to top
Blogging, Geek, Web

The Geek in Heels’s SEO Tips for Beginners

Jan 12. 2012

I have stated numerous times that I don't really believe in SEO (search engine optimization) tactics. Sure, you can painstakingly devote many hours (or even pay someone) to optimizing your site for search engines, but in the end, what helps the most is good content. That being said, roughly half of my traffic comes from search engines, and after 10+ years of blogging, I like to think that I have picked up some tips to help you get your site easily and efficiently found by web searches. Some of these tips are no-brainers for any seasoned blogger, while others are extra little things I have discovered over the years to significantly increase traffic from search engines. Enjoy!   1.  Install an SEO plugin. If...

Continue reading
Geek in Heels
17 Comments
Baby, Personal, Shopping

Why We Don’t Cloth Diaper or Buy Used Clothes

Jan 11. 2012

Let me preface this post by saying that I do not look down on anyone who cloth diapers or purchases used clothes. I do not think that I'm any better than those who choose to, nor do I believe that our way is the best and the ultimate. Once again, this is a personal decision that we have made for our own family based on our unique preferences and circumstances. There was a period in time as I neared the end of my pregnancy with Claire when I seriously considered cloth diapering. It is more green. They say it's more economical in the long-run. I have also read that today's cloth diapers are superior to those in the past, and that they can...

Continue reading
Geek in Heels
115 Comments
Claire, Personal, Relationships

More Family Resemblances

Jan 10. 2012

A couple of weeks ago, J's relatives in China found this old photograph and sent it over: Can you guess who the little girl is? It's J's mother when she was about 3 years old! Everyone immediately noticed how remarkably Claire resembles her grandmother in this picture. Here's a recent picture of Claire for comparison: Even my mother did a double-take when I showed her the old picture. "Claire's going to look just like that in a couple of years," she predicted. And we couldn't agree more. As stated in a previous post, Claire currently resembles her uncle (J's brother) the most of everyone in our family. Sometimes, you could even swear that she's a carbon copy of him! And because J and his...

Continue reading
Geek in Heels
10 Comments
Art/Design, Baby, Books, Cute, Giveaways

Giveaway: L’album des trésors de bébé [Gorgeous French Baby Book]

Jan 09. 2012

Update:  This giveaway has ended. Congratulations to Elisa T, who entered via Twitter! If you are anything like me, you would probably agree that most baby books out on the market are crap. They are usually pretty cheesy and most do not have anything extra special about them. This is the primary reason I was thinking about forgoing the baby book route when I was pregnant with Claire. (That, and the fact that I'm a complete idiot when it comes to scrapbooking.) And then I read about L'album des trésors de bébé on my friend Kelly's blog...

Continue reading
Geek in Heels
32 Comments
Blogging, Geek, Reviews, Web

Site Downtime, and a New Host

Jan 08. 2012

If you tried to visit this site yesterday or earlier today, you were probably met with a big fat error message. :-(  I thought that the problem had resolved itself by Saturday evening, when the site briefly came back online after my web host reset the server, but the reprieve only lasted a couple of hours. This was the second time in less than a month that this had happened. (Third, if you count the reset on Saturday.) Add this to the consistently sloooow loading time I had been experiencing in the past half year, and we had a problem on our hands. It wouldn't have been half as bad if my host's customer support: Hadn't taken seven hours to respond to my first email, then...

Continue reading
Geek in Heels
3 Comments
Newer Posts
Older Posts