How to make money with Squidoo!

Squidoo.com was founded in October 2005 by Seth Godin. Squidoo is a website designed to make it easy for anyone to create a lens (single web page) on any single topic. Squidoo is a cross between a blog and a static web page. You create a lens once then go back periodically to update the content with fresh information. However, the topic always stays the same and the lens is always on a single page. Basically, Squidoo is a network of user-generated content on a single topic that a person wants to share with the Squidoo community as well as the rest of the world.

You can use the Squidoo website for free to create an unlimited number of lenses. People that create lenses are called Lensmasters.

Here are the top 5 ways to make money with Squidoo:

1. Create several lenses on Squidoo: Squidoo allows you to create a lens for free. So create more than one. In return, Squidoo will run ads on all of your lenses. The ads on your lens are relavant to your content. Therefore, your lens visitors are more likely to click on the ads. Squidoo splits its revenue with its "co-op" of lensmasters. The first 5% goes straight to charity then 50% goes to the lensmasters and 45% goes to Squidoo. Simply put, Squidoo pays you royalties for written content on your lens. Google loves Squidoo.com because it's viewed as an "Authority" site. Many lenses get top rankings in search results shortly after being published. The more traffic you get the more potential for royalties. The Squidoo website uses Web 2.0 technology to allow you to build highly interactive lenses without any programming or HTML knowledge. Click here for an example of a Squidoo lens. Ready to make some money? Click here to get started via my referral link. Or, you can go straight to Squidoo.com to begin creating your lens.



2. Generate affiliate income with your Squidoo lens: Earn royalties by adding affiliate products to your lens. Sell an affiliate product via your lens and Squidoo will share the revenue with you. Squidoo makes it easy with the built-in affiliate modules for popular brands. The popular brands include Amazon, eBay, Netfix, Orbitz, CafePress, and others. All you have to do is pick and choose which products you want to sell. What's important is that the affiliate product should be relevant to the topic of the lens. In general, this will lead to more sales. Click here for an example of a Squidoo lens that include links to Amazon books and CafePress t-shirts. The topic of the lens is Texas hold'em poker then later in the lens you can buy books about poker or buy t-shirts with funny poker slogans.



3. Squidoo referral program: Refer a friend to be a Squidoo Lensmaster. When your friend's lens earns its first $15, you AND your friend will each get $5, free. All you have to do is create an account then start referring your friends. I recommend that you create a lens first before you begin referring your friends. Show them how easy it is to create a lens on any topic in Squidoo. When they sign-up then tell them to sign-up their friends. So if you sign-up via my referral link, we both will get $5 dollars when your lens earns $15. By the way, it only takes about 10 to 15 minutes to create a lens and publish it to the world.



4. Promote your products via your Squidoo lens: If you sell products on eBay, Amazon, or CafePress, you can promote and link to your products using the built-in affiliate modules. All you have to do is create your lens, add the applicable modules then link to your products from within the modules. It just takes a few minutes to setup. Traffic to your products should increase since Google loves Squidoo.



5. Promote your blog or website via your Squidoo lens: If you have a blog or website, you can drive traffic to your site using your Squidoo lens. Create a lens that's relevant to your blog or website then link to your blog or website from your lens. Traffic to your blog or website should increase since Squidoo pages rank high in web search engines. People that find your site may subscribed to your RSS feed or simply share it with others on the web via social networking. The additional traffic may lead to more sales and/or AdSense revenue.
   
   
   

Squidoo sends you your royalty payments via PayPal. The default payment threshold is $10. However, you can easily change the threshold to be between $1 and a $1 million. You can also contribute all or a portion of your royalties to charity. It's very easy to configure.

Squidoo is very easy to use and there are many opportunities to make money with it. The best part about Squidoo is that it's free.

Additional Squidoo Resources:

• The Free Squidoo Guide
• Squidoo Marketing Strategies
• How to make your first Squidoo lens
• How to make a living on Squidoo
  
  

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