Online Advertising Marketing Highlighting Squidoo To Boost Sales
Written by Trisha Frauenhofer   
Thursday, 12 February 2009 10:41
If you haven't heard of Squidoo, you probably will, soon. You'll run across a site on the first page of your preferred search engine, or follow a link to someone else's site. If you don't know what Squidoo is, you're missing out on a lot of information, and you're not getting into a great method of online advertising marketing.
by TrishaFrauenhofer


If you haven't heard of Squidoo, you probably will, soon. You'll run across a site on the first page of your preferred search engine, or follow a link to someone else's site. If you don't know what Squidoo is, you're missing out on a lot of information, and you're not getting into a great method of online advertising marketing.

If you've got a blog or website and would like to direct traffic to it for free, Squidoo is one of the quickest, easiest ways to do so. It's easy to use and free, as well as being fun. You can have your Squidoo site up and running, and doing all the promotion work it can in just fifteen minutes. You don't even have to have your own hosting service for photos or other media - it's all done for you. Affiliate marketers use Squidoo to market their products. You can look at this site like a combination of a MySpace account, mini website, and blog.

The site you make in Squidoo is called a lens, and this is what you're most likely to run across while searching online. These are the sites that are used to promote products and distribute information. A lens is made up of modules, which are like posts to a blog.

There are lots of different types of module available. EBay modules are available for sellers on that site. YouTube modules allow you to incorporate video into your lens, for cases where pictures and text don't do the job. Your Squidoo modules are great for hosting reviews, testimonials, and articles about your product or service. You'll have the opportunity to tell readers all about it and encourage them to want to find out more. Don't give away everything, of course, since your lens works as a form of promotion. You want readers to click through to your main site, instead.

Squidoo can also be used to drive traffic to a primary blog, using an RSS feed module. Just load your blog's RSS feed into the lens, and it'll update automatically when you do.

There's a lot Squidoo has to offer, including tips on how to choose the best keywords for optimum traffic. Since lenses can have a high ranking on sites like Google, they allow you to build backlinks to your primary site or blog as desired.

One of the great things about Squidoo is that it is free, yet you can earn a little bit of money when you use it. Squidoo makes it money from affiliate advertising with Google AdSense, EBay, and many other sites. They keep track of the earnings, for each module, and split the profits with you by half. If you choose, you can donate your money to a charity, set up through Squidoo.

Many Squidoo users simply like to use it to get pertinent information out. They simply want to let other readers know about something that they feel is important and they can share about their experiences using this method of online advertising marketing. If you haven't done so, start searching the net for Squidoo sites, and then visit Squidoo and have fun.

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