Giveaway – Stationary Set from Visual Smiles Gallery

**THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED** From the HeartsforHaiti Etsy Shop: A complete stationary set with cards, flat magnet and a print from your choice of the artist's prints.  You can see more of her work here. How to Enter to Win Stationary Set by Visual Smiles Gallery 1.  Leave a comment on this post for one entry. 2.  Everybody over 13 years old, residing anywhere in the world … [Read more...]

Tracking Visits Within WordPress

Welcome back to Search Engine Finesse.  Since we have a full week of giveaways and many posts to whip out this week, today's lesson is going to be a quicky.  What we really need(ed) is to know if all our efforts and finessing is getting us any closer to the goal, right? Recommended programs for tracking FEEDS and site VISITORS You should have two things going on your blog already - feedburner … [Read more...]

Just completed – a WordPress Shop!

These clients have been with me before I was "Desperately Seeking WordPress" - in the days of "Healing Graphics".   That didn't really take off, and I had the good fortune to run into Heather a year or so back.  Jennifer installed WordPress on her own, and uploaded the basic plugins.  We both looked into the WordPress e-commerce plugins, some paid, and some open source.  We looked into a few … [Read more...]

*Updated* How to Hold a Giveaway with an Announcement!

Each Giveaway is now CLOSED.  Thank you for your comments. Kimberly of Mom in the City fame won the Stationary Set from Visual Smiles. Mrs Soup won the set of Thank You Cards. Nadia won the set of Note Cards. You have one more day to win the Valentines Set!  I'll post the winner on Tuesday!  ~Cathy Tonight, while searching for some shoot-em-up drama for my Friday night … [Read more...]

My Very First Top Ten: A Carnival, Free eCourse, and Top Blogs

Oh Amanda (she's very purpley) has a very funny blog, and apparently a top ten Tuesday carnival.  So you can get the topic from her (at least I did this afternoon), and join up!  You enter your link in the mr. linky and then visit other bloggers to read their top ten posts.  If you participate regularly in this carnival, or others, you will eventually meet some great people (okay you WILL meet … [Read more...]

Search Engine Finesse – What are Keywords and Do they Matter?

Is your increased traffic a result of hard work or coincidence? I got a few extra comments this week since I installed the SEO plugins from last week's lesson.   But I'm not really sure if that is a coincidence - perhaps the subject of SEO is popular right now (perhaps! ha.) and this has nothing to do with google searchers finding me.   I've been reading several websites and books this week … [Read more...]