Cindy Szponder’s Tips

Tips for making money with blogs, e-Bay, affiliate programs, and your own products.

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Link Building 101

March 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Link building is a powerful way to develop streams of traffic to your site. The people over at Prospect MX have created a very wonderful “Professional SEO Link Building Services and Strategies Chart” (what a mouth full).
Well worth a visit and download of the .pdf file. It provides a one-glance overview of link […]

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Tags: Creating Your Own Products to Sell · Blogging · eBooks · Freelancing · Affiliate Marketing · Business Ideas · Website Ideas · Clickbank · e-Bay

Developing Backlinks to Build Traffic for Your Blog

March 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

I just found what looks like a great new way to develop backlinks for a blog. Of course, more one-way backlinks can lead to higher rankings with the search engines. I’ll be testing this new method for the next few weeks and will let you know the results. If they’re positive (which I suspect they […]

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Tags: Creating Your Own Products to Sell · Blogging · eBooks · Freelancing · Affiliate Marketing · Business Ideas · Website Ideas · Clickbank · e-Bay

Niches + Keyword Research = Blog Success

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Ok, people. I just discovered an outrageous tool for keyword research. All the tools I’ve learned about (and then some) are wrapped up in one tool over at SEO Book.
Be sure to check out their blog and their keyword research tool.
I’m heading back to what I was working on–an upcoming post on writing your own […]

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Tags: Creating Your Own Products to Sell · Blogging · eBooks · Freelancing · Affiliate Marketing · Business Ideas · Website Ideas · Clickbank · e-Bay

Is the Money Really in the List or in the Relationship?

February 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Read a cool article over on Yaro’s site this morning that really opened my eyes about e-mail lists. I’ve always heard “the money’s in the list”, heck I’ve even published on that topic on my blog. It was an eye opener to hear about the more important meaning behind the saying. It’s so true, now […]

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Tags: Creating Your Own Products to Sell · Blogging · Affiliate Marketing · Clickbank · Business Ideas · Website Ideas · e-Bay

Keyword Research for Bloggers

February 25th, 2008 · No Comments

What is keyword research and why should bloggers be interested? Keyword research is market research. It tells you what people are interested in, what phrases they are searching for, and in what numbers. While a lot has been written and said about keyword research, I’ve found a juicy 7,739 word document that discusses the […]

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Tags: Creating Your Own Products to Sell · Blogging · Affiliate Marketing · Clickbank · Business Ideas · Website Ideas · Uncategorized

Why Is Having a Blog Good for Your Business?

February 17th, 2008 · No Comments

The book I’m currently reading, Publish & Prosper, not only has some great ideas to learn from, it also sparks new ideas for me as well. 
First off, why have a blog for your business? What’s in it for your business?

It’s easy and quick to get started. As I learned when I set up this […]

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Tags: Freelancing · Creating Your Own Products to Sell · Blogging · Affiliate Marketing · Clickbank · Business Ideas · Website Ideas · e-Bay

Publish and Prosper: Blogging for Your Business

February 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Looking for great information about blogging for your business? I’m currently reading a book called Publish & Prosper: Blogging for Your Business and written by DL Byron & Steve Broback. It’s aimed at businesses large and small and is jam packed with gems. Got it in the mail yesterday and began reading it this morning. […]

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Tags: Freelancing · Creating Your Own Products to Sell · Blogging · Affiliate Marketing · Clickbank · Business Ideas · Website Ideas · e-Bay

How to Get Traffic to Your Website, Blog, or Lens: 10 Easy Ways to Generate Traffic

February 17th, 2008 · No Comments

In this world you only have two types of assets : Money and Time. I don’t know about you, but I like to save my money and don’t mind spending some of my time doing it.
So here are 10 surefire free traffic techniques that’ll get you a fair amount of targeted traffic:
This tip is so […]

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Tags: Affiliate Marketing · Creating Your Own Products to Sell · Clickbank · Website Ideas · Business Ideas · e-Bay

Your Money’s in Your Mailing List

February 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Before moving on to cover the other work at home ideas I posted a few days ago, I decided to take an important detour. This information pertains to you no matter what type of income streams you decide to build online. You must build a customer list. Let me repeat that because it’s so important. […]

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Tags: Freelancing · Affiliate Marketing · Clickbank · Website Ideas · Business Ideas

Make Money as an Affiliate for High-Quality Products and/or Services

February 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Yesterday I discussed various options for starting a money-making website. Affiliate marketing dovetails nicely with yesterday’s topic because a content-rich website is a smart way to succeed in affiliate marketing.
First of all, what the heck is “affiliate marketing”? Basically, you refer people to a merchant’s website for a product or service that you’re representing. What […]

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Tags: Affiliate Marketing · Business Ideas