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Emma asks, “Thanks for the information! I’ve been following your advice, gotten through Squidoo, hubpages, and blogging. However, now I’m running into an issue: If I create a lens and a hub for the same keyword, how do I avoid duplication of information? It doesn’t seem right to have links from my website to a lens and a hub with exactly the same information. What are your thoughts? ~Emma”

Thanks for the question, Emma! There are two solutions for you:

You don’t want to put the exact same content on a lens and Hub – or anywhere on the ‘net for that matter. You have to learn how to write the same thing in a different way. It can discuss the exact same concepts, though! 

Let me give you an example: Top 5 Diet Tips (I’ll do it two ways for you):

For a lens, you might have these: (1) Burn More Calories Than You Eat (2) Exercise for an Hour a Day (3) Avoid White Foods (4) Shop on the Outer Edges of the Grocery Store (5) Listen to Your Hunger Cues.

For a Hub, take those exact same 5 ideas and make them this: (1) Eat Less, Exercise More (2) Get in an Hour of Cardio Daily (3) Don’t Eat Sugar or White Bread (4) Stay Clear of Processed Foods (5) Adhere to Normal Eating Patterns

It may take some practice for you – you may have to use the synomym feature on your word processor, but learn how to say the same thing using different words.

Or, here’s another solution:

Let’s say your keyword is diet plans. On your lens, your slant can be “Top 5 diet plans” and on your Hub it can be “Why Many Diet Plans Never Work.” Your Ezine Article might be “Which Diet Plans Harm Your Health?” and your blog entry could be “Reviews of the Best and Worst Diet Plans.”

Your goal is to get the hyperlink anchored in your keyword phrase and pointing to your site.

Does this help?

Tiff

Hi everyone! Look, you know I’m a web 2.0 enthusiast. I like it because it’s free and easy – what could be better? So here is a tip on what to do to build links to your site and increase the traffic flow.

Note: This is a long-term endeavor, not a quick fix! Growth and organic traffic building takes time and that’s a good thing – because Google likes to see natural growth, not an overnight flood of links and pages pointing to your domain (they get suspicious about that).

So here’s what you do over time:

First, you need to compile a big list of keywords to use all over the net. Spend like a full day doing this.
Use this tool among others:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Then let me show you an example of what to do for EACH keyword:

Take this keyword phrase for example: female hair loss

Here’s what you make out of each keyword:

1 Lens on Squidoo JUST about female hair loss

1 page on Hub Pages JUST about female hair loss

1 Knol on Google Knol JUST about female hair loss

1 Article on Ezine Articles JUST about female hair loss (you can also post more articles on other article directories but EZA is the king for now)

And if you have a blog, which you should? 1 blog post about female hair loss, too!

1 Article on your domain using LSI (google it if you’re not familiar with it – it’s all about themes on your site)

Then you cross-promote all this stuff. This is a LONG process, but if you want to dominate, it takes time and Google doesn’t like overnight domination anyway – they might sandbox your site if you have too much growth too fast.

My advice? Gather your keywords one day – I mean everything related to your niche from broad keyword to long tail ones to brand names.

Take your list and hire a ghostwriter (cheap on Elance or hire me if I have a WSO running on it) to write unique content for you to turn into those 5 items I listed above (for a lens, you want three 250 word articles, same for a Hub. For a knol and an article directory, you want one long article – for a blog post, it can be 200 words or so).

Then just plug in their content, all of it linking to your domain. Do this for each keyword. This is what the big sites have – tons of links and content pointing to them.

Tiff