Squidoo logoIn a word, yes, you can definitely make money on Squidoo. Now, if you want to know how to make money on Squidoo or even what the heck Squidoo actually is, then you need to keep reading because I have a lot to tell you about the site and about how it works and how you can make money from the site.

What is Squidoo?

Let’s start with the basics – just what is Squidoo anyway? Well, as much as a I sometimes malign content farms, the fact is that Squidoo is a variation of the traditional content farm. I say it’s a variation because they don’t necessarily publish a post for every possible combination of a keyword, the way that eHow does but instead, they allow pretty much anyone to post.

How Does it Work?

In essence, Squidoo allows you to create lenses. These are like mini blogs which are devoted to specific topics. However, unlike something like WordPress.com or Live Journal, Squidoo tends to be more focused on evergreen stuff and the lenses are meant to explore specific subjects rather than creating a blog like experience. Of course, there is a tremendous amount of overlap between the various styles from Squidoo to places like WordPress.com and others, however that’s the basic concept.

How to Make Money on Squidoo

There are actually two ways to earn money on Squidoo. However, beyond these two, there are other more indirect ways to use Squidoo to make money online.

Revenue Sharing

The first is revenue sharing – in essence, when you create content on the website, you get paid a percentage of the advertising revenue that comes in from the content you provided. This isn’t going to make you rich – I think the absolute top contributors, who have literally thousands of pages make enough to call it a living, but most people just end up with pocket change.

Affiliate Marketing

The other major way to make money on Squidoo is to use affiliate marketing. Whereas many other services, such as Examiner, tend to frown on having you post affiliate marketing links, Squidoo has no problem with it. This means that you can add in links for every affiliate program you can think of and provide reviews within Squidoo lenses for each product, while including a backlink to them which has your affiliate code.

Using Squidoo for SEO

However, the best way to use Squidoo is actually to create lenses on subjects which are connected to your blog or regular website. In essence, you would create a lens on Squidoo which can then be used to create additional backlinks to your website. These kinds of links can actually rise to become fairly good PR ranked links.