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squidoo alternetive for Amazon Affiliates

by srizer
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Hi

Is there any alternative to promote Amazon products apart form squidoo

Thanks
#affiliates #alternetive #amazon #squidoo
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Yes.

    Any site which you yourself own and control is a good way.

    Otherwise you'll just be replacing all the Squidoo problems, in exactly the same way and for exactly the same reason, on some other site which you also don't own and control, won't you?

    If cost is an issue, there's free hosting available at plenty of places like Byethost, 000WebHost and Freehostia. They even provide free subdomains for people who want them (just like Squidoo does!). Using self-hosted Wordpress blogs in places like that is a good idea.

    If you don't like Wordpress and/or want something different, there are also places like Wix and Yola where you can get free sites which you control, without huge "terms of service problems". Those places are not like Squidoo and Blogger, and are much safer.

    The important thing is to stay away from places like Squidoo, Blogger, HubPages and Tumblr where you can never own or control your own site. It makes no sense, in the long run, to have your affiliate links on pages you don't own.
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    • Profile picture of the author cooler1
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      If you don't like Wordpress and/or want something different, there are also places like Wix and Yola where you can get free sites which you control, without huge "terms of service problems". Those places are not like Squidoo and Blogger, and are much safer.

      The important thing is to stay away from places like Squidoo, Blogger, HubPages and Tumblr where you can never own or control your own site. It makes no sense, in the long run, to have your affiliate links on pages you don't own.
      Im not sure if you should stay away from Squidoo. It seems the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. (No domain fees, Easier to attain good SE rankings, No messing about with WP themes and plugins).

      Doing something like creating 900 lenses on one account like someone did recently is a bad idea, but as long as you don't rely on it as a primary income source or have too many lenses in one account, it seems OK.

      Do Wix and Yola rank well in Google? I've never seen one of those sites on page 1.
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      • Profile picture of the author Corey Geer
        Your own website is the way to go. When you make websites on a social platform like Squidoo, all of the content belongs to them. Everything you post on there becomes their property and they can remove your entire account for any reason. You can get an e-mail stating "I hate your face" and it's a legit reason.

        Professional? Nope, but it doesn't matter on sites like that. There's nothing wrong with using them for some backlinks in my opinion, but relying on them as a source of income isn't the best strategy.

        No messing about with WP themes and plugins
        What? That just sounds like a lazy response to me. Wordpress Plugins are highly powerful and most of them only take a minute to optimize.

        Easier to obtain SE rankings
        Have you ever used Wordpress?
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by cooler1 View Post

        Im not sure if you should stay away from Squidoo. It seems the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
        To me it doesn't seem that way at all. I'm not really aware of advantages. And having done some testing myself, I disbelieve most if not all of the so-called "advantages" claimed.

        Originally Posted by cooler1 View Post

        ( No domain fees
        That's true of all the other places I suggesed as well. How is that an "advantage" of Squidoo?

        Originally Posted by cooler1 View Post

        Easier to attain good SE rankings
        My testing didn't show that at all. It was partly discovering that that wasn't true at all, for me, that made me stop using Squidoo. The high page rank of Squidoo's own home page didn't help my pages there to rank, any more than the high PR of EZA's own home page helps my EZA articles to rank (fortunately, since I wouldn't want them to, anyway, in that case).

        Originally Posted by cooler1 View Post

        No messing about with WP themes and plugins).
        That's also true of Wix, Yola, Weebly and various other places.

        Originally Posted by cooler1 View Post

        Do Wix and Yola rank well in Google?
        Wix "Flash" sites perhaps don't, it's true. But nowadays they offer HTML-5 sites as well, which are like any other. Where a site is hosted is hardly a primary determinant of where it ranks in Google, you know?

        Originally Posted by cooler1 View Post

        I've never seen one of those sites on page 1.
        <sigh> Your logic is more or less the same as that of all the misguided people who believe that ".info" domains don't rank well in Google because "they don't remember seeing them on page 1". Their observation may be correct: it's the attribution of causality that's deeply mistaken. There are plenty of other reasons for that. :rolleyes:

        These two recent threads may help you ...

        http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...en-locked.html

        http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...e-seconds.html
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      • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
        Originally Posted by cooler1 View Post

        Im not sure if you should stay away from Squidoo. It seems the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. (No domain fees, Easier to attain good SE rankings, No messing about with WP themes and plugins).
        Domains are about $15 a year, give or take, depending on registrar. That's a lot of piece of mind for a low fee when you consider how easily you could lose everything if Squidoo decides, for whatever reason, they don't like your lenses anymore.

        You don't need Squidoo to get good SE rankings.

        Also, you don't need to use WordPress to build a website. There are actually many ways to build a website. Shocking, I know, but WordPress isn't the only way to build a website.
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  • Profile picture of the author trevord92
    As a cheap testing ground, Squidoo can be a good idea but, as Alexa says, your own domain is a much safer bet in the long run.

    Domains are cheap and hosting (so long as you don't buy it from your domain supplier) gives you plenty of room to expand.

    Then you're building up your own business rather than replying on someone else. Even free sites from large established companies can disappear over time - ask anyone who started on the web early on and built up their site on GeoCities (bought by Yahoo but now closed).
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  • Profile picture of the author Stuart Walker
    It seems the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. (No domain fees, Easier to attain good SE rankings, No messing about with WP themes and plugins).
    You've missed the point. You don't own Squidoo so Squidoo decides what they allow and don't allow on their site, you spend some time (even if only a few hours) and money creating a lense and ranking it and start generating money from it then suddenly it gets taken down all that time, effort, money was wasted and you're back to square one with NOTHING. Big disadvantage.

    Your own web property is better.
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  • Profile picture of the author srizer
    Hi every one thanks for all useful responses

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Tanya E
    In a thread related to Squidoo you will always find personal views of proponents and opponents but rarely is the question answered correctly.I think the OP is asking about any other sites apart from Squidoo where Amazon products can be promoted.

    You can promote Amazon products on Hubpages as well. Blogger is another platform but it involves "more work" than sites like Squidoo and Hubpages where you can post an article and optimize it with a few clicks of a mouse.

    Owning your own site is better but there is nothing wrong in starting with Squidoo, Hubpages or Wordpress provided you are fully aware of their TOS.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Tanya E View Post

      I think the OP is asking about any other sites apart from Squidoo where Amazon products can be promoted.
      I'm sure he is.

      (Nobody questioned that, I think?).

      Originally Posted by Tanya E View Post

      Owning your own site is better
      Clearly.

      A better alternative than Squidoo is any site that you yourself own and control.

      Originally Posted by Tanya E View Post

      but there is nothing wrong in starting with Squidoo, Hubpages or Wordpress provided you are fully aware of their TOS.
      Try telling that to all the Warriors contributing to these two threads, and countless others like them:-

      http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...en-locked.html

      http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...e-seconds.html

      This isn't a problem that "awareness of their TOS" can fix.

      Especially not when you look at how changeable they are, and how idiosyncratically and inconsistently enforced.

      That's exactly why these same conversations keep arising, time and time again. Their TOS are there for everyone to read, but unfortunately no amount of reading them resolves the problems/disasters that repeatedly arise. That's the problem, not the solution.
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  • Profile picture of the author JeremiahSay
    Squdioo is not the best place to promote amazon as an affiliate.

    Like what Alexa said, the best place to promote amazon's affiliate products is through your own blog/website.
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