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That’s a great idea of providing partial information on a lens with a link to your blog or site for the rest of the information.

It’s like writing an article listing the top five items, and then having a resource box with a link to another five or ten items on the topic.

Right?

(Not that I know about article marketing – it’s something I’ve sadly neglected to do, but I can see how Squidoo and EzineArticles.com could be complementary sources of traffic.)

Act on your dream!

JD

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@Ajith:
I think John’s detail reply had all your doubts cleared thus I’m not gonna go in length here. In short, yes, Squidoo helps driving traffics – regardless you are running a blog or website.

@Lee:
There are in fact, lots of web marketers using the method you mentioned – creating loads of short/simple Squidoo lens (and most of these lenses don’t provide real value to the users).

In case you’re aiming the Google PR then yeah, such ‘hit-and-run’ method would help. However if you are trying to earn traffics from Squidoo, your lens have to be providing real value and preferably ‘fresh’.

I would suggest to separate your subject into 5 – 10 lenses. Offer real valuable content – people are reading for real in Squidoo (after all, if you have a site on that subject, I’m sure you have plenty of understandings on it). Also, use Squidoo module ‘Big Picture’, ‘Poll’, ‘Big Arrow’… wisely to make your lenses appealing.

On the other hand, contradictory, the key of attracting traffics from Squidoo is NOT to throw out all the information to your users. Say that you’re running a lens on ‘How to lose 10kgs in 10 days’ – your Squidoo lens might cover the things to be done in the first 5 days; and ask readers to ‘read more’ at your website for the next 5 days. In this case, Squidoo lens is like your PR staff, it helps you connect and build trust with your readers, and lead them read further at your website.

I hope my answer helps.

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Does it really generate much in the way of extra traffic?

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Sure, I’d be happy to have an email conversation with you.

It’s hard to compare a lens with a blog post.

Sometimes I can write a good blog post in a half-hour. Some take several hours.

I can create a basic lens on a topic in an hour, if I’ve already researched the topic.

Building most of my lenses and websites is a multi-step process. In most cases, I start with a basic lens with five or six modules and then add to it over time as I find something that fits.

Perhaps I add new links, an Amazon.com module, syndicate a category feed from one of my blogs, or whatever.

Most of my lenses are built over a period of months or years and I don’t ever consider them finished.

Well, that’s not true. There are some that are finished because I am no longer going to promote the topic they are focused upon. I’ll be deleting them when the appropriate time arrives.

Since I’m a Giant Squid, I have to keep a minimum of 50 good lenses to retain the status. Last year I had to delete 50 lenses when a company changed their direction and I’d already developed a lens for each of the 50 states.

Now, I’m back down to about 70 lenses and plan to delete about 10 of them around the first of the year, but, if things go as planned, I will be adding several dozen lenses over the coming year.

So, how long it takes to build a lens depends upon a number of things.

It’s also a process. Now that I have Twitter set up, it’s easy to add a Twitter module where appropriate.

The same thing applies to Lulu, Lijit, BackType, and other similar modules. It took some time to initially set them up, but now I can add one of those modules to a lens in minutes – and I’m on a very slow dial-up connection. If broadband were available here, I could do some of them in seconds.

Let me go back to that statement I made about the PR rank of my newest lens. I think it’s a 3, but I can’t be sure because the Firefox add-on I’m using has been flaky all morning. Sometimes it shows a N/A, 1, or 3, so I’m not sure if any of them are accurate.

I’d be happy to try to answer any questions about Squidoo. If I don’t know the answer, I probably know someone who does.

Act on your dream!

JD

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