Increase your Squidoo Earnings with Affiliate Marketing

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Make Extra Cash on your Squidoo Lenses

Squidoo is a great place to earn a little extra cash, but are you realizing your full potential?

You can further monetize your Squidoo lens, blog, or website by adding some affiliate marketing links! Hand-pick products and make recommendations, provide banners to suggsted sites, or provide simple text links and start supplementing your income.

Linkshare 

A very easy to use affiliate with a large number of well known companies

Linkshare is one of the biggest online affiliate advertisers today. They have an extensive list of advertisers, some big, some small. You can dig deep into your own niche and sell some relevant products using their product links, or you can add banners to your lens.

Here is a partial list of just a few of the advertisers Linkshare has to offer:


  • Chico's

  • MLB.com

  • Vera Bradley

  • CompUSA

  • British Airways

  • New Balance

  • Sony

  • The New York Times

  • Vitamin World

  • MTV Networks

  • Sirius Satellite Radio

  • Wilson's Leather

  • Hundreds more!



Here's an example of a Linkshare banner:

Costa Rica Gourmet Britt Iced coffee

Pepperjam Network 

Another great company is Pepperjam, who is running a promotion where you'll get $10 deposited into your account if you sign up!

PJN July Promo

Who can use affiliate marketing?

If you're here on Squidoo, you can use Affiliate Marketing to generate extra income no matter what the topic of your lens is about. Companies like

eBay Partner Network 

People love eBay, so cash in by showing them some relevant items!

eBay has millions of items to offer, and with the partner network, you can offer some of them on your website. They have widgets, link generators and more tools to help you sell on your website or lens. You can also include banners to encourage sign-ups. Much easier is the eBay module that Squidoo offers here, and it's very effective. Some would say it's the most effective module monetarily of them all! You can sign up for the eBay Partner Network here.




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Clickbank, it's like Adsense...

...and makes a great supplement to your adsense advertisements. The most effective types of ads to run for Clickbank are text ads, just like Adsense. Try it out and see how it works for you!

Clickbank 

Easy to use text based ads -- effective and simple

Clickbank is an excellent way to earn money affiliate marketing. Clickbank is in the market to sell one thing: information. Clickbank is a popular ebook site where publishers (or lensmasters as we call them here on Squidoo) can advertise Clickbank items in their lenses. You'll find a multitude of topics on Clickbank, ranging from pet care to work at home opportunities, web marketing ebooks to self-help ebooks.

Click here to sign up for Clickbank.com and start earning a little extra cash today.

Keep it Relevant!

There's no point in putting ads onto your site or lens that have nothing to do with the content. You won't see any conversions! Put in the most relevant products or links that you can find while still offering excellent, valuable information that your readers are looking for.

Don't Forget About this Module! 

Promote cool products like these on your lenses using the CafePress module. It's simple affiliate marketing!
Use Public Transport Dark T-Shirt

Use Public Transport Dark T-Shirt

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I Love Gas Prices Sticker (Bumper)

I Love Gas Prices Sticker (Bumper)

From: I Love T-shirts

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Hot Hybrid Women's Cap Sleeve T-Shirt

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Amazon Affiliates 

One of the top affiliates

If you've written a lens here on Squidoo, you'll be familiar with the Amazon modules that are available to you. No? Well then you might want to check out this lens on the Amazon modules Squidoo has to offer. Besides the modules, you can place links to products in your lens using your Amazon Affiliate account. You can easily create links to any product you wish in your lens by creating a text link, picture link, or by using the Amazon Affiliate Link Generator that SquidUtils has to offer. The benefit of using the link generator is that you'll be able to keep all of the commission instead of sharing it with Squidoo.

Web Analytics: An Hour a Day 

What the heck is it?

Web Analytics: An Hour a Day

Web Analytics: An Hour a Day

by: Avinash Kaushik

Amazon Price: $19.79 (as of 12/10/2009)Buy Now
List Price: $29.99

Web analytics. That term just sounds scary, especially to a marketing novice. Why do you need to know anything about web analytics? To put it simply, web analytics is the process of analyzing your customers' behavior and finding out ways to get them there. Maybe your marketing towards 45-62 year olds, and you should really be advertising towards 18-24 year olds. Or maybe your site has lots of blue and demographic studies point out that your customers hate blue. Get it now? It's an important part of getting the all-important conversion.

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Commission Junction 

Thousands of advertisers with simple to use banners, graphics and text ads

Commission Junction has a number of high-profile advertisers that want you to advertise their websites. CJ is the biggest affiliate marketing advertising site on the web and boasts large clients like:

  • Yahoo

  • Home Depot

  • Circuit City

  • Captial One

  • Discover

  • Citi Financial

  • The Wall Street Journal



... to name just a few. Commission Junction, or CJ, is very easy to use. You simply apply to the program you would like to use, and upon acceptance, start using the available links. Commission Junction also has an online "university" to help with your advertising campaigns. After all, the more successful you are, the more successful they are!

One of the Places you can Advertise through CJ: The Custom Tower in Boston, photo by Dismas

It doesn't matter what they buy!

With most affiliate marketing networks, it doesn't matter what the customer purchases, you'll still get a commission. What this means is if someone is reading your lens and clicks a product, then clicks another product from there, you'll still get a commission! Thank the cookies.

All Posters 

Advertise by using eye catching images on your lenses

All Posters is a great site that lensmasters should take advantage of. Some of the most exciting photographs on the web can be used right on your lens, just by including a link back to Allposters. Of course, you'll be getting a commission for every sale you generate.

CafePress 

CafePress has millions of unique items waiting for your lens!

CafePress has an affiliate program you can use through Commission Junction, and there's also the easy-to-use CafePress module here on Squidoo. Another thing to keep in mind is that you can earn extra cash by promoting your referral link. This is located in the "refer a shopkeeper" section inside your account. Simply input your store ID into the link! You'll get an excellent reward--a percentage of all sales from referred shopkeepers-- 5% for one year! That can really add up.

Starting up a Shop? Here are some ideas... 

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Think you can't make money on CafePress because you can't think of anything to sell? People can and do sell anything and everything on CafePress from the simple to the elaborate. Here are some great ideas for what to sell next in your shop!

Affiliate Marketing Products on eBay 

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eBay

A little tip about the ebay module:

eBay's items are ever-changing, but that doesn't mean you don't have access to some static items that are more likely to always be there. Try browsing the eBay stores section to find items with high quantities that will be here to stay instead of disappearing at the end of the 7-day auction.

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Who Can Use Affiliate Marketing?

If you're here on Squidoo, you can use Affiliate Marketing to generate extra income no matter what the topic of your lens is about. Companies like Linkshare have hundreds of advertisers for you to choose from, so you'll never run out of stuff to sell. There are even charities you can help generate traffic to, like The Sierra Club!

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    OhMe OhMe Oct 14, 2009 @ 6:03 pm
    I have got to get more serious about Affiliate Marketing. Thank you for this great info.
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    marketing960 marketing960 Aug 22, 2009 @ 2:01 am
    Your lens certainly are top-notch so I want to invite you visit my lens about Internet Marketing.

    5 STARS for such a GREAT lens.

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    Daniel Hansen
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    JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Jul 17, 2009 @ 7:56 am
    You know I've got to be honest about this -- I have tried Linkshare for years -- and I haven't yet written a lens on using them to make lots of money with affiliate marketing -- they just haven't been that successful for my niche. But, I keep trying!
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    Swisstoons Swisstoons May 27, 2009 @ 7:59 pm
    Excellent information you've provided. I just signed up with LinkShare today and already have been approved by five companies, including a chocolatier, iTunes, an internet nursery (plants) and a vintner, three of which are on my funny food-related lens, Laftovers. Two dozen others are pending.
    I've still got a lot to learn, but I am optimistic..
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    monarch13 monarch13 May 18, 2009 @ 10:17 pm
    So far I have not had success with affiliates. Now with me being unemployed for so long, I need all the tips I can get! Thanks!
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