To Start With, I Choose Squidoo

It is time to start. I could spend hours reading and preparing but in the end, only action will make a difference. So, what is the plan? I’m very close to exhausting my initial $300 budget already so I want to look at free or at least very low cost methods of marketing.

I found an interesting thread on the warrior forum when I was looking into Squidoo. It lists a number of free websites that can be used for running a campaign. The sites that appeal to me particularly are Squidoo, the articles directories and perhaps blogger depending on the terms and conditions.

Of these three, Squidoo appeals as they are not anti-affiliate marketing and everything is completely free. They have a high page rank and links from there should be fairly valuable. They also get a lot of traffic although according to Alexa, the amount in the last three months has dropped by almost 20%.

On the other hand, as anyone can use it (and that must attract spammers), surely Google would automatically devalue links. As always, when working with free sites you are making the effort to improve someone else’s property. The site could be gone forever tomorrow. Of course, with your own site if tomorrow Google decide they don’t like you, your site may as well have gone forever anyway!

I decided to buy The Secret Cash Machine on Squidoo. Together with the earlier purchases, unfortunately that blows the budget and means that I won’t be buying any other material until I’ve earned something from this project. The guide was extensive - I will write more about it after I have put the recommendations into practise.