Here’s a rundown of my experience with Squidoo. I had heard of it and was interested in Squidoo, but I thought that it may be too complicated to worry about. I decided to give it a try. It took me about 20 minutes to create my first Squidoo lens last night. Squidoo lenses are like mini blogs, but you don’t have to worry about formatting, downloading a theme or anything like that. You simply choose text boxes, upload pictures, and load items to sell (it’s easy) and go. It’s free to use Squidoo, but the company keeps a percentage of the money you earn through selling the items. I found the set-up process to be easy. You just create a new account, add modules for writing and modules for monetizing through Squidoo. Squidoo offers you the opportunity to sell items from Amazon, eBay, and Cafe Press on your lens. You can select the items that you would like to sell or allow Squidoo to choose the items based on your key words. All you have to do is click a few selections on the site. You don’t need to sign up to sell on Amazon if you don’t want to.
What are Affiliates?
You can also put your own affiliate links on Squidoo. Affiliates earn a cut from items that are sold. For example, by placing a product from Amazon.com on your site, you earn a percentage from every product sold. When placing your own affilate links on Squidoo instead of using Squidoo’s tool, you earn the full affiliate percentage (instead of just getting a cut of the money). So, if you sign up to become an affiliate with Amazon and you put the link that Amazon give you on your the lens, you don’t have to worry about Squidoo taking part of the money. There are all sorts of items and services that you can sell and get a percentage of the money. Visit ClickBank and see what I mean.
Who is Making Money With Squidoo
From what I can tell, people who are earning hundreds of dollars on Squidoo have been on it for a while and are creating or have content-rich lenses (lenses with a lot of content) and they are constantly updating that content. It should only take a couple of minutes a day to update a lens. People are creating multiple lenses on a variety of topics. They then link their lenses to their blogs and also link them to each other. Google gave Squidoo a slap a few months ago so the flood of traffic is no more from what I can tell. You can get some good backlinks, though. Create the lenses and link them to your blog. Your page rank may move up.
How Much Will You Earn from Squidoo
Realistically, I predict that you may earn a few cents a day. I know! That’s not what you are after, but I don’t think that the time is over for Squidoo! I like Squidoo, because people who cannot sign up for an Adsense account can still get a percentage of Adsense money from Squidoo’s Adsense account (that is if people visit your lens, etc.,) I do think that it is worth it to at least have a few lenses out there and to get your own backlinks without having to beg for them! I’ll let you know if I end up making any money from Squidoo.
Posted by Claudine in Make Money at Home