If you’re looking for ways to sell and ways to promote what you’re selling, Squidoo lenses are great tools. They’re a lot like HubPages.  These sites allow you to set up a robust looking page with all sorts of tools to help you promote including:

• polls
• pictures
• text boxes
• sticky notes
• eye catching headline boxes
• RSS feeds
• links
• and more

Not only can you use Squidoo lenses as a free online tool for link building to your other  websites but you can also monetize them.  You can add affiliate links, Google ads, Amazon links and images and more. While HubPages lets you use your Adsense ID to get paid directly, Squidoo pays you via PayPal when you reach a specified payout level.

Having a tool kit of promotion and monetization tools is a great idea. If you’re article marketing, you know that most sites won’t let you put affiliate links into your resource box. You can, however, put a link to your Squidoo lens which could contain calls to action or hoplinks.

Squidoo also has a great user community so encompasses monetization, article marketing, off-page SEO and social media.