How to Use Squidoo to Make Money

If you're looking for ways to expand your Internet marketing business, one of the most exciting opportunities is Squidoo. It's free, it ranks high in the search engines, brings traffic to your site and lets you promote products. In this article I will give you a brief overview of what Squidoo is, and get right into it with some strategies you can use to turn it into a profit center. After reading this article you have a good understanding of some different strategies you can start employing with Squidoo to increase the profit in your Internet marketing business.

Squidoo is what Web 2.0 is all about. You set up a page (called a lens) about a certain topic and then add modules to it in an attempt to create value for your visitors. Visitors then vote on your lens, and the better your lens to hire your ranking will be. You can use videos, surveys or simply write articles to build your lens. Squidoo offers a very easy-to-use interface to build very professional looking pages in a matter of minutes.

However, your lens mean nothing unless you have people looking at it. In order to do that, before creating a lens on any topic, do some research for it. Make sure people are searching for that topic on the Internet, and that there isn't too much competition for it. You can use different keyword research tools to accomplish this.

If there are people searching for it, that means they might be interested in finding out what you have to say, but aren't interested in spending any money. You want to look at niches where people are searching for information and are willing to pay money to get it. That way you can offers them some viable information for free, which will entice them to purchase your product (or product you're promoting) to get all your viable information.

You can't simply just put a lens up and expect it to make money for you though. You have to update it and track where your visitors are coming from, and what other things they are interested in learning about. It's worth it though. If you continue to add to your lens, you will find that it gets rank high in Google very quickly. Now you'll get search engine traffic, so you have more people to market your message to.

In conclusion, Squidoo is definitely something to look into to add to your Internet marketing bag of tricks. If you do it right, it will be another profit pulling weapon in your Internet marketing business.