One of the hottest sites to come out of the Web 2.0 phenomenon is
Squidoo. If you are not building sites to Squidoo, you are
missing one of the quickest and easiest ways to build free
traffic for your website or blog.

Squidoo is a cross between a blog, a mini site, and a My Space
page. Squidoo calls the sites "lenses" and the people who produce
the sites are called "lensmasters."

Squidoo lenses are very easy to make, even if you have not ever
built a website or blog before. You can have a lens up and
running in as little as 15 minutes.

Squidoo lenses are made up of "modules". Squidoo has dozens of
modules to choose from. There are modules for making lists. There
are modules for You Tube videos. There are modules for Amazon and
Ebay auctions. With a little knowledge of the module system, you
can have your lens built in no time.

Squidoo also offers you a chance to make money from your lens.
Squidoo makes its money from affiliate advertising with Google
AdSense, Amazon, Ebay and several other sites. They keep track of
the earnings of each module and split the profits with you 50-50.
You can also donate your profits of your module to charity if you
wish.

Squidoo is very lenient about allowing you to use third party
advertising on your lens. You can promote your own website if you
wish or promote your favorite affiliate product. Savvy network
marketers often use Squidoo lenses to promote their products and
recruit new reps.

Squidoo lenses often rank very high on Google, so it's a great
chance to build some backlinks to your primary company website.

One of the best ways to use Squidoo to build traffic to your
primary blog is by using the RSS feed module. You simply load the
RSS feed from your blog and the Squidoo lens will update
automatically as you update your blog.

The Amazon module is also very easy to use for people that are
new at Squidoo. For the case of Amazon products, you simply enter
the ISBN number of the Amazon product and Squidoo will pull it
directly off the Amazon website, complete with the photo and the
price. You can also have the module pull directly from keywords
if you don't want to take the time to find ISBN numbers on
Amazon.

Another great Squidoo module is the Ebay module. With the Ebay
module, you can select products by keyword or by seller. If you
sell a lot of products yourself on Ebay, this is a great way to
get free traffic to your auctions.

As you can tell, Squidoo is a great free and easy way to build
traffic and make money online. So get Squidooing!

Andy Henry