Building Your List From Squidoo

One of  my favorite free platforms is Squidoo. It’s a great place to use to get some links for SEO as well as traffic back to your main site. It’s also a great place to build a list.

It hasn’t always been, in fact, there was quite a while when you couldn’t add an opt in box to your Squidoo lens. You had to  place a clickable image in a text module. When people went to put their name it they would be transferred to a page where you had a functioning opt in box they could fill in.

Those days are over, and as you know you should take every single opportunity you can to add people to your list of subscribers.

There are 2 ways you can use Squidoo to build your list, let’s take a look at what they are.

1. Lead them to a squeeze page.

Most people send readers directly to an affiliate product from Squidoo. This can be a mistake because you will only get a small percentage of people who will buy the first time they land on a product page. You want to be able to talk to them more, so you need them on your list before you send them to the sales page.

My suggestion is instead of sending people directly to the sales page, you send them to your opt in page instead.  This means you need to have an opt in page set up to send them to. You can create your own and upload it to your server, or you can take advantage of this service where you can simply fill in the blanks and the software will automatically create your squeeze page. The service will also host your squeeze pages, no matter how many you create so you don’t have to worry about that either. It’s pretty handy.

2. Add an Opt In Box to Your Squidoo Lens

The second way you can go is to add an opt in box directly to your Squidoo lens. These kind of opt in boxes have a great conversion rate because they are exactly what the person is looking for and it’s right in the middle of content they are looking at.

It’s a bit of a process to get an opt in box in your lens, but there’s a great free guide available that will walk you through it.  The guide is not mine ~ and you will have to opt in for it, but it’s totally worth it. I’m saw an increase in my subscriber rate right away after I added some opt in boxes to lenses.

Here’s the lens where you can get the free guide to add an opt in box to a Squidoo lens.

Either way you decide to go, know you are on the right track. My business grew by leaps and bounds once I jumped in and decided to build a list. Yours can too, and it doesn’t have to be as hard as you think it is, in fact, it can be pretty simple.

If you have any questions feel free to ask them in the comments section below!