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The Internet is the premier virtual real estate of all times. It is spawning more millionaires that any other phenomenon in history. One of the more pristine pieces of virtual real estate you can find online is Seth Godin' creation with the funny name "squidoo". Squidoo is a true web 2.0 system that allows you to create web pages on the go, and promote them for maximum profit. All of this is free. In this article, I want to share some of what I learned about how to make money online with squidoo

Join Squidoo Free and Build a Lens: Squidoo allows anyone to join free, and start building lens or web pages just as quickly. But, like everything else, there are neat little tricks and tips here and there that will help you get the best results. For affiliate marketers in particular, squidoo is a pristine virtual real estate, not to be missed. You can just as soon make money with squidoo as you can with everything else online. So, to begin your journey, you need to build your first lens. Let us talk about that a little.

How To Make your lens worth reading: Although you may be very anxious to sell your products or services via squidoo, you have to remember why people will read your lens in the first place. It must be worth reading. Whatever topic you choose, make sure that it is worth reading. Create only short paragraphs and spruce up your lens with some nice graphics too. Your lens must not be boring, or else you will lose your reader. Remember that even if you are very passionate about the topic you are discussing, your goal should be getting the reader to click your money-making links.

So let us get back to the idea of building a lens. You will want to choose a topic in which you are interested, and for which there is some amount of desire on the part of the general Internet population. This is how you can find a good idea. Go online to your favourite search engine and type in "how to" or "teach me how to". When people are looking to solve problems, they usually type something similar. You are going to see a bunch of interesting results. Choose what you like, and refine your research with the Google adwords tool. Look that up too.

Maximize your own links and minimize non-owned links. There are lots of modules on squidoo and many of them are fun to use. But if you allow your readers to leave your lens by any means possible, you could be giving away money. You should control as many of the out-bound links as possible. Make sure that when your readers leave your lens, they are actually going to a link you control.

You should leave your feedback module in place so people can tell you how they like your lens. Sometimes you need to allow direct feedback from your readers so that you can make money online whether you are using squidoo or something else. In promoting your lens you should also bear in mind that squidoo its own adsense and other modules on every lens. This means that you are contributing to their sales just by building a lens. Do not feel that you must donate all of your earnings to charity.

So now that your lens is looking spiffy and ready for the world, you will need to promote it. A dead lens, like a dead website is a complete waste of time. To promote your lens, use tags, bookmarks, and directories to promote them. Some of these are pingomatic.com, squidutils.com, squidom.com, and isleofsquid.com. There are many others. Also, you can bookmark to many social pages at once using onlywire.com . A great idea is to go around to the top lens in your area, and type in comments in their feedback forms with links to your own lens. Even if they do not reciprocate, you should benefit.

One of the many ways you can make money online is by seriously promoting residual income programs. Residual income programs are programs like GDI, SFI, Wealthy Affiliate, and empowerism, that pay you a monthly income for work done one time. Usually you have to remain a paid member of these programs to make money with them. The idea however is still a good one, and if you are genuinely interested in their programs, you can make extra money online from promoting them.

The truth is, you can find a few lucrative programs online that lend themselves readily to residual monthly income. Programs such as GDI, wealthy affiliate, SFI, and others are genuine money-makers that will create a nice cash flow for you right from your squidoo lens. Do not forget that squidoo is free and so are all of the tools I have just discussed.

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