Squidoo!
Although you may not recognize the name, Squidoo is a popular website designed to make it easy for anyone to set up a single page on a topic they know or care a lot about, for free. It’s essentially a network of user-generated lenses (single pages that highlight one person’s point of view, recommendations, or expertise) which can be used to advertise products or services through affiliate marketing. Founded by author, speaker and notable blogger Seth Godin, there is already a huge fan base and Squidoo currently hosts over 400,000 lenses.
Profitable
Making a lens is not exactly rocket science and you can make money from it easily by ‘back linking’ to your affiliate websites, plus all revenue made from your page is shared with you, ‘lens master’. You can also add extra wealth creation devices such as Google Adsense to your lens, although this will probably generate lower levels of income than linking to your affiliate site.
Squidoo raises itself above the average blog site by getting people with genuine interests and knowledge to contribute back into the online community. Squidoo has done amazing things for online businesses and is therefore an indispensable tool for marketing your expertise, affiliate program and services. It is often used by niche marketers and some have been very successful as a direct result.
Easy To Use
Squidoo is simple and easy to use, anyone can build a lens for free on a topic that they are passionate about and start directing traffic to their site in a matter of minutes. Lenses can be about anything, from ideas, people or places, hobbies and sports, to pets or products, philosophy, and politics. Lenses aren’t primarily intended to hold content, more emphasis is placed on recommending and then pointing to content on the web so there is nothing wrong with using your lens to make you money, and indeed it is actively encouraged.
One of the great benefits of advertising your affiliate site with Squidoo is that Google places a lot of value and trust in the content of lenses, which will help you get high rankings. Google just loves Squidoo’s tags, which really helps people get noticed and it’s not uncommon to make a lens and find it in Google search returns in 48 hours. New websites have been known to wait MONTHS to feel some Google love so you really can benefit from Google and Squidoo’s love-affair.
Affiliates
Squidoo is the simple way to boost your affiliate sales, whatever product you’re promoting. It’s quick and easy to add a lens and add some links to your site to promote it. Squidoo is definitely something to look into, even if you only intend to use it as another method of promoting your websites. Squidoo effectively helps brand you as an expert, promoting your own or affiliated products or services, gets you higher SEO rankings, grows your affiliate marketing income, and even builds your list of people to advertise to.
Get started…
If you are an Affiliate Marketer who wishes to put a lot of links on a site without fear of it affecting it’s Google ranking, head on over to Squidoo now… you’re likely to find your lens indexed by Google within a couple of days so your online business will quickly reap the rewards of the power harnessed by these lenses. For example, a single lens could point to Flickr photos, Google maps, blogs, eBay auctions, YouTube videos and other links, the list of possibilities is endless… so all that’s left is to go and reserve your Squidoo lens now while it’s still available!
