| If you've not put some articles on Squidoo yet you're | | | | Write some good content on a subject you know |
| missing out on a great way to make some extra cash. | | | | about, or which you have researched for your lens. |
| For those you don't know it, Squidoo is a bit like a blog | | | | Sign up as an affiliate with relevant programs at |
| or wiki with advertising. You can write about pretty | | | | Commission Junction, Clickbank, Linkshare or anywhere |
| much anything you like using the user friendly interface | | | | you find them and place your affiliate links in your |
| and the completed webpage, known as a lens, will | | | | content using a little simple html. You simply write the |
| carry advertising that you share in. | | | | links into your text modules using the affiliate tracking |
| The advertising programs available through Squidoo | | | | links the program gives you. |
| are AdSense, eBay, Amazon, Cafepress and more to | | | | You can drive more traffic to your lens anyway you |
| come. On these programs you will receive 50% of the | | | | like, try writing articles and submitting them to article |
| revenue generated by your ads. You can also include | | | | directories, join relevant lensgroups (Squidoo makes |
| your own affiliate links to other programs, these are | | | | this bit real easy) comment on other lenses (and this bit |
| entirely your own. | | | | too), bookmark your lens on social bookmarking sites |
| So why use Squidoo instead of building a website or | | | | like del.icio.us and Digg, ping your lens at pingmatic.com, |
| blog? Simple, its just so simple! Anybody who has | | | | any method really other than spam email traffic. |
| surfed the net and used a keyboard before can | | | | By using just a little imagination you can have traffic |
| produce a masterpiece in an hour! Individual modules | | | | flowing to those affiliate links and earning money. |
| can be used for different purposes, the text you write, | | | | Some find it rather addictive and have many lenses on |
| Amazon products that might be relevant, RSS feeds | | | | their pet subjects all bringing in an income. This is |
| to keep an element of changing content and more. | | | | particulary effective for niche marketing, it is definitely |
| The modules can be ordered in whatever way you | | | | better to have several lenses focused on say |
| like so feel free to experiment. | | | | different breeds of dogs than it is to have one lens all |
| Using Squidoo also gets your content in front of an | | | | about dogs in general! |
| audience quickly unlike standard websites which can | | | | There is a feel good factor here too as some of the |
| take months to start seeing traffic. This is because | | | | revenue generated by the inbuilt Squidoo advertising |
| Squidoo already has thousands of people browsing | | | | goes to various charities, so the more you write the |
| through its pages and also because search engines | | | | more they benefit. Squidoo represents money for you, |
| like Google love the ever expanding content so tend to | | | | money for Squidoo and money for charities, why |
| index the pages quickly. | | | | would you not want to give it a go? |
| So how do you make more money? Simple again! | | | | |