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As an avid user of Squidoo it became clear to me that there must be a million Squidoo lenses.
That’s what squids (Squidoo users) call a FREE domain and website at Squidoo.
Very impressive, really.
These sites are reputed to be perfect for affiliate marketing, and I think they really are.
Just remember to pick the right offer and keywords.
Come to think about it, it’s a little like that everywhere. There IS competition, after all. And everyone wants to be on page one at Google.
Is it hard to get there? No! If you pick the right keywords!
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What happens when you get there? Traffic! Targeted traffic!
Traffic that is interested in what you have to offer!
So, for example, lets say you have an affiliate offer from Clickbank and it’s for FREE home electricity from solar panels called Solar Panels HQ. It’s purely for example but in case you don’t know this is a fairly hot topic and it will probably grow.
One of the main ways affiliates get traffic to their sites is by article marketing with good, traffic producing content and SEO improvement by means of keyword text links in the authors resource box.
It’s just a GREAT two-for-one!
But there’s a catch to the great free site and domains you can get at Squidoo.
The catch (there’s always a “catch) here is that Google will usually only show one Squidoo site in the top ten results. Sometimes, but rarely, two.
In order for Google to show YOUR Squidoo lens you’ll have to make your lens the best one in your group. So you want to build your lens around a keyword that has a couple of characteristics.
Those are often referred to as “relevancy” and “low (to mild) competition.
You want your keyword (and your “same keyword” domain name) to be a keyword that demonstrates interest in your offer!
If you had cheap solar panels you would LOVE to rank on page one at Google for “buy cheap solar panels.”
Well, if you make your “cheap solar panels Squidoo site the best one for that key phrase in Squidooville…Google will likely put you on page one because Google likes to present the best AND they like variety. But they only have 10 spots on the page!
So…typically, Google will only pick ONE squidoo lens and ONE Ezinearticles and ONE video.
Having the product name in the title is one of the best things you can do so that Google will want to rank the site for “Solar panels.” Now, we can check out our competition! which is just another way of saying find out who we are up against.
I ran this search in the Google search box. Type in… site: Squidoo.com “solar panels” and you’ll see approximately…. Results 1 – 10 of about 21,400 for site: Squidoo.com “Solar Panels”. (0.27 seconds)
Gee. That’s a lot. 21,000 or more sites mention “solar panels.”
So how many Squidoo sites are actually targeting that phrase? Targeting means working to get ranked for that phrase.
Type in [allntitle: "solar panels" site:squidoo.com] – Results 1 – 10 of about 466 from squidoo.com for allintitle:”Solar panels”. (0.17 seconds)
Well. That’s less competition. but still quite a few.
Note: Before I knew better I picked a keyword title that came up with 775 in this search and I’m doing OK…but. But I would prefer LESS!
So I typed in “Home made solar panels” and got, with the allintitle search Results 1 – 1 of 1 from squidoo.com for [allintitle:"Home Made Solar panels" site:squidoo.com]. (0.16 seconds)
DUDE!!! Only ONE COMPETITOR AT Squidoo for Home Made Solar Panels! Amazon has an affiliate program for solar panels! Some of you aspiring affiliate marketers might want to get going on this!
Checking further I went to Google keywords Tool (type google keyword tool into Google search) and got 2600 searches per month for “home made solar panels” and “home made solar panel.” You can’t get it much more targeted than that! The best key phrase would have to be “buy home made solar panels” which is a strong indicator of buying intention.
I checked the page one Google results for those terms and I saw that the results were filled with PR3 and PR4 sites.
You can handle those guys! Competition? Nada! Just be sure to get a few links from .gov and .edu PR 5 and 6 sites and I think you’ll soar right past them with a well targeted Squidoo lens and find yourself with the Holy Grail of Internet marketing. And that would be FREE TARGETED TRAFFIC direct to your offer via Google and the other search engines.
Honestly it doesn’t get any better than that.
This current and real plan is published here at 5PM Dec 24th 2009.
You might want to get moving!
Here’s to your success,
Riley West – An Internet Marketer In The Making.
"What I offer here is the story of my progress from beginner to actually making money online."
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