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Originally Posted by beks001
Does anybody make money using squidoo or ezinearticles? I haven't heard of anyone actually making money from these....but that doesn't mean anything bc I don't know much at all! :-) Please do tell!
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Prior the updates in ratings on Squidoo, there was a massive flaw in their rating/ranking system. Basically your lense's rankings depend on a few factors, one of which that paid a large role was your number of votes and your overall rating. Squidoo has ZERO IP PROTECTION. Also your accounts require no email authorization. You could signup for an account with a bullshit email address and rate a lense. Over, and over, and over again. So I put together a simple bot that automated this process. Another debatable metric used in ranking squidoo lenses is page views, so I was firing tons of junk traffic at my lenses for a while too.
Essentially I could put any lense I wanted into the top 100 for it's category in a couple of days by blasting it with 400-600 4-5 star ratings. After a while Squidoo would find them and devalue the lense, but you could make a new and have it in the top 100 again in no time. I have a few hundred lenses, at any one time while this worked I regularly had 40-50 lenses sitting in the top 100 for various categories, and I was making some good money doing it for a short period.
If you can build a good lenses and promote as you would a regular site, you can get some ok traffic to it internally via Squidoo, and you can make sales. With a little effort, Squidoo lenses can rank really well on low-mid level competitive terms too. I don't hear of many people making huge money strictly on Squidoo, but there's monet kicking around there.