How to Improve Your Squidoo Lens

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This Page is all about how to improve and enhance your existing Squidoo Lens.

Adding a RSS feed to your Squidoo lens is one of the best ways to add daily content to your Lens.

This way you will get fresh content automatically with out you doing anything, as soon as you update your Blog, because it will update your lens at the same time. If you do not have your own blog, you can add any suitable RSS feed to your lens

Step 1 - Get the RSS Feed URL

First you need to get the RSS feed URL, either from your Blog or whichever RSS feed that you want to display.

Locate the RSS Feed icon, when you press that it will take you to the RSS feed page and give you the correct URL which you will need to add to the lens

Step 2 - Log on to Squidoo

Log on to your Squidoo account and go to your dashboard, while you are on your dashboard have a look at moving some of the modules around, especially if a new module looks more interesting. Remember the 10-second rule - you need to hold a visitor's attention for those crucial 10 seconds.

Step 3 - Add RSS Module

Go to the section with "re-order modules" and add the RSS module to your lens, if the RSS module is not displayed in any of the categories, you can just enter in the words and do a search, you will then be able to see it.

Once this has been ordered you can just drag and drop the module into the correct space on your Lens

Step 4 - Name your RSS Module

The Module will now be ready to be edited with your own information. Give your RSS a module a title, like your Blogs name etc

Give your module a subtitle (optional) you can add anything here, have a look what it looks like, you can always go back and edit it again.

Give your module a description (optional) again you can be creative, if you don't like what you have entered, just delete it later on.

Now it is time to enter the RSS feed URL that you got in step 1.

Conclusion

Now that only will you be able to make your lens more interesting, you will also be updating it automatically with fresh content from your Blog.

If your Blog posts are keyword rich your lens should also get a good boost in SEO ranking.

Placing a banner ad is a useful method to promote both your own products and affiliate products as well, because you can just have a clickable banner ad or a banner ad with some advertising on a normal text module

To place the banner ad takes only 4 simple steps,

Step 1. Add a text module to your lens

You can use an existing text module and place the code at the top, or you can add a new text module to your lens.

Step 2. Paste this code into the box:

Just copy the following code into your text module

<a href="http://www.go-here-when-you-click.com" mce_href="http://www.go-here-when-you-click.com"><img src="http://www.banner-location.com/banner.jpg" mce_src="http://www.banner-location.com/banner.jpg">

</a>

Step 3. Edit the two bits in bold.

The first bit is where you want the banner to take someone when they click it, and the second bit is the filename of the banner image itself.

(go-here-when-you-click.com) is the site where you want the person to go to, either to your site or an affiliate product etc.

(banner-location.com) this is the location where the banner is located, either on your web site server, as a jpeg or gif file.

Now all that you have to do is make the image smaller by specifying the width and height, so the code will look like this,

( xxx "><img src="xxx://xxx.banner-location.com/banner.jpg" mce_src="xxx://xxx.banner-location.com/banner.jpg" width "500" height"110" border "0"></a>

Step 4. Save the module.

You're now done! You should now have a centred banner that links to your chosen page.

Conclusion

So not only will your new banner ad look great on your lens, but if you understand how the code works you can add this code to your blogs on your site. In fact any where you like, it has always been a powerful way to advertise.

Do these following tips to promote your lens.

Tip 1 : Join every Squidoo group Related to your Lens.

If you search Squidoo's groups and join everything relevant to your subject, you will have a lot more incoming links from Squidoo. Go to Squidoo.com/groups and start browsing away to find groups that you could join.

Tip 2: Adding more tags to your lens.

Adding additional tags to your lens will also help in the SE rankings. Think about what terms a visitor would enter to find the content on your lens. Look at related lenses, what tags are they using, can you borrow any.

Tip 3:Participate in Squidoo's forum.

It makes sens to become an active poster on the Squidoo forum and drum up some traffic by including your lens in your signature. This is also a great place to learn new Squidoo tricks and Tactics.

Tip 4: Participate with other lenses

Find related lenses to your lens, look for the ones that have a guest book, which you can sign and leave a back link to your lens.

Tip 5: Ping your Lens.

Did you know that you can ping your lens, the same way that you do a blog? Just go to Pingomatic or Pingoat and add your details.

Conclusion

These 5 tips are just a few extra ways to promote your lens, you can still do things like article marketing and forum posting as additional ways to promote your Squidoo Lens.