Making Money with Squidoo: My Squidoo Payments

Squidoo is a great community that allows writers to create webpages (called lenses) and make money from these pages. You can make money from Squidoo in a number of ways. The first way to make money with Squidoo is by sharing in the revenue the site earns. Squidoo will pay users with the top lenses a percentage of the revenue from the Squidoo "ad pool." How much a Squidoo member is paid is determined by their lenses "lens rank." All lenses are ranked based upon traffic, time spent on the lenses, click outs, etc... and broken up into tiers. Tier 1 is for the Top 2,000 lenses, Tier 2: 2,001-10,000, Tier 3: 10,001- 85, 000, and Tier 4 are all of the remaining lenses. Tier 1 receives the highest payout (currently averaging around $45 per lens), Tier 2 receives the next highest payout (around $10 per lens), Tier 3 receives the lowest payout (around 40 cents per lens), and Tier 4 receives no payout (although some high ranked Tier 4 lenses receive some payout around 10 cents per lens). The revenue share is based upon money received from the Squidoo ad pool, text links, and chitika ads.

The Squidoo revenue share is not the only way to make money on Squidoo, you can also earn royalties from items sold through modules on your lenses. Money earning modules include Amazon modules, an eBay module, and a CafePress module. You will receive a share of all purchases made through your module and be paid by Squidoo. You can also make money with Squidoo by using Squidoo to promote affiliate program sales such as from Clickbank, Commission Junction, Google Ad Network, AllPosters, Zazzle, and more.

This lens, however, chronicles all of the payments I have received since being a member of Squidoo, Please be advised that I have not put as much time into my Squidoo lenses as many other people or made much effort to promote my Squidoo lenses, so I do not earn as much as many other writers. I mainly make lenses for fun on topics I am interested into or that I think may be useful/helpful to others. I hope to at some point put more time & effort into making lenses that focus on SEO and promotion of products to make more money, but for now I'm happy with the steady payout I make that combined with my other efforts to make money writing online helps to provide extra income and revenue for me.