Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Online Advertising Marketing Featuring Squidoo To Get Started

By Trisha Frauenhofer

If you've done any Internet searches lately, chances are that you've heard of Squidoo. You may have heard people talking about it, or seen it on the front page of your favorite search engine. If you don't know exactly what Squidoo is or does, however, you could be missing out on one of the Internet's greatest online advertising and marketing methods.

If you have a website or blog, and want to get free traffic to it, using Squidoo is one of the quickest and easiest ways. Not only is it free and easy, it is also fun. Squidoo is so easy, that you can have it up and running, promoting whatever it is you want in 15 minutes. You don't even need any web or picture hosting service. Squidoo does it all for you. An affiliate marketer can use Squidoo to market the product they are trying to promote. One way to look at Squidoo is kind of like a blog, my space account, and a mini-site.

The site you make in Squidoo is called a lens, and this is what you're most likely to run across while searching online. These are the sites that are used to promote products and distribute information. A lens is made up of modules, which are like posts to a blog.

A wide variety of modules is available, from Ebay modules for Ebay sellers to YouTube modules that help you include video. Squidoo modules can have a lot of different types of content, including reviews and testimonials, and information and articles about your product or service. This is a great place to let people know what's great about your product or service and make them curious to find out more. While you don't want to tell everything about your service or product, you should promote it here, so people will eventually click through to the main page.

By using an RSS feed module, you can bring traffic to your primary blog. Just load in your site's RSS feed and your lens will update automatically.

There's a lot Squidoo has to offer, including tips on how to choose the best keywords for optimum traffic. Since lenses can have a high ranking on sites like Google, they allow you to build backlinks to your primary site or blog as desired.

Squidoo may be free to use, but you can earn money with it. The site makes its money using affiliate advertising like Ebay, Adsense, and others. They track the earnings that come from each module, and give you half the profits. There's even an option set up through Squidoo to donate that money to charity.

Squidoo users like to make use of this site to get important information out there, and to let readers know about important thing. They can share information and experiences, as well as using Squidoo as an excellent online advertising marketing strategy. If you're not familiar with Squidoo yet, it's time to search for a site, and then have fun exploring. - 17944

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