How to Earn Money With Squidoo
First off, before you or anyone gets the idea that Squidoo is a get rich quick scheme,
think again. It is the furthest thing from it. Squidoo will only ever profit you
if you put a lot of effort and time into it. Then, and only then will it show you
some income. It is true that some people can and do make a living online, however
the majority fall into the category of failure because they don't understand that
things just don't happen over night. If you understand this, and are ready to embrace
longevity, then you will benefit from this page.
Squidoo's main principle is to provide a way to share your expert advice or anything for that matter to a world wide platform. Below are some of the things Lens Masters use their lens for:
• Selling Products
• Directing Traffic Back to a Website
• Discussing a Specific Topic (Special Interest)
• Non-
• Business Advertising
• Expert Advice Sharing
• & More.
One thing all these ideas should have in common is quality content. If the lens is another spammy page, people will just click away, because it offers no value other than a sales pitch. Squidoo, may even altogether just ban your lens or your membership if you persist in creating lens without quality and valuable content. So, just don't do it! Keep it clean, simple, and informative, even if you are selling something, give something away.
Okay, now that you understand this, lets discuss what you can do to increase traffic to your lens and build a reputation. Reputation will come in many ways. One way is Google's Page Rank. This is important, but don't worry about it at the moment. More importantly is the readers thoughts. If you are writing, write as though you talking to humans. On average, a lens master will spend hours on a well thought through and designed lens. He/She will think about grammar and presentation as though they are talking to another human, not a search engine spider robot.
Once you have content on your lens, then you can add affiliate links to sell products. Squidoo provides you with modules such as Amazon.com and eBay.com for starters. There are other affiliate sites like the following where you can get product ideas.
• Commission Junction: www.cj.com
• One Network Direct: www.onenetworkdirect.com
• Linkshare: www.linkshare.com
• Shareasale: www.shareasale.com
• As Seen On TV: www.asseenontvnetwork.com
• Click Bank: www.clickbank.com
The reason I showed the above links first is because they will help you with brainstorming ideas around what products you can promote along side of your content. Never put advertisements or products on a lens that is not related. This is spammy and looks amateur.
Okay, now let's discuss content. Content is king, don't forget that. If you don't have content that is valuable on your lens, then you will not get any visitors or at least any that will stay. So, what is quality content? Well, your reading it! Quality content is wording that provides a resource to its reader. If it doesn't provide anything, then the reader will leave an never return. However, if they find it interesting and applicable they will stay and return, maybe even bookmark or become a fan of your material. Never the less, content is very important to understand. Below is some tips on how it should be applied.
• When writing your content, keep links spread apart. Don't over do the text with too many hyperlinks. This is spam, and people hate it.
• Stay on topic! Don't talk about dogs then jump to loving elephants.
• When recommending products, keep it to one or a group similar to each other that don't conflict in interest.
• As above, a lens is meant to focus on a particular subject. If you have more than one subject, create another lens.
Getting traffic to your lens can be tricky. This is because like everything, it
takes time for your lens to get into the search engine's indexes and Squidoo's index.
Be patient, it isn't uncommon that a lens could take 3-
Places to Promote Your Lens:
• Digg.com
If you are looking for a way to really get ahead of the curve, we recommend checking out Squidoo Queen.
