YES! I made 6.33USD from Squidoo Today!

Yes!!!!!

I'm happy for ya!

One tiny bit of advice, if I may?

Don't give up!

You seem to have some basics in place. All you seem to need right now is a focused and actionable plan.

There are many people around the forum who have stuff targeted to what you need... Guides, free reports etc.

You just need to find a strategy, just one single plan of attack and then implement it until you hit a good run of form.

Nobody can guide you to success. You can create it for yourself, though.

Learn -> Apply -> Profit -> Learn -> Apply -> Profit

What kind of budget do you have?

What skills do you have?

What time do you have to devote to making it work for you?

These are the kind of questions that you need to factor into your process.

You've made some money right now, don't forget that. As little as it may seem, you have actually done more than most IM n00bs.

Jay

Squidoo gives IM'ers mixed results. I've heard of some who use it as their "squeeze page" (so to speak) between an article and a product, while others find no use for it at all. You really have to get a lot of traffic to make money on the ads and such, it seems. I've actually gotten a few lead referrals (people signing up for tiered article sites through my links, such as Bukisa and AC), but no real money.

But I'm really glad to hear you made some! Keep up the good work.

I made my first $10 without putting much hard work like you seem to be doing.

Ok...I'm going to jump in here because I do feel very confident in my experience and research that I've done with various Web 2.0 social media properties. For as much as I love Squidoo, and the marketing genius behind Seth Godin, there are some serious criticisms I have of their platform...without getting to involved, you paint the same picture as had been my experience.

"So... after hours and hours, days and days, weeks and weeks, I am happy to say that I made $6.33 USD."

In an effort to encourage continually updated content, there platform is set up so that a great deal of effort has to be exerted, comparable to what you just wrote, in order to achieve an ever-fluctuating lensrank (that move thousands of places, each day, if you take even one day off). Not only that, but there are thousands upon thousands of lensmasters who are continually trying to get their lenses into the top tier so as to qualify for an ever changing tiered payment.

My question is: Did that $6.33 come as a result of their tiered lensrank payment?

P.s. If that payment actually came from Squidoo (and wasn't the result of your own affiliations that deposit into your own account), then, (this month) it could actually be higher than what you should have normally gotten. Squidoo DID make an announcement yesterday that they had Paypal'ed the wrong amount to many of their writers, which was much higher than what they had really earned and deserved. I'm not sure if this includes you, but it is possible....this is actually the first time I have had this happen with Squidoo ever. (Didn't mean to put a damper on your day....)

TO X3XSOLDIERX3X,
I checkout out some of your articles on squidoo and infobarrel. I was wondering what kind of money you make using INFOBARREL. And... I am RCA...want to be LPN and even get into BSN program. Thanks

That is 6.33 USD you did not have before the day began ...

Go scale it!

LOL, I feel happy for you Your attitude is contagious. Keep it up

Hi. I was wondering if you've targeted your articles towards the correct keywords. You mentioned that some of your lenses don't get much traffic. Have you done your keyword research? Is the keyword phrase in the correct places in your article?

Yes... I actually rank number one on the first page of google quite often... it is just that the keywords don't get big time traffic like "MAKE MONEY ONLINE" type keywords get. But... if I could find a way to get the keywords to stick at the top spot that is what I want.
Because I have 5 keywords now that have been number 1 on google and are still close to those spots... I just need to do some more Document Sharing with links to these sites, bookmark them, and they will be #1 again.... However... it is a little time consuming.....

OH YA - 23 posts on this Warrior Forum Post... NEW RECORD!

I made $1,000 via AdSense on HubPages in the first 30-40 days I was a member - and maybe $4-5 of that actually came from my 15 or so Hubs.

The trick is to use your URL tracker and bookmark/tweet every hub you can with your URL tracker inserted, use your Hubs as a selling point for your writing and community building abilities, and then offer to write guest posts on popular blogs and websites, directing traffic from those sites to your top revenue sharing site (i.e. "this is a guest post by Seekyt from 'blahblahblah.com'"). It worked for me, the gain was very short lived, but I proved it was possible.

Another word of advice: most HubPages users are very stubborn and not willing to accept that you can be more successful than they are with 1/100th the content. They will question and attack you every step of the way. Do NOT try to sell yourself too much, or you will (rightfully) come under unwanted scrutiny. I learned this the hard way. Instead, make sure any advice you give to anyone on HubPages is reasonable advice. When I started giving advice on "How To Make $1,000 on HubPages" it was a S**t storm.

Just continue what you're doing and in a few months you will surely get results. I'm a member of hubpages for 3 years now and I already earn monthly income from the articles I've made 2 years ago and those I've made after that. If we keep on writing, more income will surely come. I've earned a few from Squidoo but don't have much article yet. For me, my hubpages articles earn more.

That'll get you one coffee at Starbucks. Not bad.

if you have that much success you should just create your own site. squidoo probably made more than you on your clicks...

Congratulations! Maybe you should look into monetizing your pages a different way to increase your profits.

Thanks guys.. and especially thanks to Soldier, Rikki and Harmsworth and also BestIMtools. I am planning to start my own website soon... but not just yet... and I might just try a new way to monetize my Lenses (thanks for idea best IMtools) but... I HAVE over 10,000 views on my Hub Page Hubs but I havent made one cent from them. and yes... I do have the adsense working for Hubpages. What am I missing?

Just my opinion here (based on my Hubpages), but I'm not that impressed with the learning languages niche.

It's quite easy to get ranking and traffic. However it's difficult to get people to buy stuff or click on Ads.

Why? Well my theory is that anyone who has the time to learn a language has a lot of time on their hands. Maybe they don't work so don't have much cash to spare.

So please don't put too much time and effort into a niche that may just be a waste of time.

I earned a lowest possible amount on squidoo. i.e 0.05 and i have just 8 articles so far. Let's see i need to improve on traffic and backlinks.

When you guys say 100-200 clicks, do you mean on links that you have on the pages? Or just views on your pages?

congs the first $ is hard to crack. You ow need to work and concentrate on what is making you some money.
its a numbers game!

I got fed up with InfoBarrel as they wouldn't let me put links in the body content, which is so useful when building an online empire.

My InfoBarrel AdSense earnings are also pretty poor compared to similar content on Hubpages. If I told you my Hubpages CTR in certain niches you would think I was kidding you. Yes so InfoBarrel might be a PR5 site one day, but by then Hubpages will probably be PR8.

On top of that the Analytics integration doesn't work properly with my Adsense account , and their affiliate scheme is very miserly (2%? what's that all about? It's 10% on Hubpages!).

Great ideas. Can you give me some more great info on how to succeed as an IM and Make Money Online.

I am really happy to hear about you, as you are doing lot of hard-work then it has to happen. I have not joined squidoo till now as i am not very good at article writing but after seeing many people doing this and also earning a good amount from it, i am also looking forward to join it.

congratulation ..i think you be doing a good job,,

Squidoo is a great middle man for sending articles and the like to you lens & increses your ranking, as google lobves this website. It is a good learning curve & somewhere you can hone you creative side & typing skills.

Don't give up, you seem to be doing the right things !

Mark :confused:

Congrats!

That's $6.33 more than what I've made so far.

WooHoo!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats!

Whatever you do, Don't give up! You have just made "some" money. So now your a believer! Take more action.

keep it up

but dont depend solely on squidoo for money

I wish you the best.

How are your earnings on Squidoo?

Congratulations! The first money is the hardest but it means you've done SOMETHING right. Why would you give up? You've crossed one of the toughest hurdles!! I'm a huge Squidoo fan and have a few tips to pass along at the bottom. First, some more encouragement....


Jay has capsulized one of the most important points of becoming successful. You already did the cycle once, now do it again.

Understand that you'd have to go through this cycle no matter which platform you chose - Squidoo, Hubpages, InfoBarrel, or your own site. Over and over you'll see people in this site explain that jumping from project to project can be a huge downfall. You've had some success on Squidoo so push it forward.

I started on Squidoo in Feb of last year and received my first check in May - 3 months after I started - for $13.15.

I kept going. This month's check? $381.34 just from revenue sharing and Amazon modules. I've averaged $291/month Jan through July of this year from Squidoo.

There are loads of people on this forum who do much better than I (that's why I come to this forum!) but I know that when I was starting out seeing real numbers helped me put things in perspective.

Many of my lenses have my own Amazon affiliate links in them instead of the modules so there's additional income on top of that average $291. I use Shareasale and Commission Junction links in many lenses.

One lens alone has earned over $1700 in affiliate revenue the past year outside of Squidoo's payment modules from just one vendor. You'd have a hard time telling which lens that was because it's not my highest traffic lens nor my highest rated lens - it's simply very targeted. As the fluffanutta implied, revenue sharing is just one of the income streams you have available to you from Squidoo so those averages don't tell the whole story.

Skills important to success would be the same set of skills you'd need for any of these platforms. It's more important that you understand keyword research and selection, how to write quality content, SEO, traffic generation, analytics and conversion than anything else.

The choice of platform has more to do with your skills and what you like to do than it has to do with which one is more successful. If you like to write, look for a platform that allows you to write without messing with HTML. If you like HTML and being visually creative, go with a platform that allows you to do that, etc.

I love HTML and that was what first drew me to Squidoo - the flexibility to be creative about how a lens looked inside the modules. Squidoo also has less restrictive outbound link limits than Hubpages. If you become a Giant, you have even fewer restrictions - an incentive to stick it out.

Is Squidoo appropriate for all niches? No. Is it better than having your own website? IMO, no. Is it a great way to learn and lead up to having your own sites? Absolutely.

I now use Squidoo mostly for backlinks and traffic generation to my own sites. It is no longer my main source of IM income. I have 126 lenses that generate 65,000 visitors a month. Many of those lenses have page rank of PR3-PR5. I create maybe a lens or two a month at this point but the older ones just keep bringing in money. In fact, income for some lenses has grown as they've continued to age.

Tips for generating income with Squidoo:

Pick targeted, low comp, long-tail keywords if you're a beginner. Check the commerciality of the keyword by checking Adwords bids and looking for ads on the side of Google when you enter the phrase into Google's search bar. Really think about the keyword as a consumer. If you were typing the phrase into Google would it mean that you were looking to spend money on something?

Learn how to analyze the competition of a keyword (if you don't already know). It will help you focus your efforts on lenses that have the best chance of success sooner rather than later.

Use module titles and subtitles that are keyword rich. Not keyword "stuffing" - keyword "rich". If your lens is about Sock Puppets, you could have module titles like "How to Create a Sock Puppet", "Sock Puppet Patterns", "Sock Puppet Crafts for Kids", "Selling Sock Puppets for Profit", etc. Don't just give every module the same title. )

Write a keyword rich intro sentence or two as this is often the description that shows up in Google for your lens.

Use keyword rich alt tags for images.

Add lots of relevant tags to your lens - this helps other Squidoo visitors find your lens through other lenses and works with some search engines, too.

Use an obvious call to action - a hyperlink in larger font, background colors to offset a link, the big arrows or boxes.

If you use Amazon modules fill out the product descriptions with more detail than the default information.

Build backlinks to your lenses using keyword anchor text.

Build a number of lenses in the same niche and link them together as the fluffanutta mentioned. Linked lenses work together nicely to gain more traffic.

Add the rel="nofollow" tag to outbound links you add in your module content, including affiliate links.

Use the SquidU community to get feedback. Follow the big lensmasters and learn from them. Study their lenses. Use Squidaholic to check traffic on lenses that look like good models to follow to see how much traffic they're generating.

Physical product reviews and informational lenses (how to, etc.) have done well for me on Squidoo.

Don't make short lenses with nothing new to give your visitor than what's already out there. Make the lens rich with content about your topic. IMO, words are a great tool for someone new to IM. Words can help bring visitors because the more you write about a topic the more you'll bring natural long-tailed search traffic.

Don't be afraid to re-use HTML from a previous lens. Your visitors won't know or care and it can help you build lenses more quickly if you copy and paste pre-prepared HTML into new lenses.

I think I've updated a handful of lenses over the past year. I do not keep them updated with fresh content to keep them where they are in Google. That would drive me crazy. If one lens is making relatively good money and I notice its slipped in rankings, I might update it with new content but that's about it. I spent way too much time babying them initially. Create the lens, promote it with a few articles and backlinks and go make another lens.

Which all means, btw, GO MAKE ANOTHER LENS!

hehe nice, it all adds up. 6.33 here, 6.33 there, u got urself almost 13 bucks

Congratulations on drawing your first blood on the internet!
Don't knock your 6.33 - hell I was happy with my first 1.12 from Amazon.

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Keep at it, and you'll make it far!

...if you're looking into different methods, I've embarked upon Facebook marketing. I just started one group today and am up to 100+ members already. Growth on facebook is fast, but I've noticed the com version rate is lower.

Search "Canadian connectors" and you'll find me.

Perhaps I'll make a new thread to update this experiment.
Get good at what you're doing before jumping around too much though. My issue is lack of focus. So many good things to try, so few hours in the day.

Now... I think that I should add some Clickbank Affiliate Products that go with my "TEACH ENGLISH NICHE."

However... I know for a fact that they aren't that many. But, I also know that anybody who finds my Squidoo Lens is a highly targeted potential customer who has a deep interest in the TEACH ENGLISH BUSINESS.

A job at McDonalds pays a lot more and is less taxing on the brain. LOL! Anyway, good job!

I have posted some lenses yet no money has come out of it so please what do I do to tap in something? can I have a reply from you on how you did it I am waiting to hearing from you soonest

I've had a few lenses on Squidoo which haven't generated any direct income; however, my own Amazon affiliate links within a consumer review page on Squidoo has given me some sales on amazon. The good thing about Squidoo is that their pages rank well but I think you need to market yourself outside of their limitations to make money.

The first thing I ahve to say to a fellow squid! is Congrats, this is just a start! most people really do give up and say that this content can be taken down or be used in the wrong way. When using squidoo everything rolls over, I totally recommend squidoo for a long term project

Also like another warrior said!

"Learn -> Apply -> Profit -> Learn -> Apply -> Profit"

Thats a common rule of internet marketing!

Rinse and Repeat over and over! So keep up the good work and in due time you`ll see a difference! Stick with it! My friend

Uh oh- $ 6.33! Ha, I'm kidding...you have to start somewhere, and you will quickly improve.

This is 100% serious.

You made $6 from one squidoo lens? Why not make 100? Or make 3-5 a day for the next couple of months. You know how to make money just scale it up.

But seriously, it's hard work. If you're not willing to put some work in then yes you should give up.

It annoys me so much what this world is turning into. Everybody expects something for nothing.

Hy,

Does I get from squidoo or hub only a part of my commission amazon? I dont wont share a part of my commission, on my own site I have 100% commission.

Squidoo has strong rules, damm,IM, dating, fitness and so on is not allowed.

marco005

Without very strong sales copy, what you are doing is going to keep getting the extremely small results you are getting. Strong sales copy either costs a LOT of money (with no guarantees) or the right personality plus a lot of learning.

My suggestion would be to change to something that fits your existing skills. If you have a massive ego and can persuade anyone to do anything, then you will already be writing amazing sales copy and you will already be making a fortune. But if that's not happening, then I suggest being extremely honest about what you CAN do already, and finding a method which fits that.

Many methods (such as ClickBank, selling Ebooks, etc.) require strong sales copy, but there are also plenty that don't . . . Amazon affiliate work can be done very profitably using honesty rather than hype (see my Sig for one Amazon method you can learn for free, although there are plent of others around here too).

Chris