Sunday, June 27, 2010
How to Make Money with Squidoo Lenses
Squdoo lenses are like blogs. You can create a lens at www.squidoo.com . Any number of lenses can be created at Squidoo. It is more or less similar to Blogger, where you can create any number of blogs. You get paid by Blogger for the Adsense ads ( or any ads ) which you exhibit on the blog. Similarly Squidoo pays you for the Adsense ads, the YouTube videos, the Ebay products, which are displayed on your lens.
According to the Squidoo Terms of Service, you can get 50% of adrevenue. You can display Google Adsense ads, YouTube Videos, Flickr photos, Ebay products and many other items. The visitors which come to your lens, read your articles and if they click on the ads displayed on your lens, you get paid by Squidoo.
This is a beautiful concept, as great a concept like Google Adsense.
I created 10 lenses and here they are
http://squidoo.com/BlissAbsolute
http://squidoo.com/ZodiacAstrology
http://squidoo.com/VedicNumerology
http://squidoo.com/AstroSoftware
http://squidoo.com/IndianGems
http://squidoo.com/BlogWisdom
http://squidoo.com/ZFiles
http://squidoo.com/Tantricknowledge
http://squidoo.com/Fourfoldyoga
http://squidoo.com/Prana
OK, the concept is fine, but how do you become successful as a lensmaster ?
The answer is simple; you have to get traffic to your Lens ! Traffic is Internet gold.
How do we get traffic? The answer is elementary, Article Marketing !
You can write articles on your favourite subjects. It is interest that generates knowledge. You can give the hyperlik of the lens in the Resource box like this
Article by G Kumar, astrologer, writer and programmer of http://squidoo.com/BlissAbsolute. He has 15 years research experience in Stock Market Astrology and other in various other branches of Astrology. Recentlyhe was awarded a Certificate by the Planetary Gemologists Association as a Planetary Gem Advisor. He has created an Astro Software lens at http://squidoo.com/AstroSoftware
Now people who read my articles click on the hyperlinks in the resource box, and lo ! I have got traffic, which is Net gold.
There are other methods also. Social Bookmarking can be resorted to. Social Bookmarking sites like Yahoo Bookmarks, Google Bookmarks, Furl, Spurl, del.icio.us, Stumble Upon, Blue dot etc can give you additional traffic.
Another method is to create a quality lens, so that it gets a higher Ranking. If your lens get a high rank, you will definitely get good traffic, which in turn will give you adrevenue !
You should tag your lens with the appropriate keywords. Let your lens stand out and let it be a cut above the rest !
Good luck with Squidoo lenses !
Viral Marketing _ Secrets Revealed
Viral Marketing means to give away ebooks and e-articles freely so that it spreads like a virus exponentially. In the ebooks and e-articles, we give links to our site and a short bio or resource box declaring who we are.
It is also known as the Pull Strategy of Marketing. The Resource box at the bottom contains the link to our site. Provided the article is good, the reader of that article clicks on our site address and comes to our site. We have, in other words, pulled him/her to our site via our article. We also provide our email address. The reader can click and contact us at any time.
The article proclaims that we know the subject and we will be considered experts in our field if we write good e-articles and e-books and distribute them. Some people find it difficult to distribute them freely. After all creating an e-article or an ebook is time consuming. So what is the advantage in distributing them free? But if you want the much needed exposure which is crucial to business success, better give it away!
" Be an expert with your own booklet " is what the marketing geniuses proclaim. If you write a booklet about the subject you are dealing using technical terms, people will definitely ask you about the terms and the subject in general. Answer their questions and they will respect your knowledge and expertise.
Write Articles
The mantra on the Net is 'Publish or Perish'. The Net is defined as the Information Encyclopaedia. It is a repository of free information and resources.
You can write on the subject which deals with your area of expertise. The main ingredients of content creation are Research, knowledge, skill and style.
Research
Read books on the subject. You can go to search engines and type the subject that deals with your area of expertise. You can subscribe to other ezines which deal with that subject. And thus study more about the subject.
All information is available on the Net. All you have to do is to go to the search engines and group lists and find out information about your subject.
Knowledge
You have heard the proverb " Knowledge is Power". There are many types of knowledge. Technical knowledge, marketing knowledge, knowledge of language etc. We have to be accepted by the target audience. For this we should convince our customers that we are experts in our field. Be a specialist first, then be an expert and then be an authority, a self-development expert used to say. If you know more than your competitors, definitely you have a competitve edge over your competition. If you can establish that you are a scholar in your field and is head and shoulders above your competition in knowledge, they will come in droves. Why should they go to somebody who is less knowledgeable?
So it is imperative to develop professional knowledge, to study more and more about the subject we are dealing with, even though it is time-consuming. Remember on the Net, there are so many scholars in various fields, each claiming to be experts in their field. On the Web, the competition is fierce and is only a click away. So our chances of survival are bright if only we are equipped with the latest knowledge in our field. The customers are not fools and they will evaluate us as well as our competition.
Skill
Writing skill does not come all of a sudden. Writing is basically intuitively inspired and comes from within. But this creative talent is in all of us. We have not tapped this divine resource fully. If we give ourselves to Meditation and lapse into silence, we can see that this talent blossoms of its own. Age is not a factor for we see Goethe wrote "The Faust" at the age of eighty and Chaucer wrote "The Canterbury Tales" at sixty!
Start by writing whatever you feel about the subject you are handling in your diary. Group these small bits of information. When you assemble these tiny bits of info and arrange them, you will be surprised to know that you have written an article. Improve on what you have written. Let it take some days and after some days of improvisation, you will come to know it has become a great article.
It so happened to me. The first article I wrote was about Astro Numerology and I sent it to some friends. They hailed it as a great article. This was a great boost to my morale. I started an ezine, the Z Files and published my own articles which was well received by the multitude. This furthur boosted my confidence. I then submitted my articles to the ezines which deal with Astrology. The publishers thanked me and published my articles. My hits trebled. Now I have many requests from publishers to use my articles in their Site or Zine.
Style
Every man has a style of talking and a way of writing. We have not written much and that is why we are not aware of our hidden talents. If you start writing simple ideas in your diary and then later expand these ideas, you will be stunned to see that you are an excellent writer. Just imagine what would have happened if Dante had not written the Divine Comedy or Shakespeare had not written his dramatic poems! Where would English Literature be without these gems ?
The pen is mightier than the sword. The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr! Write yourself to glory! Write yourself to fame ! Writing can take you from obscurity to omnipresence!
Intellectual Marketing 2.0 for Infopreneurs I
An infopreneur is defined as one who sells info products. You can sell your
info products via the Web, via blogs, sites and lenses !
Article Marketing continues to be the best method for getting exposure and
traffic to your sites, blogs and lenses !
Create blogs on Blogger or Wordpress. Create as many blogs as possible. Also
create lenses on Squidoo. I created 23 blogs on Blogger and 24 lenses on
Squidoo.
From your Squidoo lens, give links to your blogs and sites. From my main
Squidoo Lens, http://squidoo.com/ZodiacAstrology, I have given links to my
main blog, http://zodiacastrology.blogspot.com and to my main site,
www.eastrovedica.com Cross Link all blogs, lenses and sites. Give different
types of info on blogs. I have a Marketing blog, Astrology blog, Numerology
Blog,
Gemology Blog etc. So also Numerology, Astrology, Marketing lenses !
One blog post is more or less 200 words. Convert 3 or 4 blog posts into one
article. You already got content. All you have to do is to edit it and lo !
you have an article !
After creating an article out of blog posts, you can
Post the article to your Squidoo Page
Post the article to your site
Email the article to subscription lists
Send it to article directories
Send it to article submission lists
Immense are the benefits of Article Marketing! The e-article has been
defined by Ron Knolton as the ultimate promotional tool and it is this tool
which will get you traffic.
If you convert blogs posts into articles, you can have as many as 1000
articles per month. Your articles will give you tremendous exposure,
generate leads and get you the much needed traffic for your blogs, lenses
and sites !
The Benefits of Article Marketing
1) Lead Generation
2) Increased traffic
3) Increased Rankings ( Alexa traffic rankings, Google Page Rankings, Yahoo
Inbound links etc )
4) Postioning you as an expert
Your articles will appear on the article directories and these articles will
get you traffic. My YBL (Yahoo Inbound links) for my main site,
www.eastrovedica.com was 1800 last year and in one year of Article
Marketing, it has gone upto 18000 YBL, a tenfold increase ! I get around
2000 page views on Google and 4000 on Adbrite !
If you have Adsense ads, Adbrite ads etc on your sites, blogs and lenses,
you can benefit from adrevenue. Just get traffic to these blogs, sites and
lenses and your adrevenue will go up !
I have created promotional lists, a list of article submission centers,
social bookmarking sites and blog submission centers & you can make use of
my promotional lists.
Submit your blogs to these blog submission centers
http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/blogsubmissioncenters.asp
Submit your web and blog pages to these social bookmarking sites
http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/socialbookmarkingsites.asp
Submit your articles to these article submission centers
http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/articlesubmissioncenters.htm
Good Luck with Intellectual Marketing !
Intellectual Marketing 2.0 for Infopreneurs II
Internet Marketing is a tough job. Intellectual Marketing is that Art by whch we use our intellect to generate traffic.
Creating a website or blog is not enough. Your sites and blogs should achieve visibility on the search engines. Then only will people come to your site. Remember a blog or a site without traffic is zero. It is traffic which makes a site great. Yahoo, Google or MSN get tremendous traffic ( above 1 miilion hits a day ) and that is why they are ranked high.
There are many methods of attracting traffic. You have to submit your blogs, feeds, urls, articles etc to the respective directories. Then only will they achieve visibility on the search engines.
Talking and writing about generating traffic is easy. It is difficult to get a lot of traffic. One has to do Intellectual Marketing religiously. I put in 10 hours of Web Marketing every day. Otherwise my blogs and sites will be devoid of traffic !
After you have created your blogs, you have to submit them to the blog directories
Submit Your Blogs
This is blog submission web page I use to submit my 28 blogs
Submit Your Feeds
The xml feeds of your sites and blogs should be submitted to the feed directories. I submit my feeds to this site
Submit Your URLs
Every web page or every blog page you create is a Uniform Resource Locator or url. You should submit your urls to the Search Engines.
I submit my urls normally via www.addme.com
Submit your Articles
The articles you create should be submitted to the article directories. I use this web page to submit my articles
Ping your blogs
Create Squidoo Pages
Squidoo is heavily trafficked and I created 27 lenses on Squidoo. Each Squidoo page is a url and they should be submitted to the Search Engines. Once submitted they will be visible on the Search Engines. Once they are visible, you will get traffic to your Squidoo Page.
From your Squidoo page you should give links to your blogs and sites. That way you will get fairly good traffic.
Use Social Bookmarking
To get traffic, you can submit your pages to Social Bookmarking services like Digg, Technorati etc. These social bookmarking sites get around 1 million bookmarks a day. The web or blog page which you bookmark becomes visible and people read and click and lo ! you have got traffic.
I use the Social Bookmarking Button of AddThis ( www.addthis.com ). It submits to over 16 Social Bookmarking Sites.
Good Luck with Intellectual Marketing !
The Brahman of Web Marketing I
There are seven main strategies of Web Marketing.
They are
1) Article Submission to the Article Directories
2) Submitting the Site to the Search Engines
3) Ezine Promotion
4) Ezine Ads
5) Participating in Forums, Blogs, Discussion Lists
6) Signature File
7) Create A Weblog or Blog
These sevenfold strategies can be termed as the Brahman of Web Marketing,
( Brahman being a term for the Ultimate Reality ).
Article Submission
This is known as the Pull Strategy of Viral Marketing.
Write an article, with a resource box which contains your dot com,
your mobile no etc. You have to submit it to article directories.
It is said that the pen is mightier than the sword. That statement cannot be
truer on the Web, which is a written medium.
If you submit your article to the article directories, readers and
publishers ( Webmasters, ezine publishers, ebook publishers ) visit the
directories for content & they will download your articles & publish
them. You get free publicity & exposure. People click on the hyperlinks
and lo ! they have come to your site. This is called Article Marketing,
which is another synonym for Viral Marketing.
You can compile your articles into an ebook and give them away. The ebook
should contains your site's hyperlinks. Readers will click on your links &
visit your site.
Remember, Traffic is Internet Gold. Without traffic, you cannot succeed. You
have to bring people to the site and then only can you market.
Take up the pen, write and submit content to Article Directories. This is
the age of the Article Directories and there are more than 500 of them. You
can access the Article Directories List at
http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/articlesubmissioncenters.htm
Writing an article is not difficult. You can get the content from books
which deal with the subject. Or you can get content from the search engines.
For example, go to Yahoo or Google and type the subject. In my case, the
subject is Astrology and when I type Astrology, many astro sites open up.
You can get articles on Astrology, study the subject and write about it.
Submitting it to Article Directories is not difficult either. Here is a
small list
www.articlenetworks.com
www.articlewisdom.com
www.article-content-king.com
www.articles-submit.com
www.articlegnosis.com
www.newfreearticles.com
www.articlenexus.com
www.articlealley.com
www.a1articles.com
www.contentarticles.com
This is a small list. If you want a bigger list, pls click
http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/articlesubmissioncenters.htm
You can sign up for a Free Account at one Article Directory. They will
send you an Activation Link and once you click that, you have become
their member and you can submit your articles to that directory. The Admin
will approve your articles, content publishers will download your
articles and publish them on their ezines or websites ! Your articles
should have a byline, a bio or Resource Box, which points to your site.
Readers read these articles and click on your website link and you get
solid traffic !
Submitting the Site to the Search Engines
This is known as the Push Strategy of Viral Marketing.
This is submitting your url to the search engines. Also your press release
to the sites which accept press release.
I use Addme.com, ( www.addme.com ) which submits the url to the major 14
search engines free. Also Submit Plus, ( www.submitplus.com ) which submits
to 110 search engines free. Also http://www.searchenginesubmission.biz ,
which submits urls to 34 SEs !
You can write a press release and submit to PRWeb. There are many sites
which accept free Press release.
You can submit a Free Press Release at
http://www.pressbox.co.uk/
How to increase Blog Traffic by Article Marketing
Article Marketing is defined as that art of marketing by which we get a lot
of traffic due to submission of quality articles to article directories.
Each article contains a resource box. 3 urls are permitted in the resource
box. Here is a sample resource box which gets me traffic
Article by G Kumar, astrologer, writer and programmer of
www.articlewisdom.com & www.articlegnosis.com He has 15 years research
experience in Stock Market Astrology and other in various other branches of
Astrology. Recently he was awarded a Certificate by the Planetary
Gemologists Association as a Planetary Gem Advisor. To subscribe to his Free
ezine,the Z Files, click here
mailto:info@eastrovedica.com?subject=ZFiles . Blog -
http://blog2wisdom.blogspot.com
First url is my main website url. Second one is the free subscription to my
Zine. And the third is the blog url.
This is the resource box used when I submitted an 'Blog Your Way to the
Bank' article to article directories.
Now the Zine publishers and website owners are looking for quality articles.
They can get these articles from the article directories. They visit the
article directories and download articles of their choice. They publish
these articles in their Zines/ Websites.
The readers read these articles and click on these hyperlinks. And what do
you get ? Traffic, which is Internet Gold !
Normally you can submit a 3 url resource box. Putting more than 3 urls in
the Resource box is risky.
Here is a list of Article Directories. I used to submit articles to these
directories, which has given me good traffic.
http://www.indiaonline.in/articles/post-article.asp
http://www.eastrovedica.in
http://www.articlegnosis.com
www.articlenetworks.com
www.article-content-king.com
www.articles-submit.com
www.newfreearticles.com
www.articlenexus.com
www.articlealley.com
www.a1articles.com
www.contentarticles.com
www.kokkada.com
www.article99.com
www.articlefinders.com
www.articledepot.co.uk
www.articlesfactory.com
http://www.article-spot.com/
http://www.articlesymposium.com/
http://www.articleteller.com/
http://www.articlewheel.com/
http://www.bigarticle.com/
http://www.christiannotepad.com/
http://www.dognewscenter.com/
http://www.easyarticles.com/
http://www.e-calc.net/
www.contenttycoon.com
www.articlewisdom.com
www.articlecity.com
www.articlehub.com
www.ezinearticles.com
www.articlestop.com
www.articledashboard.com
www.goarticles.com
www.articlewebdirectory.com
www.articlebiz.com
www.articlefever.com
www.contentfueled.com
http://www.Free-Articles-Zone.com
www.articlesender.com
www.articlerich.com
www.articlesphere.com
www.articles-submit.com
www.articlemaniac.com
www.postarticles.com
www.upromote.com
http://www.freezine-articles.com/
http://freezinesite.com/
http://www.hotlib.com/articles/
http://www.ideamarketers.com/
http://www.internetarticledirectory.com/
http://www.klienwachter.com/adarticles/
http://www.mainstreetmom.com/
http://www.media13.com/
http://www.mydolittle.com/
http://www.myfamilyliving.com/
www.freearticles.com
www.articles.co.nz
www.articledatabase.com
www.article-warehouse.com
www.authorconnection.com
www.articleempire.com
www.articlecircuit.com
www.articlecrazy.com
www.writeyourarticles.com
www.articlemailbox.com
www.articlestack.com
www.articlestogo.com
www.articlebiz.com
www.articles_galore.com
www.add-articles.com
www.spiritualminds.com
http://hotlib.com/articles/submit.php
www.book-of-thoth.com
www.drualtys.com
www.bharatbhasha.com
My main site, www.eastrovedica.com has got more than 384 K hits and my main
blog, recently started, http://zodiacastrology.blogspot.com has got more
than 10 K hits, mainly due to Article Marketing !
All my 22 blogs have got good traffic. Also my five websites and I attribute
all this to Article Marketing. I blog regularly about the subjects I love -
cricket, marketing, blogging, philosophy, astrology, gemology, numerology
etc. Many come to my office to learn blogging.
I have also monetised by blogs and sites and I get monthly checks from
Google & Adbrite, thanks to Article Marketing !
May you increase your blog traffic with Article Marketing
Article Marketing - Secrets Revealed - Part II
Articles give us tremendous free exposure. This is the secret of Viral Markeing which is Free Advertising. If our article is good, it will be displayed in ezines and websites and the resource box at the end will proclaim who is the author of that article. Many a reader will click on the link to our website and we get phenomenal
amount of traffic!
When writing an article, it is the Resource box which pulls people to the site. The Resource box must be well written. I used to write like this
Article by G Kumar, Astrologer & Epistemologist of http://www.eastrovedica.com/ He is a good Viral Marketing expert & has made his dotcom successful through VM. To subscribe to his Free ezine, the Z Files, click here
mailto:info@eastrovedica.com?subject=Subscribe
You should give your site's name & your email address in the resource box. If you have an ezine, you should give the email address for subscribing to your ezine. In the Resource Box, it is better to give a short bio of yourself and your area of expertise. Those who are impressed by your article will definitely subscribe to your ezine as they thirst for more quality information.
Successful marketers never try to sell their products at the first instance. What they try is to get a free subscription to their Ezine! It is their sophisticated approach that sells !
The main principle of Marketing is Never Sell - Influence. It should not look like business. If you write an ad, it should not look like an ad.
Once people subscribe to your ezine via your Resource box, you can give freebies - free reports, free ebooks and free consultancy. They become your loyal customers ! They will refer more people to your site and your business will thrive.
Once the article with the Resource Box is finished, you have to market it to your target audience.
What I used to do is go to the search engines and type in "ezines" which deal with your subject.
Since I started writing articles on Astrology, I used to go to Yahoo, Ebay, Altavista etc and type in Astrology Ezine and search.
This search will give a list of Astrology Ezines. If your subject is Medicine type Medicine ezine and search.
Suppose it gives 40 lists. You go to these websites and write down their email addresses. Then you write a covering letter to the Zine Publisher and submit your article to be published by him/her.
I used to write like this:
Dear Zine Publisher,
I came to know about your esteemed Zine from the Net.
I am a writer on Astrology with a website - http://www.eastrovedica.com/
I have written an article on Astrology. Please publish it in your Zine/Site.
It is a win-win situation for both of us as you get good content and I get exposure in return.
Thanks and regards,
G Kumar
http://www.eastrovedica.com/
You can also submit your articles to Site Owners. They may display your article on their site. Site Owners are looking for quality content. If you can provide that, they will definitely accept your articles.
After writing articles on the subject, one should group these articles and compile them into an ebook.
After I wrote nine articles on Astronumerology, I compiled them into an Ebook called Astronumerology and distributed it free.
Article Banks
Article Banks are considered to be Net Marketing Gold. There are a lot out there and it will be better if you subscribe to them and post your articles regularly. I used to submit my articles to the following lists:
WriteitPublish_Announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
article_announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Cramp-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
I_Need_Content-subscribe@yahoogroups;
ArticleReview-subscribe@topica.com
WriteitPublish_Announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
articles_archives-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
ArticlePublisher-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
clickforcontent-subscribe@topica.com
free-content-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
Free-Reprint-Articles-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
Free_eContent-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
freezinecontent-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
FreeWrites-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
free-content-subscribe@topica.com;
Free-Reprint_Articles-subscribe@topica.com;
free_articles-subscribe@topica.com;
freeezinecontent-subscribe@topica.com;
netwrite-publish-announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
publisher_network-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
QC_Reprint_Articles-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
ReadMyArticles-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
ReprintArticles-Paradise-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Free E Book Compiler
To compile an Ebook, you need a compiler and Keebo is a free compiler. We have used it ourselves, but at this price of zero dollars, it's certainly worth checking out: http://www.keeboo.com/ENU/index.html
There are other paid ebook compilers. You can download a trial version from http://www.ebookcompiler.com/
In the ebook you should give links to your site. You can give links to your friend's sites as well. You can tell your friends that you have given links to their sites in your ebooks. They will reciprocate by giving you links in their articles or their ebooks. They may even give you a link from their sites as well.
You can ask ezine publishers to give the ebook away freely to their customers. You can tell siteowners to give the ebook away to their visitors. This is known as Perpetual Marketing, wherein many publishers and siteowners market your site free for you!
You can give the ebook away as an incentive for subscribing to your Ezine. You can give the ebook away when a customer buys your product, as an added bonus.
You can tell your friends that you have given them links in your ebook. Inspired, they will distribute it free amongst their friends, relatives & customers.
You can post your ebook here
http://writers-bbs.com/inkspot/?forum=ebookpromo.
You can submit your ebooks to Ebook_News@yahoogroups.com
& majordomo@exemplary.net
You can give your ebook away as a free download at your site. Or you can give them as a paid download.
If people download your ebook, they will definitely visit your website & sign up for your newsletter or buy your products or hire you for your service.
I have created several ebooks that have been read by thousands of people all over the Net and this has resulted in massive traffic to my site.
Sheer hard work is imperative along with persistence, perseverance & lots of time to be successful as a marketeer on the Net. Because of the dynamic & ever changing nature of the Web, marketing becomes an everyday job. " Promote or die" is the slogan. We have to market smarter, not harder.
Ebook publishing is the biggest money spinner on the Net. Many have become millionaires as a result of e-publishing. Rick Beneteau ,Jim Daniels & Monique Harris are some shining examples. So why dont you try this viral method?
You can submit your articles to Article Wisdom, Article Gnosis, Eastrovedica and also to these Article Submission Centers Article Submission Centers
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