If you’re not aware of the level of trust Squidoo.com has with Google then you’ve been living under a rock for a while!

The other week, in a popular affiliate forum, I was reading about a guy who complained that he could not make any money with Squidoo, even though he tried several times. It turns out the guy created a mere two lenses and linked to them from his blogspot (lol)! I think this guy needs some lessons in blackhat – that reminds me, watch out for some great BH tutorials in the coming weeks. Creating two lenses and linking to them via a blogspot is not what I’d call exploiting the real potential of some-think like Squidoo.

Amongst other methods, I’ll be using Squidoo lenses to help promote contentgeneration.org over the next few weeks – I’ll probably turn it into a case study and document everything here so others can learn from and replicate it.

Here’s what I intend to do, which I will outsource (keep in mind this is a new site):

1. Identify 100 not-too-competitive keywords for which I want this site to rank for.
2. Create 100 lenses for the above terms and link to contentgeneration.org with the same anchor text.
3. Interlink 5 lenses – so each lense links to any other five lenses (I could link more but this should be enough).
4. Promote the lenses creatively

Not only should this help my site rank, but it will also generate targeted traffic.

If I was the above guy from the affiliate forum, I’d do something similar. Find a profitable niche, identify 100 converting keywords, create lenses with affiliate links, interlink any 5 at a time, and promote as much as possible – social bookmarking sites, forums, blogs, guest books, etc. Then move on to the next niche!

Here’s a useful, free tool that helps you find available Squidoo lenses: http://bumdemon.com/ And here’s a screen shot.