Terry Didcott

Back to Squidoo

Posted on October 14, 2007
Category: Uncategorized |

After that rather damning report on the state of the local water supply, I thought it would be a nice refreshing change to get back to some good old Internet Marketing!

Squidoo, to be precise. That’s because I’ve just created yet another lens to add to my growing family.

This time, I’ve decided to put to good use all the PLR eBooks that I have lying around on my hard drive. They’re just gathering virtual dust so rather than do nothing with them, it makes good horse sense to make a little money out of them.

It’s taking rather more work than I originally envisaged, because they all have to be set up with their own sales pages and PayPal buttons, download pages and all the other odds and sods that go into creating a salable item. And that’s for just one of them.

Anyway, I got to thinking that the best way to promote them for sale would be to put up a bargain basement sales page on Squidoo and lump them all in together. It’s far from ready to sell anything, so I’m going to withhold the link until it’s got a few eBooks ready to sell.

But here’s the plan:

Set up the lens first with some text modules and other paraphernalia to make it publishable. Add some eBooks to sell with links to their sales pages.
Set up a free hosted blog on the same theme and link to the lens.
Set up a pro hosted blog (not another one!) on the same theme and link that to the lens as well.
Set up links from my other lenses to the new lens - but a couple per day over a week or so, so the SE’s don’t think it’s manufactured - they like to see new blogs grow slowly and naturally!
Write an article (or two) and submit to ezine articles for a high PR back-link to the blogs to get them indexed fast. Then write more articles linking to the lens to get that indexed too.
Promote the lens through social bookmarking such as stumbleupon and del.icio.us etc and make it known to the social networking sites.

That should keep me busy for the next few weeks, so let’s see how this little experiment comes off!

Terry Didcott

PS: Alexa today: 939,043