Watch Me Create a Squidoo Empire

I started internet marketing in 2009.  I was introduced to IM by the Wealthy Affiliate Website.  I joined that membership site for about 4 months.  That is where I learned the basics of IM.  It was there where I decided to use article marketing to drive traffic to my affiliate links.  I started with Travis Sago’s Bum Marketing and PotPieGirl’s One Week Marketing.  Following One Week Marketing is where I started making Squidoo Lenses.   I made about 5 lenses.  About 5 lenses into my IM career, I got caught up in the Shiny Object Syndrome.  I chased the next shiny thing after another, never devoting enough time to see if my current method worked.

I eventually started making niche sites.  I was able to get sites ranked to the front page of Google and earn Clickbank, CPA, and Adsense revenue.  I had earnings but I’m not quitting my day job anytime soon.  My problem with having small niche sites is that I didn’t keep them updated.  I’d make one site and move to the next.  I soon got disinterested in IM so I stopped doing anything IM related for about 6 months.  During these 6 months, is when these furry Penguins and Panda’s started destroying ranking.  Since I wasn’t adding new content or back linking, my sites didn’t withstand the hit.

Now I’m kinda starting over again.  I decided to start building Squidoo Lenses.  I chose this route because I want to write about various topics without having to build and entire website.  I also chose Squidoo because Google seems to like Squidoo lately.  It takes less time to rank web pages on an authority platform than to rank a brand new site.  Squidoo should be able to withstand Google’s algo change, although no one really knows for sure.  I know most marketers say I shouldn’t build a business on a property I don’t own and that I should build my own virtual real estate.  At this point, I really don’t care.  My goal here is to have a taste of success then eventually start building QUALITY sites.

This blog will chronicle my lens building efforts.  I’m not sure how much detail I will provide but I will take you through my plan to build income producing lenses.