A powerful web 2.0 website is getting the attention of Internet marketers from around the world now that they realize they can promote stuff and build their brands using the site.

Succeeding on Squidoo requires more than slapping up a web page using their handy drag and drop widgets. To be successful, marketers are required to connect with other users at Squidoo, and start building up links to and from the lenses they create. Linking to the lenses from outside Squidoo is also important.

To get you started, here are 3 quick ways to use Squidoo to increase your traffic and website income:

1. Join the Squidoo forums. At Squidoo they call them SquidU, and they let you connect with other lensmasters, and make friends. Do that, and you can have others linking to your lenses and bookmarking your creations to create greater awareness and traffic. You can also seek out the ones they call SquidAngels and have them bless your lens - it makes good things happen, like higher rankings and more traffic.

2. Squidoo also has groups - so join some, and create some. When you get involved in a group, your link can get listed their, and since the search engines love these group pages, you will get another link listed in search results, and this can lead to better lens ranking and more traffic.

3. Be active on other related Squidoo lenses - read their lens content, and post relevant useful comments with a link back to your lens. Don’t just leave a “visit my lens” spam comment - be useful first, and then you can link back to your lens. If you feel the need to provide advice to the lensmaster, you might want to do that in private, rather than leave it where it might be misinterpreted.

Another cool built-in feature at Squidoo is the ability to bookmark your lens on the most popular web 2.0 sites, like Digg, Stumbleupon, Myspace and Twitter. If you want to become fast friends with someone, bookmark their lens with a nice comment, and then leave a comment about what you did on their lens. They will want to return the favor.

Squidoo is a great place to learn highly effective social behavior that leads to greater success and income. Simply do useful, kind things to others, and what how your prosperity and income rises with the number of good deeds you do. Try applying everything you have learned, and see just how much income you can make using Squidoo.