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What's this all about?
Squidoo is a hand-built collection of half a million pages built by people just like you.
Squidoo is about finding people when you care what they know instead of who they know.
And Squidoo raises big money for charity every single day by donating money from the ads and links you see on every page.
If you spend just two more minutes reading this page, we'll tell you what you need to know about us.
Thanks for visiting.
Three or four facts
1. Squidoo has more than 700,000 hand built pages.
2. Squidoo has been reviewed by the New York Times, Mashable, BoingBoing and sites and papers around the world.
3. We are one of the 300 most popular websites in the US.
4. We generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual royalties to charities and to our users.
2. Squidoo has been reviewed by the New York Times, Mashable, BoingBoing and sites and papers around the world.
3. We are one of the 300 most popular websites in the US.
4. We generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual royalties to charities and to our users.
What about the money?
Squidoo makes money from ads and affiliate links.
We give 5% of what we earn, right off the top, to charity. We keep 45% to cover our overhead and stuff.
That leaves 50%. That goes to charity or to the people who build the pages. And we leave it up to you to choose one or the other.
It's that simple. You can earn a dollar, a nickel or a dime at a time for your favorite cause or for you.
Did we mention that Squidoo is free? Always has been.
We give 5% of what we earn, right off the top, to charity. We keep 45% to cover our overhead and stuff.
That leaves 50%. That goes to charity or to the people who build the pages. And we leave it up to you to choose one or the other.
It's that simple. You can earn a dollar, a nickel or a dime at a time for your favorite cause or for you.
Did we mention that Squidoo is free? Always has been.
"It's a simple way
to present information on a topic you care a lot about."
Where to Start: Handy Squidoo Links
If you're just digging in...
- Squidoo
- For those who like to start at the beginning!
- SquidBlog
- The official Squidoo Team blog.
- SquidU
- Meet other lensmasters, find tips and tricks for getting started and making your lenses rock.
- Squidoo StatusBlog
- Oh oh, we hope you'll never need this blog.
- Lens of the Day blog!
- Were you picked for Lens of the Day?
Every Squidoo page
Is built by a real person, like you (you are real, aren't you?). You can build one too.
Every day we profile a great page
We call the pages "lenses"
Was your lens picked for Lens of the Day? Take a look at some of the past winners.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byWe publish a blog about our site
Amazingly, it's called the Squidblog
Read it here, read it there, or subscribe to our RSS feed.
The latest from Squidoo's team blog:
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byFor Deeper Reading: Get the free Squidoo ebooks
- Everyone's An Expert
- The ebook that started it all.
- Free Traffic: Revealing the Secrets of the New eBay Elite
- An ebook Megan wrote for the eBay sellers on Squidoo.
- Flipping the Funnel: For Businesses
- We offer three versions of the FLIPPING THE FUNNEL ebook. This one is for businesses.
- Flipping the Funnel: For Politicians
- We offer three versions of the FLIPPING THE FUNNEL ebook. This one is for politicians (Grassroots and Otherwise!).
- Flipping the Funnel: For Nonprofits
- This one is our favorite.
Squidoo in the blogosphere
- CORRECTION: Abbas Abedi: An Explorer of Science, Meditation ...
- A second page about Abbas Abedi, published at http://www.squidoo.com/abbasabedi , contains explanations and reviews of books that have influenced his ...
- Huck-a-book - Republican Bashers Will Love It.
- The above is from a promo for a Squidoo lens, not one of mine.. See my comment below for the link. All you who are still bashing Republicans will probably ...
- Google Knol Opens In French, German and Italian
- Similar services monetizing crowdsourced content like Helium, Squidoo, WikiHow and Associated Content have yet to release international versions, ...
