Squidoo Makes Making Money Without a Website Possible

What is Squidoo and how can it help you make money on the Internet? If you have been on the Internet for any period of time during the last few years you probably know about blogging. Squidoo can be likened to your own personal blog with a dose of something extra. Using Squidoo is very easy and quick to use. It is a social site that you can use for free to get your message out to the world without having to know anything about building websites. You can use the lenses that you build to socialize and send your message to the Internet. You can also use Squidoo lenses to help you make money and get visitors to your website.

Squidoo could be described as being a My Space for people past their teen years. Adults are using Squidoo as their own personal portal on the web. Some folks use this site for personal and informational uses. Others use this site as an extension of their business presence. One benefit for Internet marketing users is that Google sends its search spiders to Squidoo frequently. If you are just getting started with a website Squidoo can help send visitors that you ordinarily wouldn't get. You can put in a quick few paragraphs about your site and use a hyperlink (link) back to your website. Theoretically, you don't need a website. Just use Squidoo.

Obviously, Squidoo has a profit motive in mind for offering people a free Web presence. Each little Web space(lens) that you get from Squidoo will feature advertisements that may be of interest to people looking at your particular Squidoo topic. These small sites are called Lenses. A squid has a large pair of eyes. So let's just assume that is why Squidoo uses the term Lenses to describe these web spaces. You look through a lens. No matter, it's free and free is terrific these days.

So how could you use a Squidoo lens in your Internet marketing efforts? If you are at all familiar with article marketing then you know that people use this strategy to make money. You promote an affiliate product like an e-book or physical product like automobile tires. You write a small article of interest and insert specific keywords that perspective buyers might search for on the Internet search engines. By using specific keywords in you're article, you might attract the interest of a consumer looking for such a product. The prospect visits your site or lens to get more information. Squidoo allows you to use a link that will send a customer to a sales page of the product or service that you are promoting. If someone buys you get a commission. So using Squidoo can help you sell products and make money on the Internet with little outlay.

The trend of the various e-zines that allow people to write articles for free is to ban direct links to affiliate sales pages. They have you send the article reader to a website. At present, Squidoo has no ban on linking to affiliate sales pages. Using a Squidoo lens and placing links to affiliate sites is a great free way to make some money for a person just starting out.

Not only does Squidoo give you a free place to advertise your business, but they also give you the option of sharing in some of the revenue. If you get enough visits to your particular lens, and people click on the ads you can share in the revenue. Squidoo offers people to opt in to this revenue-sharing arrangement. For getting a start to making money on the Internet a Squidoo lens is awesome. Some people are developing hundreds of lenses on various topics for free.

We have just covered just a little about the way that you can use Squidoo and combine it in your Internet money making strategy. You can find a lot more information by searching on Squidoo itself. Some of the lens-masters give tutorials to newbies on how to build moneymaking lenses. So do yourself a favor and check out how to build a lens on Squidoo.