Here’s my advice. Stop clicking the health button.

No really, I don’t know how they configured that, but it has never been accurate for my lenses.

When I do a health check on my Squidoo lens I always seem to get the message – “Your Primary Tag Needs Work: Your Primary Tag doesn’t appear to be related to your lens.”

I thought the Primary Tag would be the keyword/s you are targetting. Is this correct? Example – targeted keyword – Rocky the robot truck, Squidoo lens url is the same, the keywords would be in the Main Heading and the first heading of the intro module and the content would also have those keywords used as anchor text.

Why oh why would Squidoo tell me my primary tag doesn’t related to my lens when the entire lens is about promoting good old Rocky!!!!!

Would appreciate any advice you can give – going slightly crazy over this little speed bump I have encountered.

Thanks for all your great tips and tricks
Jade

there are many many ways to build backlinks. Check out today’s post on everything you ever wanted to know about backlinking and you’ll see a lot of ways to make backlinks. Social bookmarking is 1 way to create backlinks to your sites. I personally don’t enjoy doing it and don’t feel like it gives me results for the time it takes so I don’t use it much. That’s a personal decision.

There is a whole post on how to create a blogger blog to support your lenses, hopefully that will help you. Realize a blog does not HAVE to be linking anywhere. You can just talk about stuff ~ which is why I suggested if you do a christmas gift type blog you just talk about how to shop for christmas gifts, how to save money at christmas etc ~ get some content that’s related to the blog topic on the blog and then apply to Amazon.

Yes you can always go back and add links to your blog.

Not being an amazon affiliate should NOT be stopping you from creating lenses!!! Read this post about how to use the modules that are available to you ~ everything can be modified once you are an amazon affiliate.

hope that helps.

Also, I’m not real sure how to create a blog so that I can become an Amazon affiliate. If the blog needs to link to your lens and you’ve created no lenses because you’re not an amazon affiliate yet, where do you link and can the link to your lens be added after the fact in your blog?

Here’ s why:

EZA is a really powerful site ~ that’s why we use it. If you use the kw in the title of your article chances are good your article will outrank your lens (at least in the beginning) then you are missing out on traffic that could go directly to your lens.

The chance people will get where you want them to go decreases exponentially with each click ~ so if your article ranks higher than your lens, that’s 1 click on your article, then another click on the link in your resource box, then yet another click they have to make to finally get to the sales page. Much better to rank your lens and just have the one click to sales page.

Thanks!