There adverts are put there by Squidoo, and managed by Squidoo, and earn money for Squidoo.

So why are they sending YOU money? Unlike most websites, like Facebook or MySpace, Squidoo actually pays you to be there.

You get a share of all the money made by the adverts that are run on pages you create. Plus, if you make sales by featuring Amazon products or Ebay auctions, you split the profits with Squidoo. And you get paid each month through PayPal.

In general, the more lenses you have the more you’ll get paid, but quality really is more important than quantity.

I would rather have 10 great lenses that people find interesting than 100 shoddy lenses.

If you want to see how to make a great lens, see BuildMyLens.com

Lewis

ClickBank is an excellent system, and they have paid out over 1 BILLION dollars. To people just like you and me.

All you need is to get enough people to click your ‘clickbank affiliate links’ for enough to then purchase the products you’re featuring.

Squidoo is a way to accomplish that. You can use Squidoo to talk about topics related to the products you want to sell, and include your clickbank links.

People find your lenses, click your links, buy the products. You just need to increase the numbers of each of those 3 things.

Squidoo is a great way to promote clickbank affiliate products, but be sure to follow the Best Practices rules:

If you want to get started out professionally and in the right way, take a look at our Lens Building Service.

– Lewis

The site is not only free to use, but you get paid to use it.

Joining is free, so if you’ve not signed up yet do it now.

1. You get paid to build lenses, you can promote your own products and business
2. You can link back to your main website
3. You can feature your latest blog posts
4. You can rank high in Google
5. And now you can hire someone else to build your lenses for you!

Here are the Squidoo SEO Facts you need to know.

BASICS:

ADVANCED:

Should you ping your lenses whenever you update, or publish a new lens?

I say yes, but don’t go crazy.

If you are constantly pinging one lens every few days with little or no changes to it, you’re going to get blacklisted in a lot of places.

I wrote a whole post talking about your ping options, and HOW to ping your lenses, at SquidooCool.com

You can read it here. Read the comments on the post too. They are helpful!

If you want us to build your Squidoo lenses for you, check out BuildMyLens.com to get started. Pinging included

Lewis

Blogs:

Apart from this blog, you’ll find helpful advice at our 2 other Squidoo blogs

1. SquidooCool [run by me, MrLewisSmile]
2. SocialMarketing101 [run by Tiffany Dow]

Some other Squidoo Blogs are

1. Official SquidBlog [official squidoo news]
2. Lens of the Day [see what great lenses look like]
3. CaptainSquid [squidoo money-making adventures]
4. SquidUtils [great SEO and technical knowledge]

Official Resources:

Squidoo has put together the tools for the community to provide all the help info. It’s smart, and rather colourful.

1. Squidu [very busy help forums]
2. Answer Deck [collection of great squidoo help lenses]

If you want help building your lenses, we can start from scratch and get you up and running in no time. Check out the info at BuildMyLens.com.

Lewis

So both You and Squidoo profit!

As a Lensmaster you collect money from various sources:

1. Adsense income [the google ads that run on the page]
2. Amazon sales [from any products you feature]
3. Ebay Sales [from any auctions you feature]
4. InfoLinks [those ugly link ads - I recommend turning these off!]

The people earning the huge sums of money from their Squidoo Lenses are those who use the secret #5…

5. Affiliate Marketing

Build a few lenses about a certain theme, and feature recommended products from sites like Commission Junction and Clickbank.

You could be making money with Squidoo of $30+ per sale, if you have a good affiliate product to sell. Not small change at all!

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If you’re stuck, you can hire us at BuildMyLens.com and we’ll create your first professional lenses for you. We have made over 900 lenses…

Lewis

Also, google doesn’t sent traffic to crappy pages, and nobody buys from crappy pages. Don’t waste your time.

Really, you’ve got to think about what you want to get from your Internet Marketing.

Do you want something that will last? Something high quality that you’ll be proud to put your name on?

I would strongly advise against using any Squidoo lens generator software.

PLUS: Squidoo deletes all lenses it finds made with a Lens Generator!

If you want to build a web presence that lasts, and earns you income for a long time to come, you need a professional touch.

Whether you hire someone or do it yourself, quality is KEY!

Never think it’s ok to skip on quality to save on time.

Get the job done once, and get it done right.

The one and only way to get a consistent stream of visitors, without paying every time for every click, you need to publish content.

Squidoo is a website that let’s you publish articles and links and photos, for free.

Squidoo mostly ranks very high in search engines for many many search terms, so making a page or four about your topic can be worth a lot to your sales!

PLUS: If you want to get started right with Squidoo, but don’t know what you’re up to, you can give BuildMyLens.com a try.

Above are the best versions of the Squidoo logo I have found.

Ideally we would all be able to use a large version of the Squidoo logo in PNG format with an invisible background, but oh well. This is the best we have!

Do you have a higher quality version of the Squidoo logo, maybe with an invisible background? I’d love for you to send it to me!

Lewis
http://www.BuildMyLens.com

Basically, here is what you have to work with:

And to make a text link in the text of your Squidoo lens, you can use the following code:

For more information on what HTML Squidoo allows, and in what modules you can use it, check out the Basic HTML Lens at http://www.squidoo.com/basichtml

Lewis
http://www.BuildMyLens.com