I Made It! I'm A Giant Squid! Now What?

I did it! Yea me! I just got the email confirmation from the powers that be over at Squidoo that I have been bestowed with Giant Squid status. I get a nifty badge and everything!

I am actually surprised about this because although I had enough lenses, you need 50 great lenses to be given Giant Squid status, I of course was a little nervous because I didn't think that the quality was there. I am currently working on my 127th lens (I have about 40 waiting in the wings to be published).

When I started at Squidoo, I set 3 goals for myself:

1. Have 100 lenses. Done.
2. Attain Giant Squid status. Done.
3. Generate $1,000 a month from Squidoo after a year. Not yet done, but some progress.

I got to 100 lenses really quickly. I started at Squidoo in mid-August 2008 and had 100 lenses by the end of September (a lot of work!). Now I'm a Giant Squid. If you are wondering what being a Giant Squid means, see this Squidoo Land post about Giant Squid status. Now for the hard part. Actually the last two goals were the hard parts. Making money from Squidoo is possible, but not easy. I'll be reporting here at Squidoo Land about my progress. Come back and I'll try to show you how I'm doing and hopefully provide some useful advise.

Meanwhile, I'm doing a "Happy Me" dance on my getting Giant Squid status.

Make Money at Squidoo

If you are someone who is already blogging or creating webpages, Squidoo is an opportunity you cannot pass up. You can make up a one-page website (Squidoo calls these pages lenses) in no time and add pictures, video and even advertisements. You just create your own original content about anything you want. You can have one single lens written about your favorite niche or any number of lenses covering what ever topic you want. This is niche marketing at it's finest and Google and the other search engines love Squidoo lenses.

Can I Make Money With Squidoo?

Well, one lensmaster has over 450 separate lenses and one in particular makes him $1,000 a month. Altogether there are over 650,000 separate lenses out there and more are being made today. People are starting to flock to Squidoo. The website itself is now in the top 300 worldwide for searches and climbing.

There are free tutorials being written that you can access on Squidoo about how to create a lens, use SEO tricks and tips, and it has an active forum where you can get advice from the people who are already doing it. Books and blogs are being written about Squidoo and money is being made. Go there. Look around. If you are not interested, at least you've done some valuable research on a potential market for yourself.