Making Money Ideas for your Internet Businesses with Squidoo

Posted by Paul Hemmant on April 17, 2010 under Home Based Business | Be the First to Comment

Due to the authority and popularity of Squidoo on the web, internet businesses are utilizing the site’s power for their own benefits. Squidoo is a publishing platform which allows you to make mini one page sites (lenses) for free. If constructed properly, Google often displays these lenses on the first few pages for low to moderately competitive keywords.
This platform offers amazing functionalities, with everything from EBay auctions, YouTube videos, Amazon affiliate programs, poll modules and everything in between. You can earn money by monetizing your page or giving away your earnings to charity. You can also use Squidoo to send links to your main website. Because these lenses are indexed fairly quickly, marketers use them as pre-sales pages to lead prospects to their websites.
Learn the Language
If you are new to internet marketing, Squidoo is an excellent resource for learning the “ins and outs” of the industry. You will learn basic HTML and affiliate marketing, and how to interact with an online community. Squidoo offers many tutorials and a forum which includes knowledgeable lensmasters who are willing to help with any issues that may arise.
Search Engine Optimization
When constructing lenses for your internet businesses, keep your search engine optimization principles in mind. Practice building one page websites with a specific subject matter. Stay focused on one area or your lens will confuse your visitors and the search engines. Create a keyword specific domain and optimize module titles and content to reflect your keyphrases. Add appropriate tags so interested visitors will find you in the Squidoo community. Create a bio and add a photo of yourself. The default image and bio will turn your visitors off and they will not click on your links.
Another great strategy is to develop a few lenses with the same topic but slightly different subject matters. Link them together in a chain link fashion with Lens #1 linking to Lens #2 and Lens #3 to #4 and so on. The last lens can link back to Lens #1 creating a mini website effect.
Build Community
Squidoo has a large community of lensmasters who visit each other’s lenses, rate them and comment. Visit other lenses in your industry and encourage interaction. Rate and comment on theirs as well and they will return the favor. Communicate with others in the forum and offer help when needed.
Squidoo represents a great platform to enhance or introduce your internet businesses. Spend some time researching the site and getting familiar with its network of users. Offer value with each lens, optimize and promote them effectively and see a steady increase of traffic to your website.