If you never heard of Squidoo, imagine it as Blog, but with a little less options. Squidoo has been reviewed by The New York Times, Mashable, BoingBoing,... and is one of the 300 most popular sites in the US. Like on a blog, you write articles about the things you love or the things that inspire you. Every article that you write on Squidoo, is called a Lens, that is divided in several different modules. Every module is sponsored by a company like Ebay or Amazon, where you can promote their products, and earn a commission if you sell one of them. There's money to be made! You could keep all of the money for yourself, or you could donate a percentage of your profit to charity.
Squidoo has a large community with a forum. I would advise you to participate in this forum, certainly when you're a beginner, to attract readers and to learn more about Squidoo. The first thing you should when you've signed up is to make a nice profile, this way you'll get more attention. Squidoo is a perfect opportunity to get traffic to your blog. If you can make a good lens with links to your blog, and maybe reach the Top 100 lenses, you could get a good traffic boost to your blog.
Useful links:
Getting Started with Squidoo
The Squidoo Forum
Lens of the Day
I'll try to make a more detailed post soon.
Introducing Squidoo
Posted by SoccerFire | 12:34 PM | Getting More Traffic, Social Communities | 2 comments »
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Squidoo sounds so good. the problem however is time. i dont have much time for so many things to maximize my blog's performance. Too bad! I actually met some squidoo blog around and i wanted to make comments but since it requires registration, i let it there.
I hate registrations. Commenting is something I do love although it eats my time sometime byt if I have to register, it's too much.
What do you think?
The Webloglearner ..where favors are reciprocated....
Sometimes it's really stupid to sign up every time. Hmmmm, and all those passwords and names. :D