Low cost lead generation is a desperate need amongst MLM Network Marketers.

Being able to “stuff your sales funnel” full of targeted MLM leads at LOW COST is the name of the game.

Those who do it (and are able to convert them) win.

Those who don’t learn the art, never make it.

Its as simple as that.

This is the first article in a Series of low Cost Lead Generation Methods.

This one deals with Squidoo as the first of our low cost lead generation methods.

I’ve called it low cost, because although its FREE to use, there is a cost involved:

You will have to pay with your Time- both to learn and to implement.

Squidoo is a powerful social site that is free to join.

Low cost lead generation with Squidoo is a powerful strategy Network Marketers can use.

Here’s why:

Anybody can write and post articles there about literally any topic.

In fact, it is one of the few sites that encourages you to shamelessly promote yourself and your business.

Most social sites have elaborate rules about how many links to your site you are allowed and ban
you if you are overly promotional. Not Squidoo.

An article is known as a “lens”, and because Squidoo is a very highly ranked site on Google, lenses that feature on Squidoo often come up high on the search engine rankings easily and quickly.

Of course, the thing to do, as always, is to choose your keywords first and then write some unique, interesting content!

Don’t be discouraged if your lens is not immediatley given the green light (published).

It sometimes takes a couple of days to be accepted.

Squidoo Modules

Lenses are made up of different content pieces known as modules.

Generally speaking, the more modules -including pictures, writing, video, links lists, RSS feeds etc that you have on a lens, the quicker your lens gets accepted.

Squidoo Drives Traffic to Your Site

You can use Squidoo to encourage your reader to visit your business site or blog.

This will increase traffic.

Your individual lens on Squidoo can actually “pull” your business site up the rankings and generate traffic.

Google loves squidoo lenses and often you’ll find your Squidoo lens will rank higher than your blog
or site.

You can create as many of these keyword-targeted lenses as you want!

So try to dominate as many keywords as you can (each lens focuses on one keyword)

by creating links to the different pages on your site.

Squidoo is also a Social Networking Site

Squidoo is a site where there is a social side to it.

It has features that allow you to become a fan of another lensmaster, send emails (promoting your new lens) to your fan club, rate lenses, offer comments on lenses and generally build an audience.

People can click on your bio and find out more about you or be taken to your site. (Its a good idea to have your blog in your profile!)

There are great traffic and tracking tools (click on dashboard>> my lenses>> tracking>> choose a lens and a time period,>>choose traffic)

Learn from Other LensMasters

A new feature I learned about recently is to do with tagging.

I learned it from Lewis Smile, who has loads of squidoo fans!

He has a giant Squid icon and a star under his name, so I think he must be a hot shot Squidoo lensmaster!

Anyway, I found his lens very helpful.

It’s all about how to get more traffic and increase your search engine ranking using only tags.

You can check to see what keywords were typed in on the search engines that brought up your page.

If you haven’t included those keywords into your tags section, you can include them with one easy click- making your chances even better of getting more hits.

Squidoo Tagging

Here’s how: (Thank you Lewis Smile)

* Go to your Squidoo Lens Dashboard.

* Click ‘Stats’ to the right of one of your lenses.

* Now click the ‘Traffic’ tab under the title of your lens.

And now you will see a list of words or phrases that Google surfers typed in to get to your lens.

* The ones with the crosses next to them are the terms you DO NOT have as tags on your lens.

* Its easy to get the word or phrase added to your lens tags. Just click on the cross (+)

This should strengthen your search engine ranking for that word or phrase.

Just remember to republish the lens afterwards!

Here is a great squidoo lens that explains everything about tags and tagging on Squidoo.

Squidoo Lens Promotion

If you want to know how to generate traffic from outside your Squidoo lens, this lens tells all.

Click here for more on Squidoo lens promotion.

Be prepared- it will take some work, but it’s a goldmine of information!

Low Cost Lead Generation: Squidoo Training Course

I have found an excellent resource on EVERYTHING you need to know about doing Squidoo Lenses.

It’s called “Squidoo Secrets” by Bob the Teacher.

Its part of his Internet Marketing Success Library Membership Site.

You can sign up at his site for free here, but if you want the real training you need to upgrade from inside the site.

Its one of the best resources I have come across online.

Check it out FREE here.

Enjoy!