Be unique

Research your topic and include good, solid content on your lens

Join groups

Be active in SquidU and here- you’ll learn a lot

Visit the Top 100 lenses and see what they are doing & how the lenses are formatted

Use relevant keywords (and include them in your content!)

Have a great week!

My suggestions would be:
1) pick niche keywords
2) write good content about your topic
3) add relevant affiliate links from the major networks (CJ, LinkShare, Performics)
4) add your lens to a variety of Squidoo groups
5) leave ratings and reviews on other related lenses with a hyperlink back to your own

This is what I’ve done. I don’t know how much revenue I’ll get from Squidoo for October until now, but I do know that my network affiliate links have earned about $90 in the last 35 days, so I’m thrilled.

Thanks for the Google keyword tool tip.

I have also found that a lens which I thought was niche enough, really wasn’t after all. This was after the lens had been published for about a week. I often find even more specific keywords to build a lens on when looking at my search keywords under my stats. I love finding gems like that because I know people really are looking for that item so doing this is almost a hit from the start.

marie

I’ll be honest with you, I do have lenses that I haven’t updated in months and most of them take a beating. I try to take 5 minutes every day to tweak a lens or two. I also try to build at least one lens a day, but I’m not always successful with this.

I have also found that volume is a good key. The key is to think small and specific. Instead of making a large lens about video games where you’ll be lucky to be found through a natural search by Google because the keyword is too competive, make a 5 lenses about system skins each for a particular system. Or instead of one large lens about women’s NFL jerseys, make several lenses about specific types of women’s NFL jerseys.

You may only be making $5 per month per lens, but if you have 60 lenses making $5 per month then you’ll be making $300 a month.

Both examples I have listed above are thought processes that have been successful for me lately. Once you start to think small picture, you’ll have all kinds of ideas open up and you won’t know where to start. At least this is what has happened to me.

Brenda

1. It is focused on a group of people who are interested and have money to spend
2. It is targeted/optimized enough so that it can be found on the search engines.
3. The amount of people searching this topic combined with the average value per person makes it worth while to spend the time and effort to build a page on it.

So far, I have not even made one mention of squidoo but I can tell you that it is a very good tool to use AFTER you have made some market decisions.

I cannot give you all the answers here because it would take too long. But if you head on over to http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com you can learn this process for free.

I did it. I had a bunch of false starts. I am on my 10th lens and I am making enough to pay my mortgage. My market is seasonal and is heating up because of the huge Xmas shopping season. In essence, only one of the various products that I am promoting is making 95% of my income.

So, in a nutshell, instead of panning for gold in the desert, learn how to chose your market first, then use Squidoo to blow the doors off your ‘competition’ AND wow your readers so much they open their wallets.

Cheers!
Tom aka Magicality

Thanks!

Tammy Dickinson

Make your Squidoo lens a valuable site that “points somewhere”…that is what Squidoo lenses are supposed to do, give a focused lens on a specific topic.

Make your lens about a specific topic.

Offer a specific gift for someone visiting, that is specific to that topic (keywords too).

Give visitors enough valuable content to want to recommend and return.

Almost sounds like marketing eh?

Joseph Ratliff
Author of The Profitable Business Edge 2