How On Earth Do You Squidoo!?

Josh, I'd be interested to see what others have to say.  I stumbled upon it a couple of months ago, but it seemed so complicated.  I hear you can get a ton of traffic if you set your lenses (I think that's what they were called) up properly, but it just seemed to complicated for me.  Maybe I was just tired that day...  :)

Chanda panda

I set up a squidoo account.  Then I made my first 'lens' and then I gave up.  I couldn't figure it out or understand what the heck to do with that site.

Would love to hear from anyone who has found out how to use it.

I squidoo'ed off and on with very little fanfare. I did receive one call from a buyer about a loan program that was obsolete (doop!, I was away for so long that I forgot to delete it). Anyway, that was it.  Seth Godin designed it and for a guy that likes clean sites, he's riddled his site with every click on ad campaign that exists.  I don't think that it's a good avenue for business.

I'm a big Slide Share Guy instead.  It basically a power point presentation that you can facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc....  One of my presenations gets 20 views per day....

Here's one that a Realtor used that can be downloaded and changed to add your information.  I hope you use it, face book it, link it into your e-mail and get great results.... it's about the $8,000 Tax Credit for 1st Time Homebuyers     if you decide that you like to join slide share(it's free), please let me know so that I can follow you. Cheers! Mario

I've had a lens too. Only one post to it and I gave up.  I just don't understand what I am supposed to do.

And Mario thanks for reminding me about slide share.  I have an account that I have not used there either.  I downloaded the tax credit slide.  Thanks again.

I have set up a lense. I was very excited about it and then I completely forgot about it until your post. I think I will head back to night and check it out-Dinah Lee

Josh,

About a year ago I was going to try that too. I finally decided it was not for me.

Chanda- Me too! thanks for stoppin by.

Robert- Hopefully some one knows...

Mario- Sounds like if you figure it out it can be worth it.

Dinah- Let me know if you figure this thing out.

Steven- Thats funny, it sounds like something that takes a little time.

Hi Josh ~ I know some people have good luck with it - I took Katerina Gasset's SEO class and she recommended it. I got a couple of page names I wanted but haven't even started doing anything with it yet.  Aren't the links Follow links?  I thought so -and that could make it valuable. 

Funny - all the comments remind me of how I feel about Facebook - I try to find my way around - especially with Fan pages - and just give up in frustration.

Liz

I tried it out, found it nearly impossible to understand, fumbled through a lens that's published....or not, I have no idea.  Lost interest and moved on. 

Isn't it a requirement for any social tool to be easy to use these days?