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Google Can’t Keep Up With Tiger Woods?!?

PotPieGirl — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:26:52 +0000

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”...

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Squidoo Lens Google Ranking Case Study

PotPieGirl — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:05:25 +0000

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...

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Google Offers ‘Show More Results’ (Video)

PotPieGirl — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:54:48 +0000

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...

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Should Affiliate Marketers Leave Squidoo?

PotPieGirl — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:28:07 +0000

Is It Time To Take Our Content Somewhere Else? Since the announcement of the impending policy changes at Squidoo.com, I have read a LOT of varying opinions and feedback. I’ve also been “accused” of looking at these policy changes thru rose-colored glasses in an attempt to remain friends with Squidoo, or because I have some...

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Squidoo Doesn’t Work Anymore

PotPieGirl — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:00:41 +0000

Is Squidoo Dying? If I had a dime for everytime I’ve read that on the internet… wow, I’d be a VERY rich woman! In the two plus years I’ve been part of the Squidoo community, the claims of “Squidoo is Dead!” have been never-ending. First off, I want to say this… if these reports of...

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How Google Indexes Your Web Pages

PotPieGirl — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:56:50 +0000

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...

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Gee Google, Thanks For The NON-Answer

PotPieGirl — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:29:32 +0000

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,...

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PotPiePost – Rambling Back Into Routine

PotPieGirl — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:10:50 +0000

As those of you subscribed to my newsletter and those in my Wealthy Affiliate family know, the PotPieGirl clan had some sad news recently – my father passed away. Things have been quiet here at PotPieGirl.com and I appreciate everyones patience as life gets back to some semblance of ‘normal’. This post will be one...

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Hey Google – Can We Talk?

PotPieGirl — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:17:12 +0000

Ever find something that makes you laugh? Something so contradictory, that it is downright hysterical? Happened to me tonight when I did a quick Google search for a particular term. Take a look at what Google did to me in the search engine result pages. Maybe someone (hint:Matt Cutts) can explain to me what is...

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Keyword Research 101

PotPieGirl — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:40:12 +0000

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? Keyword Research – From the Beginning When...

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Are Squidoo Tags Important? Why Tag Your Lens?

PotPieGirl — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:07:09 +0000

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 that “…tags are just not that important...

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