SEO

Why I never use the words “CLICK HERE ” when adding a link

August 8, 2016 By Becky Mansfield 16 Comments

So many times, I will be writing about something and I will mention a past post in that post, hoping to help my readers as well as increase my page views (in turn, hoping to have new followers to inspire, help, etc…) I never use the words CLICK HERE when adding a link because those words are not SEO friendly. What does this mean? The more that when you use the words from your post, with a link, it puts you higher in the rank. You read ...

topics to make a post go viral (Highly searched topics for each month)

July 20, 2016 By Becky Mansfield 35 Comments

We recently posted about how to hit 1 million visitors on your blog and I hope that it gave you some really great tips to grow your blog. Today I wanted to share some topics to get you started. These topics to make a post go viral will assist you if you want to achieve this goal. Here are some topics to make a post go viral and to help inspire you each month: You can download a GO VIRAL CALENDAR for free here. JANUARY- organizing. ...

How Google sees your blog – Get noticed by Google with these 5 tips!

January 27, 2016 By Becky Mansfield 11 Comments

Are you wondering how Google sees your blog? Why SEO is so important for Google? Well, no one likes to blog to an empty room. Beyond your social media platforms and our amazing e-mail newsletters, your biggest source of readers will come from search engines, specifically Google. While, search engine optimization (SEO) is a huge topic one of the quickest things you can do to help Google offer your pages in search is to understand how ...

Why Google may be avoiding your blog…

March 31, 2015 By Paula Leave a Comment

Did you ever notice that it seems that Google may be avoiding your blog? Its true! You want to get noticed by Google, not be avoided, right? Have you ever looked at your stats and wondered why you are not getting much traffic from search engines, or your traffic is sporadic at best? These simple things that you could be doing, will have google avoiding your blog like the plague! I was doing a few things wrong, but once I fixed them, I ...

how to use SEO plugin in wordpress (for your blog and Facebook!)

February 25, 2015 By Becky Mansfield 16 Comments

I wanted to give you a little Blogging 101 lesson because a lot of people are asking about plugins for SEO. If you are wondering how to use SEO plugin in wordpress - this will help you. There are a few to choose from, but I have personally found that YOAST seems to be the easiest to use. It gives me a "green light" when it is ready to go. I love that because I am a visual person. I use it on Your Modern Family & on here. I ...

why you should not put an image before words in a blog post

February 19, 2014 By Becky Mansfield 59 Comments

I wanted to share a little blogging tip that I learned almost a year ago and it deals with the reason that I don't put an image before words in a blog post. (I just did another trick right there that I will explain today, too- #2 below). I always add a little intro first and then the image (find out why you don't put an image before words in a blog post below…) 1- The reason that you don't but your image before words is because when the ...