I think I am in LOVE! Who am I in love with? Rather than asking who, you should ask what! That’s right! I’m in LOVE with a thing! I am in LOVE with SquidWho – not Squidoo, SquidWho. What is SquidWho you ask? Let me tell you all about it. This article focuses on how we create tie-ins between our sites and other sites. This is part of the traffic equation in the content + traffic = making money online because building up links to your site helps to increase its visibility and increasing the visibility of your site helps bring traffic.

This is a part of Squidoo that I just happened to stumble upon. This part of Squidoo is called SquidWho. SquidWho provides an interface to search for someone famous. Now I know what you are thinking. Why would searching for someone famous hold any relevance to you and what you are trying to do? Exactly how does that relate to making money online? I’m glad you asked. The relation is very simple and easy. SquidWho asks you to search for someone famous online, but, that famous person could be YOU! That’s right :-), I said YOU! In fact, the page specifically says that the people at Squidoo think that you and I are famous so we should make sure a page exists about US! Wow! I’m famous???? Who knew?

Anyway, let’s say you decide to type in your name and then you click Search. You just type in your name on the search screen. Here is a screenshot of it.

Let’s say you search for someone ultra famous like, like, like, oh, like say Kila Morton (that would be me! :-)). Here is what the screen would say if there were no references for me.

Ok, there is no page for me but the people over at Squidoo care enough about me to build one! Isn’t that nice? You wait for a few seconds and then this wonderful thing pops up!

Wow! Who is Kila Morton? Once this page comes up, you can click in the upper right and claim your page. If you want it, and we all should want it if we are trying to make money blogging, then you select it and sign up. You have to enter a few details and then verify your existence by clicking on a validation link sent to your email account, but that’s it! Once you do that, you can type in the “Three reasons to love Kila Morton”.  I love it! What could be simpler? This system makes it so easy to create link love for yourself. You can link to your blog, place your feed on the site and put information about you out there so people can find you!  This little Squidoo feature helps you build up your blogosphere empire and it’s so much fun. You can also add modules to your page that do different little things.

After you claim your page and add a few things, the page ends up looking something like this to the people who will visit the page. Please don’t mind the fact that I haven’t added all of the pics and stuff to the page. Give me a minute will you?

Take SquidWho for a test drive and put in information about yourself.  Make sure you link back to your blog and make sure that you take advantage of the ability the site offers to you to add your feed to it. Here is a look at my SquidWho page. It isn’t complete – no pics – but I’m sure you get the point.

After you set your page up send me a link to it. Maybe I’ll create a great wall of SquidWho and give you more link love!

Here is my SquidWho page! Now go and claim your SquidWho from Squidoo now!

Posted by Kila Morton

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