XP's How to Squid: Money is waiting for you.

So, what you really want to know is ...
how is it that I make money doing this?

Here is my second best advice:
Get yourself checked into Commission Junction.

They like to send me money for posting little bits of code on my pages.

Here is a screen cap of my exact Commission Junction earnings, from my first check to present:

Now, these check amounts aren't huge. But, I really wasn't doing much of any promotion.

That decent October 2007 check is probably related to the fact that I was asking everyone I could think of to go and look at our wedding photos on some digital photo printing sites I was affiliated with ... and then got $13 or so for each person who ordered prints.

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Now that I'm promoting the heck out of myself and my pages, I do expect the check amounts to skyrocket.

I am also using domain registration as a major tool for promotion. For instance, I want horse people to go to http://www.squidoo.com/groups/allhorses and join Squidoo from that page for two reasons:

I will get credit for referring them to Squidoo ($5 if they make $15), and

Their first lens will automatically be included in the Squidoo group "All Horses"

But, I don't want to put that l-o-n-g Web address on flyers, business cards and other things I might use to entice people to join. Who's going to type all that in?

I don't even want to post it on horse-related Web sites where I am a regular ... it just doesn't have the professional appeal that www.AllHorses.us gives my project.

So I visit a domain name registrar such as GoDaddy or Dotster, and buy the URL I want. I then simply forward that domain to the page I want to appear, and I'm in business.