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One of the hottest sites to come out of the Web 2.0 phenomenon is Squidoo. If you are not building sites to Squidoo, you are missing one of the quickest and easiest ways to build free traffic for your website or blog.

Squidoo is a cross between a blog, a mini site, and a My Space page. Squidoo calls the sites “lenses” and the people who produce the sites are called “lensmasters.”

Squidoo lenses are very easy to make, even if you have not ever built a website or blog before. You can have a lens up and running in as little as 15 minutes.

Squidoo lenses are made up of “modules”. Squidoo has dozens of modules to choose from. There are modules for making lists. There are modules for You Tube videos. There are modules for Amazon and Ebay auctions. With a little knowledge of the module system, you can have your lens built in no time.

Squidoo also offers you a chance to make money from your lens. Squidoo makes its money from affiliate advertising with Google AdSense, Amazon, Ebay and several other sites. They keep track of the earnings of each module and split the profits with you 50-50. You can also donate your profits of your module to charity if you wish.

Squidoo is very lenient about allowing you to use third party advertising on your lens. You can promote your own website if you wish or promote your favorite affiliate product. Savvy network marketers often use Squidoo lenses to promote their products and recruit new reps.

Squidoo lenses often rank very high on Google, so it’s a great chance to build some backlinks to your primary company website.

One of the best ways to use Squidoo to build traffic to your primary blog is by using the RSS feed module. You simply load the RSS feed from your blog and the Squidoo lens will update automatically as you update your blog. (more…)

Nowadays, many SEO friendly websites offer tailored and easy to understand online marketing techniques. What’s great about this is that you can customize the strategies that work for you, eliminating the ones that don’t or else you are not interested in. Sound good? Of course it is! You are in control of your destiny and in the fate of your company. But the good thing is that it doesn’t take a huge commitment of time, money, or effort, but can be done in an easy cost-effective way.

As many people employ the Internet to find local businesses, online local advertising is a successful and powerful method of profit generation. Gone are the days of people opening up their newspapers and turning to the back section to find needed services or paging through phone books seeking the right company in their local area. Today, it is quicker to do an online search. Most people have access to a computer at home or at work and can quickly search for what they need online. An online search can be done in seconds, much quicker than it takes to even find a newspaper. Your business needs to be visible through the Internet, if you want to maximize your business opportunities.

Having your own online website describing your products and services is the best form of local business marketing because it puts your company out in the open, maximizing your potential to grow business opportunities. The main objective of a local search engine is to educate and inform prospective local customers. To gain organic search traffic in this regard, state your business address, contact telephone number, contact name, web address, online e-mail address, and any other pertinent information to gain maximum visibility. The more information you put out there, the better your chances of that customer needing your services finding you and contacting you. (more…)