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Squidoo Lenses – How To Pick Your Name

By Riley West in Featured

Squidoo was a term from the 20′ and 30′s I think, and it was a slang phrase for “Get out while the gettin’s good.” Nope… that’s 23 skidoo! My mistake.

So then I looked it up in Wikipedia and this is their words exactly… “Squidoo is a community website that allows users to create pages (called lenses) for subjects of interest. Squidoo is in the top 500 most visited sites in the world, and in the top 300 most viewed in the United States.[1] Squidoo grew 91% in 2008, and had 900,000 handbuilt lenses as of February 1st, 2009.

Wow! 900,000 websites! Just on Squidoo! It boggles the mind.

But here is how it can work for you. This coming from the perspective of an online marketer AND a traffic hog. The more the better…almost, but I’d rather have good quality traffic than just big traffic.

First, when you get to Squidoo, you get a domain name AND a website hosted at that URL. Squids, who are just people who use Squidoo, refer to their their websites as “lenses.” Maybe it comes from being able to view a slice of the world through one of their lenses.

But a FREE domain name and website! And they make it easy.

That clears up a big hurdle that folks who want to earn money online face in the beginning.

One method by which small online marketers get the right people to their sites is by selecting a keyword that they can rank for. The keyword also has to be highly relevant to the content of their site.

So, say you had a good supplier of umbrellas and you wanted to make some affiliate sales for them.

You need a keyword that will let you into the market.

I checked “umbrellas” as a keyword except that the word is too broad and will have high competition and low quality of traffic.

I went to Google this is what I typed in… site: squidoo “umbrellas” and got Results 1 – 9 of about 11,700 for site: squidoo “umbrellas”. Way too broad! Plus I can’t compete! Good grief! There are 11,000 “umbrella” squidoo competitors. Give or take a thousand.

Why is that so important? Well, it’s more important than it would be if you had a free standing, self hosted site simply because Google will only show ONE Squidoo result most times and occasionally two on a page of ten search results.

So I went to Google this is what I typed in… site: squidoo “rain umbrellas” and got Results 1 – 10 of about 101 for site: squidoo “rain umbrellas”. Wow!

That’s a fine example of a “low competition” keyword. That’s just may way of saying not too much competition.

Now, go get a Squidoo site with rain-umbrellas first in the domain name and you are ready to to go. IF you have an umbrella supplier.

Now, go ahead and fill your site with all things rain umbrellas and do what it takes to get indexed by Google. This is imprtant because if you are not indexed Google WON”T show your site!

So what does all this show us?

It shows you where to get a website and domain name free.

It shows you how to pick a Squidoo lens domain name so that you will have a really good shot at Google showing YOUR offer up on Page One.

Page One on Google translates into traffic.

I think you can take it from here fairly easily.

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Riley West – Squidoo Lenses can easily get traffic to your offers! And it’s quality traffic too. Use the information in this article AND in the FREE EBOOK at Make Money With Squidoo. Start now, get some commissions coming in. You can do this!

Affiliate Marketing – 5 Reasons To Use Squidoo

By Riley West in Featured

An affiliate marketer has to have certain things. I consider it very important to have a web page where you can put your offers and content.

Then you can just get down to driving traffic to your site, making sales, and earning money.

Still, the beginning affiliate marketer and perhaps even some intermediates, would like it to be low priced and more straightforward than the typical setup.

Take as an example the mass of web pages called Squidoo.

It’s really just another website except for it’s size and variety of content. It’s VERY well known at Google.

By the end of 2009 there were nearly a million individual pages on this huge website and those pages are called “lenses” by the “Squids.”

Here are 5 good reasons to use Squidoo as an affiliate marketer.

The first reason is your cost for the hosting space. It’s zero.

The second reason is the cost of registering a domain name. It’s zero too!

Squidoo loks good because it’s practically effortless, AND it’s very low cost, especially when compared to the typical cost of hosting and domain at about $100 to $130 per year.

That doesn’t sound like much, and it isn’t if your site is making money or if you just have plenty of it. But for affiliates who are just starting and a lot of intermediates too, it’s just perfect.

The third reason, and one of big importance to affiliates, is that it is relatively easy to get indexed by Google for your lens. Really it’s a web page. But Google seems to like them.

If you pick your domain name with a keyword relevant to your sites content, that you can easily rank for, and you put it at the beginning of your domain name, you will be on your way to good rankings.

Doing a good job optimizing your page (lens) for your relevant keyword, is the best way to get your site to come up on the search results page in Google. And Page One of Google for almost ANY keyword will result in some good traffic.

The fourth reason to use Squidoo is that there is on site help. There is lots of assistance.

This would have really helped me when I was getting started because it seemed like, for me, everything new wasn’t just new…it seemed wierd…alien even. I didn’t “get it.”

Squdoo helps you in a dozen ways and you can see for yourself by just going there and looking around.

In addition, there is a forum where you can go and ask questions and get answers. And maybe later you will even answer some questions.

The fifth reason to use these pages (lenses) is because they work!

By work I mean that you can make them look like a great web page. You can also set them up to get a good bit of traffic. And you can sell directly from them.

If you’d like a landing page, this is it!

And that’s not all. You will learn a lot!

Many of the stumbling blocks a typical newcomer or even intermediate affiliate marketer will run into are completely eliminated by this alternative. The first reason that comes to mind is the FREE domain name and hosting.

Go there, join up and start your first lens. Start fooling around with it. Learn how to do a few of the things you need to get a halfway decent site up. There’ll be plenty of help if you get stuck.

In a couple to three weeks you could have an affiliate site up, indexed, and getting traffic, and making sales.

Watch out because IF you do this, the next thing that will happen is that you will get a sale. A sale that didn’t cost you anything but your time and effort.

Only now you’ll know how to repeat it and increase your income.

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For a couple of years now, Riley West has been putting out the idea of Simplified Affiliate Marketing, and he intends to continue. The formula is Webpage + Offer + Traffic = Sales. See this explained at Targeted Traffic , and, while you are there, don’t miss out on the sure-fire, simplified affiliate marketing plan at One Week Marketing.

How to Use Squidoo

By Daniel Gebura in Featured

Squidoo is a free social network that allows people to share their interests, hobbies and passion through the lenses that are free websites every Squidoo member can easily create.

The attractive thing about Squidoo is that it’s completely free to be in and everyone can spread the word about anything he wants using free websites. That’s why thousands of people from all over the world gathered around Squidoo to make the most of it.

So if you’ve never tried Squidoo lenses before now it’s time to do so.

If you are new to this network you will notice that most of people use it to promote various products and to make money from it. This is the most common trend noticeable on Squidoo. Why?

Because Squidoo lenses are perfectly designed to pull in profit from them. They can be easily monetized so you can create a lens about your hobby and occasionally promote some products related to it, in order to generate some sales and make some extra money. Also Squidoo share a monthly revenue between all members, so this way you can easily make some extra cash by creating lenses frequently as well.

So how the perfect lens should look like?

Well there are good lenses and bad lenses. Some Squidoo members create lenses for nothing more than just for selling some products by building a lens on links, banners, pictures and price lists. This is understandable, however it might give completely opposite effect resulting in no sales at all. See, people don’t like to be sold straight away and firing at them with nothing more than sales offers will rather discourage them from purchase.

Good lens requires one more really important thing which is content.

By building your lens on valuable content you will be able to engage visitor who will be glad to find your lens informative and will be more likely to see what you offer in result.

The content for your lens can be easily created in the form of article. So if you have a product to promote you can first write a good quality review of this product, presenting to the visitor the value of it and what kind of problem it can solve. As you know people usually seek for information and they look for solution for particular problems they may have. By giving to the visitor a clear understanding of how your product can help him and placing the links and banners to it after review will move you one step closer to generate a sale from your lens.

Engaging reader with valuable article or review of the product will make him appreciate your knowledge and believe in the value of your offer in result.

So it’s simple as that.

When you apply this principle to your Squidoo lens marketing you will be half way through to success. Another half is spreading the word about your lens. And here is another advantage of Squidoo lenses. They are often indexed by search engines, which means that your lens if constructed properly will drive you free good quality traffic from search engines like Google or Yahoo.

For the purpose of indexing you should insert particular keywords into your lenses. Also you should backlink to your lens from other websites to increase it’s search engines rankings. Another method of spreading the word about your lenses is joining Squidoo groups related to the subject of your lens.

So Squidoo lenses are great and effective way to not only share your passion but also to make money out of it. Always remember that one good quality lens including some valuable content will do much more for you that another one aggressively pitching your business or product.

Daniel Gebura is an experienced network marketer who helps ordinary people build a successful home business. Visit Daniel’s Legitimate Work At Home Jobs website for the best home based business ideas and opportunities.

How Writing Articles Online can Help beat the Credit Crunch

By Peter Nisbet in Featured

Times are not easy, and writing articles online can help you get through this difficult period. The credit crunch is affecting just about everybody right now, and there is a way to use articles other than in traditional article marketing. Not that there is anything wrong with article marketing, but it takes time to make money from it since it is a longer term process, designed to enable you to make best use of a website or other online presence.

That might be a blog or even a Squidoo lens, and article marketing can be used to promote these so that you get better listings on search engines – if you know how, that its. It does not, however, give you the immediate injection of cash that you need. To do that by writing articles, you have to sell the articles. You have to make money from them directly, not use them to promote a website that in turn is promoting another product.

If you have a reasonable grasp of the English language, then there is no reason why you cannot make money online through article writing. Article ghost writers charge from $10 to $50 for each article they write, and can make lot of money. If you write just 8 articles at 700 words for $15 each that earns you $120 daily. Work for just 20 days each month and you are earning a total of £2400 extra every month. You can write a 700 word article easily in under 30 minutes, so that is only 4 hours work each day.

Start after your evening email, write for 4 hours, and you won’t have to worry about any credit crunch – $2400 will see to that. And guess what! You can use some of that money to buy yourself into some pretty good online earners that only those with a good cash flow can afford to pursue. There are several online money-making programs that need an initial joining fee, and then a monthly membership thereafter.

Or just spend it on whatever catches your eye. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it, yet it is entirely achievable. First you must learn how to write articles. If you are good at English it will give you a head start, but you still won’t be able to just start writing articles for money, because there are certain techniques that must be used to optimize the articles for the search engines, and you will have to learn how to use keywords properly.

You will also have to learn what Google means by terms such as LSI (latent semantic indexing) and duplicate content – really means, not just the opinion you might have read online. Many people have no idea what Google is referring to by these terms, yet they think that they do. There is no place for opinion when you are writing for somebody else, and you have to learn all that you can about such terms. It’s not difficult, but you need the right teacher.

Some people think that article ghostwriting is an easy job, and get very surprised when their customers refuse the articles they have written. That is because they haven’t learned all they could about writing articles for people to use online. There is also a big difference between articles written as website content and written for article directory submission. They have to be written in different ways, and that has to be learned. You should be looking for an online writing course, and there are free short courses available if you know where to look.

However, once learned then you will never be short of money again because when you need a few extra dollars just advertise your services, start up a website or register with Elance for work. The best way, however, is to get a blog going, or a Squidoo lens. These are free of charge and once you get a good number of visitors or followers, you will always find somebody wanting to hire your services.

The number of people seeking ghostwriters for writing articles to promote their website is growing by the day, and the credit squeeze and difficult financial situation have resulted in an increasing number of people trying make their fortunes online, and to do so they have to promote their websites. Article marketing is the best way to do that.

So, whether you are a budding writer wanting to make a few dollars or have a product to sell that you have to promote, it is important that you learn about article marketing and about writing articles online for use either as website content or to submit to directories to attract traffic to your site.

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You have found out what you should be doing, but what next? One of the best ways top learn how to write articles is from a good teacher. Pete is a professional article ghostwriter and his book Article Czar teaches you all you need to know to make money online through writing articles. Pete writes from his website Article Services which is also worth a visit.

An Internet Marketer’s Guide To Squidoo.com

By David Hurley in Featured

Squidoo.com was set up by permission-marketing guru Seth Godin. It is a website that makes it easy for anybody to create web pages (called lenses) on any topic of interest to that person.

The lenses can be about anything, such as ideas, fashions, people, places, sports, hobbies, pets, products, religion, philosophy, politics, and of course, business. People who generate lenses are known as lensmasters.

The main purpose of a Squidoo lens is to recommend, advise and point to more detailed content elsewhere on the web. You might think of Squidoo.com as a huge user-generated network or directory. It has the feel of a dynamic online community.

Lenses are easy to create and can be made in as little as ten minutes, so it is possible for anybody, even people with no prior knowledge of building websites, to make a lens. Squidoo gives you a quick and easy outlet to communicate your passion to the world. You can also add youtube videos, eBay auctions, Amazon books, surveys, RSS feeds and a whole lot more to your lens, all without having to leave the site.

Squidoo is also a great tool for Internet marketers and offers several benefits to them, all free of charge. Here are just a few of the benefits of making lenses for Internet marketers.

One of the key characteristics of making lenses is that you are free to promote your own website on them by posting links to it. Squidoo is popular with the search engines, so you can easily improve your overall ranking by making a series of lenses and pointing each one to a specific page of your website.

Because lenses are also indexed by the search engines, the more lenses you make the higher your personal Squidoo page will rise in the rankings, especially if you learn to keyword-optimize your lenses.

Squidoo has a very permissive attitude indeed towards online marketing, so you can use it to boost your website traffic by adding website links. You can also link directly to your affiliate marketing programs.

As I mentioned, Squidoo allows you to post items from Ebay and Amazon on your lenses. Each time someone buys something via your link you will earn royalties.

Visitors to your lens can also post comments and links to your lens if you wish, and they can also give your lens a rating of between 1 and 5 stars.

One more useful interactive feature is the option of setting up a poll to survey your visitors. Setting up a poll can be done in just a few simple steps; again, no technical knowledge is required.

These interactive features which allow visitors to contribute their comments to your lens are very useful as they help to boost your lenses ranking within Squidoo and ultimately with the search engines out on the wider Internet as well.

Squidoo is great fun to use and a free and easy way to get some extra publicity for you business and maybe even make it some more money!

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David Hurley is an Internet marketer based in Hiroshima, Japan. His website focuses on Internet marketing success strategies for affiliate marketing programs. Click the link to find out more about how to make money on Squidoo with your affiliate programs.

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