SEO for the Google Verified Business Owner

No need to pay someone else, too much, to get the results you want from Search Engine Optimization. Just go to Google.com and do a search for your verified business.*** (see below)

Click onto your place marker, and then onto the arrow beside "More." Next click onto "Edit details." This brings you to a page with  "IS THIS YOUR BUSINESS?" with a link to "Manage your page."Click that link.

This opens up your dashboard, and you will see "Your business info". Click onto edit. Look over what is there, make necessary changes, and then go to *Category and enter your main business category. You now get to enter four more. That's where you're limited. You only get to enter four categories that are Key Words for Google searches. But we all know it's in the details.

This is the fun part. Scroll down to "Additional Details" and add every last Key Word you can think of, pertaining to your business that will help a Googler find you. (Is that an official word yet, "Googler?"  A juggler juggles and a Googler Googles. Makes sense, no?) You see, what you may not know, and what I just found out thanks to Gennipher my Eminence Organics Rep, is that SEO is in the details. Be sure to click Submit at the bottom.

The real satisfaction comes when you find your business showing up on Google searches. No need to wait for hours. Check it out. It's fun fun fun! Especially for those business that just were not showing up in search results, like my own little skincare studio in Raleigh, NC.

Want even more satisfaction? Be sure to join Google+ with your business name and then make a public entry every day. It is veritably satisfying to see the results.  Makes this Googler giggle. I love the +s of life!

Be sure to Like Rosehips Beauty on Facebook and also check out our Google + page as well as to check out our website.

(***If you business is not verified you will have to fart around on Google for awhile and figure that one out. It's easy, but takes some time. They will send you an email with information for your web master and a post card with a Verification PIN is sent to you.)

Happy Googling!
Kat J Hall

August Musings

Of late, the meanings of words have held my interest. Not long ago it was suggested to me, and to a room full of others at a Matrix Energetics Training,  for us to "Get interested."  "What interests you?" it was asked of us. "Become aware of what does, and explore it." What I've discovered is that this self-awareness tool is more fun than living the usual day-to-day. The other day I became completely fascinated that there were only two listless lobster in the lobster tank at a local Red Lobster Restaurant.

As a writer of a the eNewsletters for Rosehips Boutique & Skin Spa  I send monthly offers to those who have a birthday. Following my own interest in the definition of a month's name,  I did some internet digging.  I decided not to write about the fact that August, the eighth month in the  Julian Calendar,  remained the eighth month in the Gregorian calendar, the solar based one we have today. Or that August's name was "sextilis" in the 10 month Roman calender, being the 6th month in that time measurement device. Nor did I write that August was named August to honor Augustus, the First Emperor of the Roman Empire. Wikipedia has all of that. The historical background of the modern calendar as we know it, and what it went through to satisfy emperors and rulers, is twisted and convoluted, kind of like Caligula, the 3rd Emperor of the Roman Empire, who got himself assassinated.  Instead of all of that, this is what I passed along to my newsletter peeps. Something light.

August, according to thefreedictionary.com  has two definitions. Here is the first one, followed by my commentary:

Def. 1
Au·gust  (ôgst)n. Abbr. Aug. The eighth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

Would It Be So Wrong To Become A Tea Shop & Beauty Shop In America? Confusing? I Simply Like The Idea.

This photo of Beau's Tea Rooms is courtesy of TripAdvisor

I'm A Pinterest Virgin

Having just moved my established skin care business to Newport News, VA from Raleigh, NC - after eight wonderful years (the first three being a financial struggle) - I've got plenty of time on my hands. Why did I move? For a relationship. And no, it is not "Happily Ever After" - but it is worth it and it feels right. That's what counts.

SEO. So? Oh.

So what about SEO. I tell you,  there's so much hubbub about SEO on the internet,  and yet I had to ask a solicitor what each letter stood for. Her business had sent my business, Rosehips Beauty, an email letting me know how they could improve my SEO.  So? I didn't know what it was, and thought to ask her. "What is SEO?" I inquired. Quite simply, she informed me "SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization." Oh.

Bouncing Cranberries

Recently I discovered that cranberries are filled with air pockets, hence their ability to bounce. I never really gave it much thought, even while gazing at them floating in water, attributable to aforesaid air pockets.  Rotten berries will not bounce, nor will they float. Be sure to discard those.

Why is cranberry sauce served with turkey? I'm guessing the Native American Indians are responsible. A quick Google entry of "Native American Cranberry Sauce" affirms this. In my search I found this wonderful recipe, appropriately titled  Native American Cranberry Sauce and credited to somebody's grandmother, an Ojibwa Indian. The recipe calls for maple syrup, not sugar, authenticating the recipe.

 One of my clients (and you know who you are!) provided me with this recipe for Classic Cranberry Sauce the side-dish having become a family tradition, made every Thanksgiving. What's Martha Stewart's recipe you might ask? (I didn't grow up with Rachel Ray so don't ask me about hers.) I found this Quick Cranberry Sauce recipe that, according to one comment, is best when chopped candied ginger is stirred into the finished product - the amount being unspecified.

My Holiday facial at Rosehips Beauty will include the Cranberry Pomegranate Masque from Eminence. mixed right into the Blueberry Soy Recovery Masque and topped with the Chocolate Mouse. Delicious and beautifying!

Cranberries, by the way, are high in antioxidants and Vitamin C, while also being anti-cancer, reducing high blood pressure & the likelihood of blood clots, and being known to help reduce LDLs. - (Disclaimer: I am not a doctor or a nutritionist & this article does not replace their good advice.)

Which Cranberry Sauce recipe am I going to try this year? Most likely the one from the Ojibwa Indian . . . unless my boyfriend objects. "We've got all this organic sugar" he informed me just now. Alright. Relationships involve some compromise. Classic Cranberry Sauce with organic sugar it is!

Happy Thanksgiving! Only eat bouncing cranberries!

Warmly yours,

+ Kat J. Hall
Aesthetician, Beautifier & RYT
919-696-7265
www.rosehipsbeauty.com
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"Beauty is as beauty does!"

The Four Things

“Aside from water, there are Four Things women should consume regularly,” a client informs me, adding, “I got this information from a friend who saw it on the T.V. program  The Doctors.” She then listed them off:

1. Resveratrol
2. Fish Oil
3. Vitamin D
4. Dark Chocolate

On her way to a Mexican Restaurant in North Raleigh I added a fifth one - “Tequila.” Kidding aside, Tequila is really good for you. Just ask those worms you see floating at the bottom of the bottle. 

I don’t have a T.V. set, and this is really hard on my out-of-town guests who then drag me out to local bars/restaurants to watch a game, any game, anything to break up the monotony of my fascination with my Mac. So far, I’ve seen games at The Oxford, Tobacco Road, The Point, Dave’s Dumplings, & the Cameron Grill. If it were the focus of this blog, I could tell you which one to go to if you want to hang out with the alcoholics, and which one will deaden your senses for other reasons, and which one will leave you with a crick in your neck. But, The Best Bar* To Watch A Game, is not the point. What is the point is that Dark Chocolate is now officially one of The Major Food Groups, something the English, you know, the ones across the pond, figured out a long time ago. 

This is intended to be a short blog, at least shorter than prior entries, so I will get straight to the point (no not that one.) My business, Rosehips Beauty is offering a vitamin and nutrient rich and amazing multiphase release vegan capsule containing resveratrol and evening primrose oil, so you can at least close in on the first two items on the Four Things. It is called “Firm Skin” and it is a daily supplement for beauty. Check  it out and  contact me to order: (919) 696-7265 or rosehipsbeauty@gmail.com. I do Google Checkout, so you can pay conveniently online and have your product sent to you. Mention this Blog for free shipping.

Firm Skin Vitamins - 30 Vegan Friendly Vitamin Capsules for $56.00.

http://us.eminenceorganics.com/Firm-Skin-Vitamins_p_389.html

The facts:

Description: Antioxidant-rich, firming multi-phase release vegan pill in pill vitamin capsules

Skin Type: All skin types, especially mature

Key Ingredients:

1. Seabuckthorn: vitamin rich, nutrient rich; protective
2. Vitamin A: refining; reduces fine lines and wrinkles
3. Vitamin E: supplies direct antioxidants, protects the epidermis, and effectively combats free radicals
4. Resveratrol: anti-aging antioxidant; anti-inflammatory and immune boosting
5. Grape Seed: antioxidant, emollient; supplies active bioflavonoids, combats free radicals, acts as a rejuvenating agent, and lubricates
6. Quercetin: antioxidant flavonoid and anti-inflammatory

P.S. The Cameron Grill*