Monday, February 16, 2009

Online Advertising Marketing Highlighting Squidoo To Boost Sales

By Trisha Frauenhofer

If you haven't heard of Squidoo, you probably will, soon. You'll run across a site on the first page of your preferred search engine, or follow a link to someone else's site. If you don't know what Squidoo is, you're missing out on a lot of information, and you're not getting into a great method of online advertising marketing.

Many of us have websites and blogs, and it's sometimes hard to drive traffic to them. If you want a great way of getting free traffic, one of the fastest, simplest ways is by using Squidoo. This free, easy site can be a lot of fun to use. You can set up your site in under fifteen minutes, and you don't need any hosting for photos or videos. Everything is already done for you. Affiliate marketers can easily use Squidoo to help them market product they promote. You can look at Squidoo like a MySpace account, blog, and mini website all rolled into one.

What you create when you use Squidoo is called a lens. These sites are what you might have encountered when you search. These lenses are used to distribute information and act as online advertising marketing. Lenses contain modules, which are more like blog posts.

There are so many different types of modules to use, such as the EBay module for those who sell on EBay. There are also YouTube modules where can put a YouTube video within the module. In Squidoo modules, you can write articles, testimonials, and reviews about your product/service you are trying to sell. This is a great place to tell all the readers everything about this product/service, and to inspire them to learn more. You don't want to give away everything about it, as this is where you want to promote the product. You eventually want them to click through to the site where the product or service is sold.

Squidoo can also be used to drive traffic to a primary blog, using an RSS feed module. Just load your blog's RSS feed into the lens, and it'll update automatically when you do.

As you can see, Squidoo has so much to offer. They are also very helpful with tips about how to choose good keywords to get good traffic. The lens can rank high on Google, so you can build backlinks to your primary website if you wish.

Squidoo may be free to use, but you can earn money with it. The site makes its money using affiliate advertising like Ebay, Adsense, and others. They track the earnings that come from each module, and give you half the profits. There's even an option set up through Squidoo to donate that money to charity.

Of course, Squidoo's not only for advertising but many users just like to use the site to get information out there, and let their readers know about something important. It just happens to also be an effective way to market your site. If you haven't already, it's time to start searching for Squidoo lenses, and visit the site to find out more. - 15634

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