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Discover Who Throws A Bigger Tantrum Mother Or Child?

Who did you expect to throw a bigger tantrum? Mom of course because she's got 40 plus years of experience and raging PMS!  The hilarity in it all is that I didn't even recognize that I was throwing a tantrum until the multi day event was over.  Yes mine lasted two days and Eli's most current one was closer to 30 minutes.

Reflecting back on how often people tell me - Eli is just like you - has me feeling a bit nervous, really?  Geez, do you think he will leave out the ego around wanting to be right and sticking to his guns (which we are already seeing signs of) and simply be the focused compassionate and passionate boy sans the difficult parts? Actually this is what makes Eli well, Eli, and as his parent and a steward of his life I hope that I can continue to learn and apply what I am learning in the moment.  If not we're in for a long and bumpy ride.

Eli's Tantrum

So here we are with a guest (both a friend and a therapist) at our house having an incredible triple chocolate brownie from the Cakerie in Vancouver, BC (my brother was doing some consulting up there a couple weeks a go and stocked our freezer with incredible delights) discussing and learning what it will be like to bring a new member into our family for a few months - nope not pregnant, he's 17 and arriving tomorrow.

Let's see, I got to be the recipient of Eli's - he wants Gatorade and I offered water or rice milk and damn it I wasn't going to budge and either was he (yep we were a mirror of each other with different wants and needs).  Yes that's right allow the child sugar via the brownie before bed but no Gatorade.  A mom has got to set her standards some where.

Free SEO Tools from SEO Chat

I've been busy on the web and have buckets of great tools you may find helpful with your website.  Today's tools are for search engine optimization (SEO) - for the online newbies out there that means helping your website, blog or sales page increase it rankings.

SEO Tools offers great free tools that will help you...

• CPM (Cost Per Month) Calculator - i.e. are you making a profit on what you are spending?
• Keyword Density which analyzes your keyword density values for one, two and three word values
• Keyword Position Check
• Page Rank - see how Google Ranks your webpage
• Spider Simulator - this tools simulates a search engine spider and shows you exactly how your page is viewed
• and much more

You'll also want to check out the SEO CHAT Forums.  There is a lot of helpful information on website optimization, page rank, Alexa, pay per click (PPC), understanding google analytics and more.  Be sure to set a timer for a specified amount of time, because it's sure easy to get sucked right in and find that more than an hour has gone by.  Enjoy.

It's been fun checking out some of the stats on one of my current affiliate projects that is turning a nice little profit just over a week after being up.  I have to admit that the first sale is always the sweetest to me.

I also immediately set up both a google adwords campaign as well as installed MUVAR which is a split testing software that you can use on as many websites as you want which makes the $100 investment a steal.  MUVAR Installs In 10 Minutes. Test Unlimited Variables. Automatically Adjusts To Most Profitable So You Can Set It And Forget It!

I consider myself a willing to learn home based mom with no formal technical training. The install onto my c-panel did take less than 10 minutes after I watched the training videos, which means if you have common sense you can do it too once you understand how to FTP to your host. My recommendation is to give yourself a good hour if not more your first time around to watch the easy to understand training videos, install MUVAR and add the variations you want to test. Of course another option is to pay someone $20 on RentaCoder , Scriptlance or another pay for hire site.

Regards,

Michele Corey, writing for Knee Deep:  A dose on insight and a little crap from your not always average home based business and Internet mom and Money Wise Women: A Blog for Women that are ready to get their financial house in order

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