I have been researching and researching for months now. I decided to get back in the game of internet marketing, and had to play catch up. What does this mean? It means I had to re-educate myself on ways to make money online. In my research, squidoo sites kept popping up everywhere. I wasn't interested.
What did interested me, blogging. A free blog is the way to go when you'll on a budget. I have something to say and blogging is my means to say it.
I've found another way to voice my opinion, give information, and even make a buck. It's called squidoo and it's free. Squidoo is a one page website that focuses on one topic. These pages are called lens. The author of the squidoo lens is called a lensmaster. There are several lens on the first page of google's search engine. Since my primary goal is to make money online, I checked out the money making lens. This led into optimizing your squidoo lens which led into marketing your affiliate products on squidoo. One lens, one product, hey, I think I'm a squidoo fan!!!
I've found myself reading lens after lens. Some of the lensmasters even had a blog about, guess what, squidoo lens. I decided to make a lens to market my affiliate product, Six Figure Yearly. I found this one page website suits my needs perfectly. I can update this page once a week on information that is relevant to my topic.
This lens is easier to set up when you have the information on hand. Here are some of the modules you will find to make your lens.
URL: What is your lens about. Let's say you want to write about "how to make money with affiliate marketing". Your squidoo lens could be "www.squidoo.com/affiliate marketing to make money". Note: If your chosen URL is already being used by another lensmaster, you will have to use a different version. Don't trash the name entirely; use dashes or combine the words into a phrase.
Lens Title: What are you writing about? Remember, squidoo lens are for specific topics. How about, "Affiliate Marketing:How To Find Products With High Payouts".
Intro Text: This consist of the Lens Intro Title, Table of Content and Discovery
Tool. Under the Intro Title you will again use a title to tie in with your lens title and your URL. "Affiliate Marketing:Legitimate Products With High Payouts", sounds good. Also under the Intro Title is the description portion. Tell your readers what your lens is about. You'll find that you can upload a photo under this module. The Table of Content is the list of your list modules used. These modules include but is not all, the text module title, Flickr Photos, Feedback, and Amazon. The Discovery Tool gives you a choice of accepting or denying traffic from other squidoo lens.
Text/Write Module: Give your module a title. Reminder: use keywords that are relevant to your Lens Intro Title, Lens Title and your URL. One short line is the rule for the text title. Let's try, "Affiliate Marketing:High Payout Products". Every good title needs a subtitle. Well, you could use "Affiliate Marketing:High Clickbank Payout Products". In your body text, discuss your topic in detail. Are you giving a solution to a problem, providing information, or even giving a product review? It's all up to you. You can upload images into your text/write module.
A basic idea of what squidoo is and what it can do is what you have. You will love the photo and image features included. The hardest part I've had so far is uploading a photo for my bio. Keywords for my titles were also difficult. I guess everything can't be easy. In Part II, I'll explain the other squidoo goodies. Meanwhile, start a Squidoo Lens Today.
