10 Ideas to Create Backlinks for your Squidoo Lenses

One of the primary tasks for any lensmaster is to create backlinks for their Squidoo Lenses. They should be dofollow links and preferably with the primary keywords in the anchor text. Let's discuss 10 ideast to generate backlinks for your lenses.

1. Squid U Forum: This is perhaps the simplest options. Head over to http://www.squidu.com  and leave  a post in the Critique me section. You will not only get a backlink but also some useful advice on your lens from helpful lensmasters.
   
2. Lens Directory Submission: Submit your Lens to Lens directories. Couple of popular ones that I have used are IsleofSquid and Squidig. The links are dofollow and you can control the anchor text as well. A quick way to add some links.
   
3. Blog Commenting: Comment on a related blog. This may be a no-follow link – but it can get you traffic – if the blog on which you are commenting has a good traffic. It's generally preferable if you are among the first few commenters. The links in these comments have a better chance of being clicked upon.
   
4. Squidoo Groups: Join a related group on Squidoo. This is a simple but very powerful tool.Some Group pages have very good PR and a link from such pages will be very valuable in terms of link juice.
   
5. Squidoo Lens Comments: Submit a genuine comment on a related lens and if you feel that your lens can be a value add to the other lens – leave a link. Use this very scarcely and sensibly though.
6. Blog about your Lens: Write a blog post on your own blog (if you don’t have one – get started today).They will not only help you index your lenses faster but will also help you build good backlinks.
   
7. Niche Forums: Join a forum related to your niche and have the link in your forum signature. You can have links in your Squidu Forum signature as well.
   
8. Social Bookmarking: This one is probably a no-brainer. You can join the popular social bookmarking sites and add a link to your lens(Digg, Reddit, Stumpleupon). Be careful though and do some research on the bookmarking strategies for these sites. For Stumbleupon, especially you need ot be careful to not stumble only your squidoo lenses. You have to providing value so you need to be stumbling a variety of websites with one or two squidoo lenses in between. 1 Squidoo lens in 10 other websites will be a safe area. However there is a new kid on the block- Redgage – Not only can you post your lenses there, but you can also make from money from just posting links. Very interesting.
   
9. Other Web 2.0 sites: Join Hubpages and create a hub on a related topic and create links to your Squidoo page.  (hint – you can make money here as well). This is quite similar to lensmaking but has its own peculiarities.
   
10. Give me your ideas: I would love to have some comments here.