PotPieGirl.com

Let’s Talk Taxes and Bookkeeping!

PotPieGirl — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:22:35 +0000

Taxes – woohoo, right? Bookkeeping, double woohoo…lol! I know this is not the favorite topic for the self-employed (or anyone, for that matter), but it’s a fact of life (ugh). So, if you’re an affiliate marketer or any type of online business owner, how do YOU keep your accounting records? I’d like to show you [...]

SOPA and You…and Me – My Thoughts

PotPieGirl — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:48:45 +0000

So, I’m gonna go out on a limb here. As I’ve said before, I am NOT a political person. Every time I dive into something political, I end up realizing how politics really work…and it annoys the you-know-what out of me. But let’s talk SOPA ( the Stop Online Piracy Act that everyone is talking [...]

Weirdness in the Google Search Results

PotPieGirl — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:10:27 +0000

So today I was searching on Google when I suddenly got a very strange search result page. I feel I was in a “sandbox” testing ground (read how Google Makes Algo Changes for more explanation on that), but I’m telling ya – if this weird search result page I saw is any sign of what’s [...]

Matt Cutts Debunked Me

PotPieGirl — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:35:57 +0000

So tonight I am minding my own business and sitting on Twitter trying to catch up on some cool Tweets and industry info. Suddenly a tweet from Matt Cutts to ME pops up on my stream. (In case you don’t know, Matt Cutts is the head of web spam at Google). He let me know [...]

How To Move a WordPress Site (or clone it)

PotPieGirl — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:08:20 +0000

I don’t consider myself a lazy person for the most part, but I will admit that when it comes to anything technical – I avoid it like the plague. I’m probably the only person in this house who still really doesn’t know how to work the remote (and we have little kids ’round here) and [...]

Why Are You On THAT List?

PotPieGirl — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:38:03 +0000

Once upon a time, I was new to all this… And – I was REALLY new. I didn’t know squat about internet marketing or HTML or back links or writing articles. Heck, for all I knew, FTP was the same as ABC or MTV (yes, I am child of the early 80′s when MTV was [...]

Wanna Succeed With Internet Marketing? Be a Baby

PotPieGirl — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:42:28 +0000

When you’re new to all this internet marketing mumbo-jumbo, the internet becomes this massive confusing place full of terms you don’t understand yet, people giving conflicting advice, and tons of choices. It is SO easy to become paralyzed and full of fear with an inability to take any action at all. Been there/done that. So [...]

Bye Bye Yahoo Site Explorer

PotPieGirl — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:30:17 +0000

It’s official – no more Yahoo Site Explorer. Which means, no more checking backlinks via Yahoo. So now what? How do you plan to continue monitoring your back links or the back links of your competition? Yahoo Site Explorer – RIP Now, when you go to check backlinks via Yahoo, you are met with this [...]

Google Raters – Who Are They?

PotPieGirl — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:24:44 +0000

Wow, my post about how Google makes algorithm changes sure got a LOT of attention. While I happened to think the post itself was pretty darn informative (if I can be so humble…lol), it turns out that the majority of folks visiting just wanted a copy of the 2011 Google Quality Raters Handbook. Makes sense, [...]

Kris Yardley Gets My Vote – Here’s Why

PotPieGirl — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:27:38 +0000

Before I even start this post, let me make one thing clear – I really hate politics. Seriously, I detest it. The games, the mud-slinging, the promises – they all lead to me feeling like I am voting for the “best of the worst”. I don’t like that feeling. Thing is, I have actually finally [...]

How Google Makes Algorithm Changes

PotPieGirl — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:23:55 +0000

And How Human Raters Affect Your Rankings Ever have a web page that finally gets to Page 1 for your keyword – and then suddenly plummets to nowhere land? I’m about to explain to you a very possible reason why this happens. I’m also going to share with you something straight from Google that tells [...]

Are You An Echo?

PotPieGirl — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:34:25 +0000

Are You an Echo? Yes, I repeated that twice… it was an echo (just me entertaining myself…lol). But let’s talk about being an “echo” online. What do you think that means? To me, it was something I promised myself I would NOT be with my blog and my “PotPieGirl” work online. I refuse to be [...]

Google Panda – How To Survive

PotPieGirl — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:50:27 +0000

Beware – Straight Talk That Might Not Be Popular Oh, this Google Panda thing is nuts, isn’t it? Sites dropping like flies, the SEO community in a whirl-wind of guessing….and tons of marketers crying, “Why me? My content is GOOD!! It’s not fair!”. The latest list of “losers” with the most recent release of Panda [...]

We The People… In Order To Form a More Perfect Google

PotPieGirl — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:38:26 +0000

Turns Out I DO Remember Something From College! Oh Google, how I love to analyze thee! In the past couple of weeks or so I’ve been even more intense on answering one big question for myself – What the heck does Google want?!?! I am a firm believer that by giving what others need, you [...]

The Winds of Change Just Blew Through

PotPieGirl — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:54:20 +0000

Brace Yourself! So I’ve been looking at that old theme here on PotPieGirl.com for what, 3 years now? Maybe more? Not only was I unimpressed with it – I was bored with it! Plus, that theme didn’t even allow me to use widgets! How can you really enjoy WordPress if you can’t use widgets and [...]

What If There Was No Google?

PotPieGirl — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:50:34 +0000

Would It Change The Way You Work Online? What if tomorrow morning you woke up to find that Google closed. Yep, imagine the whole entire monstrosity that is The Big G was no longer online. Through, done, finished. Good-bye Google. What would you do? Would you still work online? Would you still make your sites [...]

100k BluePrint Warning – Read This!

PotPieGirl — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:53:01 +0000

Very Important Regarding Adsense 100k BluePrint Sites I have a lot of SEObyJennifer.com clients and I am helping each of them to rank better for their target keyword. One of my clients had his site totally de-indexed by Google today – but not because of me. I gotta tell you – it is REALLY hard [...]

AWeber Account Almost HiJacked!

PotPieGirl — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:35:45 +0000

Protect Your Accounts – They’re Out To Get Us! Quick post today to tell you about something that happened to me a few hours ago regarding my AWeber autoresponder account. It was very close to being a disaster, but thankfully I had the sense to check on an email I received BEFORE I did anything [...]

Highest CPC Keywords List

PotPieGirl — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:07:42 +0000

From An Organic Perspective I was reading an article over at SearchEngineLand this morning and I really thought it was interesting. Turns out the folks over at WordStream have conducted a study and have released a list of the most expensive keywords from a Cost Per Click perspective in AdWords (Google’s paid advertising option). Now, [...]

Content, Content, Content

PotPieGirl — Thu, 26 May 2011 04:23:56 +0000

Where I Get Pre-Written Content – And What I Do With It From the moment we walk through the “let’s be an internet marketer” door, one thing becomes perfectly clear… You’re gonna have to write. Writing articles is probably THE task that we all dread, but we have to do it. I’ve been online for [...]