How to Use Squidoo to Generate Cash This Christmas Season

How to use Squidoo in a very specific manner to generate cash during this Christmas season.

5 Easy Steps for Squidoo Christmas Cash Lenses
1. Find a product.
2. Check the search volume
3. Check the competition
4. Create a lens based on that particular product
5. Build some links back to the lens
6. Repeat steps 1-5

This strategy is about speed and volume-don’t wasted time searching the right product
The key element of this strategy is to choose quickly, get your lenses up and move on to the next product.

1. Find a Product
This is no time to sell people an ebook. People are looking to give gifts going physical. The best place to find physical products for this plan is Amazon
Why choose Amazon:

why choose Amazon:
-Use the Amazon modules at Squidoo to link directly to your product
-find anything and everything in one place
-have immediate credibility when using Amazon
-“great deal” always sells for less than the retail price
-plenty of reviews for products for research

How do you choose which product?
-doesn’t really matter WHAT you choose-“a good pick”
-Not too cheap
-Not a general area of products ~ ONE SINGLE PRODUCT
-This is the key to this entire strategy
-that has a lot of reviews-GOOD reviews
-Check to see how many people are looking for that specific product

2. Check the competition
-only concerned with the sites on the front page of Google
-Put your keyword ~ the whole name of the product you have chosen ~ in Google. No quotes, no nothing
-Check the Page rank of the first page. Find the average page rank of the top 10 sites try to stick with something above 300 If the average PR is 3 or less you’re good to go
-A very good idea of how tough it’s going to be to rank well for these lenses
-If you find there are some lenses check Google to see if the lenses are showing up in the first page.

Next step is to create your Squidoo lens
-focus on the product benefits of this product, the key features, you just have to do the reassuring that they have made the right decision

Key Elements for Squidoo Christmas Cash Lenses
-Optimize your lens for your specific product keyword. This includes using your keyword/product name in specific places like the url, your lens title, module titles and as the anchor text of your links within your content
-Add an image of the product in the intro module, and talk about some benefits of the product
-Use your keywords/product name as the alt text for all of your images
-Use your keyword/product name to link back to Amazon from within any text module or other module where you can use html
-Make sure to mention this product would make a great Christmas gift
-Use an entire text module to feature reviews of the product
-Use the person’s name from the review and state that these are reviews from other people who have purchased the product
-Highlight different product reviews by using color backgrounds, borders or block quotes to make them stand out
-Let people know how much they can save on the product by purchasing through Amazon
-Provide a good visual call to action. This should include and image of your product as well as words like “click here to buy now at Amazon.com”.
-You can also highlight this by putting it in “the most important thing” module. This will give you a large orange border around your call to action and bring attention to it
-Find video of someone using your product or a video review of your product use it in your lens
-Add your affiliate link in the description area of the youtube module so people will be able to click right from your lens to the product instead of typing
-Break up large blocks of text with images, interesting modules (post it note, talk bubble, most important thing etc)
-Create a strong call to action near the bottom of your lens

Building Links to Your Lenses
-Create a blog specifically related to Christmas gifts. Add a post to your blog for each product you do a lens on. Don’t forget to put a link to the lens in the sidebar as well
-Use free ad blogs to write a quick product review and add a link to your lens
-Use free web 2.0 properties to link back to your lens
-Write an article or two and submit them to ezinearticles.com
-Bookmark your lens to a few high quality bookmarking sites
-Link your lenses together. If you have related products use the featured lens module, or use the lensroll feature to create links to your other lenses in the sidebar of your lens
-With all these links make sure you are using your keyword/product name as the anchor text of your links back to your lens

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