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I am assuming one cannot use Adsense in a lens, as squidoo already displays adsense ads?

I believe your assumption is correct. That's why if/when we create our site together (with our forum members) we can all get paid for our efforts and share ad revenue!

Hey Martin. Yeah, that's right... you can't use adsense yourself. Squidoo uses it on your page.

At first I was rather annoyed about this as I'd been looking forward to adding the code!

BUT... every few months, you DO receive a share of adsense profits!

I have 3 squidoo lenses... only one is (reasonably) well maintained. In the last update, which I think was in May, I received $1.19. Not a lot, but a nice surprise because I didn't know about the revenue sharing.

I expect the profits with Holly's new forum could be much better though... Squidoo surely has a LOT more members for everything to be shared out with.

Ha ha, Michelle, at first I was annoyed, too. But then I got to thinking:

"ok, so they make money from Adsense, and then they pass some of that over to us or our chosen charity. If I wanted to get Adsense money myself, I would have to build a site, register it with search engines, get subscribers.... etc.etc.etc."

but with squidoo, they have all that already, so it's less work, (but I doubt we'll get rich from it !)

Holly

Do you think Squidoo is a waste of time or worth it? One can still get affiliate sales from it right?

other can chime in also??? $1.19 doesn't seem worth the hassle

I've been making money from my affiliate sales. All the revenue from those is mine and you can also use it to point to your website.

kathy