Blog for Bucks

Want to practice blogging and earn money? No HTML required, Squidoo was my intro to blogging. This popular site lets "lensmakers" keep the bucks or write for a charity. Online Teaching Jobs was my first blog, created as a learning tool during the 30 Day Challenge several years ago. To my surprise, this lens developed a following while I made money simply for sharing my love of online teaching.

While my online presence has grown to Facebook, Twitter and this delightful Blogspot format, I find that my first and second Squidoo lens continue to draw traffic.

Squidoo is free and simple to use for an internet novice. Start your lens today and send me your lens name. I'll make sure to send you some "squid love" (that means favorite).

Do you Squidoo? I do.

An early player in the blogging world, Squidoo offered a simple, yet powerful way to create a "lens" in your topic of choice. I heard so much about Squidoo from Tiffany Dow, excellent writer and marketer, that I decided to try it. To my surprise, my first lens about Online Teaching Jobs rose up the rankings and continues to hold a strong position in the Education category.

Squidoo is sales friendly with links to Amazon and many other ways to generate income (writers certainly need that). New features at Squidoo reward Lensmakers with additional tools as each lens gains popularity. While I'm not obsessing over my lens daily or even weekly, I receive checks from Squidoo. You can take the money and run or send it to your favorite charity.

A Squidoo lens in your writing genre is another useful way to recycle articles or other work to a fresh audience.Squidoo meets all my criteria; free, easy and well received by Google search bots. Start your lens today and let me know what you think.