This article is for newbie who are recently joined squidoo and not fully aware of internet marketing and squidoo lenses. I will show some techniques and steps to go ahead and make profits.

What is a lens?Squidoo allows everyone to write articles about their favorite subject or passion.

Creating a web page on Squidoo is called a lens.Lens is created by building different modules. Modules are blocks. A person who is author of the lens is called a lensmaster. If you made a lens then you became a lensmaster.

Creating a lens
Creating long tail lenses by using several modules are very popular. Some lensmasters use more than 25 modules in a lens.Best thing is you can add affiliate links within the lens and make money. Also you can add pictures, links, videos, maps, news, your own products and RSS feeds. You can promote your web site or blog as well.If you do not have your own account

Traffic generator
Squidoo is a powerful traffic generator. Search engine loves Squidoo pages, but these pages need to be optimized properly to get higher rank on Google or other search engines.Not only does squidoo allow you to drive a ton of traffic to your pages, it also allows you to use it as a marketing tool.Squidoo is the ultimate social networking tool. You can earn money directly from your squidoo pages.

Squidoo.com is yet another web 2.0 creation that allows you to really focus on any topic you think you know something about.

You Know 'WHY'??
In order to make affiliate profit, you need to learn 'Why' in the marketing industry. People search for something or they are not happy with something, so they find the solution by searching web pages. If you succeed to answer their questions and solve their problems then you will become profitable in this industry.Why do people want to train their dogs?Why do people want to lose weight?Why do people want to quite smoking?Why do people want to make lot of money?Why do people want a better education?

Search Engines:

Search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN having their own database. They always crawl the web pages through spiders.Spiders are specific programs to search the web fornew information. Google spiders always crawl the web and update their database.Google rank these pages in their database. There are so many factors involved as to how to rank the page. They never give this information out.

Key Words
There are ton of people in the world who want information about something and they always search for solution on the search engines.These searchers type the words on search engine's search box. For example, I want to make money, so I will go to Google.com and type the words "how to make money" and then enter it. Google will show thousands of web pages that content this key word or phrase "how to make money".We will learn more about how to set up your squidoo pages correctly, how to market them and how to put your page in front of as many squidoo users as possible