Product Practice

Personally I don’t use affiliate programs. Someday I will but right now I’m content with just my little squidearnings. However, that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t practice! I’ve figured out a great way to practice product lenses.

• Go on Amazon
• Go to today’s deals
• Pick whatever’s coolest and build a theme around it
• If nothing’s interesting enough, go to another site’s featured deals

For example: I once saw an eraser that could erase pencil and pen. I thought “that’s kind of neat. I wonder what other kinds of erasers exist”. Next thing you know I have an entire lens devoted to erasers. I even made a hub on japanese erasers because I thought they were deserving of their own pages.

Example 2: I went back to try this method again. However there was nothing of interest to me on Amazon’s deals on that day. So I went to my 2nd favorite sales site, buy.com, and saw they had USB stuff. That reminded me of how many kinds of items are now powered by USB. So I decided to build a lens around it, but I realized that there were SO many USB-items that I couldn’t possibly do a single lens on it all. Instead, I did a whole series of lenses that were inter-linked..