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Everything You Wanted To Know About Squidoo Lens

By Kaushal Sheth
Apr 2, 2009
If you have heard about Squidoo somewhere and decided to find more information on Squidoo before heading there, this article is just the resource for you, because it will introduce you to Squidoo and some of the terms used there - and tell you how you can benefit from Squidoo.

Squidoo is a content sharing site, originally developed to be a user-generated directory to the Internet, a purpose it has served well for the period it has been in existence. In Squidoo, the users create web-pages - which in the language spoken by people in the Squidoo community - are referred to as a Squidoo lens, and in which they talk about various things that interest them, with links to the pages outside Squidoo where the readers of the lens can find more information on the subject that was discussed in the Squidoo lens.

Creating a Squidoo lens automatically makes you a lensmaster. As a Squidoo lensmaster, you can create as many lenses as you want - Squidoo doesn't put limits on you. Creating these lenses is easy - there is a friendly wizard to take you through the process of creating a lens. If you have your ideas well organized in your head, you can create a great Squidoo lens in a time span of about ten minutes.

The Squidoo lens you make will be made up of various elements (which can be just an article) and these elements that make up a Squidoo lens are referred to as its modules. You have a wide choice of modules that can be used to make a Squidoo lens - from articles (the easiest to make for many people and the commonest) to video and photos.

You can even include modules of polls in your Squidoo lens - and through this you can get feedback from people on various subjects. If you decide to include a poll as a module in your Squidoo lens, then you will be glad to learn that Squidoo also has a polls wizard that will take you through the process of setting up a poll and get it up in less than five minutes.

Squidoo offers you a number of ways through which you can money from your Squidoo lens. You can for instance post stuff from Internet markets like E-bay and Amazon and if this stuff gets bought through your Squidoo Lens, then you get to share in the proceeds. You can link your affiliate marketing websites to your Squidoo lens - and thereby drive traffic to the sites. Squidoo won't object to this, because it is in fact something that Squidoo advocates. You can also get to directly share in Squidoo's revenues - Squidoo is also defined as a revenue-sharing site - and this is yet another way through which you can make money through Squidoo.

The share of Squidoo's revenue you pocket is determined by something called your 'lensrank' and unlike what you might expect, the lower your 'lensrank' the higher the share of Squidoo's revenues you stand to get. Your lensrank is determined by among other things the popularity of Squidoo lens and the originality of the content therein.
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