Free Report How to Set up a Squidoo Lens for Maximum Profit
For Dr. Mani’s Tweetathon the 12th September 2008 I wrote a report about Squidoo as a donation.
I decided to give away the report which is called: “How to Set Up a Squidoo Lens for Maximum Profit”, it is a step-by-step tutorial on how to choose a product to sell, format order your lens’ modules and drive traffic to your Squidoo lens.
… and for those who know me I am delighted to tell you at the report is proofread by JudyO , who is an American and knows her English :-).
The content:
? Choose a Product to Sell
? Get Organized
? Register Your Lens
? Add modules in the correct order
? Add text, links, tags and pictures
? Drive traffic to your lens
? Bonus: Create a lens cloud
The tip I give on page 10 “Add Content, Links and Tags” is outdated Squidoo removed the “tag pages” like squidoo.com/tags/YOURKEYWORD, so please discard that suggestion.
Downlink: squidoomagic.com/reports/squidootweetathon.pdf.zip
As usual if you have any question or just want to say hello, do so in the comments area or use my contact form at: squidoomagic.com/contact/
Enjoy!
Please accept a free gift for visiting my blog Get graphic for your Squidoo lens. Thanks for visiting - I hope you come back often and discuss Squidoo with me.
10 Fast Squidoo Tips
During dr. Mani’s Tweet-a-Thon, at http://twitter.com I did a mini tweet-a-thon, 4 hours only (and not 24 hours as dr. Mani did), I posted every 30 minutes with a Squidoo tip and a link to how to donate to Childrens Heart Foundation.
If you are not familiar with Twitter.com then I need to tell you that you are only allowed to use 140 characters per post. So the tips are short. If you have any questions to the tips, do ask me at squidoomagic.com/contact.
Squidoo Tip #1 , Your guest book module should be the last, when a visitor has signed it they tend to leave.
Squidoo Tip 2 Add your RSS feed right after the intro module, you will get visitors, it is tested and proved.
Squidoo Tip 3 How to Get Rid of the Glam ads Click for link to my article at Squidoomagic.com
Squidoo Tip 4: Go to squidutils.com/ for all kind of lensmaster tools, optimize your lens, Amazon & eBay widgets.
In between tip: Email This Page to a Friend badge tinyurl.com/3wvu9o
Squidoo Tip 5: Add 3 of your own lenses to Explore Related Lenses tinyurl.com/52v77d
Squidoo tip 6: use unique graphic for your lenses I have created some using Squidoo colours squidoomagic.com/reports/Graphics.zip
Squidoo tip 7:to get traffic, go to answers.yahoo.com/ answer questions add your link in the source box but don’t spam!
Squidoo Tip 8: Make a list, ppl love lists or a simple step by step tutorial with links back to your product
Squidoo Tip 9: Add a bio photo and text so your visitor can see who you are. Gives you more clickouts.
Squidoo Tip 10: Add a yellow sticker or speech bubble with a link to your offer right after the intro module but not both.
I hope these tips gave you an idea or two to improve the amount of your visitors.
Again and as always do contact me if you have any questions at squidoomagic.com/contact I usual answer within 24 hours.
Enjoy!
My Squidoo Report and How to Get it.
Yah, I have finished my report about how to set up your Squidoo lens for maximum profit.
It is short and to the point with several screen shots, a step-by-step tutorial.
As bonus I talk a bit about lens clouds.
I have not decided for a price yet but gave the report to dr. Mani as content for him to use during his Tweet-a-Thon - tomorrow the 12th of September - 24 hours. It is for a very special and good cause.
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Support Dr.Mani’s Heart Kids Tweet-a-thon Help A Child With Heart Birth Defects September 12th, 2008 — My friend Dr.Mani is a heart surgeon who innovatively uses Internet marketing to help kids born with heart defects. On September 12th, in a very special event called the Heart Kids Tweet-a-thon, he is blogging non-stop for 24 hours to raise funds for his ‘heart kids’. And this year, he’s setting his sights high Dr.Mani plans to raise $30,000 in a day to fund lifesaving heart surgery for 12 children. But to make it happen, we need YOUR help! He’s got some very practical plans worked out - check them out here. Be a part of this great project, if you can. Also, don’t forget to drop by and encourage him on the big day! Make sure you visit the Heart Kids Tweet-a-thon on September 12th, 2008 - the URL is http://www.Twitter.com/tweet_a_thon ABOUT THE EVENT
Be there. Tell a friend. Sponsor the event. Make a donation. We need your help. |
Questions about Squidoo?
If you have questions about Squidoo I am pretty sure you will find the answer at TheSquidoo Answer Deck
You will find “Most Asked Questions”, free and usefull Squidoo eBooks, forums as well as tons of questions all answered.
This means that I will not longer do “How To” posts on this blog.
You are will still welcome to ask me questions about Squidoo at squidoomagic.com/contact/
I will focus on how to set up Squidoo lenses for maximum profit and how to drive traffic to your lenses.
A Squidoo it Yourself Way to Making Money Online
In these days of prices going up, and house values going down, we’re all looking to make a little extra money from somewhere. There are only so many hours in the day that you can work, so why not find something that will give you a residual income?
It sounds nice doesn’t it? Residual income - money coming in indefinitely for work you’ve already done. Well, not only does it sound nice, it’s entirely possible to do - people are doing it right at this very moment, and very soon you could be one of them!
One of the quickest and easiest ways to get started online is to sign up with one of the big Web 2.0 platforms, like Squidoo, and here’s a huge perk - it’s free! Web 2.0 sites are currently leading the way when it comes to getting yourself indexed by the top search engines, and the quicker and higher you rank, the faster you’ll get potential buyers coming to your page.
What you’ll want to have on your web page, which Squidoo calls a lens, are at least three short articles that relate back to whatever product you want to promote. The content is the key to your success. It doesn’t have to be prefect, but it should have some of the keywords that people will be searching for when they look for the kind of thing you’ll be promoting.
Also you’ll want to find keywords that aren’t too competitive. You’ve got a far better chance of ranking well for a longer keyword phrase with little competition than with a short key word phrase with a lot of competition. However, you’ll still want the keywords to be as relevant as possible to your articles or you’ll drive traffic there and they’ll leave again just as quickly.
Once you have your lens up and running, which shouldn’t take too long, you’ll want to link back to the product you’re promoting. The product may be something that you own yourself and sell from a dedicated website, or it might be an affiliate product.
If you don’t have a product of your own, don’t worry. You can link to an affiliate product without fear of repercussion by the Squidoo staff. What you should do is check out a site that offers downloadable products, like ClickBank, sign up for a free account, and then find a suitable product to promote.
Another thing worth noting is that you can make anything up to 75% commissions on products sold through ClickBank, so, for a little time and effort on research and setting up your free lens, you could be pulling in $30-$60 or more for each person going on to buy the product!
If you want to make some additional money, or just don’t have the time at the moment to search for a product to add and promote, you can always take the option of letting Squidoo place ads on your lens and you then take a cut of the money generated from them.
In the case of the Google AdSense advertisements, you won’t really have any say on what’s shown, other than by making your content as focused on one subject as possible, but you can have a say on other ads placed on your lens.
Squidoo offers you a number of commercial modules that you can drop into your lens. Those modules are usually specific to one company or another like the Amazon.com module, eBay module, Netflix module, etc. And you have flexibility as to what each of the modules will display for your readers.
You’ll also get paid if you act as a Squidoo affiliate and get people to join for free. Squidoo will take a percentage of any money that’s generated through AdSense or the modules. When it comes to AdSense, they’ll take 45%, give 5% to charity and the other 50% is distributed around the Squidoo members, which is great if nobody has clicked on any of your AdSense ads because you make money from other peoples’ AdSense ads.
The split is the same for the modules, but since you’ve put the work into providing the content that’s got the people there in the first place, you get to keep 50% of those sales. This is when the affiliate section kicks in, because this will be classed as a member making residual money from Squidoo, and once the people you refer start making money in that way, Squidoo rewards you for getting them to sign up.
So, whether you have a product or not, you can get yourself online for free and start making an income. Once you’ve got the taste for it, you’ll start building a Web 2.0 empire and marketing anything and everything to those people who don’t yet realise they need what you’re going to sell them!
Learn more money making secrets about Squidoo at http://www.SocialMarketing101.com today!
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How to Add a Video to Your Squidoo Lens
Here is another post in the How To department . We start with a video from Youtube.
Go to Youtube.com and select the video you want to add to your Squidoo lens
The URL will look like: youtube.com/watch?v=MUBlAqTEwFs
copy the last letters (on a PC: right click and choose copy or right click and click CTRL + C buttons)
Then Log in to your Squidoo account:
Click the tab “My Lenses” then hover your mouse over the lens you want to add the video and click “Edit”.
Shown below:
Click on the “Add Modules” button
You will land on the page with basic modules;
Click on the text “Next”
On the next page click “YouTube vids”
Your module is now added as the last module on your lens, this is by default. If you don’t want to have your video there you have to move the module up.
It is done by clicking the button “Preview Lens Layout”, the page expands and you can drag and drop your modules where ever you want them. Click Save
Next you scroll down to your video module:
Click on Edit
This where you give your module a title (important to change the default text for both your visitors as well as the search engines). Also a subtitle if you like and a description.
Then you click on the tab “Select Your Videos”
and tick “Let me Pick”.
Next: “Enter YouTube Video url”, paste the YouTube url you copied earlier. On a PC either right click and chose paste or click CTRL + V buttons.
Click Save and you are done 
If you like this little tutorial please stumble, digg or social bookmark this page, thank you.
As always if you have any questions just ask me, either in the comments or using my form on my about page:
Social Media in Plain English
This video is from commoncraft.com/show - it explains how social media works in plain English, which is useful for getting traffic to your Squidoo lenses.
Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.
Enjoy!
How to Add Adsense to Your Squidoo Lens
… is a question I have been asked more than once.
… is a question I have been asked more than once.The answer is you don’t , you cannot - Squidoo adds Adsense and other ads.
Adsense revenue is calculated like this:
All revenue is dropped in one big pool.
45% is subtracted for Squidoo operations, 5% goes to Squidoo charity.
That leaves 50% in the pool for lensmasters (owners of lenses).
That pool is then divided according to an algoritme.
If you want a more comprehensive explanation go to “Your Lens - Your Money”
As always ask me if you have a Squidoo or blog related question.
Excellent Reasons Why You Should Use Squidoo
In this video Bob the Teacher explains why Squidoo is a must use Web 2.0 tool to get more traffic and grow your business on the internet fast. Online social marketing just got easier with Squidoo Secrets 2.0.
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Not Show Adsense on Your Squidoo Lens
… and other ads.
Questions I have been asked over and over again are “how do I get rid of Adsense on my lenses” or am I getting paid every time somebody clicks on Adsense on my lens, what is the % I get paid in royalties?
Before I start let me say you cannot get 100% rid of ads on your Squidoo lens, the minimum advertising you can have is Adsense on top and bottom like here Squidoo.com/efttapping/
The reason is that AdSense is how Squidoo pays the bills and why we all get to use the service for free.
Let me explain how Squidoo has chosen to work with ads.
Adsense: 100% of all Adsense goes into a pool, 5% will go the Squidoo Charity Fund 45% to run Squidoo and 50% will be divided according to a payrank algorithm to all the lensmasters.
Glam ads: (the big animated ads), can be removed when you max your lens as well as give 100% of your royalties to Squidoo.
Amazon: To use your own ID, a nice online software to get the code is Squidutils.
I hope this cleared up the questions about Squidoo’s advertising.
As always you are welcome to ask me any question you may have about Squidoo, use the comment section or squidoomagic.com/contact/ (my contact form).
Enjoy!
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