Über Squidoo Stuff
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!
SquidTop: Squidoo Blogging Heaven
Squidoo by itself is an incredibly powerful tool. So is blogging. But when combined together, the results are mindblowing. Squidoo and blogging just seem to go hand-in-hand; it’s as if the two were meant to always be together.
Captain Squid realized this and so he and I put our heads together and created SquidTop, a place where Squidoo lensmasters can create their very own SquidBlog and promote their latest lenses, and talk with other lensmasters about Squidoo. And they can all do it completely free. It’s pretty much Squidoo blogging heaven.
Additionally, SquidTop has some pretty nice features, like Adsense revenue sharing, Twitter integration, and much more. New features are being added all the time, too! To top it all off (no pun intended), SquidTop is based on the Wordpress blogging platform, so if you’ve used Wordpress before you’ll feel right at home.
What the best part about SquidTop though is that it is absolutely adored by the search engines. Google comes back to visit dozens of times each day, and new blog posts are indexed within hours. That’s hours. Not days or weeks, but hours. This is some pretty powerful stuff!
Several people, myself included, have experimented with this and have noticed that when blogged about on SquidTop, lenses get indexed really quickly. So if you’ve got some lenses that you’re having a tough time getting indexed in the search engines, blogging about them on SquidTop will jumpstart the process. Or, if you just want to give some of your lenses a boost higher in search engine rankings, SquidTop will help with that.
If you haven’t started your own custom Squidoo blog yet, head on over to SquidTop, click the blue “Sign Up” button in the top right and start blogging away!
