Free Promotion For Your Squidoo Lenses

Got a niche?  Squidoo now has a program where lensmasters with true passions for their niche are chosen to serve as "Contributors."  The job of these Contributors is to promote lenses, as well as recruit new lensmasters, within their specialty area.  The task is open-ended to allow each individual to use his or her favorite promotional techniques to further the cause of his or her niche topic.

Want to make a new lens on your favorite topic and get some free promotion?  Want to join Squidoo and get involved in a community of like-minded individuals, lensmasters who love the same things you love?

Many of our Contributors are using Facebook for promotion.  If you want to see what some of them are doing, click to find a niche that you love and check out that Contributor's Facebook page.  Give them a shoutout.  Share with your friends.  Don't overlook the opportunity to get some free promotion for your niche lenses.

Feel that you could be a Contributor, too?  We'll be adding more positions soon so continue to build your own personal niche and, when the opportunity arises, perhaps you'll be chosen as head cheerleader for your favorite topic on Squidoo.  

How to Generate a Spike in Your Squidoo Lens Traffic

Kimberly wrote at SquidooHQ today about Lens Ideas for July.  Good suggestions there to get you thinking outside the box a bit, but more importantly to get you thinking about niche topics/holidays that not everyone is writing about. 

There WILL be people searching for those topics when the day comes.  Know how I know?  Did you ever look at logos that Google displays on their main page?  Frequently they will display special logos drawn to commemorate a holiday or event.  A recent favorite was on June 9th, Les Paul's 96th birthday.  Take a look at the Les Paul logo - and strum the strings!

Now, take a look at this graph that shows the Google search trend for Les Paul:

See that huge spike?  That was June 9, 2011, the day Google displayed their special logo and millions of curious people googled "Les Paul" to find out more about him.

While I won't promise you a Les Paul spike in Squidoo traffic, I will promise you that people will be searching to learn about unique holidays and topics they hear about as they happen.  No reason in the world it shouldn't be your lens that they find when they do their search!

So, what niche holiday or topic are you going to write about in the coming month?  Have you had a lens spike in the past?  Tell us about it in a comment below.

A Lensography by Any Other Name . . .

One of my newest lenses, Essentials for Survival, is being developed as a lensography for my survival series of lenses, of which I have two so far. I don't mention the word "lensography" at all, but each new lens will be incorporated here to support the topic, as well as to support the blog of the same name.

I've never done it this way before, but it's kind of nice to start the lensography early. It'll be easy to keep up, plus it makes my commitment to the niche more serious. I'm determined to keep it up!

Do you have a new niche? Does it have a lensography? Share it here!