Build Lenses and Get Paid

Before describing the ways of earning money with Squidoo, let’s talk about what is Squidoo and what are the advantages of joining this community.

Squidoo is a community website launched in 2005 that allows users to create lenses for subjects of interest. Lenses are interactive, and can contain Flickr photos, Google maps, blogs, eBay auctions, YouTube videos, and other links. The launch team consisted of Seth Godin, his book editor Megan Casey, Corey Brown, and Gil Hildebrand, Jr.

You don’t have to be an expert in a certain area to make a lens, nor it’s hard to put up a page like this. A lens can be about any subject, you can write anything about the things you like in particular – a car, a pet, a hobby of yours…etc.

If you still can’t figure out what to write about then try to find some articles on the internet, rewrite them with your own words and… Voila! You have a brand new lens.

The secret is to build a lens on a certain topic covering the general ideas and then build up 10-20 lenses to analyze every idea for that topic. This way you will build an expert image in that field and people will then listen and trust you, and eventually making more lense will bring you more money.

Next I’ve listed only a few of the advantages of registering with Squidoo:

- you have fun writing lenses and talking with the community members (lensmasters) about things you like (you can even make projects with other lensmasters);

- the lenses usually have a high page rank in the search engines, that is why you can help improving a website’s page rank just adding its URL in the lens you created;

- you can send free traffic from your lenses to your website or blog;

- it’s free, no hidden monthly or annual fee;

Ok, now here’s the best part: how do you make money with Squidoo?

You can earn in 2 ways:

1. every lens comes with adsense ads and you get a percentage of the money your lens is making with those ads;

2. you can earn more money including in it links to products you are affiliated with at eBay or Amazon or Clickbank.

I guess the next question that pops out is: how much money can you make with Squidoo?

With Squidoo the earnings are 100% the results of your time and effort invested in it. The big amount of money will not come from adsense ads, but from the affiliate links you put up on the lenses. Your monthly Squidoo income will depend on the traffic your lenses will bring and on the quality of the promoted products.

Get Paid With Squidoo

Build Lenses on topics you like most and earn money in the same time