I am Suzie Weathers. I'm a Reactor operator in the Naturohair at Peachtree City, GA
I have reached out to Kandi’s pastor (different than mine, which is why I referred to him this way) and another local pastor whom I have a friendship with. Both churches are only live streaming. All I wanted to do is walk into the back of a church during the live stream, sit quietly, properly masked and observe. Then silently slip out the back door. But while both were kind beyond words, they didn’t really want to open up that can of worms, maybe having others want to do the same. So I turned to my actual church (not Kandi’s), the Catholic church, which seems to be the only one up and running, to feed my needs. Something to do dressed nicely, out in public, a Sunday morning activity and of course, giving me a place to worship. October 25, 2020 – Allow me first to address two parts of my presentation this day. First of all, you can see I went back to my pre-COVID wig. This was done for a few reasons. While I will acknowledge I do, in fact, look better with long and lighter hair, maintaining long hair (a wig) remains difficult. Cold weather means static electricity. Wearing a jacket, in this case a wool jacket, creates a great deal of tangles. Tangles need to be combed out. Combing out a long wig pulls out hair and over time the wig gets beat up and thinned out. Since I am not made of money, I will wear the older wigs on short outings (like this one) and the longer ones when I am at an event or a Supper Club. I will also say, frankly, I am much more comfortable in this wig than the “better” looking ones and it’s not even close. Also, I had a pesky cut on my chin from shaving. So with a little eyeliner, that obvious cut became a cute little mole. Improvise, ladies! So let’s talk about my church outfit. Perfect for the occasion and circumstances. The center point of the outfit is this lovely Isaac Mizrahi wrap skirt. I love the grey turtleneck with it, triple draping necklaces, dark hose and my cute little bow shoes. I just picked up the earrings at Dillard’s as discussed in a recent post. Another day being out and never once thinking about the fact that I am dressed as I am (outside of the fact that I looked good). It was just a day, as it should be. So here we are heading out the door, the first time I have been able to wear this overcoat I picked up at the end of last winter for almost nothing at a thrift. This day was a short one, but a nice one. My first stop was a diner in an arcade downtown. A relatively small diner, but pretty crowded. I enjoyed my meal. But as always, no one paid me any particular attention. I do love breakfast and for me, there is little better than scrambled eggs, home fries and coffee. Oh yeah, and waitresses called me “honey” and “sweetie”, while that may be what they call everyone, I still enjoyed it! After my meal, I masked up (I wore a disposable mask into the diner, but held it over my face to preserve my makeup since my face would be seen while eating). Once the mask went on for church, that was it for the day, it would be on until I got home. Mass was nice, everyone all spread out, so human interaction was lacking, but I just want to be human, be part of a group of other humans, doing so safely. I NEED any human connection. That was my morning, about three hours of time well spent. Yeah, it was a small percentage of what I used to be able to do, but it was a small slice of normalcy. I will continue to seek small slices of normalcy. I need small slices of normalcy. A lovely morning, me being me, me looking nice, me seeing others, me being happy. Since I lost that weekly shift at the art museum, this will be my go to outing to ensure I get out in public at least once weekly. Not too bad for an old broad! See the updated Supper Club page!from Kandi's Land https://kandis328772669.wordpress.com/2020/11/10/trying-to-recreate-normalcy/ via IFTTTSidor som bodycontact via Blogger Trying To Recreate Normalcysidor som bodycontact
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Posted by Cyrus-Shepard Seven years ago, we published a post on the Moz Blog titled "How to Rank: 25 Step Master SEO Blueprint." From an SEO perspective, the post did extremely well. Over time, the "How to Rank" post accumulated:
Despite its success, seven years is a long time in SEO. The chart below shows what often happens when you don't update your content. Predictably, both rankings and traffic declined significantly. By the summer of 2020, the post was only seeing a few hundred visits per month. Time to updateWe decided to update the content. We did this not only for a ranking/traffic boost, but also because SEO has changed a lot since 2013. The old post simply didn't cut it anymore. To regain our lost traffic, we also wanted to leverage Google's freshness signals for ranking content. Many SEOs mistakenly believe that freshness signals are simply about updating the content itself (or even lazier, putting a new timestamp on it.) In actuality, the freshness signals Google may look actually take many different forms:
To be fair, the post had slipped significantly in all of these categories. It hasn't been updated in years, engagement metrics had dropped, and hardly anyone new linked to it anymore. To put it simply, Google had no good reason to rank the post highly. This time when publishing, we also decided to launch the post as a stand-alone guide — instead of a blog post — which would be easier to maintain as evergreen content. Finally, as I wrote in the guide itself, we simply wanted a cool guide to help people rank. One of the biggest questions we get from new folks after they read the Beginner's Guide to SEO is: "What do I read next? How do I actually rank a page?" Below, we'll discuss the SEO goals that we hope to achieve with the guide (the SEO behind the SEO), but if you haven't check it out yet, here's a link to the new guide: SEO goalsRarely do SEO blogs talk about their own SEO goals when publishing content, but we wanted to share some of our strategies for publishing this guide. 1. KeywordsFirst of all, we wanted to improve on the keywords we already rank for (poorly). These are keywords like:
Our keyword research process showed that the phrase "SEO checklist" has more search volume and variations that "SEO blueprint", so we decided to go with "checklist" as a keyword. Finally, when doing a competitor keyword gap analysis, we discovered some choice keywords that our competitors are ranking for with similar posts. Based on this, we knew we should include the word "Google" in the title and try to rank for terms about "ranking on Google." 2. Featured snippetsBefore publishing the guide, our friend Brian Dean (aka Backlinko) owns the featured snippet for "how to rank on Google." It's a big, beautiful search feature. And highly deserved! We want it. There are no guarantees that we'll win this featured snippet (or others), but by applying a few featured snippets best practices—along with ranking on the first page—we may get there. 3. LinksWe believe the guide is great content, so we hope it attracts links. Links are important because while the guide itself may generate search traffic, the links it earns could help with the rankings across our entire site. As Rand Fishkin once famously wrote about the impact of links in SEO, "a rising tide lifts all ships." Previously, the old post had a few hundred linking root domains pointing at it, including links from high-authority sites like Salesforce. Obviously, we are now 301 redirecting these links to the new guide. We'll also update internal links throughout the site, as well as adding links to posts and pages where appropriate. To help build links in the short-term, we'll continue promoting the guide through social and email channels. Long-term, we could also do outreach to help build links. To be honest, we think the best and easiest way to build links naturally is simply to present a great resource that ranks highly, and also that we promote prominently on our site. Will we succeed?Time will tell. In 3-6 months we'll do an internal followup, to track our SEO progress and see how we measured up against our goals. To make things more complicated, SEO is far more competitive than it was 7 years ago, which makes things harder. Additionally, we're transparently publishing our SEO strategy out in the open for our competitors to read, so they may adjust their tactics. Want to help out? You can help us win this challenge by reading and sharing the guide, and even linking to it if you'd like. We'd very much appreciate it :) Sign up for The Moz Top 10, a semimonthly mailer updating you on the top ten hottest pieces of SEO news, tips, and rad links uncovered by the Moz team. Think of it as your exclusive digest of stuff you don't have time to hunt down but want to read! from Moz Blog https://moz.com/blog/new-guide-how-to-rank via swingers klubbar via Blogger Behind the SEO: Launching Our New Guide — How to Ranksidor som bodycontact Den fina ljuslyktan jag fick igår kommer från Rusta:) Den går på batteri med timer, perfekt. Jag trodde jag skrev det igår men missade nog. Förlåt. Det finns en variant med en tomte som står och håller i lyktstolpen också, fint att jag fyller år i december:) . Idag har jag varit trött. Trött trött trött. Inte fått många knop gjorda alls. Tvättat lite, plockat lite. Läst. Skulle göra massa annat och det blev det inget av med. Den här fjanten fastnade med tassen i en spindelfälla, och skenade runt huset för att komma loss. Notera att det står Hundens:) Fällan är bara ett klistrigt papper, ihopvikt så man inte ska kliva i det om man inte är en spindel eller insekt av nåt slag men den fastnade hon i med bakbenet. Och blev rädd som fasen och hopplös att få tag på. Jag stod i tvättstugan och bytte om till träningskläder när Patricia hojtade på hjälp. Jag får alltid lite panik över att nåt ska ha gått sönder eller att de hittar något generalknas nånstans. Men hon vågade bara inte ta i fällan för det satt en megastor spindel fast där Död. Stumpan for upp för trappan och ner för trappan, och sen in under Trixies säng. Så småningom lossande den, med lite päls fast i klistret och hon blev glad igen. Jag fick klappa och gosa lite med henne en stund:) . Vi drog och tränade. Hämtade upp syrran på vägen och återigen var det ett jobbigt pass. Trettio gånger tre av massa övningar. Låter inte så jobbigt men det är det. Avsluta med trettio gånger tre burpees och sen var man ju mör och fin. Vi anpassade oss lite efter Corrinda, hon slutade en halvtimme senare så vi hämtade upp henne. Bussen tar en timme, och sju minuter med bil. Duscha och äta och umgås lite med barnen innan det var jobbarbyxor på och hem till syrran. Jimpa rullspacklar/bredspacklar vardagsrumsväggarna som har nån fiskbenstapet. Vi tittade på Haha, nä, vi tejpade lister och rullade ut golvpapp, sen målade syrran den vägg i köket som ska vara rosa och jag målade garderobsdörrarna i hallen. Det där valvet. Vad jag minns, så satt jag och tittade på barnprogram i godan ro en gång för massor av år sen, jag var sex, sju år. Plötsligt kommer mamma och pappa och några av deras vänner in. Här ska göras ett valv! Och sen gjorde de det. Jag tänker idag att det liknade ett beslut taget efter några glas vin;) men jag antar att de funderat på det. Jag fattar dock egentligen inte än idag varför det skulle vara ett valv där. Det sabbade dessutom möjligheterna att få det rummet till sitt Kan ha varit därför de gjorde det, för att slippa vårt tjat. Men en annan aspekt är att de ofta hade stora fester hemma. Pappa byggde en bar som monterades upp och ner efter behov. Det blev ett väldigt bra festutrymme med två rum i ett. Jag stod gärna där bakom bardisken och blandade Getingar och Gin Fizz som liten Jag är ändå ett barn av sjuttiotalet va;) Om än född i sextiotalets skälvande sista dagar. Bara man har en bra drinkbok och hyfsat ögonmått är man en hyfsat duglig bartender, även om man är så kort att man får stå på en pall Vi barn var med på festerna, och det var massor av alkohol och alla var roliga och det var jäkligt kul:) Ja, vi barn drack inte alkohol kanske, men det var inte direkt tabu att festa med barnen närvarande. Nu menar jag definitivt inte att mina föräldrar konsumerade shitloads av alkohol, men de hade en stor umgängeskrets och det var stora fester ibland. Vi barn var alla i ungefär samma ålder och ju äldre man blev ju mer insåg man vilken frihet man kunde ta sig när det var fest. Vi var typ två barn per par, och det kunde vara en åtta – tio ungar. Det häftigaste var att smyga ut genom nåt fönster och sen springa runt i området mitt i natten Vi var inte så vilda på den tiden Fest var lika med kul. Alkohol har varit jäkligt avdramatiserat under min uppväxt. Det dracks, och det röktes inne och jo det hände att nån blev full som en jävla kastrull och fick lalla hem, men för det mesta var det måttfullt. Typ No big deal. Idag skulle det mest troligt sluta med en soc-anmälan. Jag vet att forskningen säger annorlunda, men för mig var det så här: Ville jag smaka på nån alkoholhaltig dryck så fick jag det. Och det gjorde jag. Och det smakade överjävligt äckligt. När jag blev tonåring och alla vännerna var ute och söp skallen i bitar på stulen alkohol från föräldrarnas barskåp, gärna ihopblandade sorter som gin, vin, likör och whisky, häxblandning deluxe Så skakade jag på huvudet och sa tack men nej tack. Jag visste hur det smakade, jag kanske var kräsen men alltså, hellre en Gin&Tonic – sipp än häxblandning som smakar skit;) Nä, seriöst. Jag tyckte inte om det, och än idag så äter / dricker jag inte sånt jag inte gillar. Jag var över 18 första gången jag drack. Jag var säkert tjugo första gången jag var riktigt full. Och jag har inte varit asplakat så jag inte kan ta hand om mig. Jag har festat, men lika ofta helt nyktert. Det här var dåtid Idag älskar jag öl. Drinkar kan vara helt magiska. Och ett vin kan förgylla hela kvällen. Men jag vill helst må bra dagen efter. Ibland får man ont i håret och det är inte kul. Det undviker man gärna. Jag dricker sällan hemma. I så fall något glas vin eller en cider eller öl, i sällskap av andra vuxna, aldrig ensam. Inga mängder, och oftast till mat. Ifall nån kände för att googla upp soc, så är det ingen idé alltså . Tillbaka till renoveringen. I morgon är det mera spackling och slipning. Skruva tillbaka hatthyllan, sätta tillbaka lister, och måla den rosa väggen en gång till. Skruva fast handtag. Lite sånt. Jag ska träna så jag kommer lite senare:) men det blir nog bra. Jag ska också göra allt jag inte gjorde idag. Och massa annat:) så jag kommer ha att göra. Och vi hörs såklart också Natti natti nu from Carola Wetterholm – Familjen Annorlunda https://carolawetterholm.se/2020/11/09/lyktan-och-annat/ via sexdejting via Blogger Lyktan och annat:)sidor som bodycontact I just became aware of a flaw in my receipt of messages through the “Contact” page. If you sent me a message over the last few months and I didn’t respond, I am very sorry and will respond soon if I already haven’t. I believe I have corrected the issue. My most sincere apologies, I always respond to my readers!from Kandi's Land https://kandis328772669.wordpress.com/2020/11/09/photoshoot-4/ via IFTTTSidor som bodycontact via Blogger Photoshoot 4sidor som bodycontact Posted by rootandbranch Editor’s note: This blog is from the perspective of five University of Pittsburgh students — Kirsten, Steve, Darcie, Erin, and Sara — who completed a class this summer called "Digital Marketing Search Fundamentals", taught by Zack Duncan of Root and Branch.IntroductionOur digital marketing class this summer did not give us credits that count towards graduation (in fact, some of us graduated in Spring 2020), nor did it give us a grade. Instead, we learned about paid search and organic search along with some of the key concepts central to digital marketing. We also became certified in Google Ads Search along the way. We each had different reasons for taking the course, but we all believe that digital marketing will have value for us in our lives. At the beginning of the term, in June 2020, we were asked, “What is one thing you’re hoping to get out of this class?” Here are some of our responses to that question:
Now that we’ve completed the class, we wanted to share our thoughts on why we believe digital marketing matters — both for our lives today and as we look ahead to the future. We’re also going to cover five of the most important building blocks we learned this summer, that have helped us see how all the pieces of digital marketing fit together. Part 1: Why digital marketing mattersWhy digital marketing training matters nowTo become more competitive candidates in applying for jobsSome of us are recent grads in the midst of searching for our first jobs after college. Some of us are still in school and are actively looking for internships. We’ve all seen our fair share of job listings for positions like “Digital Marketing Intern” or “Digital Marketing Associate”. Given that the majority of us are marketing majors, you might think it’s safe to assume we would be qualified for at least an interview for those positions. Nope. Before gaining a solid foundation in digital marketing, we were often quite limited in the listings we were qualified for. But things have been changing now that we can say we’re certified in Google Ads Search and can speak to topics like digital analytics, SEO, and the importance of understanding the marketing funnel. To help with growing freelance side businessesTowards the beginning of the pandemic, a few of us were dangerously close to graduation with little to no hope of finding a job in marketing. Instead of binge-watching Netflix all day and hoping some fantastic opportunity would magically come our way, the entrepreneurial among us decided to see how we could use our current skills to generate revenue. One of us is especially interested in graphic design and learned everything there was to know in Adobe Creative Suite to become a freelance graphic designer, starting a side business in graphic design, and designs logos, labels, menus, and more. After this class, finding clients has changed in a big way now. Instead of being limited to looking for clients in social media groups, digital marketing knowledge opens up a whole new world. With a functioning website and a knowledge of both paid and organic search, the process of finding new customers has dramatically changed (for the better!). To be more informed consumersWhile a digital marketing background doesn’t instantly translate to job opportunities for everyone, it can help all of us become more informed consumers. As consumers, we want to pay for quality goods and services at a fair price. Some basic digital marketing knowledge gives us a better understanding of why the search engine results page (SERP) findings show up in the order that they do. Knowing about keywords, domain authority (for organic search) and quality scores (for paid results) can demystify things. And that’s just on the SERP. Moving off the SERP, it’s helpful to know how nearly every advertisement we see is somehow targeted to us. If you are seeing an ad, there is a very good chance you fall into an audience segment that a brand has identified as a potential target. You may also be seeing the ad due to a prior visit to the brand’s website and are now in a retargeting audience (feel free to clear out those cookies if you’re sick of them!). The more information you have as a consumer, the more likely you are to make a better purchase. These few examples just go to show how digital marketing training matters now, even if you are not the one actively doing the digital marketing. How a digital marketing foundation be useful in the futureIt’s helpful in creating and growing a personal brandYour brand only matters if people know about it. You could sit in your room and put together the most awesome portfolio website for yourself and create a solid brand identity, but if no one else knows about it, what’s the point? Digital marketing concepts like understanding SEO basics can help make your presence known to potential customers, employers, and clients. It would be terrible if your competition got all the business just because you didn’t use the simple digital marketing tools available to you, right? Digital marketing efforts can have many different goals ranging from making sales to just increasing general awareness of your brand, so get out there and start! To become a more flexible contributor in future career opportunitiesOne thing we’ve heard consistently in the job search process is employers love flexible, cross functional employees. It seems the most successful and valued employees are often those that are not only experts in their field, but also have a pretty good understanding of other subjects that impact their work. Let’s say you’re an account manager for a digital agency, and you have some great insight that you think could be helpful in driving some new ad copy testing for your biggest client. It’s going to be a whole lot easier talking with your copywriter and media team (and being taken seriously by them), if you have an understanding of how the text ads are built. To see data as an opportunity for action, as opposed to just numbersAre you someone who enjoys numbers and performance metrics? That's great! So are we! But those numbers are meaningless without a digital marketing background to provide context for the data. Understanding data is a valuable tool for getting to know your audience and evaluating advertising campaigns. Seeing that your Google Search text ad has a poor click-through rate is only actionable if you have the foundation to take steps and improve it. Analyzing your website’s metrics and finding that you have a low average session duration is meaningless if you don’t connect the dots between the numbers and what they mean for your web design or your on-page content. It’s pretty clear that the numbers don’t give much value to a marketer or a business without the ability to recognize what those metrics mean and the actions that can be taken to fix them. As we advance in our careers and have more and more responsibility for decision making, digital marketing fundamentals can continue to grow our experience with turning data into insight-driven action. To optimize for conversions — alwaysWhatever the goal, it’s important to know if you’re operating efficiently in terms of your conversions. In other words, you need to know if you’re getting a return for the investment (time, money, or both) you’re putting in. When you’re operating to get the most conversions for the lowest cost, you are employing a mindset that will help your marketing efforts perform as well as they can. Having a digital marketing foundation will allow you to think intelligently about “conversions”, or the kinds of results that you’d like to see your marketing efforts generate. A conversion might be a completed sale for an e-commerce company, a submitted lead form for a B2B software company, or a new subscriber for an online publication. Whatever the desired conversion action, thinking about them as the goal helps to give context in understanding how different marketing efforts are performing. Is your ad performing well and should it receive more media spend, or is it just wasting money? Thinking about conversions isn’t always easy, and may take some trial and error, but it can lead to making smart, measurable, and cost-effective decisions. And those decisions can get smarter over time as we get more and more familiar with the five key building blocks of digital marketing (at least the five that we’ve found to be instructive). Part 2: Understanding five building blocks of digital marketing
1. The marketing funnel (customer journey)The marketing funnel (or the user/customer journey) refers to the process by which a prospective customer hears about a product or service, becomes educated about the product or service, and makes a decision whether or not to purchase the product or service in question. It encompasses everything from the first time that brand awareness is established to the potential purchase made by the customer. The awareness stage can be known as the “top of the funnel”, and there are lots of potential prospects in that audience. From there, some prospects “move down the funnel” as they learn more and get educated about the product or service. Those that don’t move down the funnel and progress in their journey are said to “fall out” of the funnel. As the journey continues, prospects move closer to becoming customers. Those who eventually “convert” are those that completed the journey through the bottom of the funnel. Understanding that there is such a thing as a customer journey has helped to frame our thinking for different types of marketing challenges. It essentially boils down to understanding where, why, when, and how your prospects are engaging with your brand, and what information they will need along the way to conversion. 2. Paid search vs. organic search and the SERPFor many of us, one of the first steps in understanding paid vs. organic search was getting a handle on the SERP. The slide below is our “SERP Landscape” slide from class. It shows what’s coming from paid (Google Ads), and what’s coming from organic search. In this case, organic results are both local SEO results from Google My Business, and also the on-page SEO results. Here’s a link to a 92-second video with the same content from class. We learned to look for the little “Ad” designation next to the paid text ads that are often at the top of the SERP. These are search results with the highest AdRank who are likely willing to bid the most on the specific keyword in question. Since paid search is based on CPC (cost per click) pricing, we learned that the advertiser doesn’t incur any costs for their ad to show up, but does pay every single time the ad is clicked. Although many CPCs might range in the $2 - $3 range, some are $10 and up. With that kind of investment for each click, advertisers really need to focus on having great landing pages with helpful content that will help drive conversions. Organic search, on the other hand, is “free” for each click. But it also relies on great content, perhaps even more so than paid search. That’s because the only way to get to the top of the organic search rankings is to earn it. There’s no paying here! Search engines like Google are looking for Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness (E-A-T) in content to rank highly on the SERP. In addition to making good local sense for Google, it all comes back to the core of Alphabet’s business model, as the slide below shows. Understanding Google’s motivations help us understand what drives organic search and the SERP landscape overall. And understanding the basics of paid and organic search is an important foundation for all aspiring digital marketers who want to work in the field. 3. Inbound vs. outbound marketingAre you working to push a message out to an audience that you hope is interested in your product or service? If so, you’re doing some outbound marketing, whether it be traditional media like billboards, television, or magazines, or even certain types of digital advertising like digital banner ads. Think about it as a giant megaphone broadcasting a message. Inbound work, on the other hand, aims to attract potential customers who are actively engaged in seeking out a product or service. Search marketing (both paid search and organic search) are perfect examples of inbound, as they reach prospects at the moment they’re doing their research. Instead of a megaphone, think of a magnet. The content that does the best job in solving problems and answering questions will be the content with the strongest magnetic pull that gets to the top of SERPs and converts. If you’re going to be here for a while, click the image below for more information on how we think about content in the context of digital marketing efforts.
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