By this I mean say a site called goodreview.com with sub domains reviewing products or even one website devoted to a single product. I am starting to see that if you are serious about making money long term you need to get yourself a website and not soley rely on squidoo pages
You pretty much answered your question yourself. If you're looking for long to development I highly recommend you get yourself hooked up with a site, if you're willing to spend the time to learn HTML/PHP/CSS then go for it if not hit up somewhere like elance.com to get your self a web developer. However, that said you still can make some money from squidoo and other web 2.0 platforms if you aren't ready to invest some money into a website yet. One key thing to remember is the niche you're entering. Do not create a one domain review site and fill it with loads of different products, this is definitely not the way to go. If you want to create some sustainable income online from one site make it an authority site with quality content, a mailing list, product reviews and other stuff like that. In the short time it might not convert that great, but when you build up traffic and get good SERP's it can be a gold mine.
I have made about $60 in the last few weeks with ezine and squidoo (no site for myself). I have since switched over to Blogger.com, and then switched again to my own domains. I will let everyone know how it goes, but so far I only have 1 of my 3 sites set up.
Right, I think the method of approaching a squidoo page puts me off and no matter what, it still doesn't feel like it is professional enough. It could be that the content I am putting up is poor but I just know from my own mind when I see: somesite.com/something-something-something and it has ads all over when I look at the page, I wont be buying anything from there. Where as a site called: something.com/something that has no ads and other "clutter" is much more appealing. I am not saying it does not work I am just talking about moral
All my articles, Squidoo pages and all the rest always point back to a website. That way I can grow the SEO profile of my own site over time as well as getting the faster rankings from the "Web 2.0" sites. Having your own website is pretty much key to making big money I think.
made 6 sales with squidoo and article marketing (worth $383) in one month and then decided it would be better to go with a website. Website works best, believe me if you're experimenting something then go for squidoo and stuff. If you really want to be known as credible to your visitors then it is best to put up a website and make more sales. That way you'll be recognized for many more years to come (that's what is expected and required). Good luck.
Squidoo is great for increasing traffic to your site. You can get a site really easily. Sign up with freewebs.com. You can upgrade to your own domain name for a very reasonable price.
The danger with squidoo is that you get traffic, but they can easily "leak" and click on adsense or something similar, not making you anything like what you would from a clickbank sale. With your own site YOU control what they see and what they can click on. It has to be the way to go and it is a very low cost in the scheme of things.
If a Squidoo lens is well focused on it's topic, it should be able to make a reasonable number of sales of ClickBank products*. The key is to write about just one or two products, with a review or customer testimonial. *This does depend on how much competition there is - do your keyword research first! Then build up the authority of the lens, by joining relevant groups and getting backlinks from other websites.