Effective Ways to Promote Your Squidoo Lens

So you have put a lot of work into it, created a Squidoo lens and now you need to promote it. Where do you start? What do you do? What will be a waste of time? These are important questions and I aim to answer them all in this article so you will not have to scour the web searching for the answers no one told me.

First of all, immediately after publishing your lens, click on it and review it. Look for any blatant errors. You would be surprised at the formatting mistakes that can be easily overlooked, especially when you are new to Squidoo. Double-checking now will increase your chances of efficient promoting since it is much more difficult to promote a poorly developed lens.

Now that you are sure it's ready to be promoted, be sure to bookmark it on Digg, del.icio.us and Stumble Upon, using the links available at the top right hand side of your lens. Being the first to bookmark it on these sites it will make it easier for others to do the same because who wants to take the extra time to write that darn description required for new submissions? Personally, if someone else hasn't already done that, I usually don't bother. Why these three and not every single social bookmarking tool? Quite simply, these are the most popular and widely used. If you have a lot of time, you can do more, but I suggest these three as an absolute minimum.

Email your lovely new lens to some close friends. I suggest finding at least five friends, talking to them and asking for their permission to send them links of every lens you create for them to click on and rate, Digg and Stumble. If you can secure five friends to do this, you will instantly see a boost in lensrank!

Double check your lens tags. Add every possible tag you can imagine. The limit is somewhere around 30 or 40, so go crazy with it! This will allow your lens to be more easily found in the Squidoo search engines and by Google.