Link Building with Squidoo Lens

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Search Engine Optimization and link building is not what it used to be just about a decade ago. Google recently days pays lot more weight on quality of backlinks than quantity. A related contextual backlink is way more precious than a dozen or even more low quality unrelated backlinks.

Most people find it challenging with theme related contextual link building and a large number of links builders don't even have a clue as to how to get those related theme based backlinks. There are quite a few ways to get those valuable related contextual backlinks. If you are knowledgeable and contented with your niche and know how to write up a few lines about it, then you also can take advantage of these link building methods. All you have to do it to write some articles on your topic and submit them on as many social media, Web 2.0, and article directory sites as you can. One of the social media sites that gives you high quality backlink is Squidoo.

Squidoo Lens How To

First thing you need to do is to visit Squidoo.Com and sign up for a free account. Once you have your account setup, you just login and post your article there. Once you are logged in and within your Squidoo account dashboard, you will find an option to create a new lens (a new page is called a lens with Squidoo). Each Squidoo Lens is divided by various modules which you can call separate sections and paragraphs. You can use one module for one paragraph. So if you have a 500 words article divided into 5 different paragraphs, you can use 5 modules to setup your Squidoo lens.

While writing the article and publishing it with Squidoo, you can use your keyword to link back to your own site and get contextual relevant backlinks. There is no limit to the amount of backlink you can get form a Squidoo lens but you should keep in mind that more backlink you have from a single Squidoo lens, less link value each of your links will get.

You can use Squidoo lens not only for link building but also to generate some extra revenue. Squidoo has revenue sharing program with Adsense so you get a share of revenue that your lens generates which is a plus. On the top of it, you can use various affiliate programs like EBay, Amazon, etc to generate additional affiliate income.

Now that you know how to use Squidoo lens for your link building purpose and how to generate some additional revenue from it, what are you waiting for? Go head and start building lenses from today. While you are getting some high quality backlinks, you earn some extra revenue which is nothing but pure gravy.

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