“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” ~Earl Nightingale

I’ve heard this before, but was a little skeptical that it was true.  Now you can see for yourself – Google does not use your keyword meta tags in web ranking.  Great, now I can ignore my keywords, right?  Well, not exactly.  I think it’s safe to say that as far as Google is concerned [...]

SEO is going well for me lately.  In just the last couple of weeks, since I’ve started paying attention again to marketing and SEO I’ve seen an increase in my traffic and my Alexa ranking.  I’ve also been trying to target my core audience of other WAHM’s. This has always been my niche market because [...]

“We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.” ~Stephen Covey

I went through last week and used the worksheet from Your SEO Plan to take a look at my keywords and see how I compared in search engine rankings for each keyword.  Now I can chart my efforts as I make changes in the site.  Part of the key to this is not to make [...]

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” ~George Bernard Shaw

I feel like I’ve finally come out of the “new baby” haze.  You know that feeling you get when you’ve endured months of nighttime feedings combined with the hormonal daze that you’re in after giving birth.  Not to mention trying to figure out a new routine, which is impossible because your new little bundle of [...]

Word has it that Google and other search engines will use picture names in their algorithms when determining where to place sites in their search engines.  So, instead of naming your picture bow76589.jpg, try baby-hairbow-76589.jpg.  Search engines read hyphens as a space (you should never leave spaces in your picture names) and you just added two keywords to the [...]