Sunday, February 15, 2009

Online Advertising Marketing Featuring Squidoo To Get Started

By Trisha Frauenhofer

Have you heard of Squidoo? Chances are, if you have done any searching on the Internet lately, you have run across a Squidoo site on the first page of your favorite search engine. However, if you don't really know what it is, you are missing out on a great online advertising marketing method.

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.

In Squidoo, you create what is called a lens. These are the Squidoo sites that you may have run across while searching on the Internet. These lenses are a Squidoo site used to promote a product or information. Within this lens, there are modules. Modules are basically like a post to a blog.

A wide variety of modules is available, from Ebay modules for Ebay sellers to YouTube modules that help you include video. Squidoo modules can have a lot of different types of content, including reviews and testimonials, and information and articles about your product or service. This is a great place to let people know what's great about your product or service and make them curious to find out more. While you don't want to tell everything about your service or product, you should promote it here, so people will eventually click through to the main page.

You can also use Squidoo to drive traffic to your primary blog by using the RSS feed module. You load the RSS feed from your blog and your lens will update as you update your blog.

There's a lot Squidoo has to offer, including tips on how to choose the best keywords for optimum traffic. Since lenses can have a high ranking on sites like Google, they allow you to build backlinks to your primary site or blog as desired.

One great benefit of Squidoo is that while it's free, you can still earn some money from it. Since the site earns its money by using affiliate advertising (Ebay, AdSense, and more), they track earnings from each module. You get half the profits, and can do whatever you want with it, including use the automatic charity donation system set up through Squidoo.

Squidoo users like to make use of this site to get important information out there, and to let readers know about important thing. They can share information and experiences, as well as using Squidoo as an excellent online advertising marketing strategy. If you're not familiar with Squidoo yet, it's time to search for a site, and then have fun exploring.

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