To Do Monday Nov 21

Finish eBook!!!!! Everything else can wait....ebook cover
http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/08/13/how-to-resize-images-using-the-gimp/

What I Learned:

• how to embed a google doc in my post
• wrote a post on existing blog encouraging people to subscribe on weeklygroceryshopping.com because in a future giveaway it counts as an entry... http://www.hummingbirdhomemaking.com/2011/11/need-your-help-upcoming-giveaway.html
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• (from think traffic).....To grow your search engine traffic, you don’t need to be an SEO ninja. In fact, you just have to follow a few basic steps:

1. When you’re planning your article, use the Google Keyword Tool to find a keyword phrase that’s 2-4 words long and gets 100-1,000 exact searches per month.
2. Use that keyword phrase in the title of your post, a heading title, bold or italicize it once in the body of the article, and use it a few times in the content of the post.
3. That’s pretty much it!

To Do/Think About/Decide:

1. research next smartpassiveincome challenge
2. http://manvsdebt.com/how-not-to-suck-at-blogging/comment-page-1/#comments.
3. http://thelittlehenhouse.com/category/blog-advice/
4. gimp black and white
5. check google webmaster to see what is being searched
6. Gimp - removing the background from a picture (see sidebar for more posts they've written)
7. write a disclosure policy for WGS
8. Take a print screen of my blog and define the areas ie. #content # secondary
9. Keyword "Homemaking" every post
10. link up at several carnivals
11. http://www.theminimalists.com/blog/  
1. We Instead Of You. The best bit of non-fiction writing advice we ever received was from Joshua Becker when we wrote a guest essay for his site. He asked to use “statements of ‘we/our’ rather than ‘you/your’ especially when talking about negative behaviors or tendencies.” It reads far less accusatory. Think of it this way: we’re writing peer-to-peer, we are not gods.
2. Research. Spend your time researching what you’re writing about. The reason we are able to use so many helpful, relevant links in our essays is because we put in the time to research our topics. That doesn’t mean that we read all of these blogs regularly, but we put in the time reading them when we’re doing our research.
12. advertising
13. gimp  - valentine day hearts;  gimp - various tutorials on you the designer
14. http://michaelhyatt.com/how-to-monetize-your-blog-without-selling-your-soul.html

EBOOK price will be $2.99:

• clickable table of contents do not do now because when you update the table of contents you lose all of your hyperlinks:
• http://www.ehow.com/how_5714608_create-using-ms-word-openoffice.html
• Make TOC linkable (this didn't seem to work for me)
1. for the kindle

Social Media

1. Learn Twitter - UGGGG

Reading

• http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/blogging-tips/

SEO

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Other Bloggers
at 1:14 mins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pjNMkPG0A
http://www.pocketchanged.com/

Design using Graphene theme - LATER

1. How people browse blogs
2. http://www.momcomm.com/   wow!
3. Add a picture to the front of your blog so people know you are real

Misc.

• Child Theme info
• Kindle for ebook

DONE

• Gimp tutorials - nothing I need right now
• google webmaster seems to be working - check weekly to see what is being searched
• added social media buttons to my header