Designing Your Own Squidoo
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Squidoo.com is a surprisingly powerful social networking site which anyone can join for free. Many affiliate marketers have found that they can create an income using Squidoo which means that you are "only" spending your time - not your money. That is a rather appealing formula for many who are just starting on their adventure to make money using the internet.

This series of "SUCCESS WITH SQUIDOO" articles will cover what you need to know to make money with Squidoo. Ready?

In this first article we look at selecting a subject for your first Squidoo web page.

1. HOW TO FIND A SUBJECT FOR YOUR SQUIDOO LENS?

Incidentally at Squidoo.com web pages are called lenses. The singular is lens. And the webmasters (people who have lenses at Squidoo) are called lensmasters. And they have lensrank instead of PageRank, which is a Google concept.

Now that we've defined a few of the important terms here, let's start on finding a topic for your lens.

If you don't have a hobby or interest in mind, or a cause you are keen about or a product you want to promote, then you can always visit Wikipedia.org for a ton of ideas.

Wikipedia has nearly 2 million articles covering an immense range of topics. Their main subject categories are:

Reference
Art and culture
Geography and places
Health and fitness
History and events
Mathematics and abstractions
Natural sciences and nature
People and self
Philosophy and thinking
Religion and belief systems
Social sciences and society
Technology and applied sciences

By selecting a category you're interested in and then drilling down (that is, clicking on topics of interest), you will probably find a topic for your Squidoo lens. You will also find a lot of good information you can use for lens content.

AN EXAMPLE OF THIS

Let's say you are interested in Health and fitness. One of the sub-categories there is Positive mental health, and in that list you find Positive psychology. That's just a quick example of how to find a topic by drilling down.

Important tip: Don't just copy and paste what you read at Wikipedia -- or anywhere else for that matter. But you can use it as source material to write your own unique original articles.

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