Most people already keep in mind that one must have a blog in order to do well in affiliate marketing. With Squidoo, that perspective is not true anymore.

The basic idea of Squidoo is to provide a place where authors (that is called Lenmasters) can get revenue or portion of share based on what people buy from their page (called Lens). In order to drive traffic to your Lens, good content is a must. Squidoo is just like Wikipedia where you can contribute contents. But Squidoo is better since you can have portion of revenue.

The best thing about Squidoo is that they rank well in search engine. Just make sure that you don’t use duplicate content and then you update your Lens often. That’s the basic secret of Squidoo. With Squidoo, you don’t have a hard time to choose product since Squidoo already offers various of products for you to promote. There are Amazon, CafePress, and E-bay to choose.

Although it’s quite a good idea to make profit with Squidoo, you need to keep in mind that you are actually helping somebody spread their wings. Not yours. Any thing can happen without warning. Squidoo can delete your Lens, or more worse banned your account anytime. Just don’t put all eggs in the same basket. Besides Squidoo, you should have other source of incomes too so that you still have backup in case something happen.

That is just a basic idea of how to use Squidoo. There are also some webmasters that use Squidoo to drive traffic to their websites. Some use Squidoo as link building strategy. You just need to join Squidoo first and see how you can use Squidoo to maximum.

Besides Squidoo, Hubpages can be said as a website that offer quite similar modus operandi. Both of them work greats and famous. If you have a hard in choosing between one of them, just use both. But keep in mind not to do cross post or don’t blame me if your account got banned.

If you are interested to become a Lensmaster, these resources should help you,

• Squidoo vs Hubpages
• How to setup Squidoo for maximum profit
• Squidoo tips
• How to drive traffic to your blog with Squidoo