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How much is a squidoo lens worth?

by Spiritual Marketing on July 26, 2010

A long time lensmaster asked: how do you value a squidoo lens? It turns out that TheFluffanutta has made a lens valuing tool that at least has the right factors in there. Here is what it says about  my top lens: http://www.squidoo.com/spirituality-quotes Estimated value of ‘spirituality-quotes’ Current Lensrank: #104 Average Lensrank: #85 Worth $160.62 over [...]

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Affiliate marketing and SEO

by Spiritual Marketing on May 20, 2010

lakeerieartists invited me to blog here, so I thought I’d check out her blog in more detail. It turns out, she’s already written about the most important things. She’s discussed: How to article (which can be big) Selling a Tangible Item (which makes me most affiliate income) Becoming an Authority (which gets you links and [...]

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When should you get an google adsense account?

by Spiritual Marketing on October 27, 2009

AKA: how to avoid getting banned by google adsense. Short answer: you should get an adsense account when the online properties you are going to be using it on have at least 100 visitors a day among them. I know this blogpost will likely not be read by those it needs to reach: newby online [...]

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Passion or Making money?

by Spiritual Marketing on January 20, 2009

Potpiegirl wrote recently that she feels all that talk about ‘following your passion’ won’t make you a living online. At least that’s how I understood this post about niches. She should know. I don’t agree with all her advice (her advice on tags is different from mine – though it’s a nuance thing), but on [...]

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So, what sells?

by Spiritual Marketing on January 19, 2009

My squidoo income is still mainly lensrank. However, I’ve recently come to earn about 20% of my squidoo income off actual sales. Looking at those statistics, I come to two conclusions about what sells: Go really NICHE. I’ve got some low traffic lenses that are very specific where the sales equal those of top traffic [...]

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Sales tip: edit user contributions!

by Spiritual Marketing on December 22, 2008

I know this sounds too much to some people, but I’m serious. What people write in your guestbook, how your plexo’s look and stuff like that makes a BIG difference to the feel of a lens. And the feel of your lens can make the difference between a sale & no sale. I have a [...]

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