Squidoo and Affiliate marketing?

[StephenR]

I've been looking at Squidoo for a little while now and finally registered a lens. Why? Well, while doing some Adword research for an affiliate program I wanted to promote I noticed a smart affiliate had already created a lens for it....and it ranked number 3 in google for a VERY competitive product name.

That's pretty darn good. Social networks such as Squidoo will increasingly become a necessity for us affiliates. Every bit of exposure helps and sites like Squidoo are viral in nature which helps them rank better in the SE's for organic listings. When properly harnessed I think you can drive quite a bit of traffic to your affiliate sites using Squidoo Lenses.

[affiliatetools]

- I build a lens now it has aa month but it rank =34 for google
But the most important thing that you should promote this lens. I think it is easy to rank well in short time with lens than blog or web site.
You can verify "seo free tools" and the lens is
Seo Search Engine Optimization Free Tools on Squidoo

[Franck S]

Squidoo is great, I've just made my first sale, and my lens send me a lot of people to my main site as well.

You need to update the lens at least twice a week, and use the various plexos (amazon, feeds...).

It is a good idea to promote your lens like you would promote your blog, and to ping your lens with a service like pingoat.com after each update.

You can also add your lens to your bio box when you submit articles to directories.

Don't forget to participate in other Squidoo Groups as well.

BTW, I really like the Squidoo design. Seth is good, a good example to follow in marketing.

[Idea Guy]

Originally Posted by TUTTI

Im not sure about the affiliate thingy on Squidoo but for sure Squidoo drives traffic to my sites ^__^

Me too Tutti..
I also joined the groups... They're great help too..

[psp]

I'm sorry to bring you the bad news that Squidoo is no more encouraged by GOOGLE. From the last one week or so, all the squidoo lenses were slapped by the google. Even netscape has banned the squidoo lenses.

[Firefly Wings]

Squidoo is a great tool. I have created a few affiliate marketing lenses myself. But I'm a bit upset about my lens rankings spiraling down these days. I wonder what's their basis for their ranking system. I haven't read much about how Squidoo works because I have so little time to do so.

But I don't depend much on Squidoo alone. I use blogging, article submissions, and other social networking sites to tell people about what I can do for them.

[NicheGooRoo]

I'm new to squidoo and so far so good! Then you google (just about anything) you will notice a lot of the top results coming in are squidoo lenses!

The best thing about it is you can include affiliate links

The main thing to keep in mind is that squidoo wants you to make lenses that include useful information about a particular product or service.

Don't expect to make millions off squidoo but I'm sure it will be an advantage to whatever it is your trying to achieve... You can also donate to charities with squidoo!

[Linda Buquet]

Squidoo got Google slapped pretty bad, thanks to the spammers.

So many bloggers have been talking about their lenses
dropping down or out of the Google serps.

Squidoo also tightened things up and recently had to change the rules.

Not saying Squidoo is not worth some effort just saying it's not as good as it was.

Also throwing out the warning - when people try to push the limits and start to game any system, it makes it harder for all the honest marketers to make money and ruins it for everyone.

Market with integrity and everyone wins.

[audiobook1]

I think that if you run an affiliate program, you really should join squidoo. Squidoo has helped to drive traffic to all of my websites that I have maded lenses on.

As far as affilitae programs, squidoo has directly made me money with at least 6 different affiliate programs. No I did not get rich from it, but it is helping me make a few sales every week which is better then a kick in the shin.

[oregongal]

Squidoo lenses are really pretty easy to set up. I find that affiliate marketing is pretty easy on Squidoo. What's nice is that it seems easy to get ranked by Google fairly quickly. They also have built in modules for some affiliate programs (like Amazon), but you split your commissions with Squidoo if you use those.

You also have the option to build your own modules and put in your affiliate links, so I consider it a decent way to attract sales as well as a way to send traffic to another site if you like.

Anyway,
that's my two cents worth.
Diane