Terry Didcott

Squidoo and Affiliate Marketing

As you’ll probably know already, I have created quite a lot of Squidoo lenses over that past few months.

These one-page mini-websites all have a great promotional benefit to my hosted websites and blogs in that they provide valuable one-way inbound links to them, which is good from the viewpoint of attaining a usable search engine page rank.

But Squidoo lenses have another plus point in that they are in themselves perfect foils for promoting affiliate products to customers who might not have otherwise found my sites and blogs. Sure, I’ve already got some of those lenses kitted out with a nice array of affiliate products - I have several Internet Marketing themed lenses that cater for that side of the market and some alternative lifestyle themed lenses to cater for that side of things.

However, these niches are quite heavily populated already, making them difficult to make money in any decent quantity, so I decided to branch out and try some niches that I’m not that familiar with, but that are also not do heavily promoted by other marketers.

This is where keyword research has come into play in order to find good keywords for niches that don’t have so much competition. My first of these breakaway niche lenses is already alive and on the air:

Designer Bag

I expect to see this lens go charging up the search engine pages quickly once it gets indexed and then to see some affiliate commissions from some sales that it generates. Lets see if it does!

If anyone’s interested to see how this one is put together, feel free to click over there and have a look see!

Terry Didcott