Wednesday, September 10, 2008

A Surefire Way To Make Money With Squidoo

By Anthony Chambers


If you have not yet used squidoo, you are missing out on the potential for some great income. Squidoo.com is a free website building tool. It is almost like a blog with preset templates, modules, and its own monetization system . Squidoo works for just about anyone who cares to use it. You, my friend, can also make money with squidoo if you want, and that is what this article will teach you to do.

Join Squidoo Free and Build a Lens: Squidoo allows anyone to join free, and start building lens or web pages just as quickly. But, like everything else, there are neat little tricks and tips here and there that will help you get the best results. For affiliate marketers in particular, squidoo is a pristine virtual real estate, not to be missed. You can just as soon make money with squidoo as you can with everything else online. So, to begin your journey, you need to build your first lens. Let us talk about that a little.

How To Make your lens worth reading: Although you may be very anxious to sell your products or services via squidoo, you have to remember why people will read your lens in the first place. It must be worth reading. Whatever topic you choose, make sure that it is worth reading. Create only short paragraphs and spruce up your lens with some nice graphics too. Your lens must not be boring, or else you will lose your reader. Remember that even if you are very passionate about the topic you are discussing, your goal should be getting the reader to click your money-making links.

One of the best ways to ensure that your lens hits the spot with your readers is to offer them some help solving their problems. A quick way to do this is to go to the Google adword tool (do a search for it ) and type in the following phrase "how to". You will see plenty of results showing you what people are searching for online. For this article I found out there were 135,000 people wanting to know how to make paper last month, and another 12,000 wanting to know how to make friendship bracelets . Find a need using this method, and then do a little research to build your lens around a solution.

Maximize your own links and minimize non-owned links. There are lots of modules on squidoo and many of them are fun to use. But if you allow your readers to leave your lens by any means possible, you could be giving away money. You should control as many of the out-bound links as possible. Make sure that when your readers leave your lens, they are actually going to a link you control.

You should leave your feedback module in place so people can tell you how they like your lens. Sometimes you need to allow direct feedback from your readers so that you can make money online whether you are using squidoo or something else. In promoting your lens you should also bear in mind that squidoo its own adsense and other modules on every lens. This means that you are contributing to their sales just by building a lens. Do not feel that you must donate all of your earnings to charity.

So now that your lens is looking spiffy and ready for the world, you will need to promote it. A dead lens, like a dead website is a complete waste of time. To promote your lens, use tags, bookmarks, and directories to promote them. Some of these are pingomatic.com, squidutils.com, squidom.com, and isleofsquid.com. There are many others. Also, you can bookmark to many social pages at once using onlywire.com . A great idea is to go around to the top lens in your area, and type in comments in their feedback forms with links to your own lens. Even if they do not reciprocate, you should benefit.

One of the ways you can make money with squidoo is to promote programs or services that will pay you residual income. Think about it for a moment. If you promote a program that will earn you income month after month from your one-time effort, isn't that much better than having to make one-time sales over and over again? This concept alone can multiply your income many times over.

The truth is, you can find a few lucrative programs online that lend themselves readily to residual monthly income. Programs such as GDI, wealthy affiliate, SFI, and others are genuine money-makers that will create a nice cash flow for you right from your squidoo lens. Do not forget that squidoo is free and so are all of the tools I have just discussed.

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