Although it’s been around for years, I only recently discovered Squidoo.
I sometimes like to craft, and my favorite crafty project is making art quilts. But I wasn’t sure what exactly qualified as an art quilt, so, clearly, I did a Google search. The best resource I found was on some website called Squidoo. It had pictures, descriptions, all I was looking for. (check it out) I even favorited it. I couldn’t figure out how the page was made, so over a few weeks I kept going back and looking through Squidoo. I finally sucked it up and made myself an account and started making some lenses (thats what Squidoo calls web pages).
In short, Squidoo is a place where anyone (literally) can go and make a lens (web page) for free about anything they like (or don’t like). Squidoo optimizes key words in the pages so often times, if there is a well made Squidoo lens about something, it shows up on the first page of Google. So for all of you marketers out there, you know what a big deal those organic ratings are! To top it all off, Squidoo utilizes affiliate marketing sites within its user generated pages. They donate 5% of that revenue to charity, use 45% to cover operating costs, and then the other 50% goes to the users. (Seriously!) Some people makes lots of money from Squidoo alone. Of course you can opt to have your portion go to a charity of your choice, which I think is pretty cool. I’m not in it for the $$$, but I’m impressed with the idea behind Squidoo.
I’m sort of obsessed now, and I’ve made 5 lenses so far. Here are the links to my Squidoo lenses. I’ll be making a Lensography for myself soon, and a SquidWho page, and I’ll put those links here.
Cool! I just discovered Squidoo too! Going to have a look at yours right now.