Hi,

I've made one recently... I'm still trying to decide if it is worth insisting or not. At the very least the links are dofollow that's a way to get some nice back-links.

Sb.

For me, it's way too time consuming. Even once it's written, you have to continue messing with each article. Not worth it for me.

I never had any great results from it...or with article marketing. That doesn't mean it doesn't work though!

its not so effective is not really that important for some people it dident work but it might for you hope this helps

I make them rarely but they never seem to have to much of an impact. But with anything I am sure if you devoted the time to it they would be successful. I just like building my own sites over getting traffic to squidoo instead of my own

For me, the time involved in creating the modules for each lens and updating the lens simply isn't efficient for the results squidoo provides.... there are much, much more effective methods. That's my experience, others may of course have entirely different results using squidoo.

I've created 2-3 lenses but it seems like they're not very effective, other sites has been working better for me. But hey, at least they provide backlinks :p

I don't. I think squidoo has become too picky not worthy of your time.

I've made a few, they were all pretty much a waste of time.

The days are gone when you could make decent money with squidoo (some people still do don't get me wrong but it's more difficult now)

To me they're just another Web 2.0 to utilize while building links to my website

I clean house with Squidoo lenses. Most people don't know how to build them properly or utilize the internal factors that can launch you to the top of the search engines. Building a killer lens that pulls in a ton of traffic and sales does take time, but doesn't a quality micro niche site as well?

If you're relying on outdated practices for leveraging the power of Squidoo and only monetizing your lenses with the default Amazon modules and the like, you're seriously missing out.

I stopped creating lenses for affiliate promotion some time ago. The traffic dropped after a Google update and so I gave it up.

Instead, I do link from Squidoo to my sites from time to time.

I do. Its a wonder source of quality traffic and back links. I have many lenses there. And i make it a point to create new lenses every now and then.

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I make some good money from my lenses. It is more of a hobby for me. I make a lens about a show I like or a new thing I bought that I really liked... basically anything I want to write about that I don't want to build a full website around. It is a lot of fun and lets me get my creative juices flowing.

I've tried it before a couple of years back promoting a Clickbank product but haven't had much success. Then just a few weeks ago, saw a cool squidoo about cooking and realized that Squidoo could be helpful if you're into Amazon affiliate marketing.

Anyway, I'm sure there are many people out there having success with Squidoo. It just matters what strategy you're using along with several other factors.

Squidoo lenses built with good content and proper optimization tend to to well. Squidoo lenses are especially lucrative for Amazon affiliate marketing since they rank well even for competitive keywords. IIf you have several Squidoo lenses ou can make a nice side income from prooting Amazon products.

I made one once - didn't see any real boost from it. Just a lot of time spent for a stupid backlink. My articles actually produce traffic and sales and I can resource the bejeebers out of them, so I just stick to that.

I get traffic from some of my lenses to my main sites, which can give me quality backlinks as well. You have to create a killer lense though. Just using PLR or something will not work. I also get similar results from hubpages. Sometimes I link from a hubpage to my squidoo lenses to get them to rank faster.

The only thing I think squidoo is good for at the moment is the building of backlinks.

I use it and I found it to be great! Yes it takes time but thats everything we do these days, and you can seriously earn from squidoo if you know the proper way to do it, and who to go to for advice and help. I have made a earned a great deal from squidoo and support it all the time. I visit my squidoo lenses every day and update them and a daily basis. It takes time and hard work but when you have something like this going for you, you`ll find that it makes all the sense in the world. If you like to write even better, if you not you might find this site hard to work with but in the end its worth it. Remember that, and remember that many people have earned large amounts from this site. It truly works!

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Squidoo can be worth the time if you put effort into it, make an engaging lense, use good tags and make it believable. I had done some lenses and had some success but that was a couple of years ago.

If you have the time I would recommend doing at least one and look at the results. Although I don't believe it carries as much weight as it use to, I do think it's still can be a good tool to use.

I am sure it is like anything, it depends on the effort you put into it. I focus on writing as many articles as I can, and turning some of them into books and placing the rest into my PLR site.

But I have tried it and never did well with it...but I am sure I dod not create enough of them to be fair about it.

I did once and didnt like how it works and never bothered with it again, and that was 4-5 yrs ago.

Creating squidoo lens is a very effective way to promote a product or website. Squidoo is a web 2.0 site and google love these type of sites. You will see a lot of search term's results got squidoo pages in number 1 position. There are some good ways to build a good quality lens and if you follow those, your lens will achieve high PR within a few days which will be very helpful for your business and website. The best way to make a good lens is to adding contents and modules into it. Once your lens become a featured lens, you will automatically receive traffic through it.

I think Squidoo can have potential for those who have time to maintain it, but there are much better traffic generation techniques that are more effective and less time consuming.

I used to use Squidoo but the results was slim to none. This is when i was first starting out. Then i just gave up on it all together and found another marketing tactic that i could replace Squidoo with.

I've been dedicated to Squidoo for the past 6 months. I am going to make $200+ next month just from being in high paying tiers. I base most of my lenses around the popular PC game Minecraft. I get roughly 1,500 uniques a day (give or take) just from Squidoo alone. I have found that making a lens that can rank well fast, can give you a better turnaround in profit than trying to promote a product.

What I plan on doing next is building websites that link directly to my lenses, because traffic equals a bigger payday. In the Squidoo world, you have to find a topic that everyone is searching for, but nobody has made. It can be done though with lots of hard work and perseverance.

I had hard time submitting one quality article to them. The system kept rejecting it complaining about some wording but without giving me a clear clue what exatcly were they. So I eventually gave up on squidoo.

This is interesting seeing the different views about writing Squidoo lenses. I too have been wondering the same thing, is it worth it. I have been thinking of creating a couple of lenses to see if it will help with the back links to some of my sites.
Debbie

I still do it for backlinking purposes. But other than that I dont depend on squidoo for income. I found it very troublesome.

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I've left lenses alone and they still yield occassional sales....The trick is similar to what Logan said above...Develop your site into an authority site.

This is actually easier with Clickbank product than with Amazon products....

Let's say you were promoting a CB product that talks about making money at car auctions.....You could talk about car auctions themselves as well as anecdotes from others about car auctions. You can display videos that talk about the process. You can also talk about the auto reselling industry as a whole and how to springboard into making money from other means besides auctions.

Mind mapping helps with this but really take the time and write down every related piece of information to your subject matter and then construct your modules around these different pieces of information.

You don't necessarily have get your lens ranked well on Google....You will also get traffic from within the Squidoo community. About half of my sales come from within....

The nice thing about Squidoo is that they give you different modules to insert so that you can easily create an authority site that talks about all of the angles of your subject matter while looking very attractive. At the same time, you can insert your affiliate link throughout different modules in the lens and really cash in!

Squidoo is so 2009....I am big Weebly Fan now. Have over 20 sites for myself and clients. Most of them rank on Google Page One.

I've been using Squidoo for several years and got discouraged when they began to ban certain Clickbank review products, but the quality of the lenses has improved as a result. Now, when I create a lens, it is to "test" the waters of a niche.

Like everything else online, usually 1 or 2 will outperform the others and I have one that is more of a lead generator to making a steady income from a pet product....so you just have to get in there and...swim.

I prefer Wordpress and making my own websites, but Squidoo can rank better and quicker depending on your keyword selection. I LOVE Squidoo because that is where I started, but it is not my meat and potatoes.

But, as stated above, there are some folks there who do VERY well...so check it out!

Kristie from Georgia

I too have written a few articles (lenses) with Squidoo without much success. To be honest, I really didn't do a lot of keyword research but I also found it difficult to get through the stages of writing one. I think staying consistent and focusing on your niche is a key component in being successful here.

Not worth it

Never and wouldn't bother

Would rather put my content
on my own properties

or forums like warriorforum

I made like 150 from them this month so not bad.

Hi :-)
I have made about 12 lenses, most of them very high quality, you can have a look at them my user there is picnicideas

However didn't make one cent, and don't know even how squidoo pays.
I truly don't recommend.

I'm no expert or anything at all, but I just decided to give it a go to see how things would pan out. I created one lens and started working on a bit of traffic for it, also bought a few Fiverr gigs on it. I've managed after a month or so to get it to #1 on Google for my keyword which is a pretty decent competitive keyword (12,000 Exact searches in Google). While I'm not making any riches or anything to retire on, I've made a few Clickbank affiliate sales from it as well, so I'm playing around with it a bit here and there.

I just created a 2nd lens now to test the waters with it and so far I've managed to make a sale from it as well... and I just got it going recently. Hoping I can get a lens to where it's generating regular flow of traffic, but hey, every little penny helps, and I thank the Lord and count my blessings for every dollar and cent I make with anything I do. So while I don't know the tried and true formula that the experts know to monetize it to make hundreds a day, I'm making a little something from them and they haven't cost me much of anything at all to maintain either. Thought I'd test them out though... I know the best recommended method, create a website, squeeze page, mailing list, and so on. I just wanted to try Squidoo though as well to see if I could make it do something, and what potential it may have as well. Best of success to you all (and more to those of you already pouring in the money... I aspire to get to your status someday!)

I've seen Squidoo pages ranking quite well recently so I might give it a go again.

I think if you do some k/w research and create several lenses with internal linking structure you might be able to get some traffic.