Tiffany Washko

Squidoo is a web 2.0 site and it has certain social networking elements built into it. Each lens can be ranked from 1 to 5 stars so if you create a good lens then visitors can push it to the top of the ranks by giving you 5 stars. The higher your rank the easier it is for Squidoo visitors to find you. My most heavily trafficed lense was ranked at as the number #2 lens for the food and cooking category and number 250 overall among thousands of lenses.

Other users can also lensroll your lens to appear on the right sidebar of their lens page if they are so inclined.

You can do your best to make sure your lenses rank well via Squidoo searches by making sure they are properly tagged.

Lens have guestbook capabilities and it is helpful to find other lenses that you like and leave comments, giving you permanent links to your own lenses. This also helps to build community. Many times if you leave comments then those lens owners will return the favor and give your lens a favorable lens rank…adding to the cycle of traffic.

Squidoo also has a community form called SquidU. This forumm is a great place to network, meet other lensmasters, and even request that your lens be blessed by a SquidAngel. You will know if you have been blessed because a little angel will appear on your lense and your rank and thus traffic are greatly increased when you receive this honor. So it is great goal to build a truly excellent lense worthy of blessing.

You can also drive traffic to your lenses by linking to one or more of them OR your profile page which lists the lenses you have….on your other sites, blogs, and newsletters if you have them. You can also place a link in your signature line for community forums, discussion groups, and emails.

Your lenses can be added to various social book marking sites like Digg, HUGG, reddit, and stumbleupon. There is even a new one specifically for Squidoo lenses called lenseroll.

Do article marketing whereby you write and distribute article on various subjects to the free reprint article directories and put the link to your Squidoo page or pages in the by line. Whenever someone publishes your articles they will also be publishing those links.

So you can pretty much market a Squidoo page the same ways would promote a regular web site or blog.

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!

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Many of the built-in Squidoo modules actually help to monetize your lenses. With the eBay and Amazon modules for example you create a section for related products to appear on your lens and whenever a visitor clicks through and buys one of those recommended products…you and Squidoo share the commission. This is the same with Google AdSense. The Adsense ads appear in various places above and below your lens content and when visits click on these ads you get a portion if the profit. There are many other modules available to monetize your lens too..cafepress, KB Toys, Netflix, Overstock, Buy.com. The Starbucks store…many options.

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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It is very easy to build a squidoo lens in about 15 minutes. The creation process is automated as is the monetization process. So for a newbie that has no idea how to design a web site or start a blog….a squidoo lens is a great alternative and a great place to get their feet wet. They can start earning money immediately after they have build a lens and make even more as they learn how to add affiliate links and build a better lens.

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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