What Is Squidoo Lens And How You Can Benefit From It

Squidoo is an online web community which focuses of creating a sense of expertise in anyone and everyone who registers as a Squidoo member. It functions via ‘Lens’ or web pages which specifically focus on a single topic. It helps the ‘Lensmasters’ or Lens owners to promote their Lens via specific tag search within the Squidoo search engine which comprehensively helps and assist visitors in searching for topics directly. Within other search engines such as Google, Squidoo also has high rankings which give Lensmasters the privilege of being listed within the high rank searches.

Squidoo is also a great building ground for online marketing businesses or opportunities as it has an almost endless opportunity in creating revenues for Lensmasters. Basically, Lensmasters are paid a whopping 50% of their advertising and affiliating efforts and where the balance 50% is divided into 5% for charity and 45% to Squidoo. With this interesting revenue system, Lensmasters will earn most of their effort and provide charity as well.

For those keen in increasing their online marketing revenues without much online knowledge, Squidoo provides the perfect beginning ground. It comes with a web page building programs which assist the Lensmasters to create a professional feeling website without the hassle of learning complicated codes such as HTML or CSS codes. It also assists in providing simple hyper linking abilities which allows you to link your affiliates and advertisers easily to the readers for easier referencing. This means that potential customers and buyers for online marketing Lensmasters will be able to find and read about the products in a more fast and clean manner without tiresomely searching through hundreds of topics and links. In a nutshell, it allows customers to reach Lensmasters in a faster manner.

With simple relevant tagging onto a Lens topic, one can specify the targeted group that they need from the Squidoo’s comprehensive search engine, which allows visitors to easily access the Lens once required. With the Web 2.0 compatibility, Lensmasters can create a more fun Lens by linking their lens with sites such as YouTube and MySpace, which also increases their chances for linking onto their affiliation links.

Simplifying the titles and tags within one’s Lens will increase the chance in finding the particular Lens, thus creating a huge opportunity in creating a larger traffic flow, which will then lead to higher chance of having higher revenue.

Finally, potential Lensmasters who plan to create an online marketing opportunity via Squidoo should always keep a few points in mind. First of all, they should make use of Squidoo’s unlimited hyper linking opportunity via the polling functions. By simply linking poll topics such as “what places are the best holiday sites” to potential tourism links, one can simple let the power of human curiosity and the internet do its charm.

With that said, the next point is to remember that ‘there is no free lunch in this world’. Lensmasters should always update their Lens and creating simple, straight-to-the-point topics which will generate traffic towards their Lens.

 

50% of what?

 

Squidoo can't take you 50% of your affiliate commissions.

 

true they can only take your adsense etc revenue

 

Squidoo have amazon and ebay modules as well as others, anything bought through those mods - comissions are shared. You can also add in your own affiliate links which squidoo takes nothing from.

 

Sorry it's supposed to be 50% of the earnings from Google AdSense

 

Squidoo has modules for amazon but I don't see how people can add amazon affiliate links in as amazon links are iframe based and Squidoo doesn't allow any iframe.

 

rofl....is this a joke?

 

There's a tool that does let you embed Amazon Associate links in to your lens:
> www.squidoo.com/amazon-links

 

Man seriously i think its a fair comission, look at things from this prespective:

You're using an extremely well known website, for free, with very good tools, you don't have any hassle with hosting, you get huge amounts of traffic from they're system.

I think 50% it's only a fair trade, if you don't like you can always buy a hosting service and make your own blog

 

Our company tried to increase our rankings by fiddling with Squidoo Lens, but after six months, we've noticed not much of a difference. It could be only our experience, but we discontinued the squidoo efforts.

 

i use it to test out landing page conversion rates before i go all out ppc style

 

Here is a good relevant thread:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1334864
(Who has made the biggest money on Squidoo?)

 

Squidoo takes 45%.....5% goes to Charity....and you get the other 50%. Bummer is you cannot put in your adsense ID. So who really know what you are truly getting.