Comments on: The Most Profitable Lens on Squidoo – Earnings Revealed

By: SW @ Quality Squidoo Lens Service

SW @ Quality Squidoo Lens Service — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:41:27 +0000

That is really interested to see and nice to see that Seth is following you … lolzz

By: Sid_who

Sid_who — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:53:14 +0000

Hi Darren,

So what does the whole thing look like now. How much do you earn from your lenses right now. I am sure it might have had reached 3 digits by now !!! Anyways your article was inspiring, thanks for sharing it !

By: squidooer

squidooer — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:46:52 +0000

i personally think its better to have squidoo lens than blogs as i am not that learned about internet and can not write a blog post every day(usually ran out of ideas),

also i am making good $$ form my few squidoo lens

By: Financialnut.com

Financialnut.com — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:57:28 +0000

Interesting post… I hope you have some sort of a sequel to it by now. I’ve been thinking of doing some work on Squidoo and am wondering if it’s even worth my time.

Maybe the backlinks will help? We’ll see!

By: Tracey Meagher

Tracey Meagher — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:01:43 +0000

I’ve been on Squidoo just a couple of weeks now and have managed to make one lens that is quite popular, looking forward to seeing my $10 clocked up in my earnings tab.

You are right about volume. Most of the lensmasters making $1000 + per month have 300 – 500 lenses.

By: cchiovitti

cchiovitti — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:04:50 +0000

Wow. What a difference a couple of years makes. $10.21 for the highest lens in all of Squidoo is sad, now with over half of a million lenses written it’s not uncommon to see earnings well over $100/month. Of course, Squidoo no longer publishes a “highest earning lenses” list but I could probably take a pretty accurate guess as to which ones were pulling in the biggest profits for HQ. The highest single lens I’ve had, I believe, was about $40 in a single month.

By: EelKat

EelKat — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:14:39 +0000

Squidoo works best if you have a lot of really big lenses that have a lot of *hand written* content (as opposed to ads and links) I’m one of Squidoo’s top lensmasters (and one of the higher paid ones too) and currently I have 378 lenses, but will hit 500 before the end of the year. I’ve had so many emails asking for advice on what I do and how other can do it to, that I ended up writing this lens:

http://www.squidoo.com/EelKatSquidooSecrets

and this one:

http://www.squidoo.com/SalesOnSquidoo

Both are how-to’s telling what I did so that others can do the same thing. I actually have a whole series, but those 2 are the best for anyone wanting to learn how to make money on Squidoo.

Hope that helps you out. Good luck with your lenses!

~~EK

By: fabb

fabb — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:36:41 +0000

Creating squidoo lenses may be alot of work at the beginning to set up. But once the initial set up is done you only need to upkeep the site and update to keep it fresh and watch the money roll in.

It might not be alot of money but it adds up and you are getting the valuable targeted traffic to you site.

By: PotPieGirl

PotPieGirl — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:20:21 +0000

Even tho this post is a bit old, I think there were some great points made. Mainly – if ONE lens can earn $10, just think if you had 100 lenses.

I was paid for roughly 60 lenses last month and made just about $70. Is that a lot of money? No – but it is an income stream that keeps coming to me long after the work is done. I also made less than $5 in affiliate module payouts so the majority of my earnings was from the site-wide co-op share paid by Squidoo. I talked all about my Squidoo earnings on my blog and detailed out how much I have been paid for as long as I have been participating within the Squidoo community.

We lensmasters are anticipating our September payday any “moment” now. This is for earnings in July. I can’t wait!

By: Courtney

Courtney — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:04:09 +0000

I had this very same discussion with some other work at home moms, and even blogged about it. They were lamenting that they hadn’t made any money from Squidoo. I think my lens earning are somewhere in the $5 range BUT I’ve garnered at least 6 writing projects from my IM ghowriter lens that have netted about $4,000.

By: MoneyMakerCash.com

MoneyMakerCash.com — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:39:06 +0000

Your right you don’t make a lot of money with just one lense, but the more lenses that you create the larger your income will be. I’ve been making at least 5 bucks a month for a few months from a few lenses. The more highly focused or targeted your lense is the more likely you are to make money from it.

But the best thing about Squidoo and other Web2.0 Social Networking Sites is that you can use them to drive targeted traffic to your own web sites!

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:08:26 +0000

The concept is similar to that of oondi (http://www.oondi.com) except that oondi will pay out 100% of the advertisement profits to the authors.
The hosting costs are covered by clicks which occur on non-author owned pages like the index but it’s basically a non-profit organization similar
to Wikipedia rather than a commercial one like HubPages or Squidoo.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:10:57 +0000

I just created a new lens (Easy Ways to Make Money Online) in the business category which you can. I read that the more outgoing/incoming links and modules and the frequency of your update is the biggest factor in your lens ranking...I'm experimenting this week to see how high I can get my lens...I made mine more in hopes of driving traffic to my blogt than selling products...I've read that Google loves squidoo so crossing my fingers! Sarah

By: Zensmith

Zensmith — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:55:53 +0000

I have just started using Squidoo. I think they have done a good job of building a nice interface for putting together a lens. They make it very easy. I am not sure there will be big money in putting together lens. However, it is a fun activity and once you have done one – it is kind of tempting to keep creating them. I have even done one for one old eighties favorites that I link out to videos I never new existed.

By: Ash Buckles

Ash Buckles — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 04:34:56 +0000

My 2 lenses haven’t earned a dime. However, I didn’t expect them to. I just creating them to see how it worked because I was in the middle of building a new (now defunct) personal network site that was similar to Seth’s approach.

However, I’m waiting for Squidoo to get out of beta because it is very glitchy (frustrating) right now. More over, it seems there could be more help with building the commerce components. Or am I just blind?

I’m hoping to build several lenses in time and probably 3-4 lenses per week once things get going. On the other hand, maybe waiting is the wrong approach. ;-)

By: Digger

Digger — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:13:08 +0000

You hear that Mrs. Rowse! You’re not getting a dime of that $10.21 dammit! Seth already took your cut!

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:34:25 +0000

Appreciate you stopping by too Seth.

I think you’re right. 10 or so minutes for $10 isn’t bad money. After my initial surprise that’s what I came back to for me. No one will get rich from one lens any more than anyone will get rich from one blog post.

The cool thing though, as with blogging, is that the post/lens has the potential to go on earning indefininately. So in the short term the ROI is small, but extend it out for a year or two it’s not bad.

I’ve talked here at ProBlogger a few times about each post being like a small investment in the bank that has the potential to bring returns over time and I think the principle applies over at Squidoo.

Of course at Squidoo I have to share my profits with your good self in return for your services whereas in blogging I just share it with my good wife. Of course many others won’t want the hassles that come along with setting up, maintaining and running multiple blogs and so Squidoo is an attractive option for them. Others, like myself, might try a combination of both as a fun way to diversify and cross promote their interests.

By: seth godin

seth godin — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:19:12 +0000

Gil, Darren’s right. The amount in his dashboard is not from the last two weeks.

There are some bigger points I’d like to make here. Mostly a cost of transparency.

While it may sound like an excuse, the fact is that we’ve been in beta for about 9 weeks. 63 days! There are very few sites, and none with a commerce component, that have had this sort of start. So patience is a virtue.

Second, Darren spent about ten minutes (maybe less, he doesn’t even remember) building a page that is earning maybe $50 or $100 a year. With no promotion. That’s pretty good…

I think the win occurs, just as it did with blogging, when people really focus on both the content and the promotion. It’s not unusual for a blogger to spend an hour or more a day on the creation and promotion of a blog. Do that for 100 lenses and I wonder what happens.

Thanks for trying it out, Darren.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:29:06 +0000

Thanks Gil,

well if it’s $10.21 in just two weeks…. that’s not bad. But I got the $10.21 figure from my lens master dashboard which I thought was for all time not just two weeks…

By: Gil

Gil — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:52:54 +0000

Hi Darren,

Thanks for your comments about Squidoo. As a quick footnote I’d like to point out that our Top 100 lists only factor in data from the past two weeks. This date restriction helps keep our lists fresh–otherwise they would never change. So as you suspected, $10 in the past two weeks is not that bad.

We’ve also just released a Superstore module which people are starting to use to sell everything from purses to rockets. This huge addition gives lensmasters many more commerce options besides Amazon and Adsense.