Wikipedia vs. Squidoo
by Staff WriterMany people have used Wikipedia in the past and have contributed a lot to build it up to the great free source of information it is today. However, a good amount of people who use Wikipedia can also use it to send a significant amount of targeted traffic to their website by placing a link to your website.
Squidoo is basically the new Wikipedia, but they also offer a few incentives for their writers. Take a look at a Squidoo Lens . As you can see, unlike Wikipedia, Squidoo places one Google AdSense box at the top of each lens (lens are the term for pages created on Squidoo). However, instead of reaping in the earnings by themselves, Squidoo allows the writer to choose how to split the earnings between a charity, the writer and Squidoo!
Furthermore, the control panel for creating and maintaining a Squidoo Lens is extremely simple. There are modules which serve different purposes and basically make up the content of each Squidoo Lens.
Squidoo offers two modules which are made for affiliate earnings. These are Amazon and eBay Modules. You enter a keyword and choose how many products you would like to have displayed and if you earn a referral, it goes into your earnings!
Finally, Squidoo has a good amount of pages which are indexed on Google , showing that Squidoo would be great to send traffic and SEO Linkage to your websites!
The best part of Squidoo is the fact that they don't have any rules for their lens. However, they do rank the quality of the lens based on the traffic and content each lens has. Therefore, only the quality lens will be seen by the greater majority of the traffic. Wikipedia, on the other hand, has an extremely strict group of editors which make sure only the best content gets through. This is horrible for SEO's since they can't put up a page which sends traffic to their website unless it has a great amount of content!
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