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.
Have a most outstanding day.
Sean RasmussenAussie Internet Marketing
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008 - 2010
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Hi Sean,
I really love using Squidoo. It’s very versatile and you can do so many cool things with it. I think it’s a fun site to have attached to your main site and it counts as a backlink. It doesn’t get any better than than.
I have been a bit slack with Squidoo
I set up the account but haven’t done anything with it. Shame,shame
Hi Sean
I am guilty of neglecting my squidoo lens which I attempted to set up and finish last year.
It is floating around out there in the depths of the ocean and I need to fish it out and start sprucing it up again and hopefully bring it back to life.
Once I have my squidoo lens looking great I can then link it to my blog. That is going to be fun!
I’ve been putting off the task of preparing a couple Squidoo lenses that I hope will be quite useful. I want to look at quite a few lenses to get a sense on how to proceed. But once I’ve had time to do that then I imagine I should have no problem.
Famous last words.
Squidoo is cool! I have a lens dedicated to who I am and a are currently working on another to complement my blog. It is so easy to use and so much fun!