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Professional blogging with Squidoo

Squidoo is a social web building site also ideally suited to professional blogging and can help tell others about who you are and what you do.

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Squidoo replaces blog posts with "modules" that can include articles, video graphics, links to online stores and affiliates, polls and lots more.

You can promote yourself, your business, your service, your product, your organization or just your content with related affiliate sales links, store links and adds to generate revenue.

Like blogs, the focus should be on content and offering something of value not simply advertising.

Also as with blogs, there are penalties for excessive promotion, this time perhaps not just by search engines like Google but with censure from the Squidoo community.

One more similarity to blogs? Squidoo pages (they're called "lenses") are most successful when updated on a regular basis.

Finally, Squidoo is social. The overall site is an interactive community and the individual pages can incorporate comments and other reader interaction while collecting fans for your profile.

Does all of this sound a bit time consuming? Well, you can also hire a professional to create and maintain your Squidoo lens for you. want to know more. Contact us about professional blogging for Squidoo.

Use Squidoo to promote your blog

Use Squidoo, the online website building community, to promote your blog with easy tools that can help you build a "lens", Squidoo's name for a member created site, in minutes.

In the video below from CashCoach.net see how to install some of the more interactive modules the Website has to offer:

To get started first sign up. Tools or "modules" available for building your Squidoo lens include:

• Text modules allowing you to upload photos and enter text with HTML links to your blog or other Websites related to the lens topic
• Video modules enabling the "lensmaster" to embed video from YouTube and other video sites
• Modules allowing you to set up polls, duels, text bubbles, color text boxes etc. all making your message stand out while increasing interactivity on the site
• Modules allowing you to add affiliate items from Amazon, Ebay, CafePress etc. and either make money yourself or donate it to charity
• A way to link the feed from your blog directly to your Squidoo lens providing updated content readers can use as a link to your latest blog articles.

Remember, for your Squidoo lens to work properly as a promotion tool for your blog, be sure to create a lens on a similar or related topic with similar keywords.

Do you Squidoo?

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A new hybrid of blogging, online social network and push button publishing has resulted in a new kind of Web design tool.

Squidoo offers the personal publishing ease of blogging and the community of the large social networks (MySpace, etc.)

Squidoo let's you:

• Create an unlimited number of brief interconnected articles sharing your expertise, promoting your products or services or spreading the word about your organization or cause
• Add eCommerce options like Amazon.com, CafePress.com etc. and share in the revenue from them and AdSense based on traffic.
• Use powerful social networking tools  to connect with other Web site or "Lens" builders, generate fans for your sites, get comments and feedback and join and create groups of like sites and members.
• Add polls, YouTube videos and other features to generate interest and build interaction among members and visitors and generate additional feeddback and traffic to your Squidoo lens.

For more on building a Squidoo lens see this article from eHow or watch the following video from www.socialmarketing101.com: