Now hold on to your hats. . . This is going pretty well.

I just made my very first online money. $.25 from squidoo!


What is Squidoo?

Sometime back, i heard about squidoo lenses and i was curious enough to make my own lens (a page that is referred as "lens" on squiodoo). The site is more like myspace, friendster combined with blogger or wordpress as i would describe it.

What sets squidoo different from others?

The site is user-friendly and easy to use. Everything is within a particular arrangement, so you dont have to do much of tweaking and designing (which is perfect for novice blogger like me). It all boils down to the content of your lens.

How do i earn with squidoo?

Earning is made by advertising fees that squidoo applies to each of your lens. If someone clicks on those ads, youll get a cut from them. ( great huh?!) This is I think how i got my $.25 And that's not it. For even bigger chances of earning, squidoo is affiliated with e-bay, amazon, cafepress and hundreds of sellers that you could add in your lens. You just have to pick which products you want to add in your lenses. And if someone makes a purchase through your lens, you'll get a bigger cut!

Furthermore, squidoo is a charity-oriented site. You can either choose to give your earnings to your charity of choice, (which leisure lens-makers do) or take it into percentages. 60-40 or 50-50. . . your choice. I made my lens 60-40. 60 for me.hehe

What kirby thinks about Squidoo.

I think squidoo is an opportunity to increase traffic to your blog. It serves as an outlet of your blog since you can link your blog from the lenses you make. Promote your lenses, and not only will you earn from the lenses but in the process, increasing traffic to your blog which would mean even more monetary earnings.

And if youre really serious about making money from squidoo, you may want to make alot of lenses. And im talking about 20 or mmore lenses. I even know somoeone who makes $3 per lens a month and he has 18 lenses. Imagine this working for you. What makes it special is that, lenses are almost "maintenance free". As long as you got traffic, you dont have to more about alot of things.

For more info in increading traffic to your blog. See my first move to increase traffic.

Create your squidoo lens now! Click here.

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In addition to my previous post, i made something that would hopefully increase my traffic to this blog. After all, this is the essence of blogging that if you take this out, your blog would just be a piece of information existing on the web like a worthless piece of sand in a dessert. (Caffiene really makes me say odd things. lol )

On my clock, its already 10:17pm. Since this morning, ive been adding my blog to numerous blog directories which you can see on the bottom of the page. Well, i realized one thing after my first day, blogging aint just a walk in the park, its a full-time effort.

Todays, work actually brought me to a certain dilemma. What category should I add my blog to? Im torn between financial and personal blog. I just cant decide which is which so i used financial on other blog directories, and personal on the majority of them.

Another problem i encountered was when i was adding banners to blog directories. Each time I add, the blog directories would ask for a specific banner size so its a hard work i tell you. Thankfully, i got 2 applications i use to edit and resize and design banners. I use bannermaker pro and green box logo maker.

Im not very sure if i can benefit with what i did today. I tell you, its worth a try since alot of people recommend it. And if not, well, maybe i just have to retire to the notion that, i gained experience today. After all, blogging aint 100% certainty. Its not certain at all, as a matter of fact.

If you have any suggestions, questions or anything at all, please dont hesitate to ask me and post comments about it.

Until tommorow, Good night for now! (my hands are all tired and weak) hehe

These are some of the directories i signed up my blog for. Anything you missed out? Feel free to click anything and vote for my blog on your way there.

















"just being a Filipino for Others"

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