The purpose of this club is to gather people to share the benefits of having a Squidoo website (called a Lens). Squidoo Lenses are an excellent way to send traffic to any website, whether it be an affiliate merchant site or a personal site on your own domain.

Read this before creating your Squidoo Lens

You can edit your Lens title and everything else but you cannot change your Lens url, so choose it carefully. Plan your naming strategy before you even click to Squidoo. Decide on the keywords or keyword phrase that searchers will most likely type into a search engine. Put these in your title, which can be as long as you want, and choose the most important words to include in your url.

When you’re ready to Squidoo, click on the link below or the banner in the sidebar. The banner is linked to my brand-new, very first Squidoo Lens. You will see the three areas where we will be supporting each other’s Lenses: you can rate a Lens in the top left corner, you can add the url of a topic-related Lens or website to the Links list lower down, and you can leave a message in the Guest Book. I haven’t checked out the Guest Book yet, but I’m imagining that you could leave your unrelated url there.

Squidoo has been having some growing pains today, if you can’t connect right away, keep trying. You can find a signup link in the top right corner of my page.

Once you sign up and have a Lens built (depending on how fussy you are, this can take you from a few minutes to an hour or two), come back here and leave a comment with you email address and Squidoo url. I’m moderating comments, so no one’s emails will be published. I’ll update this first post to include a list of club member’s urls, so be sure to subscribe to this blog so you’ll know when new urls are added.

Don’t worry if this doesn’t all make sense to you. Come back often and leave a comment with your questions and suggestions in it. We can all learn from each other’s experiments and results.

I’ll start off the list:

http://www.squidoo.com/build-an-easy-website/