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Fun Squidoo Payout Stats Oct 09

Fun Squidoo Stats from October 2009
– The top earner made more than $1300 for the month.
– Hundreds of people earned $100 or more.
– More than a thousand people earned more than $10.
– Lensmasters donated more than $5000 to the Squidoo Charity Fund.
– More than 90 people had 100 or more lenses all ranked in the [...]

A Squidoo Pirate Quest for Gold

Sorry for the absence everyone, have been getting settled in Singapore and adjusted to life on Southeast Asia.
As I’m starting a new phase in my pirate life I’ve also decided to begin a new phase in my Squidoo life as well.
Now, in the past I’ve made several thousand dollars a month from Squidoo but with [...]

10 Old School Rules for the New Age of Squidoo

Recently, after the demise of the Discovery tool and with Squidoo Groups having faded into (mostly) obscure places in the far reaches of Squidoo, an old stand by for optimizing your lens has re-emerged into viability – tagging your lens.
Tag pages are once again indexable by the major search engines. Fluffanutta has an exceptional review [...]

Make $1000 with CJ and Squidoo Yet?

Okay, so you probably haven’t made $1,000 from Commission Junction and Squidoo quite yet but hopefully the video series of the past few days has proven useful to a few young squids out there.
As a special follow up treat, if you can’t seem to watch the videos in your browser for whatever reason you can [...]

Using Commission Junction Reporting Effectively

The last two videos in the series (Yes a bonus! 2 videos in one day! ) are all about how to use Commission Junction’s powerful reporting features to drill down to each Squidoo lens (and each link if you want) to determine what is working the best and which products are converting the [...]

Adding CJ products to Squidoo Lenses

This is the 3rd video in my Commission Junction training course. If you already have a good understanding of how commission junction works but are unsure how to use it to your best advantage with Squidoo than this video is definitely a must watch.
The video covers how to insert products, descriptions, and images into your [...]

CJ and Squidoo – Applying for Programs

The Next video in the Commission Junction Training Series is on applying for a program on CJ. For large networks like Commission Junction, each company has their own affiliate program and they are ‘applied’ to separately.
you must be accepted as an affiliate by a company before you can begin earning money from them. The second [...]

How to use Commission Junction and Squidoo to make money

A while ago I created a set of training videos a while ago detailing step by step how to use Commission Junction and I’ve decided to release them to you guys gratis.
In a nutshell, they tell you how to build a kick butt affiliate lens using a third party affiliate program like Commission Junction. It’s [...]

Squidoo Restyles Homepage to Better Feature Top Lenses

Squidoo has re-launched their home page with an eye towards sending first time visitors to some of the top lenses around (official blog post announcement).
I think this is a massive improvement on the front page and it allows you to easily scan the first 5 lenses in each Squidoo category.
However, after showing it around a [...]

When Are Multiple Squidoo Accounts Useful?

There have been some reason discussions in the Squidoo community discussing the ever present question of how many squidoo accounts should someone have and when it makes sense to have more than one account.
The most popular reason seems to be ‘to separate niches’ or build one account for each ‘theme’ of lenses you have. An [...]