http://www.potpiegirl.com internet marketing help and advice Thu, 15 May 2008 03:52:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. I spent ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/ebay-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 ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/ebay-affiliate-stats-fin-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). ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/hats-off-to-hostgator/ I received this Mothers Day greeting today from a very special mother in my life. She is the one that is in charge of the care, feeding, and discipline of.... my father. Bless her heart - he can be a REAL handful (love ya, Dad). I can't ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/happy-mothers-day/ 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. ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-find-lens-time-line/ 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 ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/getting-google-to-find-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 ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/getting-squidoo-lens-indexed/ Want to learn how to use Twitter? Boy, have I found a great deal for you! Y'all know me... I'm not all about "hurry and go buy" anything online, but now and then, a really great deal comes available and I just have to share it. Using Twitter to ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/learn-twitter/ Check your Page Rank bars, folks... looks like Google has updated their Page Rank again today! The last Google PageRank update was February 29th and now we have another - only two months later. Nice! While Page Rank is far from the most important thing in internet marketing, it ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/05/google-page-rank-update-may-2008/ When eBay announced that they were leaving Commission Junction in order to run their own in-house affiliate program, we eBay affiliates started to panic. What would this mean to those of us that have hundreds, maybe thousands of eBay affiliate links and RSS feeds out there on the internet? ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/04/ebay-link-change/ We've been having a great Google conversation over at the SquidU forum. We've been talking about getting a lens indexed in Google - or, getting it RE-indexed by Google - the importance of back links to your lens - and about Squidoo tags. One poster made the comment ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/04/squidoo-tags-tagging-your-lens/ As many of you know, I recently extended an invitation to those that subscribe to the PotPieGirl.com newsletter to ask me anything about Internet Marketing. Seriously... anything. In exchange for my readers taking time out of their schedule to email me with their questions about SEO, Squidoo, Affiliate ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/04/how-to-make-money-with-clickbank/ I'm spring cleaning my Squidoo account and selling some great lenses! I do this from time to time, I don't care to keep lenses that I lose interest in keeping fresh - I'd rather sell them to those who will take good care of these pages on Squidoo. ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/04/squidoo-lenses-for-sale/ Good morning! Stretch, yawn ..get some coffee. This week we are starting off with a few things that might make you chuckle! Monday's are a GOOD thing when you are an internet marketer, so let' start off smiling. This morning I received an email that I ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/04/life-in-america/ Squidoo has a very cool surprise for its lensmasters today... Have you seen? A Twitter Follow module you can add to your Squidoo pages! If you're a Twitter user, you will love the new Twitter module you can now add to your Squidoo lenses! With all the ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/04/twitter-follow-on-squidoo/ As I was driving home today, I was listening to a local radio station. On this program, they were interviewing a Georgia father who had such a devastating story to tell. While this post is totally off-topic from my normal stuff, it is important to me to do ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/04/lilli-grace-memorial-foundation/ Want to buy a Twitter account that already has 1397 followers? Guess what? You can! Looks like there is a new market starting up, the building and selling of Twitter accounts. Twitter Flipping? The Ol' Twit-Flip? You'll be amazed at what a good Twitter ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/04/buy-sell-twitter-account/ Sorry for my absence all, but I have just had an absolutely incredible weekend...that led me to an incredible revelation. I wish I could see a show of hands when asking these next questions, but here goes anyway.... How many of you think internet marketing is hard? ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/04/internet-marketing-advice/ In my series of posts about How To Increase Blog Traffic and Search Engine Exposure, this is the post I couldn't wait to share! Article marketing is the number one way to drive traffic to your blog, increase search engine exposure, and improve search engine rankings... and it is ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/04/autopilot-article-marketing/ Social communities, like BlogCatalog or Twitter, are great resources to help you increase traffic to your blog and get more eyeballs on your content. While social bookmarking sites allow you to mark and share content you like, social communities are more, well... they are more social. Social communities ... http://www.potpiegirl.com/2008/04/increase-blog-traffic-social-communites/