Squidoo.com is a powerful social networking site which you can join for free. Many home based marketers have found that they can generate an income from Squidoo which means that you expending your time - not your money. A highly appealing formula for many who are just getting started with making money on the internet.

This series of SUCCESS WITH SQUIDOO articles is designed to give you what you need to make money with Squidoo in particular. So here we go...

In this article we look at selecting a topic for your first Squidoo web page.

1. HOW TO FIND A TOPIC FOR YOUR SQUIDOO LENS ?

Incidentally web pages at Squidoo.com are called lenses. The singular is lens. And the webmasters (you and me because we have our own web pages at Squidoo) are called lensmasters. Instead of Google's PageRank, they have lensrank.

Now that we've got a few definitions on the table, let's get started with finding a topic for your great new lens.

If you don't have anything in mind, such as a hobby or a cause you are passionate about or a product you want to take to the world, then you can always visit Wikipedia.com for inspiration.

Wikipedia has nearly 2 million articles covering a huge range of topics. Their main subject categories are:

Reference

Art and culture

Geography and places

Health and fitness

History and events

Mathematics and abstractions

Natural sciences and nature

People and self

Philosophy and thinking

Religion and belief systems

Social sciences and society

Technology and applied sciences

By selecting a category you're interested in and then drilling down, you will find both a topic you'd like to create your Squidoo lens about - and a handful of good information to get you started.

AN EXAMPLE OF THIS

Say you are interested in Health and fitness. One of the sub-categories in that list is Positive mental health, and that list includes Positive psychology. That's an example of how to find a topic by drilling down in Wikipedia.

By the way, don't just straight copy what you read at Wikipedia or anywhere else for that matter. Instead use it as source material for your own unique original articles.

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