How to Become a Successful Squidoo Lensmaster (Part 2)

Whether you want to earn money online, bring traffic to a website or even earn money for charity, Squidoo can help you. There are several ways you can make money with Squidoo but if you want it to be really profitable you will need to learn a few simple tricks; once you have covered the SEO aspects of building your Squidoo lens, you can start participating in Squidoo's community. To become a successful Squidoo lensmaster you must participate in the community and be popular. Here are a few tips that will show you how to get more traffic to your lens using this community.

A good way of making yourself known to other lensmasters is to join SquidU, Squidoo's own forum, where you can give and get help from other lensmasters. The important thing to remember here is not to spam the forum. Put your Squidoo lens' URL in your forum signature and join in the conversations. Be friendly and helpful and don't be afraid to ask for advice; the forum members love giving advice to new and old members, you may even gain some Squidoo knowledge!

Comment on other lenses from your category. Most Squidoo lenses have a guestbook and leaving valuable comments (as long as these are not spam) encourages the lensmaster and the lens' visitors to check out your own lens.

Rate other users' lenses. There is a rating system on Squidoo where you can give a lens anything between 1 and 5 stars. Don't fool yourself into thinking that you can give all other lenses 1 star in order to try and bring their lensrank down; Squidoo will be aware of this and could close your account. Be careful also of not over-using the 5 star rating; Squidoo tries to keep their site genuine and may think you are participating in a 5 star rating exchange to artificially boost lensrank for some Squidoo lenses. If you really love a lens and give it a 5 star rating, mentioning this in the guestbook can't hurt and the lensmaster may even return the favour.

Lensroll and favourite your preferred lenses. Lensrolling is to Squidoo what blogrolling is to blogs. By adding other lenses that are related to your lens' topic, you are increasing your chances of having other lensmasters adding your link to their own lens. This will give your lens a backlink as well as increasing its exposure to visitors of that lens. When you favourite a lens people who visit that lens see your Squidoo avatar (it helps to have a nice picture or avatar) and can access your lens after clicking on the picture.

Joining groups is another way to add your lens' URL onto another Squidoo page. Try and join as many groups related to your topic as possible to increase backlinks. Also comment on the guestbook if the group has one. You could start a group and promote your lens on it; being a groupmaster means that if you have a link and a review of your lens on the group's main page, everyone who joins your group will see it; feature other lenses as well if you don't want your group to grow unpopular.

These are just some of the ways you can use Squidoo's community to get more visitors to your lens. They may seem slightly time-consuming but are very easy to do and worth the investment of your time. Remember that the more popular your lenses are, the more chances you will get to become a successful Squidoo lensmaster and to earn lots of money from your Squidoo lenses.