A Squidoo it Yourself Way to Making Money Online
In these days of prices going up, and house values going down, we’re all looking to make a little extra money from somewhere. There are only so many hours in the day that you can work, so why not find something that will give you a residual income?
It sounds nice doesn’t it? Residual income - money coming in indefinitely for work you’ve already done. Well, not only does it sound nice, it’s entirely possible to do - people are doing it right at this very moment, and very soon you could be one of them!
One of the quickest and easiest ways to get started online is to sign up with one of the big Web 2.0 platforms, like Squidoo, and here’s a huge perk - it’s free! Web 2.0 sites are currently leading the way when it comes to getting yourself indexed by the top search engines, and the quicker and higher you rank, the faster you’ll get potential buyers coming to your page.
What you’ll want to have on your web page, which Squidoo calls a lens, are at least three short articles that relate back to whatever product you want to promote. The content is the key to your success. It doesn’t have to be prefect, but it should have some of the keywords that people will be searching for when they look for the kind of thing you’ll be promoting.
Also you’ll want to find keywords that aren’t too competitive. You’ve got a far better chance of ranking well for a longer keyword phrase with little competition than with a short key word phrase with a lot of competition. However, you’ll still want the keywords to be as relevant as possible to your articles or you’ll drive traffic there and they’ll leave again just as quickly.
Once you have your lens up and running, which shouldn’t take too long, you’ll want to link back to the product you’re promoting. The product may be something that you own yourself and sell from a dedicated website, or it might be an affiliate product.
If you don’t have a product of your own, don’t worry. You can link to an affiliate product without fear of repercussion by the Squidoo staff. What you should do is check out a site that offers downloadable products, like ClickBank, sign up for a free account, and then find a suitable product to promote.
Another thing worth noting is that you can make anything up to 75% commissions on products sold through ClickBank, so, for a little time and effort on research and setting up your free lens, you could be pulling in $30-$60 or more for each person going on to buy the product!
If you want to make some additional money, or just don’t have the time at the moment to search for a product to add and promote, you can always take the option of letting Squidoo place ads on your lens and you then take a cut of the money generated from them.
In the case of the Google AdSense advertisements, you won’t really have any say on what’s shown, other than by making your content as focused on one subject as possible, but you can have a say on other ads placed on your lens.
Squidoo offers you a number of commercial modules that you can drop into your lens. Those modules are usually specific to one company or another like the Amazon.com module, eBay module, Netflix module, etc. And you have flexibility as to what each of the modules will display for your readers.
You’ll also get paid if you act as a Squidoo affiliate and get people to join for free. Squidoo will take a percentage of any money that’s generated through AdSense or the modules. When it comes to AdSense, they’ll take 45%, give 5% to charity and the other 50% is distributed around the Squidoo members, which is great if nobody has clicked on any of your AdSense ads because you make money from other peoples’ AdSense ads.
The split is the same for the modules, but since you’ve put the work into providing the content that’s got the people there in the first place, you get to keep 50% of those sales. This is when the affiliate section kicks in, because this will be classed as a member making residual money from Squidoo, and once the people you refer start making money in that way, Squidoo rewards you for getting them to sign up.
So, whether you have a product or not, you can get yourself online for free and start making an income. Once you’ve got the taste for it, you’ll start building a Web 2.0 empire and marketing anything and everything to those people who don’t yet realise they need what you’re going to sell them!
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How to Add a Video to Your Squidoo Lens
Here is another post in the How To department . We start with a video from Youtube.
Go to Youtube.com and select the video you want to add to your Squidoo lens
The URL will look like: youtube.com/watch?v=MUBlAqTEwFs
copy the last letters (on a PC: right click and choose copy or right click and click CTRL + C buttons)
Then Log in to your Squidoo account:
Click the tab “My Lenses” then hover your mouse over the lens you want to add the video and click “Edit”.
Shown below:
Click on the “Add Modules” button
You will land on the page with basic modules;
Click on the text “Next”
On the next page click “YouTube vids”
Your module is now added as the last module on your lens, this is by default. If you don’t want to have your video there you have to move the module up.
It is done by clicking the button “Preview Lens Layout”, the page expands and you can drag and drop your modules where ever you want them. Click Save
Next you scroll down to your video module:
Click on Edit
This where you give your module a title (important to change the default text for both your visitors as well as the search engines). Also a subtitle if you like and a description.
Then you click on the tab “Select Your Videos”
and tick “Let me Pick”.
Next: “Enter YouTube Video url”, paste the YouTube url you copied earlier. On a PC either right click and chose paste or click CTRL + V buttons.
Click Save and you are done 
If you like this little tutorial please stumble, digg or social bookmark this page, thank you.
As always if you have any questions just ask me, either in the comments or using my form on my about page:
Social Media in Plain English
This video is from commoncraft.com/show - it explains how social media works in plain English, which is useful for getting traffic to your Squidoo lenses.
Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.
Enjoy!
How to Add Adsense to Your Squidoo Lens
… is a question I have been asked more than once.
… is a question I have been asked more than once.The answer is you don’t , you cannot - Squidoo adds Adsense and other ads.
Adsense revenue is calculated like this:
All revenue is dropped in one big pool.
45% is subtracted for Squidoo operations, 5% goes to Squidoo charity.
That leaves 50% in the pool for lensmasters (owners of lenses).
That pool is then divided according to an algoritme.
If you want a more comprehensive explanation go to “Your Lens - Your Money”
As always ask me if you have a Squidoo or blog related question.
Excellent Reasons Why You Should Use Squidoo
In this video Bob the Teacher explains why Squidoo is a must use Web 2.0 tool to get more traffic and grow your business on the internet fast. Online social marketing just got easier with Squidoo Secrets 2.0.
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Not Show Adsense on Your Squidoo Lens
… and other ads.
Questions I have been asked over and over again are “how do I get rid of Adsense on my lenses” or am I getting paid every time somebody clicks on Adsense on my lens, what is the % I get paid in royalties?
Before I start let me say you cannot get 100% rid of ads on your Squidoo lens, the minimum advertising you can have is Adsense on top and bottom like here Squidoo.com/efttapping/
The reason is that AdSense is how Squidoo pays the bills and why we all get to use the service for free.
Let me explain how Squidoo has chosen to work with ads.
Adsense: 100% of all Adsense goes into a pool, 5% will go the Squidoo Charity Fund 45% to run Squidoo and 50% will be divided according to a payrank algorithm to all the lensmasters.
Glam ads: (the big animated ads), can be removed when you max your lens as well as give 100% of your royalties to Squidoo.
Amazon: To use your own ID, a nice online software to get the code is Squidutils.
I hope this cleared up the questions about Squidoo’s advertising.
As always you are welcome to ask me any question you may have about Squidoo, use the comment section or squidoomagic.com/contact/ (my contact form).
Enjoy!
How to Add Links to Your Squidoo Links
When I started this blog my intention was to write for experienced lensmasters. I have however changed my mind - for his post at least.
When I started this blog my intention was to write for experienced Now why is that? I just checked my stats for “Searches from Search Engines” and I found several search terms like: “how to add link in my Squidoo profile” and “how do you put a url in a Squidoo guestbook” . So if that is what my visitors want to know - who am I to refuse them?
So without further ado:
How to Add Link to my Squidoo Profile:
Log into your Squidoo Dashboard
In the upper left corner you will see something similar to this screenshot:
Click on “Edit Your Bio”
Next you will land on a page called Personal Info,
Scroll down to Default Photo/Default Bio - to the right click on “Change”
You will notice that a box with HTML codes will appear on the same page:
This is the place for you to add the link as a HTML code like this:
<a href=”http://YOURURL.com“>Your Blog Name</a>
You have to change the text in red.
Then you click on “Save” button - which is found on the right handside.
How do you put a url in a Squidoo guestbook
It is the lensmaster (the owner of the lens) that decides wheater or not you can add an active URL. If the lensmaster has his guestbook set to “Allow HTML” or more correct has not ticked “Strip HTML Codes” then you add an url like the above:
<a href=”http://YOURURL.com“>Your Blog Name</a>
No you cannot know how the setting is for a certain guestbook, you can check the comments for already posted comments for active urls. No matter the setting you will always get a backlink to your Squidoo profile.
Enjoy!
As always if you have any questions just ask me - write in the comments.
PS. the cool stats plug-in for WP is Psychic Search .
Twitter Integrated with Squidoo
I was about to write a post about the new Twitter feature on Squidoo, when I realised that Lewis Smile at SquidooCool had just done the same.
No reason for me to repeat it. It is a real cool feature, it is a set and forget feature. Every time you update or publish a new lens it will be twittered automatically - now how cool is that?
From Squidoo Cool:
The time has come!Twitter
Your Squidoo account is getting more integrated with other social networking sites!
Now, on your profile is a space to enter your Twitter.com username and password. And you save it in Squidoo just like you save your name and bio. Then, the next time you publish a lens you will see a little link in the green flashing box that pops up (the one that tells you that your lens has been published), and if you click the link Squidoo will automatically post an update about your lens for you onyour Twitter profile!
Continue reading at squidoocool
Enjoy!
As always don’t hesitate to ask if you run into problems.
If you are Looking for Something that is not here…
… it is because I had a corrupt file and only had backup to the 12 of May.
… it is because I had a corrupt file and only had backup to the 12 of May.I will do my best to recover the articles as soon as possible.
While you wait for me feel free to ask me your Squidoo questions squidoomagic.com/contact/
Susanne
Get Backlinks to Your Squidoo Lenses & Hubpages
If you’d like to know how to get high page rank, on topic backlinks from Squidoo lenses and Hubpages, I have a tip for you.
I have used SquidHubSearcher, a nice software that allows me to find high ranked lenses (as well as Hubpages) it minutes. It searches Squidoo and Hubpages or just one of them for lenses with guestbooks.
- I choose the lowest rank lenses I want (PR3)
- Click Start Gathering URLs
- Then I check the PR of the URLs that squidhubsearcher has found to me
- With a click export the links to an Excell spreadsheet (or alike)
- From the spreadsheet I visit the lenses, rate them, write in the guestbooks.
Here’s a screen shot after I did a search and got the PRs:
I did a search of kitchen knives and here’s the result, now all I have to do is to click Export button and from there visit the lenses.
You might be able to get a direct backlink to your lens, website, blog, squeeze page or sales page, if not you get a backlink to your Squidoo profile which is not bad at all.
At SquidHubSearcher’s website you can watch a video on how to set it up and do a search the proper way.
It has saved me lot of time the past year and wouldn’t like to live without it.
As always if you have any questions just ask using the commens or at squidoomagic.com/contact/
Enjoy!
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