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Making a living on Squidoo - just a fantasy?
Making a living on Squidoo just from Squidoo's monthly payouts is a long-term process - expect to take 6 months to see significant monthly earnings.
BUT it is possible to almost immediately start making money and to make a GOOD living using lenses to promote affiliate products and the money directly from Squidoo is a bonus.
This lens looks at various ways and means to make a living on Squidoo.
Explore the links on this page to find out all you need to know to make a living on Squidoo!
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STOP PRESS! IMPORTANT INFORMATION
I have been making money on Squidoo now for two years. However, after reaching a top income of $2,000 in a month I seemed to get stuck and could go no higher.
That's why I bought "The Secret Cash Machine On Squidoo" by Karl Pemberton and I must admit that after only one reading I am very impressed. I learned a lot and there are tips and tricks that I would never have thought of by myself.
I particularly like some of the tricks to make my lenses look different and unique and most of all the tip on how to "steal" traffic from my competitors, without doing anything underhand.
The Secret Cash Machine On Squidoo is an excellent read and will increase your income whether you are a newbie to Squidoo or an experienced lensmaster. Can you afford NOT to get it? "The Secret Cash Machine On Squidoo" - Click Here
Getting Off to A Good Start
The Title and URL of your lens is Important.Once you have joined Squidoo (and if you haven't yet you can get started by clicking on where it says make your own page like this on this page - you can make any type of lens you like!) the first thing to decide is the subject of your first lens.
Google loves Squidoo but to have your lens appear high up in the search ranking the title is all important. For example you decide that your first lens is to be about cooking. A search for "cooking" in Google produces 170million results! Far too many for your lens to have a chance of appearing on the first page. However "cooking the Mediterranean way" produces just 1,770 results and gives a lens with the url www.squidoo.com/cooking-the-mediterranean-way a good chance of high ranking in Google and generating traffic and income!
It is a good idea to then find several related keyword phrases with similarly low results to use as tags for your lens. In this case "Mediterranean style cookery" produces only 5 results (although a lot of Adwords ads which is always a good sign) and "cookery from the Mediterranean" only 1 result.
Don't Feel Guilty About 100% Cash!
Don't feel guilty about setting your payment options on your lens to 100% cash and not donating your income to charity.The good people at Squidoo donate a percentage of all the Adsense and advertising income generated by all lenses to charity - so by making good quality, interesting lenses that attract traffic you ARE donating some of your income - even when you set 100% cash!
Quantity or Quality?
Is it better to make hundreds of lenses or just a few high quality lenses?Ideally both! You don't need to go to the extreme of one lensmaster who is attempting to make a million lenses - BUT both quality and quantity do count in the income stakes.
Making lots of low quality lenses, and by this I mean just a line or two of text and then lots of money making modules or affiliate links, will not do you any good at all as they are unlikely to rise in the lens rankings and obtain much traffic.
The key is to concentrate on making one good lens - check out the top 100 to see what a good lens looks like - then repeat, repeat, repeat!
Promoting Your Lens
As soon as you have made your first lens add it to all the Groups you can find that are on topic.
Keep Updating Your Lens
Your first attempt will not usually be Perfect and you will want to change things and add other modules. Every time you make a change don't forget to Publish your lens. If, however, you believe that your lens is Perfect just as it is then every few days just add another tag or keyword and Publish - your lens will then appear updated.
Making a Living on Squidoo Group
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Click Here to Start Making Your First Lens!
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Making A Living On Squidoo Group
Baby Steps to Getting Started
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Making Your First Lens
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This is a very basic step-by-step guide on getting started with Squidoo by making your first lens.
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How to Squidoo
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This lens is about how to Squidoo & is a home for all my lenses on Squidoo and other people's helpful lenses on How to make your first lens How to get started on squidoo How to profit from squidoo How to promote your lenses & Everything you need...
Ready Made Lenses for Sale - $10
I have ready made lenses for sale at $10 each or I will make one for you for your niche.For more details and to see some of the ready made lenses for sale go here
Lens For Sale
Full List of all the Money Making Lenses for Sale - $10 each
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Lenses For Sale Headquarters
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Squidoo Lenses For Sale SPECIAL FOR 2008 BUY 5 LENSES GET 1 FREE! 6 LENSES FOR $50!! All lenses on this page are for sale. All ready made lenses are $10 each. All these lenses are ranked and rated, added to groups and getting traffic. Re...
Great Ideas for Lens Promotion
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Promoting Your Lens Outside Of Squidoo
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One of the most often asked questions in the Squidu Forums is, "How do I get traffic to my lens?" The most obvious way to generate traffic to your lens is to make sure that it is search engine friendly. But that is a topic that deserves its own lens...
More How to on Building Lenses
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I'm a Lensmaster! What now?
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This lens deals with the ins and outs and tricks and tips that will help you make your next (or first) Squidoo Lens. Other information you should read (if you haven't already)... All About Squidoo: What others have had to say about Squidoo, and it...
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Squidoo Modules
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This lens demonstrates a selection of some of the most used and useful Squidoo Modules. You'll see them in their natural environment, with content or product included. Accompanying each is a description of what the module does. To start with, this is...
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Basic HTML for Squidoo
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You can use basic HTML in a few of the lens modules. Mostly used to create hyperlinks (they are the "live links" to other sites). Though there are also other uses for HTML. If you find yourself in need of quick tutorial on how to do it, her...
More Promotion - Ping Your Lenses!
Autopinger is a good service but is sometimes slow and some of the pings fail.
Pingoat is the quickest and easiest ping service to use.
There are other ping services and if you know of a good one please post the link in my guestbook below and I will list it here.
With thanks to SergeantRom PingoMatic
Affiliate Marketing on Squidoo
Clickbank
Clickbank is mainly digital products (ebooks).
Commission Junction
Commission Junction is more physical products, everything from cars to cosmetics.
"Clickbank is The Easiest Place to Find Products To Promote Online, Period!"
If you are wanting to make money online, you need to be able to find products to sell. Clickbank.com is one of the worlds largest Affiliate networks offering 10,000 products that you can sell as an affiliate.
As released in recent Internet Marketing News, The Wealthy Affiliate University has documented a success story where a member is using Clickbank to earn $59,000 a month in online income. If you are interested in reading the full story, go here
Success with Clickbank
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The Secret Cash Machine On Squidoo
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I have been making money on Squidoo now for two years. However, after reaching a top income of $2,000 in a month I seemed to get stuck and could go no higher. That's why I bought "The Secret Cash Machine On Squidoo" by Karl Pemberton and I must admi...
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Easy Affiliate Cash
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Most advice you will read online about how to sell affiliate products and make money relies on using Clickbank for digital products (ebooks) and expensive PPC (pay per click) marketing using Google, Yahoo & MSN. An alternative to this is to use Tr...
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How to Find the Best Affiliate Products to Sell
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Finding affiliate products to sell online is simple. Finding affiliate products to sell online that people want to buy is less easy but there are simple strategies for finding the best affiliate products to sell.
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Making Affiliate Sales on Squidoo
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One of the simplest and most effective ways to make money with Squidoo or online generally is by making affiliate sales - or put simply - selling other people's products from which you then earn a percentage. There are 2 different ways to do this on S...
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Please add your Comments here!
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pattyann
Great lens! Lots of valuable info. Posted October 06, 2008 |
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Quokka
Great lens! I'm quickly becoming a squidoo addict myself, it's all just so easy and fun to set up. Have to admit I'm making most of my money from using affiliate marketing on my lenses, not from the squidoo ads. Posted October 06, 2008 |
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DAMIND
Awesome lens, I am a newbie to Squidoo and I can grab some of your great information to build my next lens. thanks for sharing your knowledge. Posted September 30, 2008 |
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josephgoodrum
Thank you for adding this lens to Tomorrow's Home Business Ideas Group. Great Lens, Great Content, Great Information! Posted September 28, 2008 |
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Joe98
Thanks. I beleive in the law of abundance. There really is enough wealth to go around. We all can't sell everything, and even sellers want to buy. Posted September 17, 2008 |
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Best Baby Crib Bedding Sets
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The perfect way to turn a spare room into a nursery for your new baby and an ideal gift for a new mom and baby, there are a huge variety of crib bedding sets available. Themes range from jungle to farmyard friends and pale pastel colors to brights.&nb...
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Best Baby Strollers
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One of the first and most important items of baby equipment you will think about buying for your baby is a stroller.The choice of the best baby stroller for your new baby can be overwhelming because of the many options, styles and fabrics available.&...
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Silpada Jewelry
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