The thing I love about Squidoo…I have been ignoring my lenses for months buy they I still relay targeted traffic to my other sites and they make money every month.

If you Squidoo…stop by my new lens and give me a rating!

It is actually very easy to do. Just login to your Amazon affiliate control panel, choose the appropriate tracking ID, and then start creating product links. Copy a text only version of the link and where Squidoo directs you to “Enter your poll response options” you enter your Amazon link instead of plain text.

Here is a picture of the process:

And here is a picture of the poll after the page is published and you get some voters. The best part about this trick is that the full affiliate commission goes to me. I don’t share it 50/50 with Squidoo as I would with many other modules.

 In case you were wondering these two images are from different Squidoo Lenses. Hope this helps you boost your Squidoo profit!

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It was pretty addicting so I went ahead and created a page about two others: Al Gore and Rachel Carson. This is an awesome feature!

Leave me a comment and let me know if you make any!

Stop by and rate my lens if you get the chance!

Also I wanted to let you know about another module that has just been added…a Wikipedia module. I used this module on the green living lens above and basically it pulls in the intro and the attached image to the article that you specify with keywords. It is a great new way to add to the content on your lenses. Go the bottom of the aforementioned lens to see it in action.

So are you ready to Squidoo? Use this link to get started and after you make $15.00 Squidoo will give us both and extra $5.00!

Want to know more about Squidoo? Get the best Squidoo resource out there…Social Networking On Squidoo. I’ve read it…its awesome…if you want to Squidoo then you need it!

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Aside from the shared lens commissions, Squidoo lenses are also very easy to monetize yourself. Squidoo is very lenient about allowing you to use third party advertising on your lens. You can promote your own websites, your own products, or promote your favorite affiliate products. You just work those links into the content and you get paid when visitors buy. You can also use your lens to prompt visitors to sign up for your mailing lists so that you can pitch your products or services to them at a later time.

I made my first two large affiliate sales through a Squidoo lense within 3 weeks of creating it. And I also get Squidoo commissions every month. I make a relatively modest amount….I think I have 6 very targeted niche lenses. But there are some Internet Marketers who have 100 lenses or more. One man that comes to mind is Lewis Smile. He has quite a few lenses and I was just reading one of those about why he loves Squidoo so much and he mentions that Squidoo just paid for his new laptop at 2500.00 so the potential to make a lot of money is definately there.

Want to know more about Squidoo? Get the best Squidoo resource out there…Social Networking On Squidoo. I’ve read it…its awesome…if you want to Squidoo then you need it!

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There are more an more web sites cropping up to imitate this system..hubpages comes to mind. But I have seen nothing that has the sophistication of Squidoo and Squidoo pages can rank very well with search engines and draw good traffic. For someone just getting started this is a painless way to get started.

Also when you have just published a new web site or blog It is helpful to get incoming links and Squidoo pages are a great way to accomplish this. You can link tot your other web sites as much as you like.

Want to know more about Squidoo? Get the best Squidoo resource out there…Social Networking On Squidoo. I’ve read it…its awesome…if you want to Squidoo then you need it!

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For instance, you may have some information to share about red shoes but you don’t want to set up an entire web site about them. Squidoo gives you the option of building a lens about red shoes fairly quickly and then with different lens modules you make it interesting and attractive AND since Squidoo offers many ways to monetize your lens you can make some extra cash too. There are MANY benefits to using Squidoo but he best one has to be its ease of use in getting what is really a mini web site up and published quickly and with quality.

Another bonus, Squidoo shares profit with you. You can pocket the money you make or you can donate it to charity.

How do You Create a Lens?

Squidoo lenses are very easy to make. Even if you are a newbie to creating web pages and you have never blogged before…you can have a lens up and running in as little as 15 minutes.

Squidoo lenses are made up of “modules”. And there dozens of modules to choose from. There are modules for making lists, text modules – where you write about the subject of your lens, a module of links to related web pages or products, a poll module, a YouTube videos module…. There are modules for Amazon and Ebay auctions. With a little knowledge of the module system, you can have your lens built in no time at all.

Want to know more about Squidoo? Get the best Squidoo resource out there…Social Networking On Squidoo. I’ve read it…its awesome…if you want to Squidoo then you need it!

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