How to Make Money with Squidoo - Building Lenses for Profit!

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Make Squidoo Make You Money

Welcome to my lens on "How to make money with Squidoo".

Squidoo offers great potential for money making online with affiliate marketing or for selling your own products too.

In fact, that you could use Squidoo solely to make a decent living from building good quality lenses alone!

Squidoo is where YOU can become the expert in your field. You can show off what you know easily, and potentially get paid for it!

Squidoo allows you to write articles, share videos, add photos, add an RSS feed from your blog, add your Twitter feed, add your favorite links, and a lot more.

On top of being able to share content easily, you can add money making Modules to your Squidoo lenses to get paid.

These modules make it easy to earn cash from ebay, amazon, google adsense and other programs.

And the other easy way to make money with Squidoo is that you can even get paid for referring people to join Squidoo!

But the best part of Squidoo is that it's completely free to join and create lenses. It's actually really fun too!

I hope you enjoy and learn a lot from this lens!

Stuart - Your Online Profit Teacher

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Things you MUST know before you create your first Squidoo lens...

You must be excited to go and make money with Squidoo, so I want to give you some extra help.

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"How A Broke And Frustrated High School History Teacher Went From Internet Nobody To World-Wide Expert Using The Free Exposure at Squidoo.com"

It's true.. Squidoo can change people's lives. So before you jump into Squidoo, I recommend you download this report and discover the secrets of the experts who have already mastered it!

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Then, after downloading, come back to this page and check out the other articles and lenses I've created.

3 Reasons Why Squidoo.com Rocks!

If you're not using Squidoo, you're really missing out...

Squidoo Rocks1. Squidoo is Better than Free.. it's Free AND You can Make Money with it!

What's better than free? Something that is free that you can turn into CASH!

All you need to do it create quality, niche focused lenses which include some money making modules or links to your websites and you have a money making machine that didn't cost you anything!

2. It's Fast & Easy to use!

Squidoo is perfect for people who are just getting started in internet marketing.

This place lets you have your own web space without having to go through all the technical steps of setting up your own website.

In literally minutes, you can have your own website basically with anything you want on it. (make sure you read the TOS and follow it)

If you're looking for a place to quickly get a page up to showcase your expertise, knowledge or a product recommendation, squidoo is the place to do it!

3. The Place is a Monster Traffic Magnet!

#1 listings in Google anyone?

Squidoo lenses are perfectly optimized for the search engines. Google loves it.. and so do all the other big search engines.

And you know that Search engines deliver the best quality traffic AND all that traffic is free.

I get hundreds of free targeted visitors to my lenses every day. Many of them click on ads or go to my website.. so all that traffic doesn't cost me one penny!

There was some commotion over Squidoo getting "slapped by Google" recently, but that has just made Squidoo an even better place to build pages (lenses).

Are you starting to see the potential here?

The best thing is that Squidoo is getting bigger and better everyday. The community is growing and there as is the abundance of knowledge on just about any topic you can imagine.

To join in the fun and profit, all you have to do is create a free account, build a good lens with articles, modules and links to your sites and you're set up to start making money.

I love it and think it's one of the best resources on the web for showcasing your expertise and sharing it with others. You'll fall in love with it too once you get started and see $$ rolling in!

How To Squeeze Money From Your Squidoo Lens

6 Tips For A Money Making Lens

So you've figured out that building Squidoo lenses is an easy way to make a few extra dollars online.

Here are 6 tips to make your lenses more profitable for you.

1) Create a Tightly 'Niche' Focused Lens

This is where most people screw up. They put articles and other content about their holiday, their job, their hobby and their dog all in the same lens!

To make an effective lens, it needs to be focused on one particular topic. The tighter your 'niche' the better.

People on the web are looking for very particular information, and if your lens is too broad, they won't stick around long.

For example, if you write a lens on "dog training", then keep everything on that page about dog training. Don't start adding articles about "dog breeding". Although it's pretty closely related, it's a different topic altogether. You could make another lens about "dog breeding".

4) Good, Interesting Content

People are on the internet to find information and have a fun time finding it.

If your lens is one boring long essay with only text, text and more text, they won't stick around to read it.

Articles are great because it's information that people want but spice them up with photos, images, videos, bullets points.

And be a little creative with article titles. List are great here.. e.g. "6 ways to get the romance back into your relationship".

But only articles is not good... only money making modules and no content is not good either.

Keep a nice balance too and your visitor will enjoy reading your lens!

3) Include Money Making Modules & Affiliate Links

After you've got your topic and content on your page, you can add your money making modules.

These include modules like Ebay, Amazon, Cafepress, Zazzle and a few others. These will let you show products that you can earn some easy affiliate commissions when your reader goers and buys a product.

To add links to your website or an affiliate link, you can use the 'Write' module or the link list. In the "write module" you can inset basic html for images and hyperlinks.

The best way to use hyperlinks is to direct visitors to your squeeze page where they can sign up for your newsletter or download a freebie.

This method is known as list building and is perhaps the most powerful and fail-proof way to make money online because once they are on your list, you can contact them over and over again.

Or if you don't have your own web site yet, link directly with your affiliate links to products and offers that you're promoting.

Just make sure the websites (i.e. products and offers) you link to are related to your lens!

4) Get Traffic to Your Lens

Once you've got an interesting and informative lens with good content, money making modules and links on it, you've got a great base for making money with squidoo!

Now the final ingredient is to get traffic to your lens. i.e. people to see your lens!

There are a lot of ways to get traffic but the main one will be from the search engines. Your lens will naturally get picked up by the search engines simply because it's on Squidoo. Traffic will also come naturally, but there are some tricks to getting more traffic.

5) Keywords!

Keywords are extremely important with marketing online - especially if you rely on search engines for your traffic.

Keywords are the terms people search for when they go to Google to find out about a topic or product or anything they want to know.

I.e. If your lens is about "dog training" then these are your keywords. People who type in "dog training" into google or search for that on Squidoo will be able to find your lens.

This step should have come earlier, but having keywords in your lens URL is very important. Once you choose your lens URL you cant change it so keep this in mind for the next lens you create.

Add keywords to your lens title too! This is extremely important to getting high ranks in Google. Then you're given the chance to add keywords to the tags of your lens. These can be anything relate to your lens' topic.

6) Keep it Neat!

The best lenses are the ones that are "to the point" and not full of clutter and useless distractions. This goes for content AND ads on your lens!

If you're promoting a website or product, that's fine but keep the ads to a minimum and don't have a dozen different ads. Keep everything nice and tightly focused.

It's good to add Amazon product modules but don't list everything under the sun. Choose 1 or two related products.

By giving your lens visitor too many choices, they're likely to get confused and hit the back button.

These are some of the tips you can find in my free Squidoo Secrets report. Download it now and learn more!

5 Best Ways to Drive Free Traffic to your Lenses

Got to love free traffic!

Free website traffic generation is what it's all about for marketers using Squidoo.

Although Squidoo lenses are already highly optimized for search engines and already within the close "Squidoo" family (meaning your lenses are just a click away), there are a few more ways to put your lenses on steroids and BOOST traffic to your lenses.

Here are the 5 best ways I have been using to drive more traffic to my squidoo lenses.

And the best part is..they're all free methods.

1. Fill your lens with good unique content

You might have heard this before, but when it comes to search engine domination, content is KING!

Your lens needs to have good content with the right keywords in it to get free traffic from Google. I recommend you have at least 3 articles that are 300 words or more. The more the better because search engines love pages with great content... so do real people!

2. Ping your lenses

After publishing your lens, let the search engines know about it by pinging it. When you send out a ping, they will know there is a new page on the web with fresh content on it.

I use www.Ping-o-matic.com and www.Pingoat.com. These are multi ping sites that let you ping a whole bunch of websites quickly with one submission.

They're also free to use so that's another reason to use them!

3. Write and submit articles

This is also known as article marketing. It's basically writing and submitting articles to online article directory websites so you get a backlink and those articles also send you traffic.

Again, make your articles related to your lens topic and original content. Article directories like www.EzineArticles.com get massive traffic and Google loves it.

4. Build a Network of Squidoo lenses

The more lenses you make and link together, the more chances you have of a chain reaction of traffic.

You can use the lensroll function on the right sidebar of your lens' page to link to your other lenses. If your lens is good, people will naturally want to check out your other lenses.

5. Update Your Lenses

Regularly update your lenses with fresh content.. even if it's just a paragraph. Just like blogging, fresh content is quickly picked up by Google.

Also, when people are searching on Squidoo, they can choose to view the most recently updated lenses.

A real quick way to update your lenses is to simply add more tags.

I hope these tips help you get more traffic to your squidoo lenses.

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