Social Networking on Squidoo

The Internet is changing and changing along with it are the ways people use it to gather information.

Social Networking has become an online phenomenon in the past year or so. It is revolutionizing the way information is being gathered and will be found in the future. Myspace currently has over 100 million registered users and is growing rapidly. Facebook and Friendster follow closely behind.

But there is a rising site among them, Squidoo.com. The website is gaining fame as a more mature social network with reliable information about almost anything.

The basic premise of Squidoo is you set up a lens or lenses and create information about a specific topic in each lens. A lens can be created on any topic. You can make more lenses on sub-topics of your main lens and even link to your blog or website. Squidoo is a way to organize information in a logical sequence and actually give it meaning.

There are thousands of people using Squidoo to present information or market their site. Martha Stewart even has a lens on making cookies. Squidoo lensmasters organize themselves into niches or groups so much of the work of finding them is already done for you.

The key to marketing effectively on Squidoo is interacting with others. Not making a few lenses and expecting the money to roll in. You also won't make money spamming groups so don't even think about that.

Now, Squidoo will pay its lensmasters a percentage of the sites earnings from adsense and ebay ads but this is not your main moneymaker from the Squidoo. Your main money making from social networking on Squidoo is providing meaning and value to the people who view your lens and/or interact with you.

The static, disorganized web is now coming to life and is becoming more personal, users are slowly reorganizing the information in ways, which benefit them better than traditional search. Those who recognize social networking is the next way to find information online will be the ones who benefit.

If you found this information helpful, Tiffany Dow has written a great book called Social Networking on Squidoo.

About the Author

Elliot Hanson is a writer and marketer. You can find tips and advice about advertising, SEO, adsense and more at his blog, Net Worth.