Make Money with Squidoo

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 | Make Money Blogging with

I’ve been exploring ways to make money online outside of paid surveys and todays post is a tried and true money maker. If you haven’t heard yet about Squidoo you should go and check it out because there are lots of people that have been making good money by authoring Squidoo lenses. You probably won’t get rich, but it is another way to make some cash from the internet and it’s a good way to diversify your online income. And if you’re just getting started making money online Squidoo is a great way to build confidence, get motivated and start learning about internet marketing.

One of the major reasons people give up on trying to make money online is they don’t have the patience required to market and establish a new blog. As a consequence they lose their confidence, motivation and faith in their ability to make money online.

How Will Squidoo Help You Get Started With Internet Marketing?

Squidoo is a free platform that allows you to author what they call ‘lenses’. These lenses are really just web pages and they have one big advantage over starting your own website. The advantage is that Squidoo is already highly regarded by search engines which means it is much easier to get your lenses indexed. This means you should start seeing traffic to your new lenses quickly which will be a big confidence booster and motivator. There’s nothing like that first sale or seeing people view your site to boost your morale and motivation.

What makes Squidoo a good way for anyone to start making money online?

1. Once you create an account and get used to working with Squidoo you can create a lens in as little as 10-15 minutes. Try doing that with a blog or website.

2. Squidoo will allow you to rank well in Google almost right away because the site has high authority and trust. Getting your own site in the top 10 results in Google can be very difficult and requires hours or marketing work, but with Squidoo all that work has been done for you already. By doing a little bit of keyword research you can get a highly rank lens page pretty quickly and easily.

3. Unlike other free web authoring sites Squidoo allows you to promote affiliate products. You can put your own affiliate links into your lens and start making money from day 1 with Squidoo. Some popular affiliate networks include Clickbank and Commission Junction. Just find a product and build your lens around it.

4. Since the lenses are so quick and easy to set up Squidoo is a great place to experiment with different offers, layouts and ads to see what will convert for you. You can use Squidoo to identify profitable niches before taking the time to build an entire website around them.

5. Along the lines of yesterdays post Squidoo is a good way to diversify your online income. It gives you one more way to get some additional cash each month.

You can get started with Squidoo here

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