How To Make a Little Extra Money With Squidoo

Recommendation:

This is A highly readable and instructive booklet that will guide you through the set-up of your Squidoo page and how to use it to promote your other sites - Squidoo Basics: How to Market and Promote Your Sites Using Squidoo.com

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If you have time on your hands and you don't have a website but you are still looking to make money online - then check out Squidoo .

From the Squidoo website: "Squidoo is the popular publishing platform and community that makes it easy for you to create "lenses" online. Lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest--and snap it all into focus. Like the lens of a camera, your perspective on something".

How can you make money with Squidoo?

It works like this: The first step to creating a Squidoo page is to find something that you are interested in writing about. On your Squidoo page you can add pictures, Youtube videos, Flickr pictures ..the options are endless. You should view your Squidoo page as a one page website with lots of information.

Here are the ways you can make money:

The top three ways:

1) Squidoo places Google ads on your Squidoo page. (you'll need an adsense account) and every time someone clicks on your ads - you get a small commission.

2) Affiliate marketing - either by promoting books from Amazon or products from Clickbank (obviusly the products have to be related to the content you writing about on your page) - this means that you are promoting other peoples products and when ever you make a sale - you get a commission.

3) You can promote your own products and redirect people to your website.

(There are more options for making money with Squidoo - I'll save that for another time)

The most important thing is to drive traffic to your Squidoo page!

- Every time you create a page -post it on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

- Use Stumbleupon (and other social bookmarketing sites) to drive traffic

- Send it out to people on your list

How many pages can you create?

It all depends on you!

You can create as much pages as you want. Very very few people make a full time income on Squidoo! In order to make lots of money on Squidoo you'll need to create hundreds and hundreds of Squidoo pages and drive traffic to those pages. But it can turn into a nice resource for passive income.

The internet is like real estate - the more 'property' you own on the web - the more money you'll make.

So head on over to Squidoo and get started today!