I forgot about you...

I have a blog? Oh right! Things have been crazy around here lately, just a couple more weeks of school, working part time at the hardware store and taking on clients. Crazy but good crazy. As soon as I finish up with my clients I will share!
But right now I made some changes with my own website. Just some tweaking, I don't think I'll ever be satisfied.
Check out the updated design.

I do have plans to start creating templates for Blogger and Wordpress to will be available through Lucky Chickadee Design store, on Etsy, but for now I am taking clients for May.
I'm really interested in working with someone who's using Blogger. I'm willing to offer some crazy rates starting at $100, so please contact me.

How Does Google Work?

The other day I was trying to explain to a client how Google works...then I realized I had no idea where to start. There is so much information out in this big ol' internet world but I think the infographic below is a nice way to understand Google.

But why do you need to know how Google works? Well you want as many people as possible to see your blog or website, right? So you need to understand how the search engines work to optimize your site. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of your website or blog in a search engines "natural" (unpaid) search results.

So how can you optimize your site? This may involve editing your site's content and/or code to both increase its relevance to specific key words and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.  Plus the more backlinks you have leading to your site the more likely your site will be found. If you're self-hosted wordpress I suggest downloading the plugin All in One SEO Pack, and if you're with blogger this is a great article with tips and tricks.


Infographic by the Pay Per Click Blog

Bye Bye Google Reader

I'm sure many of you may know that Google Reader is going bye bye as of July 1 2013. When I heard this news I'll admit I may have sucked all the air out of the room, I love my google reader, although it can be frustrating at moments I haven't found a equivalent blog reader I really love as much.

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As I've been reading around the web, a lot of people are switching over to Bloglovin', which I've been using a little. I've also heard of Feedly but find it not very user friendly as I don't understand how to view my blogs.

I know Google Reader isn't leaving until July I may as well do the switch as soon as possible so I can start using the new reader. Right now I've chosen Bloglovin' because they made it extremely easy to import my blogs from Google Reader. See how easy it is here.

But I have some issues with Bloglovin'. I hate that I can't see all the pictures or the whole post on Bloglovin' I actually have to change to the actual blog to read the entire post. Google Reader has a 'follow' button that can be used on any blog even if they don't have a follow button or GFC showing. I don't believe Bloglovin' has this, if it does I would LOVE to know!

What blog reader are you going to use to replace Google Reader?