Learn How to Make Money by Creating Lenses with Your Free Squidoo Account
Sound to good to be true? It really isn't. I signed up with Squidoo in mid June. I received my first payment in August. It was simple and fun to do. My very first payment was enough to go to the movies, bring a date, and buy a bag of popcorn. So, I'm totally hooked on Squidoo and see huge potential for future profits here.
On this lens, I provide a few tips and a directory of great resources that have helped me. I will continue to add new information as I learn more.
How You Make Money on Squidoo
Here are the Basics in Laymen's Terms
Squidoo allows you to make money through two methods:
1) Squidoo runs discrete, content related Google AdSense ads on your lenses. Squidoo then splits the profits they make from these ads with their users, which are called lensmasters. Squidoo has found a way to combat click fraud by setting up a hierarchy pay scale. Instead of paying each lensmaster for the clicks their lenses generated, Squidoo pays each lensmaster a set amount (based on what Squidoo earned that month from AdSense) according to their lensrank. Sometimes this can be around $10-$11 per top ranked lens, but if you have a whole lot of lenses with high lensranks it adds up fast.
2) Squidoo let's you make money through affiliate sales on your lenses. You can use the convenient and easy to use Amazon, eBay, and CafePress modules that Squidoo offers. They split the commission with you on what ever you sell via your lens. Or, you can become an affiliate of another company (Amazon, Commission Junction, Pepperjam, etc) and make your own commissions from sales.
How Will You Focus Your Efforts?
- Focus on building many quality content lenses and work on promoting them so they rank high. Then make money off of the AdSense split from Squidoo.
- Focus on making interesting content lenses that have strategically placed Amazon, eBay, and CafePress modules and make money from the commission split with Squidoo.
- Focus on becoming an affiliate and place your own affiliate links on your lenses.
How Do You Earn the Most with Squidoo?
Where Generates the Most Money for You?
Squidoo's AdSense Pay Scale Explained
About How Much Each Lens Will Make
Squidoo splits its AdSense revenue with its lensmasters (Squidoo users). Instead of paying each lensmaster based on what ad click profits were generated per lens (which would promote click fraud), Squidoo bases its payouts off of each lensmaster's average lensrank for each of their lenses during a given pay period.
Squidoo divides lenses up into tiers. The exact range of lensranks per tier fluctuates month to month. Here is a guesstimate as to the usual lens tier breakdown:
Tier 1: Lenses ranked 2,000 or better.
Tier 2: Lenses ranked between 2,000 and anywhere from 8,000.
Tier 3: Lenses ranked between tier 2 and anywhere from 60,000.
Tier 4: Lenses ranked over 60,000.
Great Info for Any Squidoo Newbie
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Money Making Tips from Experienced Lensmasters
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Are you an experienced lensmaster? Do you have a tip or two about making money with Squidoo to share with new lensmasters?
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Ready to Start Making Money with Squidoo?
It's fun, addicting, and pays! What more could you ask for?
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Where to Advertise Your Lenses
Get the Word Out and Get Traffic
Here are some great sites where you can submit your lenses to get some more exposure!
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EverythingMouse wrote...
A great resource with some good advice about how to make money on Squidoo. It really is possible if you follow all the completely free advice on Squidoo. Just persevere and it will be well worth it.
Posted November 07, 2008
Chadrew wrote...
A very useful lens, and nice use of CSS formatting, too! :)
Posted November 05, 2008
aj2008 wrote...
This is such a helpful gathering together of helpful lenses. One thing to remember about payouts though - they are calculated on average lensrankings over the month. 5*s
Posted October 13, 2008
