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? more…
What happened to the traffic to Squidoo in April? Many lensmasters made mention of how their traffic and rankings had slipped during this time that we just received payment for. So, are these lensmasters imagining things? If not, why did Squidoo lose so much traffic? Read on for my theory… more…
The payment we received from Squidoo today marked one full year of PotPieGirl being paid as a lensmaster. Wanna know how much I made on Squidoo each month? Want to see a spreadsheet showing my total earnings? Curious minds want to know, right? Right! Keep reading and see my Squidoo income stats for the past 12 months.
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In my opinion, Squidoo is an excellent platform to use to drive traffic to your blog (or blogs). Here at PotPieGirl.com, the traffic I get from Squidoo has a much lower bounce rate than other referral traffic sources. Visitors via Squidoo tend to not only spend longer on my site, but also read deeper than any of my other sources of traffic. Squidoo visitors actually spend, on average, 2 minutes longer than any other site visitors. All in all, Squidoo is an excellent way to increase the traffic to your blog!
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Not too long ago, an online colleague of mine emailed me for permission to reprint one of my blog posts in his newsletter. The blog post was written back when I had my one-year anniversary online. Naturally, I was honored and gave my permission. Today, I received the newsletter and was blown away! What an honor!
Let’s step back and review some basics for making Squidoo lenses. A big question I get is how to make live links (or hyperlinks, or clickable links, to anchor text links, or HTML links, or words that click to a page, etc etc etc). No matter how you ask it - I’m about to answer it!
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. more…
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. more…
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 =) more…
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! more…
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.
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.
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.
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. more…
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.
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. more…
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. more…
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. more…
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!
