One of my Favourite Methods - Squidoo

Squidoo is an awesome way of making some cash online. You can write about anything you want basically, except for a few small things that have been flagged as spam. You can write sales lenses which are primarily for making sales in a review style lens such as Fisher Price Walker. Pages on squidoo are called lenses by the way, so when I refer to a lens I am talking about a web page. You can also just write about topics that you love and create a great information lens that will attract traffic because of the expert knowledge you are sharing. One of my favourite informational lenses is my lens on the The Solar System Planets.

So far I am up to 23 lenses and I am currently just concentrating on making more and more links to my lenses. In a follow up post I will go through some of the best places to post your links to.
I am relatively new to squidoo and I have already made my first sale. Squidoo takes a fair amount of work and the cash doesn't start rolling in over night. It will take a a few months at least before you even see one sale. I have been sticking with it and asking question after question on the squidoo forums. Asking questions of the veteran lensmasters has really helped me a lot. There are a lot of great lensmasters willing to share their knowledge and help you to be successful with squidoo as well.

Here are a few basic tips that I have picked up so far about creating great lenses.

- Always write great content, don't ever just copy and paste information from web pages as this is a big no no with squidoo.

- Take the time and do some keyword research, it will help you out with getting traffic from google. Try and stick to what they call long tail keywords like "fisher price toys for baby boys" instead of "fisher price toys". Long tail keywords won't have as much competition. A good free place to check keyword popularity is Google keywords Tool

- Use lots of photos, I love to use my own photos whenever I can, I even go out of my way to try and get the perfect photo. If you can't take your own photos then Allposters is a great place you can get images and also earn 20% commission each time someone buys a poster. You can post a link from Allposters straight into a text module to show a great photo, plus if any one likes it they can click on it and buy it as a poster on the allposter website.

- One last major point to get you started and it is always remember to review your lenses before you publish them. Spelling and grammar mistakes look extremely unprofessional and it is something that I still have to remember to do.

I am really enjoying writing on squidoo and although my sales are yet to build up significant momentum I can definitely see the potential to create some serious income. Quite a few of the long term  lensmasters that you can chat to in the squidoo forums make a pretty tidy sum each month. You can too if you want to put in some effort. Remember if you want to give making money online a go then keep in mind it never happens over night regardless of what all the get rich programs tell you. Give Squidoo a go, I am sure you will enjoy it as much as I do.

If you would like to join Squidoo, you can sign up here
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Starting My "Making Money Online" Journey

My Journey started a few years ago when I heard about this wonderful program called the easiest home business ever. Well little old naive me decided to sign up, and $500 later I had 12 lessons that pretty much told me everything that I am going to share with you for free on this blog.

The problem with the Easiest Home Business Ever was that it isn't all that easy. What the creators of that program told you and showed you sounded really really easy. Putting the strategies that were shown into place was very easy as well. What they didn't tell you was that it took time and a lot of work to build up your online presence enough to start getting meaningful traffic to your pages, videos etc. They also didn't tell you how to go about really getting yourself and your online content out there. 

I have to admit that I did get a lot of useful information off of this program so in a way it wasn't a total waste of money because it saved me going out and researching all the different methods of making money online myself. What I have had to do since was a lot of research on how to get real traffic to my pages and what not.

One of the first real strategies that I was taught was the social media strategy. This isn't a hugely successful strategy for me as I don't have a huge following on twitter or facebook and all the rest such sites. It certainly does work though especially if you have a lot of like minded friends on these sites. 

The whole strategy basically consists of posting paid links onto these sites having people click through them and subsequently buy something and bam you get a commission. 

First you need to sign up to join an affiliate program such as Clickbank, commission junction, clixgalore etc.

My favourite is clixgalore I find it very easy to use. Give it a go sign up, pick product or link that you think people on your twitter or facebook would like, then get the link copy and paste it into a post, put a short description something like "I just Found great priced DVD's at (insert link)". It is that simple.

How simple does that sound? 

I know it sounds to good to be true, but it is true. You won't get rich off of this one simple method, but with other great strategies that I will mention in more posts this one certainly helps to start the ball rolling.