Designing Your Own Squidoo Web Page 3
So far in this series on how to succeed with Squidoo, we first covered how to find a topic for your Squidoo lens and then how to find the right keywords.
Today we continue to move forwards and our question is:
3. WHERE TO USE YOUR KEYWORDS ?
It’s one thing to have a great list of key words but what should you do with them? Where should you place your key words and key phrases for maximum value in your lens?
For maximum effectiveness, you will need to place your keywords in the following places but as you do, please make sure that the text reads well to the human reader. If you do everything right for the search engines but the people who visit your site find poorly written, keyword-stuffed text they won’t stay and your whole effort will have failed.
We don’t want that, so be sure that what you writes reads well. Make it flow smoothly with no hiccups and no awkward sentences.
Where to place your keywords:
– In the title. This is as important with a Squidoo lens as it is with a regular web page. Use your most important keyphrase in your title.
– In the text of your articles. For the sake of having sufficient content, you will place several articles on each lens (I would suggest a minimum of 3 or 4) and it is especially important to use your main keywords in the first paragraph of your first article. Use the other keyphrases several times on the page too, but naturally - not just stuffed in to get the count up.
– In the tags list. What other sites call keywords, Squidoo calls ‘tags’ and you can have up to 40 of them.
However, my view is that by having 40 tags you are going to have a lot of less-relevant ones. So my advice is… Do not use the less targeted tags, even if the software that drives Squidoo.com suggests them.
If you’re awfully clever with tracking (I’m not), you could try using them all and tracking the results. But personally I haven’t bothered with that. Seems like too much work to me.
I’ve seen recommendations for tags of 3-4 words and using these ‘long tail’ expressions makes sense to me - because you get more targeted visitors and you are competing against fewer sites.
Squidoo allows you to run the words of your tags together, for example:
positive psychology positivepsychology positive thoughts positivethoughts think positively thinkpositively
So I suggest you enter both forms for all of your keyphrases.
We’ll continue with this in the next article. Stay tuned…
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