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A create little quote from Seth Godin’s blog

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Asking questions is often more valued than answering them

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Children’s Tops – Great for spring. Enter POST and get free delivery

I can follow the line of thought, – however was it a compliment? 

We do lots of stripy, bright coloured children’s clothes, – happy, fun clothes that will retain its shape wash after wash.

So as the Dr Seuss quote goes….”today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one”.
Actually just to make you smile here are the top 10 Dr Seuss Quotes

Favorite Dr. Seuss Quotes #1
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose. Dr. Seuss

Favorite Dr. Seuss Quotes #2
Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you. Dr. Seuss

Favorite Dr. Seuss Quotes #3
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere. Dr. Seuss

Favorite Dr. Seuss Quotes #4
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. Dr. Seuss

Favorite Dr. Seuss Quotes #5
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way. Dr. Seuss

Favorite Dr. Seuss Quotes #6
If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good. Dr.

SeussFavorite Dr. Seuss Quotes #7
I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful, one hundred percent. Dr. Seuss

Favorite Dr. Seuss Quotes #8
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. Dr. Seuss

Favorite Dr. Seuss Quotes #9
And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed. Dr. Seuss

Favorite Dr. Seuss Quotes #10
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. Dr. Seuss

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Children’s Clothes and Dr Seuss

So here is a link to the article featuring 25 women that  “rock” social web. As I said I am not on a feminist mission, just a SEO chick in the making, who read the article with great interest …. did I mention it is written by a man (he, he).

As I work hard to increase my knowledge of SEO, in the hope that www.ksbkids.com will continue to improve its position for children’s clothes, I can only hope that I one day will master just a small franction of what these ladies do.

For childrens clothes, including stripy and plain children’s tops and t-shirts Please visit us on www.ksbkids.com As always we welcome feedback, comments and ideas.

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25 Women That Rock Social Media

 Jo Frost is the latest celebrity to tackle the issue of kids growing up too quickly. Does the responsibility not lie with us as parents? It is a very interesting and topical discussion.

One of the reasons I setup www.KSBKids.com (Kids Should Be Kids) in 2007

 was because I felt there was a growing tendency to dress children as mini adults. I wanted to give parents the opportunity to buy “simple”, unbranded, bright coloured children’s clothes. “Happy” children’s tops and childrens t-shirts.

Children are really not young for long, so why the need to make this precious time even shorter by allowing them to dress inappropriately?….. am I being old fashioned?  Join Jo Frost’s discussion on her Facebook page.

Following articles and links are worth a read:

‘We are hypersexualising girls, telling them that their desirability relies on being desired…’ Dr Linda Papadopoulos, The Guardian, 25 February 2010

From one worried mother, a passionate call to arms: it’s time to stop the fashion industry dressing girls of ten like this Daily Mail, 11 February 2010

Both Mumsnet and Netmums have also raised the discussion on a number of occasions.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/real_life/supernanny/article289908.ece#ixzz0hiS1lDos

All of the above are interesting and will make you think about the way your child dresses.

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Jo Frost tackles the issue of kids growing up too quickly

SEO and children's website

Anyone working online knows the importance of online marketing and SEO. Just as I think I am a little wiser I get surprised with how much I still have to learn …. I thrive on learning so this is indeed not a problem.

As Piet Hein once wrote “The greatest knowledge of all, is knowing that you know nothing at all”.

In my quest for building my SEO knowledge I came a cross this list of 10 steps to a productive backlink strategy …. worth a read. You may already have all 10 points cover, but here you go ……

The 10 Steps to a Productive Backlink Network

1. Assess your strong points with which you’ll approach potential link partners

2. Decide the keywords you’ll be using as anchor text

Naturally you’ll want to use as much money keywords in anchor texts as you can. But be wary, as Google puts these money keywords under extreme scrutiny and it’s constantly looking of artificial links having such keywords as the anchor text.

Don’t create the impression you’re spamming your way up to number one in the SERPs with highly competitive keyword phrases like online marketing, mlm leads and network marketing.

Again, it’s nothing wrong with using high converting keywords in hyperlink, only be sure to alternate between competitive and medium quality keyword phrases; Avoid being associated by Google with very competitive keywords if you’re traffic stats and site authority doesn’t reflect that.

3. Analyze the top-ten competitors

Extract the most valuable keywords and keyword phrases, run a search in Google and jotdown the top-ten players for each of one.

Next, analyze each competitor and take note of their strong and weak points both in terms of On-Page and Off-Page Factors. For a thorough report on your competition, I suggest you use programs like SEOElite (focused on Off-Page Factors) or Market Samurai (offers valuable competitor insites for each keyword you target).

A free tool to use which provides information about your competitor’s linking partners is Yahoo! Site Explorer. More details are found in the following section.

4. Find potential backlink partners

A complete walkthrough can be found in the 4-Step Guide to Building Backlinks with Solid Link Partnerships.

5. Contact potential backlink partners

When initiating contact for obtaining a backlink, make sure your approach is personal and points out concrete benefits for the other party.

Don’t contact webmasters before you’ve reviewed their site thoroughly and you are able to make factual comments about its content pages.

Provide in your initial email, the link and anchor text you want them to use without formating it. If they agree on a reciprocal link, make a gesture of goodwill and be the first who inserts the link on the webpage. If they delay in returning the service, keep their backlink until your next website inspection.

6. Build artificial backlinks using submission sites

Consult these 20 Guidelines for Building Backlinks with Submission Sites for a comprehensive procedure on this topic.

7. Increase the value of your existing backlinks

There is no point on having multiple backlinksin the same webpage. Instead focus on increasing the value of your existing linkspointing to your website;

> Take for example an article you’ve submitted to an article directory. Bookmark that content page on different bookmarking sites, present it to different linking partners for website submission, reference it on forums and blog comments. By doing all this you’ve increased its authority which ultimately benefits the webpage you backlinked on it.

> Lets say you’ve submitted your website to a submission directory. Reference that directory in your future content pages and posts on different platforms by backlinking to it. Build a link that goes to the section, or webpage your website is listed in. By doing this both parties benefit – the directory’s webpage and your own webpage by being listed there.

These are just two examples of how to get more authority or PR with the same backlinks pointing to your website.

8. Have backlinks placed on the right spot

Don’t just reserve your backlink on a webpage with PR8, when on that page there are another 100 outbound links.

Keep in mind to place all of your backlinks (if possible) in the body text that’s also relevant for the anchor text. Avoid getting backlinksin footers and siderbars as they don’t carry much weight.

Look for building links that are long lasting because the older a backlink the more SEO juice it provides to your website. Related to this, avoid paid links if you can’t sustain this practice long term.

9. Use internal linking throughout your website

As your webpages gain PR and popularity, they will act like floating devices for your website in SERPs. For this to happen you need to consistently and coherently interconnect all of your webpages.

I’ve already put together an Internal Linking Strategy you can freely use with your site.

10. Undertake periodical inspections of your website’s backlink network

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Backlink and link building

We are currently doing all we can to fix the problem and anticipate it being corrected within the next 48 hours. I would like to reassure customers that when placing an order for children’s clothes on www.ksbkids.com and if entering the code “POST” in the redeem box, they will indeed not be charged for postage.

Although the invoice states differently customers are not charged postage, - it is purely a printed error on the invoice.    We sincerely apologise.

“I’m glad it’s not just me who’s confused!!! Many Thanks for looking at this for me, I have to say that I am really pleased with the tops, the quick delivery and your customer service”, Rebecca Feb 2010

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Problems with P&P voucher not showing on invoice

Give your children’s wardrobe  and overhaul with these latest tops in our children’s clothes range.  They are fresh, practical, trendy and funky in bright, clean and vibrant colour combinations.  The tops will retain their shape wash after wash. 

Children's Clothes: New Stripy Tops

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Love, want …. need!

In terms of SEO, Google is hinting at using Page Speed score in its ranking algorithm. Matt Cutt’s states: “If you have two sites that are equally relevant, same backlinks, everything else is the same, you’d probably prefer the one that’s a little bit faster, so page speed can in theory be an interesting idea to try out for a factor in scoring different websites. But, absolutely, relevance is the primary component, and we have over 200 signals in our scoring to try to return the most relevant, the most useful, the most accurate search result that we can find. So, that’s not going to change.”

So although Google takes page speed into account (relevance still being the primary component) it is certainly a  crucial aspect in providing a pleasant user experience.  It ensures that a visitor’s ”limited” attention span and time are spent on content and not wasted waiting for images to load. Studies have shown that users will not tolerate more than a 4 second load time. If your site fails to offer a quick response, your users will leave.

Mark Bonnet from the B2B centre at Warwick Business Schoolhas pointed out to me that 2 of the major speed analysis tools are YSlow and Google’s Page Speed.

On this rather damp Sunday morning I came across GTmetrix, a free tool to help measure the speed of pages. It’s a handy, easy to use tool that provides a Page Speed Score using both Yslow and Google and it even highlights the factors that affect the speed. Have a look at it!

My problem now is carrying out their recommendations. I may well be a SEO Chick in the making, but programmer I am not!  I have learned of factors that may help to get KSBKids to rank better for children’s clothes. And the way I look at it, even if it does not achieve much with regard to ranking, if we can improve the user experience then that in itself is a great achievement!

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Page Speed part of the user experience