Squidoo is the latest frontier for self promotion in cyberspace. Anyone who wants extra publicity for their area of expertise can use Squidoo to show the world who they are and showcase their talents, goals, dreams or thoughts. Unlike a blog, Squidoo is a lens, which is almost like a filtered version of a single webpage. You can easily change and edit your information, and add new topics, via their fun and easy to use system. The system is set up for the user to make some money, via shared profits, or one can donate any earnings to charity, so it is a good site for non-profit and various charitable organizations looking for an easy to handle platform for their cause. Squidoo is also free to use, like MySpace.

To be noticed at Squidoo, and in the search engines, one has to create a lens that has sub-topics that stand out, such as anything within popular culture or a hot topic, such as global warming or celebrity. Squidoo often has various users network by promoting other people on their site as well, like an author posting another author’s work on their lens, via a link to the original lens or article. One can do whatever they so choose, as long as they have permission to publish another writer’s work. Squidoo provides some great links on how to protect your original material from other users who make money on their Squidoo lens. In general, it is an easy way to safely display one’s material and talents.

Anyone can benefit big time from Squidoo as well. There are some on the site who have gotten jobs and more exposure than at their own personal multi-page websites. A lens is easy to read, and straightforward. So for easy self promotion, Squidoo is a fabulous additional host for anyone to display a stand-out, professional online portfolio.

What's more, it won't cost you a dime to set up and host each one, because it's all done for you. They also look extremely attractive, are fully customizable, and can get you noticed by Google within days. You can also promote your business as much as you like without breaking any rules on self promotion.

These pages are known as lenses, and they are available from a site which goes by the bizarre name of Squidoo.

You can give your lens any name you like, and your domain name will be their website address followed by a forward slash and then your lens name.

You can use modules from Amazon , eBay and many others to help monetize your lenses, and you can also insert your own affiliate links wherever you like. The more popular your lens becomes, the more you will earn from it (Squidoo also pays each lensmaster a royalty each month, which depends on how well each of your lenses is performing).

So start Squidooing now - you won't look back.