ThinStick: How can I have a healthy Halloween?

ThinStick: How can I have a healthy Halloween? Not all treats have to involve high fructose corn syrup! Here are some alternatives suggested on one of our clients' blogs. The company is Metabolic Maintenance Products in Sisters, OR. They make an all natural product, ThinStick, which curbs cravings and helps those who use it lose weight. Not bad to have a little help in this department around Halloween or the upcoming holidays! Check it out at www.thinstick.com.

-Judy (@judycampbell)

ThinStick blogging

Maybe you haven't heard of ThinStick appetite control supplement yet, but you will! If you haven't checked out the ThinStick blog yet, head on over. There's great stuff about how to manage your appetite and control cravings, as well as diet and exercise tips and stories of real people who have used ThinStick to lose weight that stays lost. We've been working with them on how to write engaging posts of just the right length, with the perfect number of links and the ideal placement of photos. Things started out bumpy but they learned fast. Now they are blogging and atwitterin' away like pros. And their Twitter page is on fire too. I'm so proud! Now if we could only get the Oregon Chai blog up and running...

-Adrianne (@msfener)

SEO in action

Search engines don't always know which web sites will have the information the searcher is looking for. Often they need help to know what a web site is about. That's why it's important to pay attention to the code and text on your site, so you don't end up in search engine oblivion. If your web site is invisible to search engines, it might as well not exist. Here's a good anecdote about the power of search engine optimization, or SEO. You would think that a search for "ThinStick" should turn up ThinStick.com, right? Well up until a few weeks ago, ThinStick.com was still stuck in the middle of page two on Google search. Now, it's the first result thanks to help from the web site's developer. The main problem with the web site was that the home page lacked text for the search engine spiders to read. By adding some more written content, plus writing text descriptions of the images into the code, Google was able to figure out what the web page was about. We also added links to ThinStick.com on a few other web sites to help with placement. The next step is to edit the pages "meta tags" -- the code that controls what appears in the title bar at the top of your browser. This is actually the most important place on your web site to put code. Now if you search for "ThinStick," these are the top results on page one: 1. ThinStick.com 2. athinday.blogspot.com (ThinStick official blog) 3. ThinStick on Facebook 4. ThinStick on Twitter 5. ThinStick in the Metabolic Maintenance (parent company) store 6. ThinStick on the Campbell Consulting blog

-Adrianne (@msfener)