In fact, a lot of people have been there for years, and they have to work very hard. What I am hoping to do is give you some tips so that, hopefully, you can monetize it faster than other people. Squidoo is just like any blog or any website that you can create. To monetize it, you need to generate traffic, and from the traffic you need to create sales.
You still have to work on the other part of it which is to generate enough interest whether through social media, through your own blog, and through the search engines. You need to generate traffic. That is where the secret is actually. If you have a hobby, creating a lens with tips and to ols and examples and stuff is a faster and easier way to. And to do it in an easy- to -follow, non-time-based way. Yes, you can improve it every day if.
PowerSeller and build twenty or even fifty lenses on a variety of to pics. Did you know that , people. The same effect will probably happen with lenses.
Blogs are also just a Web site, but the easy interface and accepted conventions. Instead, a lens is a signpost, an organized pointer living in a site filled with other,.
Unlike a blog, a lens updates itself if you want it to with RSS feeds and Web. This means that many lenses will do fine without a lot of tweaking and maintenance.
The structured nature of Web 2. We host them and know what is on each one. Each lens is. And, like. How do you get on the A-list? Start early. Listen to you r Web surfers—they can contact you directly from you r lens. Build an audience. Link hither.
Some organizations decided to sit that fast-growth era out. It cost to o. Probably worth a try. After all,. Might as well be you. Visit us. In the meantime,. Ten examples of how to make Squidoo work for you :. The lens would use. Those lenses would help them pr of essionally and, by pointing back to the. It would list the details of my podcasts, point to transcripts.
The lens would also have a set of links for finding out about podcasting and getting a podcast. It would update. A bonus. A lens that listed my blog and my. Because sooner or later, the public is going to know about. Sign up for. His last book was written with 32 other authors, and all royalties go straight to charity.
Nearly ten years ago, Seth founded Yoyodyne, which originated the idea of permission. In , Godin focused full-time on his career as an acclaimed public. Godin is the founder of Squidoo. You can reach him at. The paradox, of course, is that the best way to get all these things is by delivering less. This is a book about focus and meaning. Feel free to share it. Oliver and Mark Hurst for insight and inspiration. Other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Search eBay for his other amazing work s. This is an ebook about a brand new online company and, more important, about a new sort of online to ol that might very well change the way you discover and publish in for mation. Where are the experts? Can I be one? These sites sell espresso machines and have done a great job of getting listed high up in the Google results. Seeing the machines now is like shopping for a car be for e you know how to drive. You click and read a few. But about five comments down, you discover a long, thoughtful post by someone who knows all about espresso machines.
This is the site that should have been 1. You look at that site for a while, hit Back, click on another ad. Instead, you are usually on a quest to make sense. Be for e you download that s of tware or buy that product, you might want a better understanding of how a technology work s. Or you might want to find three or four choices for you r budget be for e you book you r hotel in London. Not only does word of mouth give us confidence in a decision, it acts as a filter.
You poke in Google or at Yahoo! You understand enough to take action— to buy something or make a decision. The Web ought to accelerate and even replicate that word of mouth phenomenon that work s so well in the real world.
The powerful Google algorithm, combined with the nearly instantaneous Google servers, put that in for mation to gether in a heartbeat. You could click on one of the matches, sniff that page, and perhaps click on some of the links on that page, and so on, for a long, long time.
Over time, users are realizing that their searches are not reaching their expectations, which is why the quest for a better way to search continues. Google built a better clue machine and we raced to use it. What if she had a desk near you rs, or she was available on some instant messaging program, a click away, standing by, waiting to hear from you?
The first version of the Web is, in essence, a miracle, something few people could have predicted even ten years ago. Go visit her blog, and you can read all about it. There are two things going on here: The first is that people like to listen. They go online to hear what others have to say. This, of course, is no surprise to you , but it appears to have stumped the first generation of media conglomerates that have tried to control the conversation online.
They like to talk about the music on their iPods and the hotel they loved in Paris. They like to talk about celebrities and calamities and science and math and even brands of sneakers. Everybody is an expert about something. But if you share it all, all at once, no one will find you. We need to refine it and make it more useful— to us and to the world.
Because so many blog readers are regulars, returning every day or every week, the blogger has the luxury of using just a few words to pick up where she left of f. She can invent conventions, pursue open to pics, pick up dropped threads, and talk in a vernacular that her readers enjoy.
When I post to my blog, I know that the vast majority of my readers read what I wrote last week and last month as well. But with you r luck, it will just as likely be a frame of gibberish on a cool black background.
Movies work because direc to rs know that people are watching the whole thing, not just a frame. The same thing is true of blogs. So was Doc. Want a Great Remote or Flexible Job? FlexJobs in the News. Interested in a Flexible Work Schedule?
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Prices vary. I have seen lenses for 3 and lenses for 3 thousand US dollars. Fresh lens, made from scratch is in general cheaper. Well matured lens with good backlinking background and a lot of already made sales and high tier position could be a real money maker, so price is higher. Update: on 28 February Squidoo turned the ability of lens transfer off.
There were still ways to buy or sell a lens but now they are much more complicated. You could support your on-line business with Squidoo lenses. With presentation come powerful links and I had used Squidoo mainly for this purpose. Before I discovered this site, my e-store was about in SERP for my main keyword and nowhere for others. Now it is on first page for all keywords and I have several number one positions, in one case for some time I even had first seven positions for one longtail!
Update: on 28 March Squidoo made all links pointing out of Squidoo nofollow. This drastically reduced the site's potential for SEO purposes. But there was I trick I discovered only few days later - links from modules called link-list stayed do-follow until Squidoo closed. Same was true for links from profiles until July , when the ship was already full of holes.
I can reveal the secret - I learned the tricks of the Squidoo structure so well, I managed to build PR5 links in less than two days, what greatly helped at promoting of my blogs. None of so called SEO experts used this tricks, because none of them spent so much time studying the structure.
At the end of Squidoo introduced Squidoo monsters, some sorts of badges for achievements for every individual lensmaster. Some of lensmasters were not too happy with this, but only few of them used the option of turning them off on their profile. Some monster badges were easy to achieve, some are much harder. Monsters for Lens of the day and Purple star were among the most appreciated. Click here to check my Purple star lens about picture books publishing:. Just a look at the monsters on one's profile can tell you a lot about a lensmaster.
Is he active member of community or introverted SEO geek, does he like to play games, or he is more serious kind of person, is he competitive or real team player, is he on Squidoo every day or just occasionally Of course you will never know for sure, but don't count on lensmaster who gave only 20 'likes' in four years to give one to you. Apart from badges you can tell a lot about a lensmaster by his level. Level 80 is pretty hard to achieve and most of the most respected lensmasters are in this level.
But there are already more than a dozen on the level By leveling up on Squidoo you get some interesting rewards but this is too specific for this wizz.
And there is special status: being a Giant squid, what means you have published 25 great lenses manually checked what I managed to do after several months of learning and working You could learn a lot on Squidoo. Before I joined this platform I have had no idea about SEO and here you could not only learn all the tricks of the trade, you could actually ask lensmasters some more specific questions.
And some of them will actually help you. Forget about SEO, you could learn a lot on almost everything, from Asperger's syndrome to zebras. And, because this community was so big, I had also learned a lot about human psychology and being officially dramatist by profession I have already known a lot before.
Here you could study huge palette of human characters and their emotions.
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