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Squidoo is a site where you can create great pages on anything that you wish. Squidoo does revenue sharing so that you could make money from the pages you write. However, Squidoo is a unique writing site. Other sites will let you add articles on various topics, but Squidoo lets you write on anything. If you have a blog or write for other sites you can actually promote other sites.

Write About Your Articles.
You can write on several sites online and make money. However, you will want to increase your traffic to increase your earnings. One thing that you can do is create pages (lenses) on Squidoo that point out your articles. You can do this by topic and highlight articles on several sites. Or you can do this by site and share the values of that site as well as the articles that you have written.

Write About Yourself.
You can also do a lens to explain who you are, your expertise, and your writing. This can help to promote your work and yourself on their site. You can answer the questions that many people may be wondering about you. You can also add the link to this page in your profiles all over the net. Something like, "To find out more, visit...".

Write About Your Blog.
You may or may not have a blog, but more and more people do. You can talk about your blog and the reasons it is a good blog right there on Squidoo. With Squidoo letting you write whatever you want, you can write things that direct other people to other sites in ways that you can't on most other sites. Give the reasons your blog should be visited and you will get visitors.

Increase Your Network and Presence.
Often times writing is about your network and your presence. You have to have your name out there and your readership growing. Squidoo can help you do this. You can make lenses about you, your writing, your blog, but you can also do related lenses that add to your creditability and show readers what you have to offer. You can also use these lenses to write on topics that you have written about in other locations. You can then link to articles that might be of interest to the reader of the lens. For example, I could write an article on how to make a necklace using nylon coated beading wire and crimp beads. Some one reading my lens might want to read articles that I have written at Helium such as "How to choose beads for your jewelry making project", "How to crimp crimp beads", and "How to make a three strand necklace". Links to these articles could be added to the lens and increase exposure to my writing at Helium.

Commenting and Linking.
You can link all of your lenses together helping your readers to find more work by you. However, you can also comment on other great lenses and get people curious about who you are and what you write on. This can get more traffic to your lenses and then in turn for your other works.

There are many different ways you can use Squidoo to promote yourself, the things you are doing, and your overall presence as a writer. It has a lot of wonderful tools that can help you as a writer, but also help you make money both there and on other sites. Squidoo is one place that the more you write the more exposure you will get, so it is a good idea to go build several great lenses and not just one. Plus it is fun and exciting to boot!

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