1. Social Bookmarking: Creating backlinks through social bookmarking sites are a quick and efficient method of generating backlinks. There are tons of such social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Furl, Stumbleupon, Tagfoot,etc. You only need to write a short snippet or description about your lens with a link to your lens. If your content is engaging enough, it could in some cases ascend to the front pages of these sites and give you a nice spike in traffic as well.

2. Forum Signatures: Signatures are also a simple and quick method to earn a backlink. You must however be active in forums in your niche and you can generally add a few links in your signature. Each time you post in such forums, you should be able to get an additional backlink.

3. Blog Comments: Blog comments are a very easy method and hence one must be judicious with your usage here and make an attempt not to spam the blogs. You must strive to leave genuine, thoughtful and relevant comments and you can link back to your lens. Most probably it will be a no-follow link, but it would get you noticed in your niche and could potentially bring some traffic.

4. Other Web 2.0 sites: Hubpages is another popular site similar to Squidoo where you can create a page (called “hubs”). You can create links to your Squidoo lens from here. You could also try Bukisa.

5. Article Marketing: Last but not the least, you have to try article marketing. Publishing an article on leading article directories like this one, will get you a great backlink and some good traffic.

These are 5 quick tips to build backlinks to your Squidoo Lenses.

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