How to make a living on Squidoo

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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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Is Squidoo a Secret Cash Machine? 

I have always said that it was not necessary to 'buy' any information products about Squidoo - but I have changed my mind -

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 

Promoting Your Lens - Join Groups!

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 

If you have made a lens about How to do Squidoo or How to Make Money on Squidoo please add it to our Making a Living on Squidoo group.

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Want to see how much other people are making with Squidoo? Visit the Making a Living on Squidoo Group!

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Baby Steps to Getting Started 

Ready Made Lenses for Sale - $10 

I have ready made lenses for sale at $10 each or 6 for $50.

For more details and to see some of the ready made lenses for sale go here
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Full List of all the Money Making Lenses for Sale - $10 each 

Great Ideas for Lens Promotion 

More How to on Building Lenses 

More Promotion - Ping Your Lenses! 

Each time you edit and republish your lens - ping it! This works in the same way as a blog and will increase your traffic and lensrank.

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 

Ok so we know that the fastest and easiest way to make a living on Squidoo is Affiliate Marketing. There are dozens of companies that you can join FREE and then promote their products to earn yourself a commission on sales. Two of the biggest and best known are
Clickbank
Clickbank is mainly digital products (ebooks).
Commission Junction
Commission Junction is more physical products, everything from cars to cosmetics.

See How PotPieGirl makes a good living using Squidoo + Clickbank

"How A Frustrated, Over-Worked Georgia Mom Accidentally Stumbled Upon The Exact Steps To Making $154,819.96 A Year As A Super Affiliate, Using All FREE Methods & Working From Home!"
One Week Action Plan - Click Here!

 

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Featured Lenses! 

Squidoo Products 

There are numerous ebooks about Squidoo floating around. You really don't NEED to buy any to make a success of Squidoo as you can find all the information on lenses like this or in SquidU. However, there is one product I recommend. This ebook is what I bought before I got started on Squidoo and I believe it is the BEST one for newbies to learn the basics!

Tiffany Dow's Book - Social Networking on Squidoo

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Swisstoons wrote...

Excellent lens! Extremely informative and inspirational. Although I joined Squidoo back in October of last year (to comment) I really didn't make a lens until March of this year. I was surprised to learn that a lens created on 17 March earned over $13 for me (from Google ad revenue sharing) and two others brought the total to $15. I only learned about the earnings a short time ago, but it convinced me to set about making more and keeping them all fresh. I wil be studying this lens closely to learn more. thanks!

ReplyPosted May 24, 2009

BFuniv.com wrote...

Enjoyed this, and I've ordered one of your ready-made lenses. I'm looking forward to playing with it.

ReplyPosted May 19, 2009

andy_bacon wrote...

Great lens and really filled with information. I see why you are the lens expert. I am really excited about lenses again.

ReplyPosted April 30, 2009

homecarediva wrote...

Now that is cool! This lens is invited to join The Cool Lens Group - where EACH lens gets VOTES from the admin and gets FAVORITED too. Hooray, one of the coolest and busiest groups is reopened.

ReplyPosted April 09, 2009

marsha32 wrote...

Thanks for sharing the information...still above my head, but I may get there some day if I keep studying.

ReplyPosted April 07, 2009

 
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Lenses in this module rotate, so you should see something different here every time you visit.

What used to be in this module were some lenses I made that consistently make sales. However, since every time I put a lens here it was immediately copied many times I have changed this module - to some great lenses, not by me!

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