Other Affiliate Referral Programs

If you have joined numerous affiliate programs, you know that there are some rich referral programs out there that have juicy sign-up bonuses and great commissions from just one tier of your immediate referral. You can also earn income on the referrals from the people you referred in multi-tiered programs. Those are the best programs to target and promote on your Squidoo lens.

Pay attention to the payout terms. If you have to wait for your referrals to make a large amount of money to get paid, it's not worth it. Try to go for programs that offer an immediate sign-up bonus and then a tiered commission structure that isn't limited too much by how much your referrals are making.

Niche Them

Just like you are collecting different affiliate programs to promote on your Squidoo lens, you should be aware of what niches they can serve and then promote the referral program for that program on your lens. You don't want to promote a referral program for an affiliate that offers candy on a weight loss lens, and so on. Be as specific and as targeted as you are with selecting products for stores. This will help you to persuade people that they can make money too using the same programs you are using, and then that eventually contributes to your own income stream.

A Word About Traffic

Traffic is the real reason that Squidoo is so popular. As a community that rates itself, it is continuously improving, and Google tends to rank lens highly. When Google ranks something highly in their search engines, there is a lot of traffic that comes from that source. However, you can't just rely on traffic from Google to market your lenses. You have to use other traffic generating strategies to increase your lenses’ standings in the Squidoo community if you want to be a big “Squid.”

Methods To Attract Traffic To Your Lens

The same methods that people use to attract traffic across the Internet work here. You want to go to places that already have a large audience and promote your lens there with a link to get your lens more visitors. You can even promote it on social networks and ask people to rate it so that you can improve your skills as a lensmaster. Here are some classic ways by which people drive traffic to their pages across the Internet 

• Comment on blogs – They find popular blogs that talk about the same niche topic and then contribute to the conversation there. When relevant, they add the link to their lens to increase its exposure.  
• Submit to various search engines – Google isn't the only search engine out there. You can index your pages and submit them to various search engines, like Yahoo!, to get wider exposure.  
• Create videos with links back – YouTube is a very popular video platform that allows its users to put a link back to some other page on the video profile. Create a fun video and draw YouTube watchers back to your Squidoo lens via that link.  
• Update your content frequently – This isn't just a one-time effort. Due to the way Squidoo rates the freshest content higher, you will want to constantly add a few updates to each of your lenses. That means more visitors coming to your lens as a result of your content being fresher. You can even just add a few paragraphs or modify a few sentences to make your content fresher.  
• Make your content sharable – You will want to add the ability for people to grab your lists and promote them, using a Plexo module, or make your content easy to share by adding it to delicious.com and other link archives.  
• Be social – Another great place to promote and share your content is on social networks. Twitter, in particular, is a fantastic place to add a single link a few times a day or a week to create more income. You do have to devote time to generating followers and friends on these sites, but it's a great way to target specific niche readers and to create more income possibilities for yourself.  

Much, Much More!

This just scratches the surface of some of the ways to create income with Squidoo. There are a variety of other methods that space limitations didn't allow us to get into. As you continue to get more comfortable with the platform and the methods to make money with Squidoo, you will want to look up Squidoo's sponsorship or “co-op” services to see how to make money with them too.

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