My first squidoo lens and how I will make money from it

I just put up my first squidoo lens – Learn Wedding Photography and I have to admit I am impressed with how easy it was to set up.  Years ago I was introduced to it but I didn’t take the time to use it…I wish I did.

How Squidoo Works

The concept is that you provide the content and create a post as is done with a blog.  Squidoo has set up the layout and modules, some are automatically added and they can all be customized.  The poster gets a share of the revenue from adsense, amazon and other affiliate programs already set up.  For anyone not wanting to set up their own blog and have the hassle of signing up for ad networks and affiliate programs it gets the job done quick.

What I Learned From Squidoo

One of the things I have considered the most lately is the layout or theme of my blogs.  Once there is traffic coming to a blog it is easy to make money with ads.  How much money is made with the ads depends on many factors and one of them is the positioning of the ads.  I will take into consideration that Squidoo has been around a while and has no doubt spent time and money testing different ad layouts for their pages to maximize revenue.  I will likely use a similar layout for my blogs intended to make revenue from ads.

Notice the ad placement indicated with the arrows.  Chances are this is the best layout if you are monetizing with adsense:

I also noticed the social share buttons at the top of the page.  In my experience with adding them to my wordpress blogs I noticed they were the slowest loading items on the page.  Being as Google takes that into consideration and even displays page load times in Google webmaster tools I shyed (is that a word) from it.  I am going to consider it again.

Visitor Statistics

Squidoo has it set up to easily ad Google analytics code to the post so I will ad it to my reports and be able to see all stats in one place without having to waste time logging into Squidoo to see what is happenning.  I like this feature.

Overall

I will try creating more lens and see what happens.  If there is some traffic going to it simply because it is on Squidoo then it is definitely worth while.  Also, the benefit of being able to add links to other sites on the page has its benefits.

 

David Loney

David Loney has a passion for blogging and blogs at DavidLoney.ca, does webdesign for local businesses in London Ontario (Portfolio) .

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