Blogging Web 2.0

Squidoo-Licious

Posted on September 29, 2007
Filed Under Squidoo | 4 Comments

Terry talked about the benefits of creating a Squidoo lens and how it can help you with traffic and help to compliment your website/blog. There is also a 3rd way to use Squidoo for your business and that’s by setting up an affiliate lens. Now before we go into this you need to understand two things.

Understand how keyword marketing works
Don’t make the mistake of advertising the standard affiliate programs

I’ve had very good results when I set up some lenses a couple of month ago to use them for affiliate marketing. I admittedly let them go and as a direct result they dropped ranks which means my sales pretty much stopped as I’m no longer on Google’s first page. I also know, that if I had persisted with these lenses, I would still make money. The beauty about this is that I can get myself onto page one of Google any time by duplicating what I did then successfully with 5 lenses within 1 week!

Now some of you might think “but what the heck are you doing dropping money like that”? The thing is, firstly I’m far too busy these days having time to follow on with this. ( And I make more money with what I do). Secondly to make a lot of money, you will need a lot of lenses and they all need to be updated every day if possible. This results in quite a bit of work and is fine if you currently struggle to make any money. On average you’ll make about $30/month per lens, but this directly depends on the products you market.

First you need to find niches that are not discovered by the masses, e.g. leave your hands off Internet marketing. Once you found yourself a niche you need to set up your lens. The lens needs to be keyword rich both in the title and in the body. The body of the lens should be full of related information about the product/services you offer.

The key here is to write a descriptive summary about that said product without giving away all the information. You want people to click through on the links you provide and these links should be your affiliate links. Where most Squidoo users go wrong is by using the traditional affiliate programs that have been chewed to mulch already. Don’t make the same mistake! There is an alternative - It’s called CPA networks.

These networks will allow you to sign up as a publisher and 3rd party advertisers (those with the product) pay you either per lead, or else per sale. Provided you are in the right niche, these CPA networks can help to put money in your pocket.

I have listed some CPA networks here to get you started on the right track. You’ll need to do some research yourself and see which ones would best suit you and the keyword you have come up with. Have fun and let us know how you go please.

CPA Networks:

Monika Mundell Creator and Author of Blogging Web 2.0