Latest Results Scroll In Google Search Results

Good-bye long-tail… hello Tiger-tail! Ok, now I’ve seen it all…lol! It seems all the demand for up-to-the-second information on Tiger Woods has caused Google to use something I haven’t seen before – a scrolling box on the Google search results page that is automatically updating with Twitter “tweets” and newly found web content on the topic of Tiger Woods. Anything new on the internet, that Google finds “seconds ago”, is showing up in that scrolling box as you sit on the Google search results page. Unbelievable! Seems Google had to find a way to keep up with Tiger Woods! …continue reading – Google Can’t Keep Up With Tiger Woods?!?

How To Get a Google “Jump To” Link For Your Squidoo Lens

Anyone seen the new snippet links in the Google search results? Some folks call them jump to links – I’ve also seen them called section links – but regardless, they are quite cool and make your Google listing stand out by offering the searcher another link to exactly what they are looking for on that one web page. While you can get snippet links to show in Google for any web page, they are really easy to get in Google with a Squidoo lens. …continue reading – Google Snippet Links For Squidoo

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

Google Is Now Showing More Expanded Results From One Website

As usual, I was poking around Google last night and I cam across something I’ve never seen before on page one of the Google SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). While Google has always offered to show more results for a website (that opens in a new Google search), this new option allows a searcher to click and expand to see more results from one website on the first page. This is cool! Watch this video and I’ll show you what I am talking about. …continue reading – Google Offers ‘Show More Results’ (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…

Google Hocus Pocus Part 2 -

One day your lens is in Google, next day it’s gone. Sound familiar? While we’ve talked about why your lens falls out of Google before, I think it’s time we talk about it on a deeper level. I’ve hesitated doing this mainly because it is a more advanced topic – but also because Google does what Google wants. There is no absolute understanding of Google – and I don’t want anyone to obsess with trying to do just that. But, let’s talk about ol’ Googlebot and your web pages. …continue reading – How Google Indexes Your Web Pages

Google Hocus Pocus

I can’t count how many times I get this email or message at Wealthy Affiliate… “My new lens was indexed and was doing great in Google and now it’s GONE!” This is usually follower by “What did I do wrong?” or “Why does Google hate me?” or “HELP!!!!!!!!!!” So, ok, let’s talk about this. Why does you lens show up one day in Google and then disappear? …continue reading – Did Google Drop Your Lens? Know Why?

…and Getting Your Lens BACK in the Google Index

It’s getting harder and harder at times to get our lenses indexed, isn’t it? I’ve gotten a few emails from folks who have been following the One Week Marketing “secret” steps to getting Google to index your lens…and Google still won’t do it! Darn Google! So what’s going on? Why are many lenses indexed within hours…and some sit there and wait…and wait… and wait. Worse yet, why do lenses jump into the Google index FAST and then drop back out just as fast? Is Google out to get you? …continue reading – Getting a Squidoo Lens Indexed

Is THIS “Advice”?

Google came out and offered some inbound link advice yesterday. Google mentions how links TO your web page are one of the many ’signals’ to Google that decide on the importance of your site (or web page). Also included in those “signals” is the actual content found ON the web page. Ok, got that. Content and inbound links…. Not really a newsflash there…but ok. But then the Google blog post talks about WHO is linking to your web page. They don’t want links TO a web page from “spammy sites“. Okayyyyyy… I have some questions about that. …continue reading – Gee Google, Thanks For The NON-Answer

I get a good bit of emails and messages asking me how I made sense of all this online marketing stuff. What did I read/do/learn/think/eat that made all the stuff that is thrown at us click into place? I know it all can be so over-whelming, but the thing is – there are many things I read and learned that really helped PotPieGirl tie it all together. …continue reading – How I Made Sense Out Of Internet Marketing

Keywords? Keyword research? Why? How? Huh? Today, let’s talk about what keywords are, why you need to perform good keyword research, and HOW to do that research. Understanding keywords is crucial to having a successful web page (such as a Squidoo lens), but how does it all work? …continue reading – Keyword Research 101

That darn Google! If Google won’t send traffic to your lens, it sure makes it difficult to have a successful and profitable Squidoo lens, doesn’t it? Y’all may remember Jackie Lee. Jackie sent me an email requesting my help for a Squidoo lens she was having issues with. Yahoo! loves her lens and sends it regular traffic. However, Google was not cooperating. While Google had her lens in its index, the lens was ranking for nothing in the search engine result pages. The only way to find Jackies lens was to do a direct search for her url. Even an EXACT search for her lens title was not returning HER lens.

…continue reading – Squidoo Lens Review | No Traffic From Google Part 3

In this Squidoo Lens Review, we have been talking about the lack of Google traffic that Jackie has noticed to her Cloth Diaper lens. Through our research in Part 1, we learned that Jackie’s Squidoo lens DOES see traffic from Yahoo! and other search engines, but as for Google… nada. In Part One, we isolated a big part of the problem was that Google already had two other Squidoo pages chosen for Jackie’s main keyword. …continue reading – Squidoo SEO – Why Doesnt Google Send Traffic to My Squidoo Lens? Part 2

SEO optimizing a page on Squidoo is a bit of a double-edged sword. On one hand, we Squidoo lensmasters want to create a Squidoo lens that is an awesome experience for our visitors. After all, THAT is what Squidoo is all about, right? On the other hand, if we don’t use some solid Squidoo SEO practices, ain’t no search engine gonna send any visitors TO our Squidoo lens to admire our work! While creating fantastic Squidoo pages built around your passion is admirable, the bottom line is this – if you don’t SEO optimize your work, no one will see it. You will be cheating yourself of visitors to your lens, and the Squidoo site will lose out on valuable traffic. SEO optimization of a Squidoo lens is a win/win.

…continue reading – Squidoo SEO – Why Doesn’t Google Send Traffic to My Squidoo Lens? Part 1

Improving the search engine placement or ranking of a Squidoo lens is not much different from working to get better rankings for a web site or blog. Only main difference is that a Squidoo lens is one page, where a web site or blog will have many pages to SEO optimize. Let’s not forget, that search engines rank pages – not entire sites. So let’s get your Squidoo page to the top!

…continue reading – Improve Search Engine Placement of Squidoo Lens – Part 4

Well. it’s time for Part 3 of Improve the Search Engine Placement of a Squidoo Lens. I’ve been putting off this post because I wanted to be sure of how I wanted to explain this part of improving your search engine rankings for your lens. You see, I read…and I read A LOT. I read SEO blogs and forums and articles and SEO whitepapers…. I am even in the process of getting my SEO certification to further my education and enhance my ability to learn even more, so there is all THAT reading to do, too.

…continue reading – Improve Search Engine Placement of Squidoo Lens – Part 3