Carol Owens

Get Traffic To Your Squidoo Lens

To get traffic quickly to your lens without any cost try some of these solutions.

1. Add your lens address to your signature when you post on forums.

2. Have well written quality original content packed with keyword rich material on your lens.

3. Submitting your lens to Social Bookmarking sights such as Facebook, MySpace, Digg, LinkedIn and others are quick ways to send traffic to your lens.

4. Announce it on Twitter.

5. Publishing well-written articles with your Squidoo lens address in the bio box will bring lots of traffic.

6. Of course, you’ll want to blog about your lens, letting your readers know about it.

7. Use the Lens address in your email signature. This is a no-brainer.

8. Promote your lens by joining groups in the Squidoo community. A Squidoo group is simply collection of people and lenses with the same interests.

9. Use long tail keywords on your lens for targeted traffic.

10. Create links back to your Squidoo site.

Don’t have a lens yet? Get a lens created for your niche or purchase a pre-made lens.

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Social Networking with Squidoo.

Social networking is hot on the web right now. Twitter, mySpace, Facebook and a myriad of the other sites are great for bringing much needed traffic to you. Another site I like to use, even though it’s getting a bad rap right now for some of the changes they’re making over there, is Squidoo. If used correctly, and within the guidelines, and not abused, Squidoo can be a great asset to your marketing efforts.

If you have spent any time online, you probably have several websites and / or blogs. But how often do you get a chance to spend time marketing on social sites for each one? It can be difficult to find the time necessary on a regular basis to promote your sites.

With Squidoo, you can create a lens that links to your website, feeds from your blog and sells your affiliate products all on one page. There are hundreds of lenses on every niche imaginable, making it all the more important for you to grab your niche keyword and show your expertise in our niche.

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Best Way to Make Money Online

If you don’t think  there are easy ways to make money online then think again. There are many individuals who have already become millionaires from doing business on the Internet. Then there are those who, though they are not millionaires yet, are making a stable income from the Internet and have been able to quit their day jobs. You must know that people have been earning from the Internet ever since it was first introduced 15 years ago. So earning money from the Internet is not a new concept as some people believe. Truth is, it is much easier to earn money from the Internet in those days because of the presence of less competition in almost all niches. Now, almost all niches have been tapped and the competition online is getting tougher every year.

This is not to say though that it is impossible to earn money from the Internet nowadays. It is just a matter of being able to recognize a hot niche that is just waiting to be tapped. To find niches, you probably need to do some market research. Once you have selected a niche then it is time to think of what value-added services or product you can offer to this niche. You can either develop your own product and sell it to your market or you can sell other people’s products or services through affiliate marketing.

If you are not familiar with how affiliate marketing works then let me give a general description of the process. In affiliate marketing, you sign up for an affiliate program wherein you will be given a link. You will put this link in your site, blog or email then encourage people to click on it. If the person who clicks the link eventually buys the product or service being sold, then you get a percentage or a commission of the total sale. Affiliate commissions go from 30% to as high as 90% of the total cost of the product or service.

Affiliate marketing presents a very big opportunity for individuals who are looking of earning huge amounts of money online because of the fact that there are literally thousands of individuals and companies who are looking for people to sell their products for them.

Many experts believe that affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make big money online and rightfully so. No other method of making money online offers the flexibility and the earning potential that affiliate marketing does.

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How to Become A Ghostwriter

As a new Ghostwriter I was excited to read Just Add Sweat’s “How to Become a Ghostwriter” Guide to make sure that I was doing the right things to grow my business. After reading it I have to say I wish I had read it prior to starting my ghostwriting business. The information shared in this ebook virtually holds your hand through the correct steps from getting started to finding your first client to growth and expansion.

This is not some fluff filled ebook written to take your hard earned money. Instead this is the meat and potatoes version of a “how-to” guide. Not only did I get an ebook jam-packed with valuable information to start my business, I got a ton of bonus material including a business checklist, real-life stories from women who are successful ghostwriters, audios to listen to when I’m on the go, resources and lifetime updates.

Just Add Sweat’s “How to Become a Ghostwriter” Guide does everything but do the writing for you.

What You Get:

The How to Become a Ghostwriter Course includes:

•A professional newsletter template so you can stay in touch with your readers and clients

Just Add Sweat’s “How to Become a Ghostwriter” Guide is full of real advice by real Ghostwriters who have found success. They offer this information so you can avoid costly mistakes.

What you can expect to learn:

What it costs:

How to Become a Ghostwriter Guide sells for $19.77. A worthwhile expense when you look at what you’ll be earning as a Ghostwriter.

Take a look for yourself, you’ll see what I mean:
Just Add Sweat’s “How to Become a Ghostwriter” Guide

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Carol’s Random Thoughts

Hello!

Welcome to my blog.

I created this blog to offer resources, writing tips, marketing tips and design ideas to my fellow bloggers! I hope you will enjoy and learn along with me the many changing facets to the internet and the way we do marketing.

The internet is changing everyday, new ways to market and communicate such as web 2.0 and video, it is difficult to keep up with it.

I welcome comments and your recommendations!

To your success ;)

c.

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