Squidoo is the popular publishing platform and community that makes it easy for you to create “lenses” online. Lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest–and snap it all into focus. Like the lens of a camera, your perspective on something.

  • Lenses are free to set up.
  • Lenses are easy and totally non-techy.
  • Lenses pay a royalty to hundreds of great charities. (Or straight to you! Lots of lensmasters earn hundreds or thousands of dollars a year).
  • Lenses get you credibility and traffic… and lenses only take a few minutes to build.

Squidoo is an incredibly easy platform that allows you to build a lens, all by yourself, in less than five minutes. Don’t build a lens instead of your website. Build a lens to help your website.

You can build a lens about your hobby, your charity, your work, your career, your favorite websites. Some of our lensmasters have hundreds of lenses. Click the button up top to Build a Lens and you’re on your way.

You can include relevant items from Amazon, eBay, CafePress, Netflix, and loads of other sources. It’s very quick and very easy.

When you set up your lens, you’ll be asked where you want your royalties to go. It will default to charity unless you swap it over to say “I want cash!” You can earn!!

You can use your lens to share your expertise and light a path for people looking for something online.

* You can highlight the best websites

* You can teach people about a concept

* You can do a poll to gauge what people think

* You can highlight an eBay auction

* You can point people to political action opportunities

* You can establish your identity

* You can make a difference

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http://www.squidoo.com/