Make Money Online Free with Squidoo

Squidoo has had its growing pains in the past year but is still the best free way to make money online especially for beginners and advanced marketers alike. There are people making money online full time just by using Squidoo. That is how powerful Squidoo is.

To make money online free with Squidoo you first must understand some of its qualities. Squidoo ia a one page site that is easily monetized just by the way it is designed. Google has always been very fond of Squidoo and Squidoo works very hard to maintain its favor with Google. Since Squidoo got spanked from Google over a year ago a lot of marketers started to shy away from here. But for those that hung around they were optimizing the ability to make money online at home just from Squidoo.

The best way to make money from Squidoo is to make sure that you have fully optimized keyword rich modules. Squidoo now has no-followed the tags from Google so you keywords are determined by the content provided. The tags however still produce value to the inner workings of Squidoo so don’t avoid them all together. Squidoo members can help you with your rankings and backlinks within Squidoo itself. You are found by the tags you choose.

Squidoo runs its own Adsense ads and you are supposed to be making money from a percentage of the clicks. I have no idea how this is decided or what the percentage is. I know it isn’t much so I don’t even worry about it.

The way you make money on Squidoo is by either using their monetizing modules or by using your own methods of monetizing modules. For instance, there are a couple of modules, eBay and Amazon that you are supposed to be able to earn money from.  How ever I did not use their modules for them.

If you have are a member of EPN or Amazon you can place you own affiliate sources  gaining a greater amount of the money earned.

This is what the eBay affiliate looks like when inserted into Squidoo:

This allows me to make money online from eBay for full affiliate pay instead of sharing anything from Squidoo.

The same pretty much goes for Amazon. Instead of only earning a portion of the money from Amazon by using Squidoo’s Amazon Module I earn my full commission. Here is another example:

For some reason I cannot get the image to upload. But you get the idea. Of course the more of these individual ads that you run the more opportunity you will have to earn money.

As I have already stated Squidoo runs the Adsense Ads and you really don’t make money online from these ads, but now Clickbank has their own ads that you can make money online free with. These are called HopAd. Go to Clickbank and look for the HopAd Builder. Here you can build text ads or tabbed ads.

This is an example of text ads:

The ads at the bottom of this module are Clickbank HopAds with your affiliate id implated in the ads.

Squidoo stopped allow iframes quite a while but now there is a way to ad your opt-in forms into Squidoo. If you do email marketing the opt-in form is a huge benefit on Squidoo. I know I get a lot of traffic from search engines and inside Squidoo itself. To be able to capture these leads is a plus. Just offer a free upload or free information and you are good to go. Everyone likes free!

Here is an example of an email opt-in form:

If you are interested in finding out how to add an opt-in form on your lens go to the link. And if you want to find out how to add Clickbank HopAds go to the link. You will have to give up your email address to receive the manual for the Clickbank HopAd. Neither one of these methods cost any money. So far we are still making money online free through Squidoo.

Also with Squidoo there are a few things you need to know first before you get started. As Squidoo is a one page site, you will definitely want to be focusing on those longtail keywords. This will speed you along with your page rank in Google. The traffic may not be as high but you will be getting a more targeted traffic that are looking to buy. Also when thinking Squidoo think products. Services do OK but you will make money online faster if you use Squidoo for products.

If you are using Squidoo for link building not all modules have do follow links. The Do follow list includes these modules:

Introduction
Text/Write
Poll (remember you can hyperlink your answers!)
Featured Lenses
Text/Link Lists
Text/Link Plexos (although I don’t recommend that you use these because
it’s link leakage)

Squidoo has a wide range of possibilities when it comes to the ability to make money online Free. Along with the ability to make money with your Squidoo lens you can have unlimited lenses. I started out having a lot of lenses on one account which was a big mistake. You do have the opportunity to move lenses around to other accounts however. This option is built into Squidoo. I would not recommend having too many lenses on one account.

Oh I almost forgot another money maker with Squidoo. Lense flipping! With the ability to move lenses around you can also sell lenses. Lens Flipping is a lot like site flipping but way easier. All you need to do is change one lens to a different lens account. Squidoo lenses are selling for hundreds of dollars and they don’t even have to have high PR. You can build a well optimized lens (or2 or 10) today and sell them off tomorrow. You would be surprised at how easy this is and how much money is involved with this. This is a huge way to make fast money fast online and all for free.