What is squidoo and how do you make money with squidoo?

Squidoo is a website where you can make webpages (called lenses) about subjects that interest you. When you create a lens, you put together different modules such as a text module where you can write about something, or Amazon or eBay modules where you can recommend products and share earnings with Squidoo. If you create T-shirts and other products on Cafepress or Zazzle, Squidoo has modules where you can show off what you've made.

Squidoo also has different types of ads on lenses like Adsense. You don't directly get paid when someone clicks on an Adsense ad on one of your Squidoo lenses. Instead, the adsense money goes in a pool, and you may get some of the money in that pool for your lenses that have adequate "lensrank."

In Squidoo, lensrank is determined by different factors like how much traffic your lens gets, how often you update it, etc. Squidoo also has different tiers of lensrank and you get paid for your lenses a certain amount according to the tier they are in. You can learn more about lensrank at http://www.squidoo.com/lensrank-101

My thoughts if you want to get started with Squidoo are to make a page (lens) about something you are interested in and include some Amazon modules or other affiliate links. Make sure you don't make a lens about any of the Squid Don't Topics though. http://www.squidoo.com/squiddont
This may be useful when creating your first lens: http://www.squidoo.com/first_lens

All I will say about how much I make on Squidoo is that it helps pay a couple bills. There are others out there who make more on Squidoo and post about their earnings such as Squidoo Girl http://www.squidoogirl.com/tag/squidoo-2010-earnings/

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