How to Make Money with Squidoo

An Easy Way To Make Money With Squidoo

So you want to make some money online using the awesome web 2.0 style website Squidoo!

Well here is an awesome article for you to use to make some easy cash online while utilizing completely free tools that are available to anybody.  Although this is not a guaranteed method it has been tested and proven successful as long as you put a little effort into your work and stick it through the entire process.

Decide Upon a Niche For Your Squidoo Lens

When trying to decide upon what type of squidoo lens you are going to build, you should keep in mind that it is best to choose a niche that you are already familiar with, or something that you truly enjoy on a personal level.  This will make it easier to come up with effective marketing strategies as well as streamline the process of creating actual content for your lens.  So choose something that you are well educated on and can easily be researched if need be.

Locate a Product To Sell

Once you have decided what type of squidoo lens you are going to create, the next step is to locate a good product to sell as your main source of income.  The product that you select is going to be what you use to come up with all the content for your lenses.  If you do not have an actual physical product to offer to your visitors, you can locate a digital product such as an eBook that you can resell.  There are also plenty of affiliate products that you can use as your main product.

If you are looking for some good affiliate products in any niche, you should check out the following sites:

www.clickbank.com

www.amazon.com

www.cj.com

Any of the above 3 websites will have good products in almost any niche for you to promote on your squidoo lens.  The best part is that all three of the sites listed above are completely free to sign up and use their services.

Create Content For Your Squidoo Lens

This is a very important step to building a successful squidoo lens.  You should not publish content that is not written well nor has no informational value.  Since the visitors that will be coming to your lens are going to be more apt to actually read your content, it should actually be very helpful as well as easy and enjoyable to read for the visitor.  Don’t forget to use your main keyword for your product throughout the content on your squidoo lens.  This will ensure that visitors locate your lens through the correct keyword searches.

Link Up Your Product To Your Lens

Once you have completed all your content for your squidoo lens and you have it published then you will need to link up your product to your squidoo lens by inserting links into the lens.  One of the most effective ways of linking the product to the lens is through a picture link of the product.  Visitors are more likely to click a picture than a text link, so try to put some good picture links of your product in a good spot on your squidoo lens.

Tell Some People About Your Squidoo Lens

After creating content and linking up your product you are basically done creating your lens.  You can, and should always go back to your lens and eventually update it just a bit in order to keep its content current, but that is not a very important task.  You should only need to update the lens every once in a while, possibly once a year or less.  The next step is to drive some traffic to your lens.  The quickest way to do this is to use a social bookmarking website such as Digg.com or StumbleUpon.com to bookmark your squidoo lens.  This will drive some nice amounts of traffic to your lens as well as get it quickly indexed by Google.  You should also try to build a few links to your lens. You can probably locate a few websites where the webmaster is willing to do a link exchange with you.  Article marketing is another good way to build a few good links to your squidoo lens.

Keep Building On Squidoo!

After you complete your first lens and you build a few links then you should get started on your next lens right away.  A good way of looking at squidoo is that each lens that is build is the same as an employee in a company. You are the owner of a business and you are building your company, so the more lenses you have, the more employees you have working for you.  The only difference is that these employees work 24/7 around the clock for you and you don’t need to pay them!

Building squidoo lenses is fun and it is super easy which makes it such an incredibly exciting source of income. There are people who are making a living just from squidoo marketing.  So get busy and start creating your own squidoo lenses for profits.

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