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The Start of Something Beautiful: Squidoo Challenge

October 16th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve gone Squidoo crazy.  I love making lenses and I love to challenge myself.  So I’m combining the two and starting a Squidoo Challenge.
Starting the Squidoo Challenge
Starting today, I am now taking the Squidoo Challenge.  What will the challenge be?  To see how much money I can make from my lenses on Squidoo.  The Squidoo Challenge [...]

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How You Earn Money From Squidoo

October 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Squidoo, a site where users create “lenses” about any topic they want. A “lens” is a web page a user can fill with information and links related to any topic they choose. 
How You Earn Money From Squidoo 
Squidoo makes it easy for you to fill lenses with affiliate links to items on Amazon, eBay, and from other stores. When someone buys [...]

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Using Squidoo To Increase Your Web Site Traffic.

October 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Squidoo is a composed of a bunch of user created single pages that are called “lenses.”  Squidoo users create lenses about whatever they want.  Lenses are meant to display the user’s point of view or recommendations to certain products or content on the world wide web.
When creating a lens Squidoo gives you a bunch of ”modules” [...]

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Squidoo Tip: Squidoo Your Passions

August 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

I have found that it is much more satisfying and easy for me to make a Squidoo lens about a passion or interest of mine.
Why should you Squidoo about your passions?
1. You’ll make better lenses.
Who do you think would do a better job at making a lens about baseball?  A baseball fanatic or just an [...]

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Squidoo Tip: Content Is King

August 21st, 2007 · No Comments

In the land of the internet, content is king.  You could have a great lens with not much content on it, but without much content, it will be harder for you to get more visitors to it.
Why is content so important? Because it is an important factor in getting more traffic from search engines.  When a search [...]

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Benefits of Creating Lenses on Squidoo

August 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Squidoo is a site where people create pages called lenses about a topic such as an interest, passion, hobby, etc.  On a lens you can add ebay items, amazon items, and products from other merchants.  You can make money from revenue Squidoo earned from your lens.  Squidoo gives you a nice percentage. 
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Squidoo Tip: Put relevant keywords in your title and URL

August 19th, 2007 · No Comments

When a person preforms a search on a search engine, the search engine will try to find the most relevant website.  The search engine will search the web for sites containing the keywords that the user typed into the search box.
With that concept in mind, it is a good idea to place yourself in the [...]

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