Squidoo part Two: Pinging Your Squidoo Lens

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bookmarking, digital marketing, mass ppv traffic, rss feeds, seo, social media, squidoo, web2.0

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One of the joys of this very blog has been the continual learning curve.  Since I jumped into this social media race and the Murphy-Goode Campaign it has been heaps of fun, loads of new experiences and a few downfalls (which taken in the correct light always lead to deeper understanding and a “moving forward”).

Yesterday I started to boast about my Squidoo Lens on Mass PPV Traffic, today I learned something new which I am going to try on my next Squidoo (’cause I am now hooked on Squidoo… so I will for sure be writing more Lenses).  So in order to NOT forget what I wanted to try, I decided to share my idea with you.  That way we can all benefit and if you have any Squidoo wisdom to share, I am sure you will be so kind and leave me a comment, right?

Here is the new 8 Step Strategy which has to do with ranking, backlinking and pinging:

1. Set up Squidoo WEB2.0 Lens
2. Put your content on the Lens WITHOUT ANY LINKS
3. Ping and wait until the site gets indexed
4. AFTER it is indexed go back to the site and update it with a couple hundred words of content.   200 words is fine.
5. Wait for a few days until the site is spidered again.
6. Promote the site a bit. You can do this by submitting the RSS feeds, Bookmarking, blog commenting, etc…you know the drill
7. Wait 24 hours
8. Now you can start putting your links on the Lens

So, do you think this will be a good strategy to be able to rank well within the Squidoo ranking system?  I think it is worth a try…  What strategy do you use?

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Link building techniques

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backlinks, link building, pr, seo

So now that my wonderful soirée in Wine Web2.0 has pretty much come to a halt and we are all following lucky Hardy around, I am able to put my concentrations to my own projects again, taking everything I have learned during the Murphy-Goode Campaign and pushing myself to new social media limits.

As you know, I have gone off to the Baby Care niche and am working in on a “hits” bet with Kamary and part of my strategy has been to give *other* social networks a consideration (with MG I learned heaps via Twitter… now on to new platforms).

Today while I was reading my resource of blogs, I came across John Cow’s 3 Link Building Techniques and was reminded of yet another venue I had planned but not yet implemented in my new Baby Care blog: Article Marketing:

clipped from www.johncow.com Article marketing is an awesometastic (yep, it’s a real word) way of building high PR backlinks for your website. And its effectiveness triples when you’re using some kind of article submission software. Most of the article directories (that are worth submitting to) are pagerank 5-8, which makes them an outstanding way of acquiring link juice. Google and the search engines are in love with article directories such as EzineArticles, ArticleCity, ArticleBase and ArticleFeeder. You can easily dominate 4-6 positions on the first page of Google if you do your keyword research right. This means that a backlink from an article directory will not only become utterly valuable over time, but will also turn into a major Authority Indicator for Google.

How to use Tags to increase your traffic: technorati

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areallygoodejob, search engine, seo, social media, syndication, tagging

Recently we discussed how to use tags internally on your blog with examples of *self-hosted blogs, *blogspot blogs and *wordpress.com blogs. Did you know that you can also increase your traffic driven to your blog or website by harnessing the power of the “tag”?

Today I want to approach something which I personally have been neglecting with this blog so far:  external tags.  Specifically — technorati tags.

Keeping in tune with the idea of increasing your findability and reaching people who are seeking the very information you have to offer (in contrast to you searching potential readers and saying “here I am! come and read/vote/befriend me!”–which takes up loads of your time and comes across as very spammy), let’s have a look at what you can accomplish with technorati tags.

Tagging for Technorati

If you are not familiar with technorati, please click here to go there. In the words of Technorati, “It is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere — the world of weblogs.”

It is a tool that people who read and publish weblogs use to find things. It can also be used by weblog publishers, like you and me, to help those who are searching for information.  The way this works is through the use of tags. A tag is like a subject or category (for more information on tags, please read part one: How to use tags–a lesson in organization) . By tagging the post in your blog you are helping people that are searching for that tag to find you.

If you go to have a look at the technorati tags page, you will see by size (largest is has the most posts tagged with that term):  today’s hot tags were weblog, life, music, news, blogging… you get the picture.

Over at the technorati tag help page, you will discover the easy directions of “how to contribute to technorati tags” and notice that there are two ways to particpate and leverage the technorati tag system:

• If your blog software supports categories and RSS/Atom feeds (like Movable Type, WordPress, TypePad, Blogware, Radio), just use the included category system and make sure you are publishing RSS/Atom feeds and your categories will be read as tags.
• If your blog software doesn’t support categories or you’re not sure, you can still participate. To associate a post with a Technorati Tag all you have to do is tag your post by including a special link in the body of your post. Please note that two word tags should be joined by a “+”.  For examples please go to the technorati tag help page.

* note:  to be really effectiv with technorati tags, you must ensure that your blog or web site is pinging technorati regularily… a topic which I will cover soon.

So have a look at some examples of technorati tags:

• wine
• murphy-goode
• areallygoodejob
• vintank
• rickbakas

And here is the beauty of it all:  now that I have place the above tags on this post, if someone is looking for those tags they will see an entry to this page there.

Notice how I did not go and find these people, they were looking for the tags (or keywords!) I produced for search engine leverage.  This is actually continuing our conversations about syndication — this time not via feeds, but via tags.

Tell me about your experience with tags:  are you generating hits by using the right tags?  Are you finding what you are looking for by using tags?  Are you lost when I mention the word?  Or what other search engines do you like to use for tag searching?  Let’s talk about it, meet you in the comments.