How to Make Money Online with Squidoo Lenses

Squidoo has had its growing pains in the past year or so but is still one of the best free ways to make money - for beginners as well as seasoned marketers. And you do not even need a blog or website of your own! There are people making money online full time just by using Squidoo. That´s how powerful Squidoo is.

To be able to make money online with Squidoo you first need to understand some of its qualities. Squidoo is a one page site that is easily monetized just by the way it is designed. Google has always been very fond of Squidoo - and Squidoo tries everything it can to maintain its favor with Google. Because Squidoo ran in a bit of trouble with Google about a year and a half ago a lot of marketers started to leave the site. But now things are running smoothly again and the guys at Squidoo have been optimizing the ability to make money online for their loyal as well as new contributors.

The best way to make money from Squidoo is by making sure that you have fully optimized keyword rich modules. Squidoo now has no-follow tags from Google, therefore your keywords are determined by the content provided. The tags however still produce value to the inner workings of Squidoo - so do not avoid them altogether. Squidoo members can help you with your rankings and backlinks within the site itself. And your „lenses“ (that´s what articcles on the site are called) are found by the tags you choose.

Squidoo runs its own AdSense ads and you are supposed to receive a percentage of the money they make off the clicks. This kind of compensation is widely used among so-called “write-and-earn” sites. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you how high that percentage is. But I do know that it isn’t much - so I don’t even worry about it.

The best way to make money on Squidoo is by either using their monetizing modules or by using your own methods of monetizing your content. For instance, there are a couple of modules like eBay and Amazon that you are supposedly great money-makers. However, the successful marketers do not use their modules for them.

If you are an eBay or Amazon affiliate or partner you can place you own affiliate sources within and around the content you create, thereby receiving a greater percentage of the money earned.

This is what an eBay affiliate ad looks like when inserted into Squidoo:

This will allow you to make money online from eBay for full affiliate pay instead of having to share with Squidoo.

The same holds true for Amazon. Instead of only earning a portion of the money from Amazon by using Squidoo’s Amazon Module you will earn the full commission. Here is another example:

The more of these individual ads you run the more opportunity you will have to earn money.

As I have already stated, Squidoo runs the AdSense Ads and you really do not make money online from these ads, but now Clickbank offers their own ads that you can make money with. These are called HopAds. Go to Clickbank and look for the HopAd Builder.Using it, you can build text ads or tabbed ads.

This is an example of text ads:

Your affiliate id will be integrated within the code of the Clickbank HopAds.

Squidoo stopped allowing iframes some time ago, but now there is a way to ad your opt-in forms into Squidoo. If you are among those who specialize in email marketing the opt-in form is a huge benefit on Squidoo. If you publish great content you will get a lot of traffic from search engines and inside Squidoo itself. Being able to capture these leads is a plus. Just offer a free upload or free information and you are good to go. Everyone likes free stuff!

Here is an example of an email opt-in form:

If you are interested in finding out how to add an opt-in form on your lens just follow the link. Click the following link if you want to know how to ad Clickbank HopAds. You will have to leave your email address to receive the manual for adding Clickbank HopAds. Neither one of these methods cost any money.

There are a few more things you need to know before you get start your money making career on Squidoo. Because Squidoo is a one page site, you will definitely want to be focusing on those longtail keywords. This will help tremendously with your PageRank in Google. The traffic may not be as high, but you will be getting a more targeted traffic (meaning more visitors who are looking to buy). Also, when thinking Squidoo think products. Services do OK but you will make money online faster if you use Squidoo for products.

If you are using Squidoo for link building keep in mind that not all modules have “do follow” tags. The “do follow” list includes these modules:

Introduction
Text/Write
Poll (remember you can hyperlink your answers!)
Featured Lenses
Text/Link Lists
Text/Link Plexos (although I don’t recommend that you use these because
it’s link leakage)

Squidoo has a wide range of possibilities when it comes to making money online free. Along with the ability to make money with your Squidoo lens you can have unlimited lenses. Most people start out having a lot of lenses on one account which is a big mistake. Fortunately, they give the opportunity to move lenses around to other accounts. This one of the options built into Squidoo itself. If you are seriously interested in making money you should take care not to have too many lenses on a single account.

There is another great money-maker available to you with Squidoo: Lense flipping! You cannot only move lenses around between different accounts - you can also sell lenses. Lens flipping is a lot like site flipping, but way easier. All you need to do is change one lens to a different lens account. Squidoo lenses are selling for hundreds of dollars - and they don’t even have to have high PR. You can build a well optimized lens (or 3, or 10) today and sell them tomorrow. You would be surprised at how easy this is and how much money can be made by selling lenses. This is an easy way to make money online fast. And all for free.

Good luck!

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