First off squidoo (Google squidoo) is a website with an easy interface designed for anyone to setup a free one topic webpage on a topic of their choice. An interesting thing here is that they share revenue with their content creators as well some is given to charity.

On this page information is displayed with user generated Lenses. These are single pages that highlight one person’s point of view, recommendations, or expertise.

The users who create these lenses are called lensmasters. Its the lensmasters job to fill in the wholes on the topic of choice. In exchange for this the lensmaster can receive up to 50% of the revenue for the advertisements views from their lenses. So you can already see that being popular on Squidoo can pay off.

Since Google likes Squidoo, its pages get indexed rather quickly. They often find their way to the first page if content is well written and the lenses gets enough hits.

If you are in an affiliate program a great idea is to write a review about your program or product and create a lens around it. In this review you would give valuable information that allows the reader to get much wanted information about your program or product. Within this review add links to where the product or program can be purchased. This of course would have your affiliate link in it so that you would get credit for the sale.

There are many ways to promote your lens. I’ll name a few here for you. The first and maybe most obvious would be to social bookmark your site. Social bookmarks allow you to share and save web pages publicly or privately with tags that make them accessible to readers looking for similar content.

You can also create more than one lens and link them together. This allows viewers to see more of you and will also provide good backlinks. Submitting a press release will also create the more buzz for your lens. Blogging about your lens can also bring those much needed backlinks as well.

These are only a few of the ways that you can promote your lens. Believe me the list goes on and on when it comes to promoting your lens. What is of greatest importance to consider when writing a lens to promote a program or product is not to sound like your pitching. The best way to keep from doing this is to offer objective comments that the reader can ultimately draw there own conclusion. This not only allows them to make up their own mind but it will keep them engaged in your article.