you want to share to the world
3. Choose what do you want to do with your lens
   
4. Choose a URL of your lens
   
5. Choose a title of your lens and its category
   
6. Prepare 3 best keywords for your lens

After doing all the steps given, you are now ready to become a lensmaster. A lensmaster is the owner of the lens. He or she can create hundreds of lens. The more lens the better but make sure that each lens you are going to create contains good quality information that will help other lensmaster. Populate your lens with modules.

Modules are the building blocks of lenses. The tasks of the lensmaster to populate their lens with contents has become easy because of the presence of the modules. Modules are either automatic or curated. Curated modules, you will have to put the information manually. Automatic modules, you configure the inputs and then the RSS feeds will do the rest for you.

After creating your first lens, don't just sit and relax and wait for people to notice your lens. You have to exert a little effort in order to gain popularity. Visiting other lens that is related to your lens is the first step, leave comments and invite other lensmaster to trade links with you.

Joining SquidU is another way of letting other member of squidoo know that you just made your first lens. SquidU is a discussion board for all squidoo members. For every new members there is a thread called "Introduce Yourself", you can start a topic in the thread and start telling other members about your fresh lens.

Replying to existing thread can also increase your visibility in the squidoo community. Be sure to be polite when you leave a post.

Always remember that a lens with good quality contents will always make it to the top.

For more information on squidoo lens making click these Squidoo FAQ and How to Suceed with Squidoo.

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Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is becoming one of the most effective ways to get good quality links. Social bookmarking is done by saving web pages that the user wants to remember. You can also look at what other users have found interesting enough to tag. A lot of social bookmarking sites enable you to search through the items based from the most popular, recently added, or that belong to a certain category like politics, technology, blogging, news, etc.

There are a lot of benefits in social bookmarking, one good benefit is that it can narrow down the result of items you are looking for unlike when you use search engine, you will get a lot of unrelated results, with this you can save a lot oftime.

With social bookmarking, you can stay up to date with the latest happening in just about anything from politics all the way to showbiz. You will be able to determine if you are checking on a reliable information because most of the social bookmarking sites allow members to vote on any topics added, so an article with hundreds of votes is much reliable as compared to an article with one vote.

Members of social bookmarking sites can add information which they think is interesting enough to catch a lot of attention from other members. Or if a member has a newly created website or blog, she/he can announce it by bookmarking your own blog or site. If you are a member of digg, you can add your site or blog and be sure to put an eye catching title and description to catch lots of attention from other member.

For more information on how social bookmarking works you may check these sites:

• Social Bookmarking
• What is social bookmarking
  

Click on the link to find a list of Social Bookmarking sites.

Blog Commenting

Blog or weblog is a collection of text, images, objects, and data that is arranged chronologically. A blog can be a personal blog that contain your personal views on just about anything. It can also be a blog of certain topic like politics, gadgets, movies, music, etc. Someone can leave a comment to different blogs as long as they like the post. When leaving a comment there are four fields that needs to be filled up, these fields are the following:

• Name - You have the option to put your real name or the name of your site or company
  
• Email - Your valid email address
  
• URL - The url of your website
  
• Comments - Your comments on the post. You can also put a link in your comment by using a correct html codes.
  

Blog commenting is a great way of building link. Blog commenting is when you put comments on blogs that is related to your site. It is quite similar to forum posting but with blog commenting you don't necessarily have to register in order to leave a comment. Some blogs may automatically approved your comments, some may need to be approved by the administrators.

When you leave a comment be sure that your comment is informative and helpful to other visitors so that they will follow on the links that you put on in your comment. If you want to be known in the blog community, you have to update your blog every now and then with quality post. You must also be an active member of the different blog community.

Blog commenting can be done manually or automatic. Manual blog commenting is when you search for related blogs with certain keywords using the search engine or you can visit this site for a variety of blogs. Automatic blog commenting is when you use software to make commenting fast and easy. The software that is commonly use is the commenthutlite software.

The following are the list of online marketing related blogs

• Online Marketing Blog
• I Blog Marketing
• UK Online Marketing Blog
• The Online Marketing Blog
• Online Marketing: Social Media and Conversational Marketing
• Online Marketing, SEO, Paid Search, Social Marketing, and more
  

Forum Posting

Forum posting is another way of acquiring lots of links from related sites. It is basically the same as blog commenting however in forum posting you have to register to different forums before you can post a topic or reply to existing topic. For some, it is tiring because you have to remember all of your username and password for each forums that you have registered but for many it is a must do technique to gain more backlinks.

In forum posting, there are rules to be followed. I am a forum poster and I always follow these following rules:

• Post must be relevant to the topic you are replying
• Thread must be relevant to the theme of the forums
• Post must be original and with sense

The thing about joining forums is that, you will be able to communicate with people from around the world that shares the same interest as yours. You can gain a lot of new knowledge from people who are already an expert in the area of your interest and you can also share your points of view to a lot of people.

You might want to know how forum posting can generate traffics to your site? Every member is entitled to have a forum signature. Forum signature is a text or image that appears just below your post. You have an option to make your signature a link pointing to your site by using BB Codes. BB Codes are codes use to make the text in your signature clickable however BB codes won't work for some forum sites specially when you use an anchor text in your signature link. Try to register to forum site that allows BB codes in signature link to ensure traffic to your website.

For more understanding about BB Codes please visit this site.

I have been a member of a lot of great forums and I had a lot of fun exchanging opinions with other members.

Here are the list of great forums Online Marketing.

• Internet Marketing Warrior Forum
• IM4 Newbies Internet Marketing
• Webmaster Forum
• Affiliate Marketing Forum
• The Ultimate Marketing Resource
• Online Maketing Talk at Geek
• Online Marketing - Tips, Debate, and Advice

Directory Submission

Directory submission is probably the most effective method in link building. The links from directories are reliable as compared to reciprocal links. Each links submitted to directories are being reviewed by group of people to ensure the credibility of directories, so you can guarantee that links appeared in directories are good quality websites. Links from directories is known as one way link, one way link because most directories don't require websites to put links pointing to them and one way linking is more effective than two way linking.

It very easy to submit your site to various directories. Below are the steps on how to do it.

• Look for directories where you want to submit your site

• Choose the best category for your site.

• Under the category that you have selected there are a lot of subcategories, choose the best subcategory

• Choose the submission type (paid, free, or reciprocal)

• Fill up the necessary information in the form

• Click on the submit button and that's it. There are directories that requires confirmation, so open the email that you used in submission and click on the link provided by the directories.

• For free submissions it takes 2 weeks or more before your link will be reviewed. To guarantee fast approval, I suggest you choose paid submission rather than free submission.

In submitting your site to directories be sure to choose directories with high page rank in order for your website to be visible to millions of people. If you don't have any idea where to find lots of directories visit these two sites: www.directorycritic.com and www.submit-add-url.com