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This lens is meant to investigate what ways people have made money on squidoo. Which affiliate programs have made us $$$ and which profitable modules work...

Etsy and Lulu

Etsy and Lulu modules are merely a way to showcase products. If you're showcasing someone elses products, you won't be making a dime!

Ebay 

There are four things you may see in your dashboard after you've had click throughs from a lens to ebay:

CRU This means a new member has signed up for eBay, but hasn't actually made a bid/bin yet.
ACRU This means that your CRU (above) actually placed a bid on an item or made a bin purchase.
Bid/Bin With this information you can see how many of your visitors actually came to eBay and placed a bid on a item.
Winning Bid (Count) This just means that someone actually won an auction or did a BIN.

In the new system squidoo pays lensmasters out only for Winning Bid and (giants) for CRU and ACRU. Since ebay no longer supplies the proper stats, squidoo has created a work around to be able to pay us out in this way. The result is that we still get payed per sale. It's unclear to me right now whether ebay has brought down the amount they pay out per sale.

Which modules have made you money? 

This poll is meant for the squidoo money making modules. Vote for the one that has made you personally the most.

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Cafepress

It's a bit hard to know whether you've sold anything on cafepress - let alone how much, or what you've sold. But when you see your earnings for a lens rise, and no extra amazon or ebay sales are reported: cafepress is likely the cause.

Zazzle and Skimlinks 

Zazzle modules are not set to make the lensmaster any money. However, with the new skimlink setup, they can make us something anyhow. Like adsense the payout is lensrank dependent - but distributed among those lenses that have links that are skimlink material. That's not just Zazzle, but other links as well.

Here's more about skimlinks.

As squidoo HQ says: these will never make as much as the money making modules like amazon or ebay. They're just a small bonus.

All Posters.com 

This is one affiliate program that makes me actual cash. Not much - in fact, not yet enough to reach the payout level. But I have made some money through this program.
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I do love this affiliate program. AllPosters.com gives you an easy (well doable) way to put great pictures on your lenses that fit your theme. And if people click on them and buy the posters (or other products), you stand to gain affiliate income. H...

Reader Q & A 

Is google adwords a money maker?
Squidoo has at this moment two kinds of ads they show on all lenses: glam ads and adsense ads. These make lensmasters money only indirectly: we get payed out based on lensrank. In other words: whether you have a hundred visitors a day, or a thousand: you get the same top tier payout (which is about 10 dollars a month these days).

If you are getting serious traffic on a lens, or series of lenses - start your own website or blog on the subject and put adsense on there: that leaves out the squidoo middle man. And you can use your squidoo articles to give your new site it's first links, so the search engines know it exists.

Other ways to make money online
There are all kinds of ways to make money online. Squidoo is only one - but one of the easiest. I would recommend that anybody who has found a niche that sells on squidoo build a blog or website around that topic as well. If you want to keep it cheap you might also build a hubpage (or hubpages) on that topic. Some article directories pay out their writers based on how many visitors they get. Examples include Triond, about.com and Associated Content, Manuscript Services, Constant Content, Helium, google knol, articleincome, dailyarticle, webcontent, webarticles, allcontent, sportsarticle etc.

Share A Sale 

This program has made me some money too. The trick is (like it is with CJ) to find the specific online shop that sells what people in your niche want to buy.

Linkshare 

Linkshare is a new program for me. I signed up because a shop I wanted to feature had a program through LinkShare.

Making money as an international publisher (outside the US) 

Perhaps I should do a whole lens about this topic. But for now I'll just limit myself to the following observation: it is an extra challenge to find affiliate programs that don't just sell your product, but will pay out in a way that works outside the US as well.

For me, from the Netherlands, what works best are programs that pay out through either direct deposit to a Dutch bank, or paypal.
Programs that fit that bill include: allposters.com, shareasale and squidoo.

Amazon pays out through cheque (which is expensive to turn into money)

Linkshare pays out through direct deposit, but I haven't figured out how to fill in their forms without a US address.

Making Money Online - the most important tip

The precise affiliate program doesn't matter as much as the product you are selling. If you want to sell color coded cards (just an example), the best way to do it is to find the top players in that field and ask them which affiliate program they are using to sell online.

Reader Feedback 

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    arncyn arncyn Dec 14, 2009 @ 7:49 am
    Thank you so much for this lens Katinka. These are great tips, as always.
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    alteredkat alteredkat Nov 20, 2009 @ 9:23 am
    ***** Great tips...I miss my ebay $$$ :o( I hope they get the problem fixed...thanks for blessing my Shepherd's pie lens...I appreciate it!
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    spirituality spirituality Oct 21, 2009 @ 6:30 am | in reply to TimArends
    I looked it up. Ezinearticles does not belong on the list. It's a place where you can submit your best articles, which they'll keep in their index for 6 months. The hope is then that within that six months not only do people click through to your site giving you more visibility, but also that ezines use your content - republish it - containing your info. Giving you more visibility and hopefully a permanent link back.

    A bit like press releases, but then for articles. Not totally stupid I guess. Not for me though.
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    spirituality spirituality Oct 21, 2009 @ 6:20 am | in reply to TimArends
    You mean people give away their content hoping they'll click through to their money making efforts? In that case: I do hope the links are followed at least.
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    TimArends TimArends Oct 20, 2009 @ 10:36 pm
    Correction: I don't think ezinearticles pays out anything according how many views your article gets--their benefit is solely in traffic.
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