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Squidoo Modules that provide ‘evergreen’ content

One of the keys to having the Big G or Yahoo! or MSN come back to your lens over and over again is having unique content on your lens that also updates regularly. Contrary to popular belief, several modules do NOT help you with spiders when they crawl your site.
Here’s a rundown of the most [...]

How Squidoo Amazon Commission Works

This is Part Two of the Commission Education basics for Squidoo Lensmasters.
Amazon is probably the most popular vendors used on Squidoo. Why not? They have everything, an easy to use website, and are trusted almost as much as a brick and mortar store (i.e. Wal-Mart or Sears or Barnes and Noble) . Let’s see how [...]

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 [...]

Squidoo Education: All about the Dashboard Statistics

Struggling to get a handle on exactly how your Dashboard statistics work?
Check out the great new lens by boardofeducation. He has an excellent summary of the basics of the Dashboard and how to use it effectively.
Captain’s Corner:
Ready to supercharge your dashboard? Download the Dashboard Extender Plugin and get access to even more useful stats. If [...]