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If you are not using squidoo to make money online, you are missing out on one of the best pieces or virtual real estate online today. In case you do not know, Squidoo is a free lens building tool (web page building tool) that is search engine friendly, and lends itself readily to helping online marketers make money on the Internet. This article is about showing you how to make cash online using squidoo.

To start using squidoo, here are some basic things you understand. Although squidoo is free, they do have a few rules which you must follow, such as rating your adult lens as such so that you do not expose adult material to children. However, as a marketer the rules are really easy to live with. If you are willing to learn how to put up a well created and optimized lens, you can make a full-time living from home just by making squidoo lens. By the way, a lens is the same thing as a web page. That is jus “squidoo speak”.

So how do you make money with squidoo? To begin with, you must build lenses that are worth reading. No one will read a boring web page unless they are extremely motivated; like having a gun to their heads. You will want to make your web page with short paragraphs, some easy graphics, and smooth writing that is easy to read. Bold headings with colors with help too. You may be very passionate about your subject but do bear in mind that you still must sell your ideas to your reader if you want to make money online with squidoo.

One of the best ways to ensure that your lens hits the spot with your readers is to offer them some help solving their problems. A quick way to do this is to go to the Google adword tool (do a search for it ) and type in the following phrase “how to”. You will see plenty of results showing you what people are searching for online. For this article I found out there were 135,000 people wanting to know how to make paper last month, and another 12,000 wanting to know how to make friendship bracelets . Find a need using this method, and then do a little research to build your lens around a solution.

Now that you have your idea for a lens, and you have crafted a good-looking page, you are ready to learn how to actually make money online with that squidoo lens. Avoid the mistake of only putting in a few tags. Tags are the squidoo equivalent of keywords. You are allowed 40 of them. Use them all! Try to use a few rare ones that do not have a lot of competition. Also, you will want to exercise ultimate control over all the out-going links from your lens. If there are 25 out-going links, make sure that at least 20 of them belong to you.

A good idea for promoting your lens is to rate other people’s lenses, and ask them to rate yours. You can do this in their feeback form. Some will do it, and some will not, but if you get 10 feeback, those can push you a long way up the search engines, and into the realm of money-making squidoo lenses. Remember that squidoo will have some links on your lens, such as adsense. Do not rely on them to make money, but if you gain from it, then I am happy for you. You can also control how much of this money that you donate back to charity. This is your call.

Promote your lens. There are just too many places to promote your link, so I will not be able to list every one of them here. Here are a few places that are effective in spreading the word about your lens. Use squiduitls.com to ping your lens, check for back links, and to see if you are missing anything. You can then bookmark your lens at places like stumbleupon, digg, del.ici.ous and other social bookmarkers. To bookmark your lens at over 20 plus social sites for free, use onlywire.com. It will save you a lot of work in the future.

One of the ways you can make money with squidoo is to promote programs or services that will pay you residual income. Think about it for a moment. If you promote a program that will earn you income month after month from your one-time effort, isn’t that much better than having to make one-time sales over and over again? This concept alone can multiply your income many times over.

You can also make money with your squidoo lens by promoting multi-tiered affiliate programs that do not require a monthly fee from you. There are several people with such programs. A few you may want to research are Russell Brunson’s Second Tier, and Derek Ghel’s Affiliate Marketing Center. You can quietly recruit a small army of affiliates for these programs, and bet paid every time they buy. This is not a bad way to make money online with your squidoo lens.

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