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What is a type of "web 2.0" site that allows users to create lenses, which are individual pages on the Squidoo.com domain, covering a specific topic? Well, it is something that Internet Marketers really like, a wonderful resource called Squidoo.
If you are wondering what is so great about that, when thousands of other sites out there allow you to do the same thing, Squidoo is unique because they make it incredibly easy to create a web page with graphics, content, and interactivity and they enable you to use the page to make money with it as well.
Some other web 2.0 sites allow a minimal amount of marketing to take place. However, they're far stricter about the number of outgoing links you can have, and they often have other rules which makes it harder to use the site for your own profit.
A site that was finally created for it to be used for commercial purposes in addition to being a valued consumer resource, Squidoo that is, have thousands of smart marketers flooding the site to take advantage of the free tools available to them.
Tools like iFrames that make it easy for spammers to abuse the system, get Squidoo to take fast action and remove them altogether from the site. Some other mayor topics, are also banned from the site, to keep unethical marketers away. Clearly, this is very frustrating for a lot of honest marketers, but makes it harder for spammers to abuse the system.
There are also policies regarding the quality of lenses requiring a more substantial amount of content to be published before the lens would show up in searches on the Squidoo site itself. This also helped deter lazy marketers who would put up a lens with just a paragraph or two of keyword-rich text and then a bunch of outbound links, which would detract from the site's overall quality for visitors.
Your business can benefit from using Squidoo in many ways. Through your lens, you can promote services, products, or affiliate items, and even have multiple accounts and on each free account, you can have an endless supply of lenses.
These can be cross promoted or build one master topic lens, and then branch out to build a number of more targeted lenses. Squidoo helps anyone be an expert on any subject, and Google likes Squidoo pages, which helps your lenses acquire higher page rankings in the search engine results for many competitive keywords and phrases.
Those who sell on eBay also love to promote their eBay stores or auctions through Squidoo, using built in eBay modules (building blocks) that Squidoo offers. Some modules give the lensmaster a share of co-op earnings through AdSense and some module profits. But you can also use text and image links to funnel traffic directly through to your own domain.
And If you ask when or who should have a lens and why, the answers are as many as your imagination can come up with: if you have a website, a lens is another way for people to discover it. If you have a blog, a lens is a great way to highlight your best posts and to point to the products and services that you write about, read about, enjoy or want to see succeed.
If you are an author, your lens should include links to all your books on Amazon or include links to other authors you admire or their books too. If you are an entrepreneur, you could find that a few built lenses on a variety of topics would earn you daily passive revenueBut just as a person, you should build a lens aboutyou! Yes, with your connections to your social sites, links to your achievements, books, articles published and of course your bio box as well.
