Each of these home-based jobs helped me to gain
experience and, which is more important, find my niche to make good money
online. I have always been keen on finding out new things and sharing them with
my friends. Having practiced a lot, I started blogging and writing how-to
guides and reviews. This work at home opportunity has a lot
of benefits – I can work whenever I want and I am in change of my earnings. If
you would like to start writing articles for money, then Squidoo.com is the best
choice for you.
- Lens rank and on-site activity
First of all, Squidoo is a
community, where users come to gain and share knowledge. By being active on
this site (by this I mean daily activity, frequent lens updates, comments on
other lenses, participation in contests, visiting interesting articles and
reviews) you can earn points and improve your member level. By unlocking new
levels you will gain access to freebies and trophies, which can help you drive
additional traffic to your lens (and traffic means ad revenue and affiliate
sales).
Lens rank is a very
important feature, which influences the amount of ad revenue share you are
getting. The lower your rank is, the higher your chances of making good money
by writing for Squidoo are.
Speaking of my example, my
Squidoo article is only a Tier 2 one (if I manage to promote it to get a Tier
1, I think I would be getting more than twenty dollars per month from ads on
this lens).
- Lifetime royalties
Remember that Squidoo.com
is a revenue sharing community, where your earnings are dependent of your lens
activity. So, unlike companies, which pay a flat fee for every article, with
this get paid to write site you can write an article once, market it and receive
life-long royalties. Now I am starting to think this work at home opportunity over, trying to find time to create
more lenses, promote them and see how much I can make. If one article earned me
$53.28 up to date and shows positive traffic growth, I think I will be giving
me automated earnings of 10-20 dollars per month for the next several months
(please note that I got that much money only from ad revenue share, if I had
affiliate links in my article, I guess I would have earned much more money but it
is a whole different story).
- Professionally written and keyword rich
content
It took me about four
months to make my page popular on Squidoo. I have to confess that I spent about
five hours researching content and writing my article. My efforts definitely
paid off and here are things, which were on my must have list:
1) I had to be an expert in
the topic I was writing about. So I did a lot of research (both content and
keyword research). I didn’t target long-tail keywords nor tried to enter a
non-competitive niche (it was not smart of me but I wanted to challenge myself,
if I spent more time looking for a non-competitive niche, I would have had less
time for promotion).
2) Content writing skills –
I had to be precise and didn’t want to bore my readers with useless content.
3) Proper keywords and tags
– while creating my first lens I spent a lot of time filling in all the
information till my article was 100% complete.
4) Promotion, promotion,
promotion. I didn’t do as well as I wanted with the promotion. Basically what I
did – I created several promotional articles for my lens, submitted it to some
of my Blogger.com blogs and used one or two forums to get links to my article.
5) Time for daily activity
on Squidoo – I was working on adding some new information to my article almost
every day, this definitely boosted my lensrank and gave me an opportunity to
get traffic from social networks (every time I added something new to the
article, I tweeted it and used FB to get more likes).
Well, to sum everything up:
Squidoo.com is a superb way to make money online for free by writing content.
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