$50 a day with Squidoo, Learn and Earn

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Learn How to make $50 a day (or more) with Squidoo

Find how to make $50 a day with Squidoo step by step. I just decided to go from $1 a day to $50 a day with Squidoo. This lens will go through what I am doing to get there -- so you can do it too!!
This lens is not going to be me telling you what to do; it is going to be me telling you what I am doing to get to $50 a day. Right now all I could teach is how to make a $1 a day.

Note: I will spend NO MONEY to accomplish this goal (This rule will be an easy one to follow).

After I reach my goal then it will be sharing with others on how to make $50 a day with Squidoo. Follow along on the journey and join in as well. Set your goal at say at $1 a day, $5 a day, or $100 a day but either way let's do this together!!

Day by Day

My journey to making $50 a day on Squidoo

Nov 8 -- I just decided some how some way I am going to be making $50 or more per day with Squidoo

Nov 9 -- Freshened up my lenses and made a list of new ideas for Squidoo lenses. Joined Squidoo Marketing on Ning

Nov 11 -- Submitting lenses to the Squidoo Directory for traffic and lensrank
Two step process (takes a few minutes which is probably why I avoided doing this earlier). Squid Directory SquidDirectory Group on Squidoo
Going to do some research on others ways to make money on my lenses including widgets and CPA's.

Nov 13 -- Signed up with Pepperjam and I am confused??

Nov 15 -- Made this Squidoo Lens and decided to be more active at SquidU the forum for Squidoo lensmasters. FireFox Add-on to make HTML & BB code links super easily. This is a great time saver!!

Nov 16 -- Signed up for Lensroll and submitting lenses. Twittered about this lens.

Nov 17 -- Added 2 lenses each to Squidpoint and Lensroll. Confused by PepperJam so I may look at working some other affiliate programs that I have signed up with over the years (mostly with no success).

Nov 18 Great news: Made an affiliate sale = $35.98!!
Made another decision: I have decided to split up some of my lenses into more specific and targeted lenses. For example, I am going to make a few lenses out of my Self Help DVD lens. I have given other people advice to be very focused with their lenses (just taking my own advice).

Nov 19 Forgot about SquidDirectory Group so now I am adding to Squid Directory, and Lensroll I will add all old lenses and new lenses to these directories until further notice.
Read some great tips from Joan at Squidoo Marketing on Ning. Published my new lens Motivational Movies which was just split up from my Self Help DVD lens. Looking at some affiliate programs and products that I would want to promote. If you don't know most products have affiliate programs where you can signup and if you make a sale you make money!!

Nov 20 -- Submitted my lenses to Yahoo where you can submit your url on Yahoo Submit url not sure if this was worth it? Twittered the update to this lens and my Self Help Quote Lens. I will Twitter Squidoo updates every day.

Nov 21 Stopped by at BigJim's Social Networking Site and made several new Web 2.0 friends. Made a new lens Brian Tracy products in an effort to get some more sales I am going to make more affiliate product related lenses. We'll see how it goes..

Nov 22 Added the typical day and what I am not doing to this lens. Decided to start adding a couple of lenses a week and wrote down some ideas for new lenses.

Nov 24 Made a new lens. Was trying to learn a new affiliate program but gave up. Thinking of ways to get this lens to be lens of the day and/or in the top 100?

Nov 25 Losing some steam due to lack of sales?? Freshened some lenses -- added table of contents modules, deleted some banners, and replaced with more links.

Nov 26 Making sure all lenses and social networking sites are linked to each other for max traffic. Astonished by traffic to this lens and my Motivational Movies lens which were both created in the last 2 weeks



Nov 27 Learned how to add colors and borders thanks to Lensmaster Fluffanutta Go to CSS Tricks so you can learn as well. Not sure what I will do with it yet but it looks cool. Made a new lens with an affiliate program I am in.



Nov 28 Making lenses more and more targeted. Helping my son and new lensmaster Michael build a new Gifts for a teenage boy shopping lens. This is a topic we know pretty well with 5 boys around the house!!

Nov 30 Studying on how to convert visitors to affiliate buyers.

November Based on my sales and my best guess on my Squidoo income based on lensrank November closes with about $3 a day. A long ways to go to get to $50 a day

What is making money for you and what isn't?

What is working (or not) for You?

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TrendyBoots says:

Now that I have made a few lenses, it is my goal to learn how to promote them better. Cheers!

For now, I am making a little revenue sharing income.

klaird says:

I write on Squidoo about topics I'm interested in, however I use a keyword research tool to help me pick the url, titles, and subtitles within that topic that actually get traffic from Google. This brings me traffic to my lenses, which helps my Lensrank and sales.

hughe says:

I purchased a course on creating groups of lenses to a specific formula. I made my first group of six, of which only three are featured. From a trickle of visitors I have one sale at Amazon which is encouraging.

jvillekid says:

It comes and goes! Mostly try to keep lenses as high as possible to get bigger share! Most of my earnings are for Adsense, but get an eBay sale here and there!

Tried, failed, and tried again and this still makes me $0

technospunky says:

YOU CAN DOOOO EEEETTTTT!!! and I am following you so stay focused and lens lens lens. wait wut? :-)
I am still trying to figure out how to make a lens..I hope to get to the money part eventually ahahahaa..

BertGlo says:

Just hanging in there......a little birdie told me don't give up....

lovegrowth says:

I keep trying but apparently I am not doing it correctly.

cashstudent101 says:

I can't really say i have failed yet since i am still just learning. I only have 3 lenses so far and they are Halloween costume lenses. The traffic is starting to pick up on these but i imagine it will die after Halloween.

 
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December Day by Day

Making money on Squidoo


Wondering if I'll hit my goal? November was about $3 a day. Did make a sale today for a Whopping $1.70!! Oh well at least it is step in the right direction.

A little updating of lenses and twittering is all.

Submitted my list of steps I take before publishing a lens to the 7 Habits Lens

Making lenses more buy now for Christmas and adding any December specials to affiliate lenses and my usual typical day activities.

Trying to get a little more familiar with StumbleUpon because I have seen it generate a tremendous amount of traffic -- quickly.

Added the Lens Workshop Firefox which helped me a great deal with tags, navigation, pinging, and lensrank. Thanks fluffanutta

Just saw $7 in my Pepperjam account not sure how or why because it has confused me -- time to learn!!

Sold 3 books through the Amazon module!! I thought the Amazon module wasn't working (just kidding it just didn't seem like it).

Signed up for TwitAd to get more money (monetize your Twitter account we'll see...). Affiliate sales today for $48.93!! It's starting to gain some momentum.

Getting Amazon sales from this lens and pretty much this one only. Happy about the sales but why not my other lenses??

Learning about Zazzle and Cafepress to add to my lenses (and income)

Just checked and did make a nice affiliate sale this week $71 affiliate lens

Discovering outbound links, SquidU posts, and pinging are a bigger factor on lensrank then I thought because when I don't do these things I see a drop in visitors and lensrank.

Sharing my lists as widgets from different lenses wherever I can. I was unaware of this option but I think it will help get the word out.

Signed up and learning about clickbank probably should have done this awhile ago.

Summary of my typical day on Squidoo

These are my daily steps

I typically am working on Squidoo from 9 pm to 10 pm. Weekends who knows sometimes a couple hours sometimes 5 or 6 hours. The following is what I am doing on a typical day (since I made the decision to go to $50 a day):

Twitter pretty much everything I am doing. Visit 2 lensmasters and rank and comment on at least 1 of their lenses.

Do 1 or 2 of the following on Squidoo:

1. Review and freshen an old lens
2. Make a new lens
3. Work on a newer lens

Submitting lenses to SquidDirectory and Lensroll.

Make some posts either asking questions or helping at SquidU the forum for Squidoo Lensmasters, and Squidoo Marketing on Ning.

Do 1 of the following:

1. Search for an affiliate program for a product I would like to promote or through ones I have already signed up with
2. Look at other lensmasters and others that are actually making money to learn from them
3. Watch a video or listen to call to help my Squidoo or Internet skills
4. StumbleUpon, Delicious, and/or Digg my lenses
5. Ping my lenses

If any of these "regular" activities do not make cents (get it?) and you KNOW them to be a waste of time on my journey to $50 a day with Squidoo please tell me so I do not waste my time. Thanks in advance.

Following is a list of what I am NOT doing anymore:

  • Not obsessed with lensrank
  • Deleting banner ads and replacing with more links
  • Stopped wondering about making money and started taking action


2010 update:
Jan 2010 Lensrank has become a little bit of a bigger deal to me again. I have seen a nice increase in my Squidoo income with the addition of infolinks.
Making an effort to make a couple of posts a day at SquidU. I have not been doing much with Digg/Stumbleupon/Del.cio.us.
Affiliate & Amazon sales have started the year pretty good for me. I have decided to focus on just a few affiliate programs instead of a whole bunch. January was pretty good but still not even halfway to $50 a day.

Feb 2010 I decided to make a Vancouver Winter Olympics lens. In the past, I have only made lenses that will "stand" the test of time but why?? Why not make a lens and have it go right to the top, make some sales, and go away. I will keep you posted...
Decided to get started with HubPages. I have heard a lot about it and it is time to learn and jump right in.

April 2010 Didn't really do anything with Hub Pages. My problem isn't really traffic it is sales. Decided to focus on Clickbank even though a lot of people are as well I just made some sales for $120 and want to make some more. I am going to keep using Squidoo as my main traffic/information source but I am going to diversify the income streams.

July 2010 Continuing the trend of some nice affiliate sales from my Squidoo lenses the last 2 or 3 months. This has been nice because my Squidoo time is about 1 hour a week right now. Never got off the ground with Hub pages.

Oct 2010 Income is back to a $1 a day with because I have not done anything the last few months. Back at it again.

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How much time am I dedicating to the Squidoo challenge?

Just in case you are wondering how much time I have to spend on Squidoo. I am happily married with 5 boys, a full time job (about 45 hours a week), and active at church. Squidoo is in 4th place which leaves me a couple of hours at night after the kids go to bed to work on the $50 a day with Squidoo challenge.
I am not new to Squidoo but just new to the money making side of things. I know how to make lenses and steps to get the lensranking higher. However, Squidoo earnings and traffic from others that are on Squidoo are not generating much money.
My focus needs to continue to be on quality content but also generating traffic from people that are looking to buy something not just give me 5 stars and leave a comment in my guestbook to improve my lensrank.

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