Hey everyone, help me welcome Karen Bierdeman, M.Ed, The Guilt Free Mom Parent Coach to the vAS family! Karen’s specialty is coaching moms with strong-willed children.
As the parent of a couple of strong-willed children, myself, I found myself on the pages of Karen’s free e-book, “Secrets and Lies About Parenting Strong-Willed Children: What You Need to Know Now!” After reading it, I have a few more tools for my parenting toolbox - ones tailored specifically to me and my strong-willed... Read Full Story
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This is the third post in our DIY SEO for WordPress series.
What Is A Permalink Structure?
A permalink is the URL of an individual blog post. To see what I’m talking about, click the title of any of your blog posts. What you’ll end up with is just that blog post, in its entirety, shown on that page. The address bar of your browser will reflect the URL (permalink) of that blog post.
You want your permalinks to make sense to both people and the search engines... Read Full Story
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This is the second post in our DIY SEO for WordPress series.
Compile Your Keyword List
Write down all the keywords from the list you generated using the Google AdWords Keyword Tool that have high search volumes and low advertiser competition. I won’t try to give you cutoffs or thresholds, because every market is different, so make your selections relative to the list you generated.
Write down keyword ideas you think should have appeared on the list. These will... Read Full Story
Today I just have to crow a little bit, give Christa of Giggle On! a virtual high five, and to point out for the rest of you that you don’t have to be a geeky-programmer-type like me to realize your SEO goals.
Christa made the #1 position in Google for her main keyword phrase two days after she implemented the action items she took away from her blog consulting session on Tuesday of this week! Topic? DIY SEO: Do-It-Yourself SEO. I had told her I was writing the series and she could not wait... Read Full Story
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This is the first of a series of posts called DIY SEO (Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization): Step by Step Instructions on SEO You Can Do Yourself Today. While you could pay hundreds, even thousands, of dollars to an SEO company to optimize your site for the search engines, there is an awful lot of SEO good you can do for your site all by yourself - for free - even if you’re not a programmer or particularly “technical” by nature. So why not do what you can... Read Full Story
One of the more common complaints I hear from my clients is, “I want to use pictures on my site, but I don’t know where to get them for free…legally.” To their credit, every last one of my clients who’ve asked me about adding more photos and images to their sites has voiced concern about adhering to copyright laws.
Well, kiss that problem goodbye by installing the Photo Dropper plugin!
Now you can easily add Creative Commons licensed photos - images that are licensed for shared use - to... Read Full Story
I’m happy to welcome Raelee Peirce of nobleMother.com to the vAS family of websites. Raelee wanted both a move from WordPress.com to a self-hosted installation and a move from a traditional blog format to a heavily customized magazine-style layout, so I did both at the same time. That’s the beauty of WordPress - you don’t have to stick with what your chosen theme gives you out of the box. You can use it simply as a place to start! The most fun part of this project was creating this logo... Read Full Story
I’m happy to welcome Raelee Peirce of nobleMother.com to the vAS family of websites. Raelee wanted both a move from WordPress.com to a self-hosted installation and a move from a traditional blog format to a heavily customized magazine-style layout, so I did both at the same time. That’s the beauty of WordPress - you don’t have to stick with what your chosen theme gives you out of the box. You can use it simply as a place to start! The most fun part of this project was creating this logo... Read Full Story
Ultimately, while we do not and cannot control everything in our lives, we can take 100% responsibility for the quality of our lives. While you may not control outside events, other people, or the weather, you do have extraordinary means by which to control your experience of all these things, and that means is your focus. You decide what you give your attention to! Granted, you may be passive about this and allow your attention to go to the loudest, most obnoxious thing happening in the... Read Full Story
Ultimately, while we do not and cannot control everything in our lives, we can take 100% responsibility for the quality of our lives. While you may not control outside events, other people, or the weather, you do have extraordinary means by which to control your experience of all these things, and that means is your focus. You decide what you give your attention to! Granted, you may be passive about this and allow your attention to go to the loudest, most obnoxious thing happening in the... Read Full Story
