16 responses so far ↓

• 1 carolyn collins // May 13, 2009 at 3:56 pm

  While I am at changing things….If I want to set up an email, do I do it at Go Daddy or on the Cpanel?
  Is is best to then forward these to my usual email?

• 2 Jackie and Andrea // May 13, 2009 at 4:09 pm

  You do it through the cpanel.

  I always forward new emails to my main one.

  Andrea

• 3 Andrea Kalaydjian // May 20, 2009 at 5:06 pm

  Hi Andrea & Jackie

  I had a domain with godaddy and I was using an email address taht I set with godaddy. My domain was not being hosted. So now I changed it to be hosted by hostgator. DO I need to change emails. WIll my email with godaddy still work?

  Thanks
  Andrea

• 4 Andrea Kalaydjian // May 20, 2009 at 5:18 pm

  Sorry, not to worry, I set up my email in hostagtor and it is working.

  Thanks
  Andrea

• 5 Jackie and Andrea // May 20, 2009 at 9:25 pm

  Good job

  Andrea

• 6 Michelle Houser // Jul 6, 2009 at 9:12 pm

  Wow am I having problems! I set up a new domain with go daddy and entered my dns information from hostgator from an account I already had. Now I am trying to add this domain to my hosting account using cpanel as you have described, but no where does it say add a domain. I’ve read through the
  FAQ got out and got in nothing just sub domains or forwarding??? Am I not waiting long enough or something?

• 7 Jackie and Andrea // Jul 6, 2009 at 9:57 pm

  Log in to your cpanel and scroll down to the domain area. It will be there. Here’s what it may look like ~ although there are different versions of cpanel out there:

  http://screencast.com/t/B4flhloWRP

  Jackie

• 8 Gary Materra // May 9, 2010 at 3:53 pm

  I had set up the domain forwarding direct to the sales page with earlier step by step lessons. Do I wait until the blog is complete before I stop the forwarding? At that same time do I go back to the 6 lenses I made and change all of the links to go to the blog? Or do I only change some of the links, and leave the rest to go directly to the sales page? Thanks!

• 9 Jackie and Andrea // May 9, 2010 at 5:11 pm

  I would choose a separate domain name for your site ~ other than the one you’re using to redirect your affiliate links.

  So you can continue to use those links to the affiliate product in articles etc.

  You can go in and add links (including the RSS feed with the RSS module) to your lens. I wouldn’t take out the links to the sales page, just add one or two links pointing to your new site.

  Jackie

• 10 Gary Materra // May 9, 2010 at 5:56 pm

  Ah well it’s too late for that information Already bought the hosting and installed WordPress today for the same domain name. I guess this means that 1) until the blog is finished, anyone who clicks on those earlier links will not go anywhere meaningful, and 2) after the blog is finished, I will have fewer sales because I will lose people who don’t read through and click yet again to the sales page. Well live and learn. This does bring up another question. It’s hard enough to get on the first page of Google using a high page rank site like Squidoo. Using a new WordPress site will be even harder, and seems like a disadvantage rather than an advantage. Am I missing something? Thanks!

• 11 Jackie and Andrea // May 9, 2010 at 7:39 pm

  You own your site. You can write on any topic. No one can delete it or decide it’s spam.

  If you’ve chosen keywords with minimal competition you should be able to get the site ranking as well. You can also target a specific keyword for each post on the blog ~ then build links for those specific keywords.

  More content gives you more opportunities to rank for long tail keywords.

  Jackie

• 12 Gary Materra // May 10, 2010 at 12:45 am

  Thanks Jackie, I appreciate your comments! I am feeling uncertain about getting ranked, as with my OWM campaign I picked keywords that showed in MNF as all green, under 20 SOC (a few as low as 2 or 3), decent search numbers, good MOB, etc. I set up 6 lenses, did all the SEO, plus blogger, hubpages, etc., have even used UAW to submit to hundreds of directories. I know that a couple of the sites in the top 10 Google results for quoted search have ZERO backlinks with the exact keywords, although they may have lots of other backlinks. Even so, I still have not found any of my lenses ranked in Google (maybe they are past page 20 or so, when I stop looking), I do have a few directory articles in page 13-17 range. My 6 lenses have had a total of 14 visits, none of which have come from typing in keywords. Of course there have been no sales. I don’t know what to make of this, but I’m moving forward with the niche blogs anyway on this topic, to get the experience of the whole thing, then trying my luck with another campaign. I would appreciate any insights….thanks!

• 13 Jackie and Andrea // May 10, 2010 at 5:35 am

  Hi Gary -

  It may be premature to move to a site with a niche before you have traffic, but I understand wanting to have experienced the whole thing too.

  Just know that one egg in your basket does not always hatch and don’t get discouraged, k?

  Re. your domain - you want the links that are already ranking some to now give authority to your blog.

  And next you will backlink your squidoo lenses some more and whatever else comes up in the SEs. The more you backlink your backlinks from topic specific places and phrases, the more authority you pass. And you want to do it “non-pattern-like” …

  Pick your best single phrase at a time and also backlink the individual page on that phrase on your blog.

  So you know - this does get outside of the OWM content and into personal coaching though. Since each situation is different.

  Best suggestion other than have one of us (probably Jackie - she’s more deeply involved in SEO than I am) look at your stuff privately is to do some more smaller OWM campaigns. Like 3 phrases tops - even 1 lens campaigns till you hit one that flies.

  See what I mean?

  Hope that helps,
  Andrea

• 14 Jackie and Andrea // May 10, 2010 at 6:03 am

  Oh hey Gary -

  One question on your domain that you switched - it’s a .com or .net, yeah?

  You don’t really want a personal site on anything else.

  Andrea

• 15 Gary Materra // May 10, 2010 at 4:58 pm

  Hi Andrea,
  Thanks for your encouragement. The domain I switched from the GoDaddy redirect to HostGator is a .org. It was available, and my understanding is that .org can sometimes carry more weight/trust with customers. I think that’s what MNF said, anyway. Is that ok?

• 16 Jackie and Andrea // May 10, 2010 at 5:06 pm

  Oh yep yep - .orgs will get picked up by Google too - the other kinds of domains not so much.

  Whenever you can though - .coms are still King.

  Andrea