Best Way to promote your Squidoo Lens

So now you taken the plunge and started your own Home Based Internet Business, but because you are on a tight budget, you are promoting your business with Squidoo, until you start making some money.You have loads of quality products added on your lens.

But where are your customers? Somehow your Squidoo Lens just does not seem to attract traffic - Does this sound familiar?

If you start Implementing these 5 simple steps, you will be able to drive unlimited traffic to your Squidoo lens.

Step 1 - Search Engine Optimization

Step 2 - Writing Articles.

Step 3 - Social Bookmarking.

Step 4 - Posting in Forums

Step 5 - Link Building.

Think of your Squidoo Lens as your store front, if it does not look interesting then visitors will just click out., you need to find a way to hold their attention.

Here is what you need to do, write quality unique content in your niche and sprinkle your keywords all around your home based business lens. The keywords are for the SE, but you must also make your lens attractive to human eyes, so include pictures and items of interest to hold a visitors attention.

Now that your lens is interesting and people are looking for your Keywords that are on your lens, it is time to start promoting your lens with step 2.

 Step 2 - Article Marketing

You need to establish your self as an expert, somebody who knows what they are talking about, this is done by Article writing. Write articles on the topics relating to your niche.

Then submit these articles to the 3 best directories, Ezine Articles, Goarticles and Article Dashboard

This will not only generate an instant rush of targeted visitors to your Squidoo lens and hundreds of inbound links but will also establish you as an expert in your niche.

By writing and submitting articles, your lens will also receive high search engine ranking increasing more traffic to your home based business lens.

Now that you are writing articles, it is time to join some clubs and share your experience,

Step 3 - Social Bookmarking.

The hottest thing to come out of the Web 2.0 phenomenon is Social Bookmarking, and If you want to increase your lens's presence, it is crucial that you visit social Bookmarking sites.

These Social sites can really boost up your Squidoo lens's traffic.

Here are couple of PR 8 Social Media websites which are capable of sending high traffic to your lens.

1. Digg

2. Del.icio.us

3. Reddit

4. StumbleUpon

All you need to do is write quality articles in your niche that readers will love to share with their friends and family members.

Now that you have your name and lens spread around the "Web" it is time to join some specific clubs where people in your niche are hanging around,

Step 4 - Posting in Forums.

The best part about forums is that not only are you posting in links back to your own home based internet business lens , but you can get loads of helpful advice as well. In these forums you can post answers to questions of members in the forums.

When you do this, forum members trust you and respect you as an expert in your niche.

The reason that forum posting is good is that forum members get to visit your Squidoo lens for more information through the ad that you are allowed to paste below your post.

Now the last step is to get thousands of little sign posts all pointing to your lens

Step 5 - Link Building.

This is not hard, because if you joined the forums and the Social Bookmarking sites, you will already have hundreds of potential places that you can place comments, other people's blogs, websites etc. Just think if you have hundreds and thousands of incoming links to your lens, you are opening up tons of ways through which traffic can enter your lens.

For this to really succeed you need to set-up a reciprocal linking campaign where you can exchange links with quality sites in your niche and thus share traffic with each other.

As you can see, marketing and promoting your Squidoo lens is not hard or complicated, but it does take hard work and perseverance. Think of your lens as a website and implement these 5 steps today and within 30 x days you will be astounded at the traffic you receive.