PotPieGirls Blog (PotPieGirl.com)

Getting Keyword and Niche Ideas from Alexa.com

I’ve been crazy busy lately working on my husbands windshield repair business website for his new company. Exciting times for the PotPieGirl family, that’s for sure! In the process of my local search research, I found some cool stats that Alexa is now offering to those that have the Alexa toolbar installed. I’ve got a quick video to show you what I’ve found. How To Use Alexa For Marketing Research (video) >>>

Converting Your Google Traffic Into Sales – What’s the Secret?

After running my affiliate marketing poll, I see one of the biggest problems affiliate marketers run into is trying to get the traffic they receive to their web pages to convert into sales. It’s also one of the top questions I get from my readers. They tell me they are getting traffic, but they can’t get that traffic to turn into sales…. What are they doing wrong? I think this topic deserves some in-depth conversation, so grab a Coke or a cup of coffee and let’s get into it.

Selling Clickbank Products - Why Won't Traffic Convert To Sales??? >>>

Inside PotPieGirl’s Brain

I was checking the stats and rankings of a few of my Squidoo lenses tonight and found one I wanted to do some work on. As I was about to make changes I thought, “Wow, this would make an awesome search engine optimization tutorial post for my blog!”. So, I took a few extra hours (on something that would have taken me all of 5 minutes to do) to take screen shots and walk through all the steps I take to get to the actions I take to make my Squidoo lens rank better in Google. Grab a cup of coffee because you are about to take a long trip inside the brain of PotPieGirl (be afraid…be very, very afraid…lol) …continue reading – Squidoo Lens Google Ranking Case Study

WHY Do The Google Results Keep Changing??!?!

Has this ever happened to you?  You’re sitting there with your keyword list and searching Google for each phrase in quotes to get an idea of the competition.  You search a phrase, get the number of web pages from Google, jot it down and then move on.  Then, maybe later that day, or heck, even a few minutes later, you search Google again for the SAME KEYWORD PHRASE and get a totally DIFFERENT number of web pages from Google.  Why oh WHY does that happen?  Did you do your search wrong the first time?  Which number is accurate?  Let’s take a moment to talk about this… …continue reading – Keyword Research and Google Results

My Super Secret, Ultra-Ninja, Totally Cool Way For Finding Niche Keywords -

Oh yes, this video totally shows how to find low-competition niche keywords for your One Week Marketing campaigns.  Not only that – this technique shows you how to find keywords for your Ezine Articles, Hub Pages, USFreeAds, BlogSpot Blogger blogs, GoArticles, or any other free-to-use website you can think of.  And we’re talking keywords you can actually RANK FOR in Google!!  I know there are as many ways to do keyword research as there are internet marketers, but here is how to find niche keywords PotPieGirl Style! …continue reading – Finding Niche Keywords FAST – Video

Why Care About Other Squidoo Lenses in Google?

The past couple video posts at PotPieGirl.com have been regarding the effectiveness of Squidoo.com and getting those lenses indexed. I showed how doing a little research before ever making a lens on Squidoo (or a web page on ANY site for that matter) can really help your chances of getting your web page indexed. One of the questions I am getting is, “Why should I care how many OTHER lenses are already targeting my keywords?” Today’s video will show you why you should REALLY care about other web pages on the same site that are already indexed – and they are targeting your keywords. …continue reading – Web Page Indexing and You (Video)

Finding Keywords That WORK on Squidoo –

Yesterday, I did a quick video about the effectiveness of Squidoo these days since I have been hearing lots of “Squidoo doesn’t work anymore!” comments thru-out my travels on the internet. In that video, I showed a technique I use to get keyword ideas for Squidoo lenses that are original to the Squidoo site (which should help the chance of your lenses being indexed…and STAYING indexed). Now that there are over 1.5 MILLION pages from squidoo.com found within the Google index, it more important than ever to give Google something unique from the Squidoo site. Prepare to be DAZZLED by my incredible video and graphic skills once again… …continue reading – Squidoo Keyword Research Video

Why Won’t My Web Page Rank High In Google? -

For anyone working online in the organic market (the “make money online FREE” market), it is imperative that you understand back links and utilize an effective and an efficient back linking strategy.  I can’t tell you how many emails and forums posts I read with questions about this.  Bottom line is – if you are going to make web pages on the internet, you MUST understand links and how they work… and most importantly, what they mean to Google. …continue reading – Links, Links, Links…

I’m Published!!!

I am officially a published author!  How cool is that?!?  My first “real book”,  Keyword Research 101 – Understanding Keywords and Uncovering the Hidden Gems, is now available online.  I received my own copy in the mail yesterday and I have to tell you, it is a real “rush” to hold in your hands a book you wrote and created.  (Yes, I know I am very strange…lol)!  This keyword research guide got some GREAT feedback so I decided to do something special with it. …continue reading – Ultimate Keyword Research for Squidoo

Free Keyword Research Tools I Love –

Needless to say, the past two posts about how I do keyword research and keyword research questions, have caused a good bit of email to me lately. There seems to one big question amongst the majority of these emails – “Jennifer, which keyword research tool do YOU use?” I figure that as long as we are on the topic of keyword research, that this is a great time to spill the beans on the tools I use and love.

…continue reading – My 5 Favorite Keyword Tools

Let’s Talk More About Keyword Research

Well, my keyword marketing research post sure got a lot of attention AND a lot of questions! Thank you! Looks like we need to stay on-topic here at PotPieGirl.com and continue the discussion about researching keywords. Sounds good to me – let’s get started! …continue reading – Keyword Research Q&A

Keyword Marketing Research Techniques I Use -

Keyword research…what a BIG topic that is! While I am far from a keyword research genius, I do have my own way of doing longtail keyword marketing research to find phrases I CAN rank for fairly easily. To me, it’s not only about how many web pages Google returns (either with quotes or without) – It is more about finding out how many web pages are my REAL competition. Keep reading and find out how to do keyword marketing research – PotPieGirl style. …continue reading – Keyword Research – How I Do It