Here’s a nice trick to make money using good old Squidoo.

It’s fairly easy to do, although there’s a lot of work involved, so if you’re not up to writing a lot of content in a short space of time, then it’s probably not for you.

However, if you’ve nothing better to do and want to set up another income stream using the search engine’s favourite, Squidoo, read on…

First you’ll need to think of a niche that not too many other Internet Marketers are bothered with. The best way is to sit down with your favourite keyword search tool and start searching through some long tail (and maybe not so long tail) keywords to find a viable market to sell some affiliate products.

Once you have your keywords, you need to check the availability of affiliate products to sell. Clickbank is ok, but it has a lot of affiliates already hammering its products to death, so better to look around at some alternatives. Commission Junction is a good place to start, then get back on to Google and check out some sites with products to sell in your new-found niche. Chances are they’ll have their own affiliate program, which you should be able to sign-up for free.

Now that you have some products to market, its time to create your Squidoo lens. Its important to use your main keywords in the title of the lens, for SEO.

You’ll need to write at least three good reviews of the products in separate text modules. Include your keywords in the reviews. Add some other modules like a guestbook, maybe an Amazon list (keep it short)… if you know Squidoo, you’ll know what to add to make the lens visitable and publish-able.

Next you’ll need to create some blogs - use free servers for this as you want to spread them around different servers. Two or three will do fine to start with. They should be created with your main keywords in the title and then write some posts with your keywords in the content (but don’t keyword stuff them) about your products and highlight your lens with some links back to it.

Next, write two or three (unique) articles about your products, the lens and the blogs (with link back to your blogs - not your lens, just yet) and submit them to high PR ezine sites, like ezine articles (for a list of article directories, I have a lens with a huge links plexo of them at: Article Directory List)

Then while you’re waiting for things to happen, write some more modules for your lens and keep it up to date, write for your blogs and ping them often and very soon, once the search engine spiders find your articles (which they will quickly on high PR ezines) they will follow your links back to your blogs and in turn to your lens, pushing it up high in the search engine pages (assuming you did your keyword homework right).

Now wait for the search engines to start sending traffic to your lens and make money from theaffiliate sales you’re going to get!

Here’s to your success!

Terry Didcott
MAKE MONEY