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I get a LOT of questions about niche websites. These questions are mainly about using free blog platforms from Wordpress or Bloggers BlogSpot vs using your own domain and your own hosting – and all the confusion about how this all works. So, lets talk about Blogspot vs WordPress, Free vs Paid, and niche sites. …continue reading – Blogspot, WordPress, and Niche Sites

It’s new.. It’s improved.. AND it gives me less of a headache! That’s right folks, I’ve cleaned up my blog here at PotPieGirl.com. Slapped some new paint on the walls with a new WordPress theme and moved the furniture around. Don’t worry… It’s still PotPieGirl’s house, so come on in and stay awhile. …continue reading – What The Heck Happened To PotPieGirl?

No follow, do follow, I follow, no nofollow….. you follow? Is anyone else annoyed at this whole nofollow craze? For those that are regular readers here at PotPieGirl.com, you know I tend to jump up on my soapbox now and then. Forgive me, but I’m about to do it again right now =) …continue reading – My Name is PotPieGirl and I FOLLOW

I made a new Squidoo lens today, and I think it’s great! Learn Squidoo with PotPieGirl is a lens full of Squidoo tips, advice, and help that I have collected from this very blog. That new lens is like the ultimate Squidoo Help Center! …continue reading – My Best Squidoo Lens EVER

I make niche websites. I make a LOT of niche websites. I have this theory that while one niche website is good… many, many websites is WAYYY better! Think about it, if you can get one little niche website to make you $50 a month ( which is like $1.60 a day ), how much could I make if I build 50 sites that earn me a little over a dollar a day? $2500 a month – on autopilot? Works for me! I’ve been sick the past few days, but even while I was sitting in the recliner, looking like death, my niche websites have still been working for me.

…continue reading – 6 Best WordPress Plug-Ins for Profitable Niche Websites

Now that we’re all migrated over to the new eBay Partner Network in-house affiliate program, we all seem to have some of the same basic questions. I’ve compiled a list of ePN questions while doing my reading and figured I’d post all the answers here in one place.

…continue reading – eBay – Common EPN Affliate Questions

Even though the migration of eBay links has been extended until May 31st, I still went ahead and changed out all my Squidoo lenses that had the eBay RSS affiliate feeds with the new eBay Partner Network tracking. Now, let me be clear right up front, I don’t make a ‘killing’ off eBay affiliate sales, but I had gotten fairly used to daily sales activity when we were with Commission Junction.

…continue reading – eBay Affiliate Stats – How to Find Out What You Sold Thru EPN

I’m all about low cost and RELIABLE web hosting. Sure is nice to not have to pay a lot each month to have as many web sites as I want online… and reliably online. I chose to go with HostGator ($9.95 a month – unlimited domains -great deal). Thing is, there is another side to web site hosting – the customer service department. …continue reading – Hats off to HostGator!

…continue reading – Happy Mothers Day to You…. and to Me

We’ve been talking about how to get Google to index your Squidoo lens. If you’ve been following along, you already know that I created two new Squidoo lenses and I was testing getting Google to find these two new lenses only by me blogging about them on this blog. The ONLY thing I actually did TO the new lenses was to ‘ping’ them from within the dashboard on SquidUtils.com. However, I did not ping them until AFTER the first blog post here was in the Google index.

…continue reading – How Long It Took For Google to Find My New Squidoo Lens

After the response I had on my last post about how to get Google to index your Squidoo lens, it appears I need to keep going with this discussion. Since rambling is my specialty, let’s ramble some more about Google and getting that lens into the Google index…. and how to totally screw it up. …continue reading – How Long Will It Take for Google to Find My Squidoo Lens?

This post about getting Google to index your new Squidoo lens could easily have an alternate title of “How to Get Your Dog to Do Tricks on Command”, or “How to Get Your Three Year Old To Do That Cute Thing She Does For Your Guests”. Dogs, Kids, and Google… I can’t count on any of them to do what I want… WHEN I want. …continue reading – Getting Google to Index Your Squidoo Lens