SEO = Search Engine Optimization. If you are a blogger, then you have probably at one time or another wondered, investigated or worried over the best way to have your written content at its best. I am speaking in terms of how it is viewed by the search engines.

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SEO = Search Engine Optimization. If you are a blogger, then you have probably at one time or another wondered, investigated or worried over the best way to have your written content at its best. I am speaking in terms of how it is viewed by the search engines.

Scribe SEO accomplishes this with great ease! Now, without worry or long hours, you can tweak your content effortlessly.

Scribe Web allows you to optimize content no matter what the eventual publishing platform. The Scribe version for WordPress is a plugin and works with WordPress if you’re able to fill in a custom title tag and meta description for the post or page.  Scribe SEO was originally developed for the Thesis Theme for WordPress but also works with the free All in One SEO plugin, the Hybrid theme, and the Headway theme. I have the All in One SEO plugin here at Dimes2Vines.
When you try the FREE introductory offer, you are given an API key which is then plugged in and allows you to utilize the service right from your WordPress interface. You are given step-by-step instructions on how to install and activate it – it really is simple!

Here is what Scribe SEO does:

• Analyzes what you’ve already written.
• Tells you what search engines will think you’re writing about.
• Tells you what changes to make to better reflect the language searchers are using.
• Helps you tweak remaining content elements based on SEO best practices.

So, after I write a post and fill in the Meta Description and Title Tag, I hit the analyze button. Scribe analyzes what I have written and gives me an SEO score. I then check my keyword analysis to see how my keywords match what people are looking for. If I have not done well, I check Scribe’s suggestions on how to refocus primary keywords. Since Google takes into account not only the keywords but also the synonyms, Scribe also gives this information. The SERP (Search Engine Results Page) tab lets me see how my description will look on the search page. It also gives SEO’s best practices for each analysis.

I have been very pleased with the Scribe SEO plugin and encourage you to give it a try. You can try it FREE for 30 days to see what you think! If you decide it is for you, subscriptions start as low as $17/mth. You are free to cancel before the 30 days FREE trial ends with no further obligation.

Increasing our blog readership is what we all desire – but how? [...]]]> Blogging resources are so many and varied! It is refreshing to find a blog, focusing on marketing, run by a stay at home mom, being creative in producing income, while helping others. Scarlet from Moms Wear Your Tees is one of those ladies.

Increasing our blog readership is what we all desire – but how? One of the best ways to increase your blog readership is through search engines – people finding your blog because they are looking for something that you are offering. Links to your blog are the primary way search engines rank your site. Links, therefore, are needed to get to and stay on top of the search engines results.  Scarlet helps get you those links to your blog through the use of social media marketing. She has several avenues of advertising to help you get the much coveted links:

• She writes about your blog and features it on her Moms Wear Your Tees Blog with your website links.
• She posts on Twitter, Facebook, My Space, Yahoo groups, CafeMom groups
• You also get a permanent link through your logo posting on the “client calender” page
• Optional: If you have a company tee, she will wear it all day and post a picture of her in it to the different social media postings to give a visual to go along with the post.

While this is a new company, started in December of 2009, Scarlet is not new to marketing. Leaving a career managing such stores as Ann Taylor Loft, Express and Macy’s, she is now a stay at home mom getting creative with income earning.

I don’t know about you, but I am juggling being the mom of a large family and the responsibilities that entails, blogging and now being an independent stylist with Stella & Dot, so I am finding it difficult to do much marketing on my own. That is the beauty of Moms Wear Your Tees – Scarlet does it for you and since it is an endorsement by another mom, it appears less like advertising than if I did it myself! The prices of being featured by Scarlet vary according to the month you select and are priced per day.

I was given a day of social media website promotion through Moms Wear Your Tees for the review but no other compensation was
given.

The opinions expressed are my own.

Blogging resources – there are so many available, how do you choose? I usually want to hear from someone who has used the product with success. One resource I have used with great success is 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. The techniques and tasks are simple and easy to [...]]]>

Blogging resources – there are so many available, how do you choose? I usually want to hear from someone who has used the product with success. One resource I have used with great success is 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. The techniques and tasks are simple and easy to follow and I have seem dramatic growth as a result of this workbook.

31 Days to Build a Better Blog is a downloadable workbook giving 31 tasks to be done over a 31 day period. Each day consists of a task (something to do) and teaching ( the hows and whys of the task you are given to do).

Blogging resource – great! But, how do you use this workbook?

• Intense training: Some bloggers set aside a weekend or longer periods of time to perform multiple tasks at a time.
• 1 Task a Day
• 1 Task a week
• Occasional inspiration

I tried to do 1 task per day but often I was not able to accomplish this goal. But, that makes this type of program great – you can work at your own pace.

Who is 31 Days to Build a Better Blog for?

• New Bloggers – those just beginning a blog but are not sure where to go next.
• Seasoned Bloggers – Anyone who wants to grow their blog and take it to the next level.
• Bloggers with Block – Anyone needing some inspiration!

Guarantee? A 30-day money back guarantee is given so if you are not completely satisfied, your money will be refunded. It is a win-win situation!

As a blogging resource it gets better! A Free Bonus Podcast:  you will receive a free 1 hour question and answer session in which Darren tackles some of the most frequently asked questions from bloggers desiring to take their blog to the next level. A link to download this is sent shortly after you order the workbook.

Blogging resources are not new to author Darren Rowse, who has been blogging since 2002 on over 30 blogs. He is well known for his Pro-Blogger.net blog where he gives tremendous helps and tips. This website is a great resource!
I highly recommend 31 Days to Build a Better Blog and after all, with the 30-day money back guarantee, what do you have to lose?
Other blogging resources: Free eBook, “Make Money Blogging” .

Much has been posted about monetizing your blog – a lot of good advice given. One resource that I have found particularly helpful is an absolutely free ebook: Make Money Blogging written by Daniel Scocco. It covers the basics of blogging from the importance of content, consistency in posting, blog design, networking to monetizing [...]]]>

Much has been posted about monetizing your blog – a lot of good advice given. One resource that I have found particularly helpful is an absolutely free ebook: Make Money Blogging written by Daniel Scocco. It covers the basics of blogging from the importance of content, consistency in posting, blog design, networking to monetizing your blog. Daniel clearly explains the how’s of monetizition. If you already have a blog or are just thinking about starting one, I would highly recommend this great resource. Just go here and sign up for his free newsletter. He will send you a link  to download the ebook. I enjoy receiving his emails and find them filled with a wealth of information.