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Promote your site with a Squidoo lens

Have you heard of Squidoo? I’ve been a member of Squidoo since 2005, shortly after the site opened it’s doors to those who wanted to promote their websites in a very different way.

Squidoo allows members to make what they call a lens. A lens is a window to promote perhaps another sites or a number of similar sites on the internet. You can add as much information to your lens as you like in order to point others towards your website.

I made my first lens, as I said, back in 2005. It was for my reptile and amphibian care website
. I have information on that site about a lot of different reptiles but the majority is for one type of lizard – the water dragon. So what I did was to add snippets of care information to the lens that I created that lead to specific pages on my website where my lens visitors could learn even more in depth information about the care of the water dragon lizard. I did the same thing on another lens for iguana care.

I was also able to add modules to my lens that allowed me to select items from online stores like overstock.com, Amazon and many others for which, if I sold any items through my lens I’d get a percentage of the royalties that Squidoo made off the sale. Profits from a lens can also be donated to a number of charities as well.

I didn’t do much with my lens over the last year, but I’ve recently gone back and given them an overhaul adding new modules and updating the information.

As I said you can do as much or as little to your lens as you’d like. If you were to create one for your website you might add your RSS feed so that visitors could see your latest posts, as well as write a summary of what your site is about. You can also add link modules in order to link to similar types of sites.

I’ve now created lens for all of the blogs that my husband and I run. Each one has a summary of the blog, RSS feeds, links, shopping modules and I’ve added as many tags to the lenses as possible that describe the site accurately so that people will be able to find my lens easily on Squidoo or perhaps even via a search engine.

Visitors to your lens can rank your lens from one to five stars, so if you create a lens try to do a good job so that you’ll get a good rating. I believe the rating system helps with a lens popularity on the site as well.

The people as squidoo also send out newsletters telling members of popular lenses each day and you can apply to have your own lens promoted in order to get more visitors and ratings for your lens.

Check it out for yourself. At the very least it’s another way to promote your website and at the most it’s a way to make a little bit of extra money if your lens does well!

Visit Squidoo to make your own Lens.

Mylot – a way to make money?

by Tricia

I was toying with MyLot for a while as a way to make a little bit of extra money here and there.

Basically, Mylot is a community of individuals from around the world who share information and help one another with questions that they might have. Post a question on the site, or answer one with a worthy answer and you’ll be rewarded monetarily. The more you participate on the site the more money you’ll eventually make.

Site members reading the various questions and answers can rate your answer, as can the person who asked the question in the first place. I believe that securing best answer will give you a slightly better payout.

Mylot doesn’t seem like a way to make money quickly. To earn a good sum of money I believe that you’d have to both answer and compose at least 100 questions each day if not more. While it’s true that you don’t have to provide in depth questions or answers, the better your answers are the more money you’ll probably make down the road. Remember Mylot community members rate one another and so does the person who originally posed a question. You want to strive for best answer, and try to write interesting questions that a number of people will participate in answering.

If you enjoy talking with others online this might be a good place for you to visit.

Making Money with affiliate programs

by Tricia

If you are looking for good ways to monetize your website or blog you might try the following affiliate programs:

I’ve been using Amazon since 1998 or so. I have Amazon banners and buttons on a few of my blogs but the majority of sales that I make through Amazon are on my main website. My earnings have slowed in the last few years, but I’d say that I’ve probably sold about half a million dollars worth of merchandise for Amazon in the time I’ve been working with them and I’ve made several thousand dollars as a result of those sales. Amazon has worked fairly well for me.

Chitika on the other hand is something that I only started to try on my blogs about eight months or so ago. Over all it has not been all that successful for me. Perhaps if I put it on my large and busy website I’d do better. Certainly Chitika works well for many web site owners. In fact I’ve heard many state that it brings in as much or more as Amazon or Google Adsense for them. It does not for me.

As far as affiliate programs go Google Adsense is fast becoming my best money earner. Now, compared to A list bloggers I’m not making thousands each month or anything, but I am making enough that I get paid by them each month. I can’t say how much I’ve made because that is against Google Adsense’s terms of agreement.

I use Google Adsense on all of my websites and blogs. Perhaps that is one reason why I earn the most from them as affiliate programs go.

I’ve found that blending the ads into the site, and not over using Adsense works best. Glaring ads turn people off. For some, the amount of Google ads that I have on this site might be too much, but there are many sites out there with huge ads in their posts, that to me, just seems to ruin the reading experience. My suggestion is to not have ads obstruct the flow of your post or article.

Give these affiliate programs a try for a month or longer. More than likely one will work better for you than the rest.

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