How to Profit from Amazon Affiliate Links on Your Squidoo Lens
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Joining the Amazon Associates affiliate program is a great way to start making money online. In this article we'll review a strategy for getting more exposure for your affiliate links, and boosting the SEO for your blog using the popular social media content sharing website, squidoo.com.
First, in case you have indeed been living under a rock and you have never heard of Squidoo, it is both a publishing platform and a community where the members create pages called "lenses" that contain information about a specific topic. Squidoo was founded by Seth Godin and it's been around for five years now. If you create your lens properly using lots of keyword tags, appropriate images and compelling copy, it can hit the first page of Google in just a few days.
Creating a lens about the products that you are offering on Amazon accomplishes a couple of things. You get more exposure for your affiliate links, and since Squidoo lenses often achieve a high rank far more quickly than your blog might, they provide high quality back links to your blog, which means more organic traffic to your blog and a little boost in rankings.
· Create your profile on Squidoo.com
Go to Squidoo.com and create your profile. It's free and easy to do. Once you have verified your email address you can start creating lenses.
· Do keyword research to find best keywords
Keyword tags is how your lens will be found both within Squidoo and in the search engines, so don't skimp on your keyword research. Create a healthy list of keywords and choose the primary keyword to use as the URL for the lens.
There are several free and premium keyword research tools that will help you to choose the best buyer keywords and long tail keywords that will attract the targeted traffic you need for your lens.
· Create quality content focused on your primary keywords
Write thoughtful, informative copy that adds value. Answer the questions that your prospective buyers have about your topic, share news about the industry, or give your unique insight on trends and upcoming events that will affect your visitors.
· Add Amazon modules
If you use one of the available templates, after you have plugged in your content, Squidoo will search out all different kinds of options for modules for your lens, which you are free to keep or delete at your discretion.
If you create your lens yourself you have a whole host of widget options to choose from. For our purposes, we will focus on adding the Amazon modules and you can tinker with the other modules to decide which ones you want to try.
When your Amazon module is in place it will be empty, so you will need to give it a title and a description, and then you will pick your product options and the number of products you'd like to display on your lens. You can either let Amazon pick the products or you can select which products get displayed in your module.
When visitors to your lens click on your Amazon links and go to Amazon to make a purchase you will earn advertising fees, but some of your visitors will also click over to your website, which will bring you targeted traffic.
There is so much more to say on this and many other topics related to earning passive income online. Check out, http://www.passivenicheprofits.com, to discover how you can generate passive income online today.
First, in case you have indeed been living under a rock and you have never heard of Squidoo, it is both a publishing platform and a community where the members create pages called "lenses" that contain information about a specific topic. Squidoo was founded by Seth Godin and it's been around for five years now. If you create your lens properly using lots of keyword tags, appropriate images and compelling copy, it can hit the first page of Google in just a few days.
Creating a lens about the products that you are offering on Amazon accomplishes a couple of things. You get more exposure for your affiliate links, and since Squidoo lenses often achieve a high rank far more quickly than your blog might, they provide high quality back links to your blog, which means more organic traffic to your blog and a little boost in rankings.
· Create your profile on Squidoo.com
Go to Squidoo.com and create your profile. It's free and easy to do. Once you have verified your email address you can start creating lenses.
· Do keyword research to find best keywords
Keyword tags is how your lens will be found both within Squidoo and in the search engines, so don't skimp on your keyword research. Create a healthy list of keywords and choose the primary keyword to use as the URL for the lens.
There are several free and premium keyword research tools that will help you to choose the best buyer keywords and long tail keywords that will attract the targeted traffic you need for your lens.
· Create quality content focused on your primary keywords
Write thoughtful, informative copy that adds value. Answer the questions that your prospective buyers have about your topic, share news about the industry, or give your unique insight on trends and upcoming events that will affect your visitors.
· Add Amazon modules
If you use one of the available templates, after you have plugged in your content, Squidoo will search out all different kinds of options for modules for your lens, which you are free to keep or delete at your discretion.
If you create your lens yourself you have a whole host of widget options to choose from. For our purposes, we will focus on adding the Amazon modules and you can tinker with the other modules to decide which ones you want to try.
When your Amazon module is in place it will be empty, so you will need to give it a title and a description, and then you will pick your product options and the number of products you'd like to display on your lens. You can either let Amazon pick the products or you can select which products get displayed in your module.
When visitors to your lens click on your Amazon links and go to Amazon to make a purchase you will earn advertising fees, but some of your visitors will also click over to your website, which will bring you targeted traffic.
There is so much more to say on this and many other topics related to earning passive income online. Check out, http://www.passivenicheprofits.com, to discover how you can generate passive income online today.