How to Make Money on the Web writing for Squidoo
OK, so you have never heard of Squidoo until now. “What is Squidoo?” you ask yourself, “And how do you make money on the web with it?” Well, Squidoo is something like a blog. It gives you the opportunity to make money without even having to utilize email marketing, having a website or any special skills. The only thing is, once signed up with Squidoo, the blogger or writer, will begin creating what is called Squidoo Lens from your home page. Now you are asking, what is a Squidoo Lens? In Squidoo speak; a Lens would be a new page where your blog or article will appear for fellow Squidoo writers or visitors to read.
Every time you want to create a new article, a new lens has to be created. That is simple enough and once you get the hang of this, you will be able to make money on the web easier. The whole point in writing at Squidoo is earning money, of course.
Once an article is published, you have the option of sending it to Twitter, Face book or any other social networking website on the Internet. With Squidoo, you can also add modules to your lens such as Amazon. COM, eBay, a guestbook, Duel, a Donations module and many other modules that might earn you extra earnings.
Another way to make money on the web is by adding your Squidoo link to your outgoing emails. This is a great way for family, friends and anyone reading your emails to click on your Squidoo link and read what you have to say.
Besides the above ways of earning money, once your articles are published and live, Google ads will appear on every article you have written. All the Google ads will pertain to what your article is about. Let’s say you write about why water is important to humankind. All the Google ads that appear on your article will pertain to anything about water and what water does for humankind.
Since Google ads are important on all your Squidoo lens to make money on the web, it is also important to send all the lens to Google, Yahoo and other popular search engines as well. These search engines will crawl your lens online where people searching for information you have written on is found. Doing this well is called seo or search engine optimisation. Another great place to send a lens link to is Technorati, Reddit and Digg.
Even though it takes time and effort to promote your articles, it will be worth it once you see your monthly earnings increase. It never hurts to write as many articles as you can on either the same niche or something totally different to catch someone’s attention. By doing this, you will be able to make money on the web in no time.