How to Generate Income With Squidoo

Squidoo is a free site to build mini webpages, called "lenses," about the things you love. The best part about Squidoo is that it can also generate income for you or revenue for your favorite charity. There are a few things to do to maximize income on your Squidoo lens. Use these steps and tips to get the most income from your new web presence.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• Internet connection
• Squidoo lens
• Time to update regularly

1. Sign in to Squidoo and review "My Lenses Dashboard" to make sure everything is entered correctly.
2. Choose the "Max this Lens" option next to each of your lenses listed on "My Lens Dashboard". The "Maxed Out" lens can always be returned to its original state by "Un-Maxing" it. "Max this Lens" puts all of Squidoo's marketing knowledge to work building traffic and revenue for the lens (though most of this happens behind the scene).
3. Make the lens personal. Write relevant Biography and Introduction modules. Provide pictures when possible. Create original titles for modules instead of using the Squidoo defaults.
4. Provide quality, relevant content. Readers come to your lens looking for something. Make sure they find it. Have at least 4 content modules, not including Introduction and Biography.
5. Add commercial, revenue generating modules (like Amazon) between your content modules. If you have products on eBay or CafePress, set up your commercial modules to link to them. Always select relevant products that relate as directly as possible to your lens content.
6. Spread the word on social bookmarking sites like Technorati, Del.icio.us, and Digg. Link and promote the lens on your other sites and blogs. Take advantage of Squidoo's affiliate and referral programs to drive more even more traffic to your lens.
7. Master the tags. Keywords and phrases should be targeted and relevant. Squidoo allows no more than 40 tags, so use them wisely. Also, consider using common misspellings and typos in the tag list if appropriate.
   

Tips & Warnings

• When creating content, focus on helping readers find relevant things on your lens to buy.
• Make sure you've covered all the basics by reviewing the material at SquidU, Squidoo's Online "University".
• Make the lens interactive by adding a "Poll" module with questions to which readers will relate.
• Avoid using tags that don't relate to your lens's content or your lens could be flagged as having "tag spam" and could be removed.