Squidoo is an amazing source for Internet marketers. It's what is considered a web 2.0 site that allows users to construct "lenses," that are distinctive pages situated on the Squidoo.com domain that promote a specific issue.

You might be wondering what's so profound about that, when thousands of other sites permit you to do the same thing. Except Squidoo is distinctive. Not only do they make it very easy to make a web page, ripe with graphics, subject matter, as well as interactivity, except they allow - and even encourage you - to utilize the page to bring in wealth (vastly unlike the marketing sanction you meet at MySpace).

A few other web 2.0 sites tolerate a minimal quantity of marketing to take place, such as HubPages. Except they're significantly stricter regarding the number of outgoing links you can include, and they maintain added regulations, which render it harder to use the site for your specific private profiting potential.

Squidoo is in fact considerably more conducive to making actual wealth than every additional site that has come into popularity in recent years. This is the main reason Squidoo has risen to fame so swiftly.

Squidoo has at last created a site that can be used for business purposes in addition to being an important consumer source and wealth of free information. Thousands of intelligent marketers have hurried to the site to use the limitless tools accessible to them.

Also, among the arrival of decent marketers, an influx of spammers came to attempt to take over. This caused Squidoo to momentarily undergo a critical dip in the search engine rankings of its pages at Google, and a sudden drop in traffic to boot - identified as Google's Squidoo Slap.

Squidoo was quick to assume action, taking away several of the tools (such as iFrames) that made it simple for spammers to mistreat the system. They also outlawed four major spam topics from the site. This was agravating to most honest marketers, however it made it harder for spammers to take advantage of the site.

They furthermore instituted selected policies with regards to quality of lenses, requiring a more generous quantity of content to be published before the lens would display in searches on the Squidoo site itself. This also helped deter spammers who would put up a lens by way of merely a paragraph or two of keyword-rich spam text and then a lot of outbound links.

Squidoo can be used in numerous ways. You can promote services, products, or affiliate items by means of your lens. You can hold several accounts and on every free account, you can have a limitless supply of lenses.

You can cross-promote your lenses. Erect one master topic lens, and then branch off to make a number of more targeted lenses. Squidoo helps everybody be a specialist on any subject, and Googles fondness for Squidoo is again rampant, helping lenses obtain page 1 rankings in the SERPs for countless competitive keywords and phrases.

People who sell on eBay additionally love to promote their eBay stores or auctions via Squidoo, using built in eBay modules (building blocks) that Squidoo offers. Selected modules give the lensmaster a segment of co-op profit by way of AdSense and various module profits. But you can in addition utilize text and image links to funnel traffic directly by way of to your personal domain.