Posted on June 25, 2008 - by rdilipk1

Traffic – The Squidoo way

Traffic is something that any website or, blog warrants. But sending traffic to your website can be the most difficult things to do. But there are ways to generate traffic without spending too much money.’, ‘

When I first started to blog, my feeling was that my blog would be read by a thousand visitors from the first day itself. Though the reason why I started blogging was because I wanted a medium to express myself, I still yearned for people to visit my blog and read what I wrote. After a few days of blogging, I found that nobody was visiting my blog. Nobody knew about my blog and my blog was lost amongst the hundred thousand other websites on the web. I realized that generating traffic and sending them to your webiste is not a child”s play. It needs some serious work. But the problem was that I did not know, what was the work involved. I did not want to spend money on advertising because my blog was not something that was intended to generate revenue.

As I browsed through the internet, I stumbled upon a website called “Squidoo” which let users creat a one-page website on topics of their interest. Because it was something new for me, I registered for a new account on Squidoo. I created my first one-page website that Squidoers call a “Lens”. This idea was interesting and my first lens was amazing. I felt, that I should create lenses on topics that interested me. So I went ahead and created a couple of lenses and left a link back to my blog, so that if my lens were read by internet-surfers, they might check my blog for further details. None of this was an intentional idea to send traffic to my website.

After a couple of months, I logged into my blog to write a new post and to my surprise I found that there was a comment from a reader. I wondered how this reader came to my blog and went to “google” to search, to see if my blog was listed. I was surprised at the result. My lens in Squidoo was there in the first page on Google. I was amazed. This was working. Since that day, I have written quite a few lenses on Squidoo and have many accounts.

Squidoo has become on the biggest traffic generator to my websites and as a by-product there is lot of fun as well.  A few of my lens of interest on Squidoo are:

• http://www.squidoo.com/micro-niche-finder-scam
• http://www.squidoo.com/nintendogamecubewalkthroughs
• http://www.squidoo.com/googlemagicformulapackage
• http://www.squidoo.com/keyword-elite-exposed
• http://www.squidoo.com/acne_tips
• http://www.squidoo.com/hidden_objects_games_online
• http://www.squidoo.com/water4gasmyth

If you are seriously considering generating traffic for your blogs or, website or, want to sell some products without investing in a website, then Squidoo is the best option. Give it a try, it is interesting and addicting.

Just write a lens and submit it to isleofsquid and you would start seeing traffic to your lens.