Quick Tip: New Way to Promote Your Lens

You know building links is super important. I recently found a great website to help build more links to your lenses.

It’s called shetoldme.com. It is a bookmarking site similar to Digg in that people can vote up or down your submissions.

Unlike Digg it welcomes product related submissions as well as being ok with you submitting your own stuff. Our kind of site ~ right?

It is also an ad revenue sharing site ~ which I’m not sure is going to add up to much, but it could be something.

It’s super simple ~ just create a new account. Acceptance is not immediate ~ but it only took overnight for me, and someone else said it was only an hour or so.

Once you’ve been accepted ~ grab the url for the lens you want to submit.

Log in to SheToldMe.com and you’ll see a link to add a link/story.

Click the link and a page will show up where you fill in your info.

Just fill in the url. Add your title (make sure you use your targeted keywords you found in your kw research). Then create a description. I just write a little bit about the product or why someone would want to check the page out. The description has to be 200 characters, which is only a couple sentences.

Just below that you’ll be asked to choose a category ~ unfortunately there aren’t a ton of categories, so just pick the one that is most closely related.

Then choose your keywords ~ I’ve been picking wider keywords and not adding my exact kw here. Ex. ironman gravity 4000 inversion table is the kw I used in my title (that’s my targeted keyword) I would use inversion table in the tags section.

The tags section is connected to their site ~ it links to other related “scoops” on their site. I dont’ want to compete with them for my main keyword. Make sense?

When you’re done click “send it now” and you will create a scoop. The title and the read–> link both turn into keyword anchor text links that point to your lens.

There is also a place in the profile section to add a website. A link to that website is created on every scoop you create ~ so great links to that site as well.

This site offers do follow links and appears to be doing quite well for people ~ just one more quick and easy way to create another link to your Christmas Cash lenses.

What do you think? Have questions? I’m all ears.

Should You Promote Low Priced Items?

Yesterday at the Kiss Club we got involved in an interesting discussion about product selection. While I generally look for products that are over $100 dollars to promote one of the members brought up the fact that your commission level is based on the number of sales made.

She asked:
Wouldn’t it make sense to promote some low priced items to make more sales and up my commission level?
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Really Getting the Linking Done

I know day after day I harp preach encourage you to properly link your lenses so you can get ranked in the search engines and get traffic and make sales.

I’ll be straight up with you here… I suck at linking. I hate it. I find it super tedious and BOORING.  I have recently picked up an additional accountability partner to really kick my butt on linking and staying focused on one element of my [...] Continue Reading…

I Can’t See the Sidebar Widget!

Since I did the post on the new sidebar widget I’ve had a few people tell me they can’t see it. This is especially true from people who are going through the Squidoo Christmas Cash Video Series and can see it on the video that outlines this step, but can’t see it on their lens page.

Well, here’s the answer:

One of the video series students sent in a report to Squidoo about this, and got [...] Continue Reading…

Can I Use Another Affiliate Network Besides Amazon...

I’ve been getting this question quite a bit since Amazon decided to not allow affiliates from certain states due to stuff I don’t anything about. What I do know is if you don’t have Amazon as an option… all is NOT lost!

There are many other affiliate networks available for you to use. Some of them house some of the biggest names in “real life” shopping, like Target, Walmart as well as many very very [...] Continue Reading…

My Lens is Still a WIP What do I Do?

When you create a lens it automatically starts out as a WIP or work in progress. It will be colored red and land at the bottom of the list of lenses you have in your account.

Lensrank is updated once a day ~ so it can take a day or two maybe three for you to get a new lens out of WIP status.

Here’s the deal though…

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How to Add Products to Your Amazon Modules

I had a question today about adding products to amazon modules. It’s really simple. You need to find the product(s) you want to include at Amazon and find the ASIN number which you will add to your module. The ASIN is the number Amazon uses to identify each product in their store.  Here’s a walk through of two of my favorite Amazon modules.

Amazon Spotlight

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How to Link Your Lens Images

It used to be much harder to make your images clickable, now Squidoo has made it much easier.  In fact, all you have to do is add the link to where you want it to go and Squidoo will do it all for you.

Let’s take a look.

1. You can not link up your images in your intro module, but you can in other modules.

2. At the bottom of the module you’ll see a place [...] Continue Reading…