Using Adwords with Squidoo

ducatibatty · 09-19-2008, 01:27 PM

Guys why cant I use adwords and PPC to drive traffic to my lens. What alternatives do I have to make money on Squidoo?

Monetize · 09-19-2008, 02:25 PM

What's stopping you?

But do you really want to waste your budget sending
traffic to a lens that the visitor is likely to leave and
start looking at everybody else's lenses at Squidoo
(possibly even creating their own lens)?

If so, why?

Couldn't you setup a WP blog or something instead?

ducatibatty · 09-20-2008, 03:51 AM

Currently the lovely Google is stopping me using my lens address as the destination URL in my adwords campaign. Unless there is another way around this.

Eswar · 09-20-2008, 04:22 AM

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Originally Posted by ducatibatty

Currently the lovely Google is stopping me using my lens address as the destination URL in my adwords campaign. Unless there is another way around this.

Hi ducatibatty, You can try using freeclassifieds website USFreeads. USfreeads has free and paid service. Free service has limited ads.

But i always suggest people to use their own landing pages. It has lots of advantages like conversion tracking & split testing your landing page.

When using third party landing pages, people may be distracted by other links and ads on the landing pages.

Eswar

Monetize · 09-20-2008, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by ducatibatty

Currently the lovely Google is stopping me using my lens address as the destination URL in my adwords campaign. Unless there is another way around this.

I see. Well I haven't tried doing PPC for a Squid lens but
Google is probably doing you a favor by disallowing it.

Take the time to setup something of your own, you'll fare
better in the long run - trust me.

Tuzic · 09-21-2008, 08:21 AM

hi,

you can try free ads like craigposts i suppose but why would you want to moetise your lens? you could do this for a blog or yuor own website instead & actually earn from it.

tim_buchalka · 09-22-2008, 04:52 AM

I'd really discourage driving adwords traffic to a squidoo lense.

There are just too many exit points beyond your control. Just look at the top of a squidoo lense under Explore Relate pages. It's the first thing a visitor see's. Lots of links to other people's lenses. Thanks squidoo!

I have great success with squidoo in organic search though, just don't think it cuts the mustard with adwords (or any other ppc traffic).

Why not put the content on your own domain? Setup a blog or preferable a half decent landing page, and take it from there.

Best of luck.

Cheers

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Originally Posted by ducatibatty

Guys why cant I use adwords and PPC to drive traffic to my lens. What alternatives do I have to make money on Squidoo?

toonarme · 09-23-2008, 11:06 AM

Totally agree, you'll be paying to send people to a lens and they can very easily get distracted once they're on there, too much to see. You're better setting up a landing page on Blogger or WP or, better still, get yourself a domain name and set up a wWP blog on your own space, it'll get indexed pretty quickly and give you more chance of a sale.

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09-20-2008, 03:51 AM	#3
ducatibatty Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Using Adwords with Squidoo Currently the lovely Google is stopping me using my lens address as the destination URL in my adwords campaign. Unless there is another way around this.
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09-21-2008, 08:21 AM	#6
Tuzic Banned Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: UK Posts: 410 Thanks: 14 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Using Adwords with Squidoo hi, you can try free ads like craigposts i suppose but why would you want to moetise your lens? you could do this for a blog or yuor own website instead & actually earn from it.

09-23-2008, 11:06 AM	#8
toonarme Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Gisburn, on't border of Lancashire and Yarksher Posts: 37 Thanks: 9 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Contact Info	Re: Using Adwords with Squidoo Totally agree, you'll be paying to send people to a lens and they can very easily get distracted once they're on there, too much to see. You're better setting up a landing page on Blogger or WP or, better still, get yourself a domain name and set up a wWP blog on your own space, it'll get indexed pretty quickly and give you more chance of a sale.