December 17th, 2009 
dblogger 
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 are the steps on how to make one:
1. Create an account at squidoo.
2. Choose a topic related to your site
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 and visitors, it should always be updated to secure good ranking.
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 back 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 yours 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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