You can earn money from your lens through the different modules and their products, such as books from amazon, auction items from ebay, sales from netflix, and so forth. You receive a percentage of the sales that visitors to your website have generated and a portion of any AdSense revenues.

A squidoo lens can generate leads from products that you're an affiliate for and from your own products. Visitors to your lenses can click through to your website or blog.

When setting up a squidoo lens, you first need to do some research on key words. Trust me this is important.

So think about your squidoo lens and come up with 4 or 5 key word phrases. Pop them in Google and see what competition you're up against. You can also go to Google's adword key word generator, use the tab key word variations, enter your key words and then hit the "get more key words" tab underneath.

Pick out eight to ten key word phrases, these will be your tags.

Now go to squidoo and get yourself a lens using your key word phrase as the name of the lens. Set up your bio in your bio module and link to your product or website in that module. Now write a 250 to 500 word essay using your key word phrase at least three times. The essay should be relevant to your product or niche. In the essay link to your product, affiliate product and/or to your website. You might want to use a teaser phrase to encourage people to click on the link.

If you can't write or don't have the time, hire a ghostwriter to write the material for you.

Add a poll and an amazon module, then add another text module with links to your other products or affiliate products.

Add a Google news feed module. Then another text module and finally end with a guestbook.

This may sound complicated but all the modules are clearly explained and it's really a matter of point and click to populate your lens with interesting products.

You can put up a lens for each one of your key word phrases and then link them together. A squidoo lens is an easy way to learn how to earn money online.