First of all, I’d like to state that the owners of Squidoo are just protecting their site and it’s value. They have seen the effects that bad writing has had on its site and realized that they can no long sit back and defend the junk lenses. This was kind of what I was getting at in my recent post about the difference between spam and poor or promotional writing, many times the two were getting confused and people were calling the junk spam and vice versa. What Squidoo no longer wants on their site are pure copies of sales pages for products or lenses that link to the same site 800 times within a lens as well as lenses on some certain subjects which I’m not going to go into detail about here. Visit the Squidoo policy update lens if you’d like to read more about what will or won’t be allowed.

When Potpiegirl wrote One Week Marketing, I’m pretty sure her intentions weren’t for people to go out and create a bunch of cookie cutter lenses with the same content that were overly promotional. She never did say if you don’t know something about a subject, just copy and paste it from somewhere else or go and get some PLR and reuse it directly on a lens. If you are building lenses with useful content written with your own voice, then you should be fine under the new rules. This is where their policies should help you; Squidoo killing off some of the junk lenses should make their site more valuable in Google’s eyes which will hopefully make it easier for your lens to be indexed. I don’t know about you, but I have been having a hell of a time getting a new lens indexed lately and my opinion is this policy update should help this problem. Of course, I could be totally wrong here too.

If you don’t think you can write your own useful content, then cut Squidoo out of the picture all together and find another free site you can use in its place, keeping all of the other steps the same. Build a blog on Blogger or sign up with Weebly. If you’re not comfortable writing good content, say away from Hub Pages, you will be eaten alive there. The best ideas are either build your own site on  your own webhosting service or learn to write. I know the idea behind OWM is making money online using free services, but the other idea behind it is to work towards owning your own sites; build your own site like you would build your lenses and then use the OWM techniques to drive traffic to your own site. Sorry if I sound a little harsh, but there is no quick way to making money online and you need learn to evolve or you will always be dreaming instead of doing.

Are you going to have to change the way you do things because of Squidoo’s new rules?

Originally posted 2009-06-19 07:08:06. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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The dying off of traffic and the Google changes have really hit me hard. I was on a role of publishing a new lens or hub every 2 days (almost to my goal of 1 a day), but then this change came along and really made me start to rethink everything. When this happens, I become almost frozen, not doing a darn thing online or even at home because I have once again taken a hit in traffic which turns into a hit on my income.

This isn’t the first time something like this has happened to me. Remember when eBay went from a per sale payout to a pay-per-click payout? That change really hit me hard because along with that change came a rule that you cannot use EPN affiliate links on a site that you do not own. I had to change about 30 lenses that were using EPN links from my own to Squidoo’s. My income took a dip by a ton. Once again, I was frozen not wanting to publish anything because my world was upside down.

My whole point of this is change happens fast in the affiliate marketing business and you need to be able to deal with change in order to be successful. If you can’t deal with change, then you should find a different way to build your online income.

I have started to add more content to the lenses that have taken a hit. This whole task is really daunting, I have 157 lenses and at least half of them need some editing to bring them up to par. This daunting task is what has frozen me which is why I needed to come up with a new action plan. I am more productive when I’m producing new content and then the editing comes easier, so what I’m going to do is get back on task to building a new page every day and then once I’m done, I’ll move on to editing my old content. I will also start to look for new opportunities to build my own websites because relying on what someone else owns is not a good idea.

Have you ever had a problem dealing with change in AM? How did you handle it? I’d like to know.

Until later,

Originally posted 2011-03-18 06:55:29. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Of course, coming up with a subject when thinking of making money is difficult, especially when you are getting started. If this sounds like you, then stop thinking about making money and go start a Squid Who lens about yourself. Don’t worry about what everyone thinks, just start writing about your life. Where did you grow up? What’s your favorite restaurant? What do you do in your free time? Once you get started writing, you will be shocked about how fast the words flow out of your fingers, through the keyboard, and onto the screen.

I have three reasons for suggesting an about me lens to start. First of all, you are writing about something you know really well, yourself. Secondly, you will be getting a feel for how setting up a basic lens works. In order to publish your lens, you will need at least 4 modules with content in them, but this really isn’t difficult. Use a Amazon module to feature your favorite books or games, add a guestbook module, a text mod or two can contain your autobiography info, and a Twitter mod can be used to let people know where to find you on Twitter. My third reason for suggesting this is you will come up with at least three more subjects that you know a lot about; write these down while you are making  your lens so you don’t forget them. These ideas are what you are going to make a lens on next.

While you are working on this, don’t worry about making it pretty, just get the lens done as a start. Once you are done, hit the publish button and you now have your first lens published. It is truly that easy.

Now that you have published your first lens, feel free to take a peak around the Squidoo Answer Deck and find out all of the cool things you can do for your lens. Don’t get too caught up here though, you have many more Squidoo lenses to write and get published.

Learn more about lens creation with this free Squidoo guide.

Until next time, thanks for stopping by.

Originally posted 2009-06-08 06:33:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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