Taxes – woohoo, right? Bookkeeping, double woohoo…lol! I know this is not the favorite topic for the self-employed (or anyone, for that matter), but it’s a fact of life (ugh). So, if you’re an affiliate marketer or any type of online business owner, how do YOU keep your accounting records? I’d like to show you [...]
So, I’m gonna go out on a limb here. As I’ve said before, I am NOT a political person. Every time I dive into something political, I end up realizing how politics really work…and it annoys the you-know-what out of me. But let’s talk SOPA ( the Stop Online Piracy Act that everyone is talking [...]
So today I was searching on Google when I suddenly got a very strange search result page. I feel I was in a “sandbox” testing ground (read how Google Makes Algo Changes for more explanation on that), but I’m telling ya – if this weird search result page I saw is any sign of what’s [...]
So tonight I am minding my own business and sitting on Twitter trying to catch up on some cool Tweets and industry info. Suddenly a tweet from Matt Cutts to ME pops up on my stream. (In case you don’t know, Matt Cutts is the head of web spam at Google). He let me know [...]
I don’t consider myself a lazy person for the most part, but I will admit that when it comes to anything technical – I avoid it like the plague. I’m probably the only person in this house who still really doesn’t know how to work the remote (and we have little kids ’round here) and [...]
Once upon a time, I was new to all this… And – I was REALLY new. I didn’t know squat about internet marketing or HTML or back links or writing articles. Heck, for all I knew, FTP was the same as ABC or MTV (yes, I am child of the early 80′s when MTV was [...]
When you’re new to all this internet marketing mumbo-jumbo, the internet becomes this massive confusing place full of terms you don’t understand yet, people giving conflicting advice, and tons of choices. It is SO easy to become paralyzed and full of fear with an inability to take any action at all. Been there/done that. So [...]
It’s official – no more Yahoo Site Explorer. Which means, no more checking backlinks via Yahoo. So now what? How do you plan to continue monitoring your back links or the back links of your competition? Yahoo Site Explorer – RIP Now, when you go to check backlinks via Yahoo, you are met with this [...]
Wow, my post about how Google makes algorithm changes sure got a LOT of attention. While I happened to think the post itself was pretty darn informative (if I can be so humble…lol), it turns out that the majority of folks visiting just wanted a copy of the 2011 Google Quality Raters Handbook. Makes sense, [...]
by PotPieGirl on November 7, 2011
Before I even start this post, let me make one thing clear – I really hate politics. Seriously, I detest it. The games, the mud-slinging, the promises – they all lead to me feeling like I am voting for the “best of the worst”. I don’t like that feeling. Thing is, I have actually finally [...]
And How Human Raters Affect Your Rankings Ever have a web page that finally gets to Page 1 for your keyword – and then suddenly plummets to nowhere land? I’m about to explain to you a very possible reason why this happens. I’m also going to share with you something straight from Google that tells [...]
Are You an Echo? Yes, I repeated that twice… it was an echo (just me entertaining myself…lol). But let’s talk about being an “echo” online. What do you think that means? To me, it was something I promised myself I would NOT be with my blog and my “PotPieGirl” work online. I refuse to be [...]
Beware – Straight Talk That Might Not Be Popular Oh, this Google Panda thing is nuts, isn’t it? Sites dropping like flies, the SEO community in a whirl-wind of guessing….and tons of marketers crying, “Why me? My content is GOOD!! It’s not fair!”. The latest list of “losers” with the most recent release of Panda [...]
Turns Out I DO Remember Something From College! Oh Google, how I love to analyze thee! In the past couple of weeks or so I’ve been even more intense on answering one big question for myself – What the heck does Google want?!?! I am a firm believer that by giving what others need, you [...]
Brace Yourself! So I’ve been looking at that old theme here on PotPieGirl.com for what, 3 years now? Maybe more? Not only was I unimpressed with it – I was bored with it! Plus, that theme didn’t even allow me to use widgets! How can you really enjoy WordPress if you can’t use widgets and [...]
Would It Change The Way You Work Online? What if tomorrow morning you woke up to find that Google closed. Yep, imagine the whole entire monstrosity that is The Big G was no longer online. Through, done, finished. Good-bye Google. What would you do? Would you still work online? Would you still make your sites [...]
Very Important Regarding Adsense 100k BluePrint Sites I have a lot of SEObyJennifer.com clients and I am helping each of them to rank better for their target keyword. One of my clients had his site totally de-indexed by Google today – but not because of me. I gotta tell you – it is REALLY hard [...]