Squidoo Earnings
Some Useful Reading
Sorry folks, but I’m completely exhausted and my brain is too liquefied to conjure up an article tonight, so I’m going to provide you with some excellent reading–provided courtesy of Captain Squid, PotPieGirl, and Squidoo itself.
One Squidoo Lens, One month, $1,000 - If you haven’t read this blog post yet, you must. It’s the king of incredible Squidoo accomplishments, and tells how $1,000 was earned in a single month from one lens. Seriously.
Here, PotPieGirl talks about her earnings from Squidoo from July ‘07 to June ‘08. Note that the earnings she talks about were JUST from Squidoo co-pay, so pretty much money from Adsense and maybe a couple Amazon affiliate sales. Now, what she earned with that might not seem like much to a lot of people, but to me an extra $500 a year would help a lot. Plus, I consider Squidoo royalties to be just a bonus–icing on the cake. The real meat is gained by placing your own targeted affiliate product links by joining FREE affiliate programs such as LinkShare and Pepperjam. Join these programs, find products related to the content of your lens, and put ‘em up!
And, if you haven’t read Squidoo’s own free eBooks yet, you really should. They give some excellent advice for both beginning and experienced Lensmasters alike. Check them out!
Wonderful Unexpected Squidoo Income
A few days ago I was contacted through Squidoo by someone who wanted me to write a paid review about his site and put it on my lens. Wonderful! I checked out the site, and it met my standards for quality (I don’t promote junk), so we talked back and forth a bit about it and negotiated a final price.
Today I wrote up the review (took about 10 minutes), slapped it on my lens, and now I’m $50 richer.
Isn’t Squidoo neat? This is why I’m a firm believer in quality. When you build quality lenses, filled with quality content, and backed by quality links, chances of things like this happening increase by 1000%.
April Squidoo Earnings
Today was payday for April’s Squidoo royalties and Google Adsense earnings. I didn’t earn as much as I would have liked, but since then I’ve made huge improvements to my lenses and I feel that next month’s payment will be much better.
But anyways, to me, direct Squidoo payments are just a bonus–the majority of money that I make is with affiliate programs such as LinkShare and Pepperjam. I’ve also been using Ebay Partner Network for some time, and have had good experiences with it.
With all earnings combined, I earned around $260 in April with Squidoo. Not bad. May looks like it was even better, too, at least $320. This may not seem like much to a lot of people, but to me it’s pretty good progress, especially since I really only started building lenses seriously a few months ago. My goal for the end of the summer, before I start school again, is $1,000 per month. I know I can reach it if I keep going onward. There are lensmasters such as Captain Squid who earn over $2,000 per month with Squidoo, so I think $1,000 per month is pretty modest and attainable.
Wish me luck.
