Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Discover How Smart Marketers Make Money With Squidoo

By Anthony Chambers


If you are not using squidoo to make money online, you are missing out on one of the best pieces or virtual real estate online today. In case you do not know, Squidoo is a free lens building tool (web page building tool) that is search engine friendly, and lends itself readily to helping online marketers make money on the Internet. This article is about showing you how to make cash online using squidoo.

To start using squidoo, here are some basic things you understand. Although squidoo is free, they do have a few rules which you must follow, such as rating your adult lens as such so that you do not expose adult material to children. However, as a marketer the rules are really easy to live with. If you are willing to learn how to put up a well created and optimized lens, you can make a full-time living from home just by making squidoo lens. By the way, a lens is the same thing as a web page. That is jus "squidoo speak".

If you are ready, let us dive right in and learn the secrets of how to make money with squidoo. One of the first things to remember, is that your lens must be interesting. When a reader arrives at your lens, you will want to keep him there for as long as possible. To do this, you will want to create bold, interesting headlines with short paragraphs. These should be interspersed with some good graphics. A good way to get a handle on all of this is to find a top-rated lens and copy the general format of it. Every lens is rated and most lens-builders want to be rated number 1.

To help you find the right ideas for your lens, and to compete effectively with all the other lenses online, you can do a little research. Here is an idea for that. Go to a search engine and look for "google adwords tool". Use this tool to search for the phrase " or "learn to". The idea is to find out what people are searching for online. You want to know their problems, and how you can help them solve these problems. When I did this simple research, I found some interesting ideas for lens. Love to cook? There are a lot of people who want to learn how to make salsa!

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.

A good idea for promoting your lens is to rate other people's lenses, and ask them to rate yours. You can do this in their feeback form. Some will do it, and some will not, but if you get 10 feeback, those can push you a long way up the search engines, and into the realm of money-making squidoo lenses. Remember that squidoo will have some links on your lens, such as adsense. Do not rely on them to make money, but if you gain from it, then I am happy for you. You can also control how much of this money that you donate back to charity. This is your call.

Now that you have finished your lens, you are ready to promote it. I recommend some special places that you can use to bookmark or send you lens to. All of them are free to use. The more visitors you get to your lens, the better your opportunities for making money with squidoo. Look up the following and add your lens to them. Isleofsquid.com, squidom.com, lensroll.com, and squidutils.com. are good places to start. Additionally, you may jump over to pingomatic.com or pingoat.com. These are pinging services that will help you get the word out about your lens.

Although you can make money online with squidoo by promoting products from clickbank CJ.com, and other sites, you can also promote residual-type income programs. This is very good way to guarantee yourself a monthly income for perhaps years to come. Residual income is money you earn continuously from doing something once. A few of the good programs online are empowerism, wealthy affiliate, sfi, and Global domains.

There are also residual programs that you can join without having to pay a monthly fee. The second tier, from Russell Brunson, and the Marketing Center, created by the late Cory Rudl are good examples. They are two-tier affiliate programs that you can promote without paying a membership fee. At the same time you will be paid whenever one of your referrals buy one of their products.

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