Promoting Products on Squidoo

As a webmaster, you have to stay at the beginning of many trends. If you want to succeed, you have to make adjustments to the way you do things. One very important trend to pay attention to is the mass popularity of a site called Squidoo.

If you’ve heard of it, you no doubt see the potential that this social networking site offers. If you haven’t heard of it, it is definitely something you should investigate.

So what is Squidoo? Let’s look at what it has to offer you and how you can take advantage of it and generate sales on Squidoo.

What is Squidoo?

Squidoo is a social networking site that contains many different pages about everything under the sun. The different pages are called a “lenses.” The people who create the pages are everyday, normal people like you and I. You don’t have to be a certified expert in your field to make a Squidoo lens. While it helps to know what you’re talking about, you don’t have to have a doctorate to generate sales with your Lens.

How does Squidoo work?

These different lenses focus on a specific topic. Squidoo puts ads and affiliate links on the pages. When someone clicks on an ad, Squidoo gives the “lensmaster” a portion of the proceeds. They realize that without your content, they wouldn’t have made the money in the first place. Therefore, it is a great place to make a little extra income both by using the Adsense aspect and the potential to generate sales with your Squidoo lens.

How can you generate sales from Squidoo?

Besides the Adsense income, it is also a fantastic way to generate traffic to your website. Squidoo is looked at favorably by most of the search engines. If you create keyword-rich content on your lens, the search engines will send traffic to it. This alone could create a potential avalanche of visitors for you.

However, this is not the only way that traffic can come from your Squidoo lens. With the social aspect of Squidoo, you can look at other people’s lenses. When you like one you can leave feedback. When a lens is popular it can be featured on the main page. This could create thousands of views per day. People can also recommend your lens to a friend. As in any business, an endorsement from someone you trust goes a lot farther than advertising ever could.

How do you make a lens?

If you’re considering creating a Squidoo lens, you may be feeling a bit lost. Don’t worry, it’s really easy. Squidoo has simplified the whole process so that even the most inexperienced rookie can make a lens. You basically just register and then start filling in the blanks. After you’ve filled in all the necessary information, your lens will be up and running in a matter of minutes.

While it may be easy, this doesn’t mean that you should skimp on content. Without some keyword focused content, you really won’t generate much traffic at all let alone generate sales with your lens. The search engines have to have something to find in the first place. After you create some good content, just submit it and you’re on your way to generating traffic.