The Basics of Squidoo from which You Can Benefit ….. Starting Today

Liz Delaney Jun 11, 2013 · 3 min read

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

The Basics of SQUIDOO

Squidoo.com is one of those popular sites where people go in search of information – in other words, your market. It’s a great place to go if you’re looking for more clients, if you’re a blogger and wanting to build an audience, or if you are an affiliate marketer wanting to expand your reach. Squidoo can help you achieve your goals.

Squidoo was founded by Seth Godin. It is a user-generated collection of mini-pages which are called lenses. Lenses are constantly being added to the million or more which are already on there. it’s a great place to go to find out about all sorts of things from how to bait a hook to building a cubbyhouse. It is a one-stop-shop for everyone.

If you are a business owner, then there are several reasons Squidoo should be on your radar:

** Squidoo is an amazing sea of eyeballs.

Many thousands of people visit Squidoo every day, which makes it one of the most visited sites in the world (ranking in the top 200, according to Alexa.com).

** Squidoo gets your content ranked quickly.

Search engines almost immediately get notified of your newly-added content and the pages (or lenses) you create are more likely to rank more highly in the search engine results due to the huge amount of traffic the site receives.

** You can create affiliate sales sites on Squidoo.

As well as redirecting traffic to your own sites, Squidoo is wonderful for creating stand-alone sites for affiliate sales. Squidoo saves you from creating an entire website to sell affiliate products. By creating a hub, you don’t have to worry about domain names, hosting, or software.

** You can make money straight from Squidoo.

As Squidoo features advertising from Google and other networks,it splits the profits with you, the lens owner, 50/50. You can choose to donate the proceeds to the charity of your choice which are provided by Squidoo.

** Squidoo is easy — and it’s free!

Go here:

to sign up for a free account and become part of the Squidoo community.

How to complete your Squidoo sign-up.

Firstly, choose an appropriate username. You have choices – choose your own name, a nickname, or a keyword type name.

Secondly, provide your email address and create a password. Squidoo doesn’t spam you. You can also request their daily “Lens of the Day” emails if you like, but it’s not essential.

Once you’ve completed your sign-up, you will have to confirm your email address. And then you’ll be invited to build your first lens which is a Squidoo-type mini site.

More than one Squidoo Account?

Good news – you can have more than one Squidoo account with the ability to create more than one lens per account. You simply sign up for extra ones using different email addresses. This is handy if you’re working in different niches.

You can create separate accounts and user names for each niche.

But, on the other side of the coin, there are benefits to building a lot of lenses in the same account. You can accumulate brownie points. This gives you more visibility over time. Once you have at least 50 really great lenses in the one account, you can apply to get promoted to be a Giant Squid. This is a status which comes with special privileges – promotion of your lenses, no daily lens limit, a custom lens template, and free advertising.