Monetizing your Lens and keeping your content fresh

Squidoo adds Adsense ads to your Lens automatically, a source of a bit of income or a lot, depending on your traffic. Ebay and Amazon modules can do the same. They can also help keep your content fresh. Here’s how.

Let’s start with Amazon. You can use the Amazon Standard module if you have a good set of relevant keywords; you can let Amazon choose the products, and you can ask Amazon to refresh your products list daily, weekly, etc. Google will recognize this as fresh content on your page and this will help you maintain a good Page Rank.

I am using both Amazon modules on my page. Why? Because the Amazon Plexo gives your visitors more ways to interact with your Lens. They can rate your Amazon products, add their own products to it, and even put your list on their own lens (earning you money).

So hopefully the Standard module will keep my Lens fresher even when I can’t update that often, and the Plexo will help my Squidoo rating and make my Lens a little “stickier”. Ditto with the eBay module; enter your keywords and let it refresh its content on its own.

Remember to not only check out these modules for your own Lens, but look for them when you’re browsing Squidoo. This is a community, make your name a household word.

Think of Squidoo as yet another search engine, use it to research and learn.