A Look Inside Squidoo Payday

Amongst other things Squidoo is a revenue share site. This means that Squidoo lensmasters (the people who spend time creating, publishing and promoting Squidoo pages) earn a percentage of the total advertising revenue Squidoo.com earns from Adsense, Infolink and Chitika (inclusion in the Infolink and Chitika revenue share is optional).

Squidoo payday comes on or near the 15th of every month (it's always early and never late) and how much a lensmaster earns depends upon the average ranking of each of their lenses.

As soon as they have been live for a month, lenses qualify for the revenue share program and exactly 3 months after the publication of the first lens new squids will enjoy the first of many Squidoo paydays.

Like most revenue share sites Squidoo pay their members in arrears. This means that the January 2011 Squidoo payday related to site activity for the period 1st - 30th November 2010.

I launched my first lens 8 October 2010, closely followed by How To Make A Disco Cake and The Perfect Disco Party for Kids.

I qualified for payday 3 months later on 8th January 2011.

Working in arrears, the January 2011 Squidoo Payday covered the period 1 - 30 November 2010.

During this period the three lenses I launched in October became 1 month old thereby qualifying for the Squidoo revenue share program. Yipee!

Each of them was a Tier 3 lens.

Every Squidoo payday a proportion of the total revenue for each program - Adsense, Infolink and Chitika - is allocated on a Tier system with Tier One lenses receiving the highest payment, Tier 3 the smallest payout. Each month the size of the payment varies relative to site traffic and click throughs.

The very nice people at Squidoo advise members not to waste their time trying to calculate or deconstruct the extremely complex Tier payment system. They rightly suggest that time would be more wisely spent creating and grooming a portfolio of highly popular lenses. However, to give you some idea of the extra income you might be able to earn I'm sharing the average monthly Adsense payments for a lens within each tier between January and November 2010 with guidelines for the relationship between lensrank and Tier:

Tier 1 ---- $17.80 ---- Lensrank 1 - 2000
Tier 2 ---- $3.02 ------ Lensrank 2001 - 10,000
Tier 3 ---- $0.15 ------ Lensrank 10,001 - 86,000

Adsense is by far the most lucrative revenue share stream on Squidoo but it's not the only way to create an income from home with Squidoo.

Infolinks and Chitika also offer extra income through revenue share with average monthly payments for a Tier 1 lens in January to November 2010 equating to $4.89 from Infolinks and just less than $1 from Chitika.