Squidoo Can Make You Bank!
Some of you might be familiar with Squidoo, but most are probably not. It is a website where you can create you own page. So it is a website that allows you to create your own website within the Squidoo website. This is kind of confusing, but it is the same concept as facebook, myspace, twitter, and others, only with a different twist. Most social sites frown on you trying to use their site to make money. They are social sites that want you to create a page for friends and family, not for business. Now some are getting away from this, but they still have all kinds of stipulations on what you can advertise there.
Squidoo is different. It wants you to make money with your page. They have a system set up that allows you to advertise you own stuff, along with some of theirs. Now you get a share of the commission when you advertise their stuff and someone clicks, or buys.
This helps all of you reading this. Why? Because it is free to sign up and create as many pages or lenses “as Squidoo calls them” as you want. This gives you unlimited advertising and money making opportunities. If you read my other post, you already know where to get affiliate products. All you have to do is pick one, go to Squidoo and create a lens, and then write articles about the item your promoting. So if it is weight loss, then find a weight loss product, build a lens, and start researching and writing about weight loss. The more information on your lens the better you will rank. Click Here for an example of my lens for this site.
This is not just for people that don’t have a website as you can see from my example. This is important for people that have a website too. This is marketing. Squidoo is a high ranking site that gets lots of traffic. This gives you another face on the web, and some backlinks from an important site to your website. Squidoo lenses show up in search engine rankings just like regular websites. So this means you need to read my article on SEO and try to apply the backlinks information to your Squidoo lens also.
Now I said that Squidoo is a high ranking site and gets traffic. This means that not everybody is there creating lenses. There are a ton of people there reading information and spending money. Squidoo has a ranking system, and the higher your lens ranks the more visitors Squidoo sends to it. They rank in this order: content, visitors, ratings. Obviously your brand new lens won’t get alot of people right away, but they will send some to it if you put good content and a lot of it. When those people visit your lens site, they have the opportunity to rate it. The more 5 star ratings you get, the more they move you up the rankings. How do you get 5 star rankings? By adding quality articles and content relevant to your lens.
People that are ranked in the top 100 on Squidoo get quite a bit of traffic, and yes they make very good money. The kind of money that you can live off of and quite your regular job. Not bad for something free. Now don’t think for a second this is an easy climb. Many people have a head start on you and have a ton of ratings, but with work you can do it. Remember where I said backlinks were important to your lens. Like I said above these lenses get indexed and ranked in Google and other search engines. Like with any website, the more backlinks, the more important the search engines think the page is.
So my final point is even though there are a lot of people ahead of you, if you get backlinks you could end up ranking well in a search engine for your lens and receive traffic that way. If this happens, not only are you going to make sales, and money, but you will get ratings on your lens, which will move you up in Squidoo rankings and get you even more traffic, making you even more money. The possibilities are mind blowing because you can put as many of these lenses up as you want. Just remember to put quality content on each one, for any of this to work. Look at my lens as an example and then make yours better!
Go To Squidoo And Make Some Cash!
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