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Entries Tagged ‘commission-junction’

Ebay and CJ Divorce – Will Squidoo Need Child Support?

The big news today was that eBay is leaving Commission Junction and opening up their own independent affiliate network. It has been covered pretty heavily in the blogosphere so I thought I’d try to enlighten everyone a bit as to how it will affect your Squidoo lenses, since there are TONS of lenses out there [...]

March Squidoo Earnings – Closing in on 4 digits

Wow, it’s payday time again already!
February was a really good month for me, especially the last two weeks. Starting off with Mardi Gras and Valentines Day, my sales were very flat for the first 15 days or so of the month. After that, they really started to take off.
Here’s the recap:
Squidoo Payout ($$ Earned in [...]

Squidoo Tool: Free Ebay RSS Feed Generator

I’ve gotten a lot of questions the past 3 days about the RSS feed generator for Ebay Affiliates that I created. In order to help answer them, I’ve created a trial version of the Ebay Affiliate Tool so you can try it out and see how awesome it is. Here are the limitations of the [...]

February 2008 Squidoo Earnings Payout Tops $600

It’s my favorite day of the month! Booty Day!
Here’s the Breakdown:
Squidoo Payout: $247.98
CJ: $401.69
Total: $649.67
Lenses Built : 32 (woefully short of the number I need to get to 1,000 lenses)
Total Lenses (as of 2/7/08) : 283
Where the lenses fall: (These numbers should be read as ‘the number of lenses in the top X,XXX on my [...]

Getting Frustrated with Squidoo?

Squidoo can be really frustrating at times. Perhaps you have tons of great content and you still aren’t getting more than a trickle of traffic. Perhaps you’ve tried submitting your lens everywhere under the sun with less than spectacular results. Maybe you just can’t make that first sale off of your eBay or Amazon modules.
I [...]

Squidoo Payout Earnings Report : January 2008

Note: The Earnings included in this report are November 2007 earnings directly from Squidoo and Commission Junction Earnings from December 2007
Unfortunately, This month’s earnings from Squidoo and CJ activities was not as zesty as I had hoped. All told, My payout dropped by about 50% from last month, down to about $275.
�Squidoo Earnings for November [...]

Squidoo Has Earned me $100 in 5 Days

It’s not quite time for a full earnings update for December (which I’m unfortunately expecting to be a bit lower than Nov.) but I thought I’d let everyone know how January Earnings at squidoo are going so far:
Dashboard Earnings: $0.56 … Not too impressive
CJ Earnings:

In December, I saw some great growth in my Dashboard earnings [...]

Dec 2007 Squidoo Earnings Report: $575

Arrrr…. The booty has been counted for another month of Squidoo earnings and the Captain has done quite alright.
Squidoo Earnings are based on October Sales from Squidoo ‘Money Maker’ Modules and Adsense Revenue. CJ Earnings are based on November Earnings.
Squidoo: $192.46
CJ: $382.33
Total: $574.79
This was the Captain’s best month ever for both segments, nearly doubling the [...]

How Squidoo eBay Commission Tracking Works

I’ve noticed a lot of curiosity on the Forums lately about how commissions actually work with eBay and Amazon.
I’ll cover each Affiliate Program in separate posts so as not to get them confused and to let everyone in on how it all works.
The eBay Commission Process

A visitor to your lens clicks on an ebay [...]

Choosing an Affiliate program for Squidoo

As many of you know, it’s possible to make money on Squidoo through Squidoo in a few different ways.

Every Month your lens earns money from Adsense and SquidOffers. This money is distributed on a three-tiered system to all of the lensmasters.
When you put a ‘money maker’ module on your lenses and someone buys something from [...]