Writing on Squidoo

Have you ever heard about Squidoo? We recently scanned our old notes about our blogging lessons and found out that our mentor had a list about writing on Squidoo and other get-paid-to-write-articles websites.

Squidoo

We tried it, as we usually do. Anyways, the ambiance on this site was quite kiddie and funny but still with the essence of being serious. Funny in a way that they use cartoon characters as a representation. They give points for leveling and trophies for everything you do with your dashboard as an achievement.

What was really amazing with it is that you can serve ads with Google Adsense and E-bay without even applying for it. As we all know that the standards of Adsense are really much hard to achieve. We had tried it once and we failed.

The only TOS(Terms of Service) we really remembered about them is that the article you wrote should be G-Rated because if you tried even once an X-rated article, you will automatically be deleted as member of them. So keep that in mind and we won't even try it.

Anyway, here's a step by step on how to work with Squidoo.

How to Publish Articles on Squidoo:

My Lens

1. Go to Squidoo.com and sign-up.
2. Start making your lens(Articles). Just be sure that you fill-up everything to make sure that it is ready for publish.
3. Set-up the ads for Amazon and E-bay (which in a way has auto fill also).

So start making your lens and discover what's really behind the squidoo smile!And when you're done, tell me how had it helped you too?

Affiliate Links

What is good about blogging is a chance of earning through affiliate links or publishing an online ads. Yes, a lot of ways to earn by putting some advertisements on it. Your blog is just like a TV network who needs also to earn to maintain and continue to innovates its appearance and credibility as a website. And financially, that's quite hard especially for a new blogger like me who pays for an internet access.

Anyways, as I learned and go through with my journey to continue learning, gaining and clustering my knowledge  about blogging, I also continue to discover sites that I can earn as an affiliate, a publisher, a reseller or a contractor.

I listed most of I had encountered and some of them I used as my aff:

• Google AdSense
• Commission Junction(myaff)
• Chitika(myaff)
• Wordlinx
• Adhitz
• Linkshare
• Fastclick
• Tribal Fushion
• AdBrite
• Text Link Ads
• Bidvertiser
• Adzaar
• AdGenta
• Clicksor
• BlogAds
• TextAds

How I joined Commission Junction

Commision Junction is a website compounding a lot of advertisers with different products. It is really a great opportunity for publishers to be a member of it. Recently is know as cj.com.

Just today, I signed for an account on CJ:

1. First, go to Commission Junction website 
2. Click the Get Started
3. Click the Publisher and an explanation of its function appears. You may also be an Advertiser, making your own Agency or Network.
4. Then, click the Get Started Now.
5. Complete all the necessary information needed for the registration as a publisher. And that's it.

To started on publishing ads with your blog:

1. Go to Get Links.
2. Choose your preferred categories for advertisers.
3. Tip: Select all Advertisers so that you can find as many as you can at a time.
4. Click the Apply to Program and see how many approvals you get.

To see how many advertisers approved you being their publisher:

1. Click By Relationship, still under Get Links.
2. Click on your preferred Advertiser.
3. Click on Get Links. A series of products or services they offered are shown.
4. On the right end corner of the table, click on Get HTML.
5. Then post it on your blog!

Here's mine:

My Commission Junction Ad

Let's see how these works with me. I'll have an updated post with these soon.

Monetizing your blog through Chitika

Chitika Email

Finally, after a  month of waiting for the approval of being a publisher of Chitika, we can now finally enjoy it. It is said that Chitika is one of the most popular advertisement here in the blogosphere, so I tried to apply for the publisher's side. This is also one way of monetizing your blog, a good start being it successful.

The registration was easy, you just have to :

1. Click the Publisher's Overview and then click the Get Started.
2. Fill-out the Publisher Program-Apply

But, it doesn't mean that when your done with the registration, you can use it immediately. For we thought that after the registration it was then approved, but we were just disappointed for we can't even open my account. There was a reason, after a month of forgetting about, we were just surprised that on March 8,we received an e-mail from Chitika for the approval of our ads :). 

Thank God, we are using it for the moment together with my local ads.