40 Links, Some PR5+, To Your Squidoo Lens | Squidoo Tagging Tricks

That's right, 40 links to your Squidoo lens. Most folks do not take advantage of Squidoo's tagging feature. Each lens is allotted 40 tags, and used wisely, a lens can rise through the Squidoo ranks, provide high quality links to your real estate website, garner traffic, create sales, or all of the aforementioned. I will present a short primer on Squidoo tagging tricks for those interested in creating inbound links to your Squidoo lens.

Anatomy Of A Tag

Whenever a tag is created, a link is placed on the page named with your tag and points back at your lens. For example, on our Flipping Real Estate lens, you'll notice a tag for 'agent estate flipping real (it is the first tag).' That tag is on this page. How did I come up with 'agent estate flipping real?' I did some research using keyword research tools, and came up with the phrase. Oddly enough, some folks use that phrase to search for real estate flipping information. You can see from the 'agent estate flipping real' tagging page, that a link to our Flipping Real Estate lens has the link 'agent estate flipping real' pointing back at the lens, thus creating a link!

Now there are two types of tags I want to introduce. Tags (or links) for PageRank (PR), and tags for the search engines.

Tags For PageRank (PR)

I like to use 10 of my tags for PR, and 30 of my tags for the search engines. We'll discuss the tags for search engines in the next paragraph. The tags for PR, as I have so named it, are links that sit on high PR tagging pages. The purpose of course is to pass some PR to your lens and hopefully some authority that goes with the PR. Using our Flipping Real Estate page as an example, one of my tags is 'home.' This clearly is a tag for PR as I do not intend to capture any search engine traffic from such a competitive keyword. Our Flipping Real Estate lens sits on this 'home' tag page, a PR5 page. I've seen some tagging pages as high as PR6!

A word to the wise, however. Until your lens has some Squidoo lensrank (our Flipping Real Estate lens example currently has a lensrank of 265), it is virtually useless to use a keyword like 'home,' as your lens will sit so far down on the list of 'home' tag pages that your tag may not even get indexed (currently, there are 76 pages of 'home' tagging pages!). Until your lens has some lensrank, I would recommend sticking to unique keyphrases that I will discuss in the next paragraph. Pages (lenses) are listed in lensrank order at Squidoo.

Tags For The Search Engines

The second tag type is a tag you would create for search engine traffic. An example is the phrase as previously mentioned, 'agent estate flipping real.' This tag sits all by itself on it's own page suggesting to the search engines that if someone is searching for 'agent estate flipping real,' then our Flipping Real Estate lens is a viable option for the search engine to provide the searcher. Currently, there is no competition for that phrase, so it sits on a page all by itself and benefits from not having competition. The key here is selecting keyphrases that will place your tag either on the first tagging page, or at least within a couple pages of the first tagging page, AND a phrase that might show up on the first page of Google. In other words, if you were doing a lens on a real estate topic, and you have a new lens with no lensrank (or an old lens with no lensrank), then you wouldn't want to use the phrase 'real estate,' as you certainly will not show up on Google within the first dozen pages, and you would be sitting on this page in Squidoo which isn't even indexed (or at least it isn't at the time of this writing). Many of the tags real estate agents are using are not even indexed, or so far down the list, they are of no effect.

Disclaimer And An Aside

"Do as I say, not what I do!" Our earlier lenses are just ok (maybe even suck), but the recent ones rock! We have close to 200 lenses, so some of our earlier lenses are guilty of non-effective tagging, however, our recent lenses employ a lot of the principles outlined above. Our whole family has gotten into the Squidoo thing. My daughter has created several and her favorite one is on Carrie Underwood. My son has several on athletes like Tiger Woods. My kids and I did a lens on Jake Byrd, and we even have some real estate lenses (hmm, how about that!). One of the children had a school project on Chinese early history and did a lens on Shih Huang Ti. Shih Huang Ti is one of the most famous persons in world history and I bet ya never even heard the name. I hadn't. Our best lens to date (according to Squidoo's lensrank) is a lens on Richland Recycling.

Squidoo is fun, and certainly worth some effort. If you haven't done a lens, consider creating one or a couple. You can start here!

Charitable causes we have been supporting lately through Squidoo:

• Mike Huckabee ~ Mike Huckabee for President! Mike is a stand-up guy who is honest and trustworthy.
• Recycling ~ Consider recycling your waste, as it may save the earth!
• Buy Wii ~ Buy Nintendo Wii from us and Save The Children.
• World Vision ~ World Vision provides hope to millions around he world.
• Save The Children ~ Save The Children focuses on children in need around the world.
• The Acumen Fund ~ The Acumen Fund uses entrepreneurial efforts to help those living on less than $4.00 per day.
• Tri Cities Habitat For Humanity ~ Enough said! Provide a home for those who cannot afford one.
• Shelby Mustang ~ Yup, ya heard it right! A page devoted to the 1965 Shelby Mustang! All proceeds go to the Polly Klaas® Fund.

Have you considered contributing a portion of your income to a charity you value? Consider doing so today. As a part of our real estate business, we do!

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