Twitter Updates for 2008-08-16
August 16th, 2008 by 
John Dilbeck
- I just updated my Squidoo page: 21st Century Affiliate Marketing / http://tinyurl.com/5hxh2d #
- @Moonvine Hi Joan. I’d be happy to share ideas about affiliate marketing with you, any time. Act on your dream! JD #
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August 17th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Hi John, I had a look at your Squidoo page and I must say it is very impressive. I have heard of Squidoo and lenses and such but never really looked into them. It seems like another blogging platform but I assume there is a difference?
Sires last blog post..Blogs Are A Great Way To Show Off Your Photos
August 18th, 2008 at 1:48 am
Hi Sire, thanks for the kind words about my Squidoo page for this blog:
http://www.squidoo.com/21st-Century-Affiliate-Marketing
Squidoo is not a blogging platform, but it works well with blogs. I try to build a Squidoo lens for each of my blogs for one specific reason: I can syndicate the RSS feed on the lens and Google likes Squidoo lenses. That means that some people may find my blog indirectly via the lens I create on Squidoo.
Squidoo is more of a simple webpage builder and they call each page a lens because the object is to focus on a single topic per page.
You may understand Squidoo a bit more if you read my lens at:
http://www.squidoo.com/marketing-with-squidoo
That lens syndicates the feed from this blog, my social networking community for Squidoo lensmasters who enjoy marketing, and my blog specifically about marketing with Squidoo.
It also links to other lenses that have information about marketing using Squidoo.
You can build as many (or as few) lenses as you want and it’s always free. In fact, if you build lenses that attract visitors and get clicks, you can earn money from your lenses. Some very few people earn over $1,000 per month; a few dozen lensmasters earn around $100 per month; and most of us earn less than that. Your earnings come from sharing with Squidoo the commissions from Adsense and Glam ads on your lens.
I get a welcome deposit from Squidoo into my PayPal account every month.
You can get started here:
http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/referral/johndilbeck
Since you already have several blogs, perhaps you could start by building a lens about the main topic of one of your blogs.
But, I earn much more than the payment I get directly from Squidoo, because I promote affiliate links on my lenses and don’t have to share the proceeds from those commissions with Squidoo.
I also promote my CafePress shop on a few of my lenses and link back to some of my websites on other lenses.
So, I use Squidoo both as a traffic generator and as another profit center. It’s also great at cross-promoting lenses, blogs, forums, websites, social networking sites, and other web presences that share common themes and topics.
If you have a blog and you’d like Google to pay more attention, you may want to build a lens about the blog’s main topic and syndicate your RSS feed on the lens. You can also recommend books and other products from Amazon.com.
Once a lens is built, it doesn’t take a lot of work to keep it current, and your blog’s feed is automatically updated on the lens on a schedule you can choose, i.e. every hour, every six hours, etc.
Another thing you can do to build interactivity into your lens is to add a guestbook, set up polls, start a duel (conversation/argument), and there are other modules that are of interest, too.
There are a lot of things you can do with Squidoo easily that are more difficult on a blog. I think the two of them work very well together.
Again, you can learn more, if you’re still interested at:
http://www.squidoo.com/marketing-with-squidoo
I hope that helps you get the idea of what you can do with Squidoo.
One other lens you may want to visit is my lensography, where I write about my lenses, link to some of my blogs, show my Twitter tweets, and more:
http://www.squidoo.com/John-Dilbeck
If you have any other questions, I’d be happy to do my best to answer them or refer you to another site with the answers.
Act on your dream!
JD
PS. I almost forgot. There is a social networking aspect to Squidoo where you can meet other highly-motivated lensmasters and help cross-promote each others’ sites, lenses, and blogs.
PPS. A lens is like a blog in one respect. Each time you publish your lens (after the initial build or whenever it is updated), you can send what is called a SquidCast, but which is really a posting that is added to the lens’ RSS feed. Then you can ping that update to spread the word among the large RSS aggregators.
August 18th, 2008 at 6:31 am
That was a really nice reply, would make a great post actually, and is definitely something I have to look into. Thanks for the info John, I’ve bookmarked this page so I can come back when I have more time, oh, I’ve also stumbled it, and dugg it too
Sires last blog post..Blogs Are A Great Way To Show Off Your Photos
August 18th, 2008 at 6:43 am
Hi Sire,
That’s a great idea about making a blog post with this information. I’m working on rewriting it right now.
Thanks for the stumble and digg. I appreciate it.
Act on your dream!
JD
August 18th, 2008 at 7:42 am
[...] Sire asked a question on one of my twitter update posts and suggested that I rewrite my reply as a blog post. I think that’s a great [...]
August 18th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Sire, I used your question as a starting point for a new blog post, Is Squidoo another blogging platform?
Thanks for the idea.
Act on your dream!
JD