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Squidoo and Growing My Online Business
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Oct 2, 2007, 23:50


Squidoo is a web site containing information and articles on every topic. It is a podium designed for users who would like to set up a distinct web page on a topic of their choice.

It is a popular online community launched around October 2005 by the and blogger Seth Godin. There are so many benefits available for a user of Squidoo. It provides an easy and quick method to increase traffic to the user’s web site.

There are so many links available in Squidoo and a user can use them to make their pages more visible. It is a platform for people who want to make money through their ads and web trafficking.

Squidoo’s directories are called lenses and each lens is devoted for different topics which almost resemble blogs. The Squidoo sites allow their users to share their expertise on a specific topic and so those who use Squidoo can save their time as they don't have to surf many sites to find information.

Web sites with online guides and answers aren't anything new. The users, also called lensmasters, can make an earning from the advertisements and other income by generating links on the site. First, all the revenues are applied towards Squidoo’s overhead costs. Then, leaving a 5 percent of their share for charity, the lensmasters can share in the profits.

Money can even be made by posting Google ads to lenses. About half of the income generated from Google advertisements goes to top lensmasters. Money can also be made when sales are made via links to sites like ebay and Amazon.com.

If you want to grow your business and improve your contacts, then you should develop your own lens in Squidoo. Because of the popularity Squidoo enjoys, you can make your business known to the whole globe by publishing the details in your Squidoo lens. Almost more than 14,000 lenses had been built in the year 2006 and it is growing and gaining popularity day by day.

So, to make an effective lens in Squidoo, you should make your lens with rich keywords, interesting facts and loads of information and of course you need to update your content now and then. Squidoo is so very popular because it allows the average person to set up his own page on any topic of his interest. In the lens, the lensmasters describe themselves and then Squidoo adds the information to its community.

If the user wants to create more online trafficking to his web site, he can use lenses to direct the customers to his web site. The user can market his products through Squidoo’s lenses and can make some money.

As Squidoo’s lenses are free to use, it can be used by anybody to increase traffic to their web site. Also, one can make a fan base if they are able to create contents which people may like to read.

Squidoo is a web platform which encourages new ways of thinking. The users can make use of Squidoo to grow their business, to share contents, to increase traffic to their web site and much more can be done with innovative ideas

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