Cindy Szponder’s Tips

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

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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

How to Handle Negative Blog Comments

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Received any negative comments on your blog recently? If not, you probably will someday, so how will you handle them? Your answer is vital to the continued success of your blog, and I just read a nice concise outline of a positive way to handle the negative over at Build a Better Blog. Check out […]

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Tags: Blogging · Business Ideas

How to Pick a Topic for Your Own eBook

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Writing Your Own eBook
What’s one of the best internet money-making ideas? Writing your own e-book. Does writing your own e-book sound like something you’d never be able to accomplish? It doesn’t have to be that hard. All it requires is some research, planning, and organization.
eBook Topic Brainstorming
The first hurdle to writing your own ebook is […]

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Tags: eBooks · Creating Your Own Products to Sell · Clickbank · Business Ideas

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

Blogging Takes Center Stage In Web Sites of the Future

February 25th, 2008 · No Comments

If you conduct any business online or maintain a website to compliment your offline business, then blogging is quickly becoming a mandatory part of your future. And if you are not currently blogging, chances are after realizing the potential of these traffic-enhancing goldmines, you soon will be!
Blogs, derived from the words “web log” were originally […]

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Tags: Blogging · Website Ideas · Business Ideas

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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What Is Blogging?

February 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Blogging is a method of sharing information over the internet for work, pleasure or both. Blogs are often described as online diaries, with dated posts displayed chronologically.’Blogging is the action of posting a message on a blog. A blogger is the person posting the message. Many blogs also allow you to post pictures and receive […]

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

7 Great Reasons to Write an e-Book to Market Online

February 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s my list of 7 great reasons to write your own e-book to market online.

Uniqueness. If you write your own e-book to market, you won’t be trying to market the same thing that hundreds of others are marketing, too.
Low Cost. You can write your own book for minimal cost. You probably already have some type […]

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

Invite the Robots to Index Your Blog

February 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Once I started blogging and checking my Awstats in my cpanel I noticed that there were 60 errors of type 404. Didn’t know what that meant, so I looked up the error code and realized that something or someone wasn’t finding a page they were looking for. That confused me so I went back to […]

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Tags: Blogging · Website Ideas · Business Ideas