Backlinks are a significant segment of off-page search engine optimization and are instrumental in increasing the pagerank and search engine placements of web pages. The same principles also go for your Squidoo lenses. You need to build relevant backlinks to your lenses so that your lenses will rank well in the search engine placements. There are many ways to build backlinks and listed below are five of the quick ways to build backlinks to your Squidoo lenses.
1. Social Bookmarking: Bookmarking your sites should be one of the simplest and fastest way of creating a backlink. You can easily find many popular social bookmarking sites such as Digg,Propeller, Stumbleupon,Mixx, etc. You will need to add a short descriptive summary and a backlink to your lens. If you also want to attract traffic, then your story must be very exciting and popular. If users really like your lens, then it could make it to the front pages of these sites and get you a surge of traffic as well.
2. Forum Signatures: This is another simple way to gain a backlink. You need to be active in forums in your niche and you can generally add a link in your signature. Each time you post in such forums, you will gain an additional backlink.
3. Blog Comments: Blog comments are a very easy method and hence one must be judicious with your usage here and make an attempt not to spam the blogs. You must strive to leave genuine, thoughtful and relevant comments and you can link back to your lens. Most probably it will be a no-follow link, but it would get you noticed in your niche and could potentially bring some traffic.
4. Other Web 2.0 sites: Site like Hubpages which is another popular site similar to Squidoo where you can create what they call "hubs". You can create do-follow links to your Squidoo lens from here. You can also try other similar sites like Bukisa.
5. Article Marketing: Last but not the least, you have to try article marketing. Publishing an article on leading article directories like this one, will get you a great backlink and some good traffic.
These are 5 simple tips to build backlinks to your Squidoo Lenses.
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