Squidoo and Zimbio
There is a lot of interest in Squidoo and Zimbio in the webmaster community and many people have been busy, including myself creating lenses and wiki magazines – what Squidoo and Zimbio call pages/sites. The reason webmasters are doing this is because of they provide some backlinks to your site and may provide traffic. Additionally, some people are actually making money out of them. Squidoo for example has a revnue share scheme where it redistributes Asense income to lensmasters (page authors) or to charity, you can also put your own affilaite links on the pages you create. The great thing is they only take a few minutes to create. Here are some examples:
Squdioo Home Information Packs lens and my SEO lens. This is my Zimbio HIPs site.
Have a play and let me know what you create.
Comment by Abhishek on 7 May 2008:
Squidoo is great to create easy single page sites – what they call lenses.
You can also see mine – Google Manipal Tourism & click on the squidoo lens.
The payment is trivial unless your are ranking very well in a money making niche site & promoting it aggressively. I made USD 1.75 – donated to Squidoo charity!
Comment by Matt Hayden on 25 September 2008:
Yes, Zimbio is good. I joined quite a while ago, entered my blog info, then forgot about it. A while later I went back and saw that several of my blog posts had been promoted in the various wikizines. So, I’d gotten extra exposure and backlinks without even thinkihng about it!
Matt Hayden’s last blog entry: George Michael cracks (External link to http://www.matthayden.blog-city.com)