I took an excellent webinar at work today from Hubspot.com - about search engine optimization and how the SEO of today is changing, to include social media searches and links in different ways than had been used in the past. When I first had my Mysticool website, from 2000-2007, I used a lot of great key words and links from other website. I also had fresh content monthly from my Mysticool Moms parenting site. If you Googled for "kids jewelry" I was consistently on the first page.

Now that social media is changing our way of life and the way of business, advertising and marketing, there are new components to consider when hoping to make good with the search engines. Key words and links are still important, but links are not just from reciprical businesses who have a directory - but from all over the web linking your articles, your insight, your value, back to your website. This means you need to be connected. You need to be on Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, and you need to blog. You need avenues to share your content with.

I am excited about this new "Web 2.0" - I just wish I had more time to devote to it, at work at the insurance agency, and at home for Mysticool.com.

Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful mom's out there!

Heidi

Woo Hoo - I am so happy to get my RSS Feed code to work! Now you can subscribe to my Blog Feed by clicking this icon

I still have so much to do for the website...but for now this will do.

Mysticool | Blog

Hello all! I am happy be be writing my first blog for Mysticool. Just recently, I started a "Blog Team" at my work EHL Insurance and many years ago I wrote parenting articles for my Mysticool Jewelry site, called Mysticool Moms.

Because of my position as Business Development Coordinator at work I have been entrenched in web design, social media, blogging, search engine optimization, graphic design...all of these things I did in my jewelry and graphic design business when I worked at home. Well, I have the bug again, the "put my website back up and be creative" bug.

I just got hitched last month so I "had" to make a lot of jewelry for the ceremony and it was so fun to get my hands in beads again. My family will be moving this month, still staying in Poulsbo, but my new home will have a great space for a workshop. My partner and I will share the space, my beads, her woodworking, and our "Bike Lounge" - a place to work on our bikes and stare at our beauties.

As May marches on (with hail today) I look forward to all that is ahead in my life.

I wish all of you well, Heidi