• Trackbacks… A Girls’ Best Friend!

    Trackbacks… A Girls’ Best Friend!

    As most of you know, I started into the world of blogging and internet marketing as a complete novice. This has been both good and bad. The worst part about being a complete novice is trying to learn all of the terms, short hand, abbreviations, and dynamics that come with internet publishing. The best part [...]

     
     
  • SEO – What is it? Why Should I Care?

    As I’ve been learning more and more about how search engines and blogs work, I’ve learned about the importance of SEO. These three letters stand for Search Engine Optimization. The premise on the success of your blog depends partly on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), so it’s very important to understand how the search engines work [...]

     
     
  • Resizing Images Using WordPress

    Since I’m a new user to WordPress, and some of you may be new users as well, I thought that I’d share with you how to change the size of your thumbnails within your posts on WordPress. First, I copy and paste the image that I want to use into my Paint program. This allows [...]

     
     
  • Don’t Assume; You Know the Old Saying…

    That’s right; It’ll make an “ass” out of “u” and “me”.  I recently bought the get reviewed package that John Chow was offering in conjunction with the Blog Mastermid program by Yaro Starak.  One great point that Yaro brought up in one of his lessons what the importance of RSS feed.  The main point was [...]

     
     
  • 10 Tips for Email Marketing Success

    A couple weeks ago, I attended a Webinar put on by Solid Cactus. We have had a couple of websites designed through Solid Cactus (www.CheapNovelty.com and www.MarshallDeals.com), and they have a ton of great products and services to offer; if you’re looking into starting up, I’d recommend on checking out what they have to offer. [...]

     
     
  • Optimistic about Back Links

    Everything that I’ve read about back links stresses the importance of them in search engine optimization. From what I’ve gathered, all of the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Dogpile) have a certain formula that calculates the ranking of your site in any given search. The more back links that you have created to other credible [...]

     
     
  • What’s AverageGal.com?

    What’s AverageGal.com?

    Hi, my name is Rachel Holmgren. I’m just your average gal-next-door. I graduated from College with a Business Management Major and a Communications Minor. Shortly thereafter, my husband and I married, and two kids later I found myself working a 9-5 job for one of the largest banks in the country, as a Credit Analyst. [...]