Welcome to Day 7 of your 10 day Niche Blog Challenge.

Today, you’re going to explore a relatively unique social
networking service - which I think has great potential
long-term… it’s called SQUIDOO

After signing up, explore the guide to see how easy
it is to set up your lens.

Want ideas about ’seeding’ your Squidoo lens with links
to all your sites? See one of my lenses here:

http://www.squidoo.com/congenitalheartdefects

Notice how you can get in links to various sections of
your sites, blogs and forum posts. There’s even a blog
module that pulls recent posts to your blog into your
Squidoo lens - automatically.

At the very least, try and work links to these sections
into your lens:

- Your blog

- the Directory of all participant blogs (the link is
http://www.EzineMarketingCenter.com/10dayblog/directory.htm

- the CHD Group homepage (the link is
http://www.squidoo.com/groups/congenitalheartdefects

- the specific forum sub-pages where your posts are
published

- 3 related blogs (you could use the same ones you
used in your blog links post a few days back

- Your social bookmark homepages - this is important,
because it interlinks your various pages, building a
bigger, more powerful authority network

And once you’ve set up your Squidoo lens, go ahead and
post the URL to it in your blog, in your social bookmark
sites (del.icio.us, Furl and BlinkList) and even on
forum posts!

In case you still have some time left today after doing
the Squidoo thing, here’s a thought…

Comment on Blogs

No, don’t ’spam’ them… but post genuine comments, with
links back to your own blog.

You can find related blogs to your niche from our own
directory of ‘Challenge’ participants. Or you could find
them on search engines.

Like forums, post comments about either the blog post
itself, or a related piece of information/news. Make
sure the comment includes a link back to your blog, so
you could get some traffic and inbound links that way

Aim for 3 new ‘comment links’ daily for the next 4 days,
so you’ll at least have 12 new links to your blog!

That’s it for today. Take a break - See you again
tomorrow.

The “CHD Social Media Challenge” is a project to spread Congenital Heart Defects awareness. There are 4 mini-tutorials and 1 firesale making up the ‘challenge’. You can join in and help too - click here to see how.