What Is Squidoo?
Squidoo is a large website where you can put up a webpage. They call this page a lens. On this page you add your own content and extra modules to fill out the page and help you make money or drive traffic to your website.
But you don’t need a website to make money with an Squidoo lens!
Google loves Squidoo and gives it a high page rank. This means that google visits the site frequently looking for new lenses to index. As a bonus it regards backlinks from Squidoo to your site in a very favourable way.
How Squidoo Works
Squidoo allows you to select from a large number of modules to put on your lens. You add your content and any links you made. You can change round the order of the links and then publish it.
You Can Add Your RSS feed
If you have an RSS feed from your blog or website it can be added to your squidoo lens, so bringing you even more exposure.
How You Make Money With A Squidoo Lens.
Drive traffic To Your Site
Along with the fresh content on your lens you can add links back to your site. They can be text links in the body of your content or images linked to your products. This will help to increase traffic to your website.
Review Your Own Products
It doesn’t matter if you have physical or digital products to sell, you can review them favourably on your Squidoo page with links back to your site. You can also review your competitors in less glowing terms if you want to.
Make Money Using Amazon Associates
Make Money With Squidoo
If you have an Amazon associates account you can use link to any products using your associates ID. This means you keep all the commission from sales made this way. When you explore your squidoo lens you;ll find severalslightly different Amazon modules you can use. Somr enable you to use your ownassociates ID. And the best thing is…you have full control over the choice!
Sell Affiliate Products
If you sell affiliate products you can use a Squidoo lens to generate sales. It’s a great way of attracting traffic and gaining more exposure to your affiliate products.
Showcase Your eBay Items
If you are an eBay seller you can highlight your own auctions or shop items. Using the eBay module you have so much control over which of your auctions you show. You don’t have to alter it when you list or relist items. Squidoo can be set to automatically show them, so saving you time and introducing your goods to a wider audience.
You Can Make Money Just From The Lens
If your main aim is to use the lens to promote your own site you can still make some money. Each month Squidoo pays out commissions generated from Amazon, Google adsense and eBay to lens owners. The amount you get depends on the number of visitors to your lens and where it is ranked in Squidoo. It may only be a few dollars a month for each lens but it is money you’ve earned on autopilot.