Thursday, August 30, 2012

New Coupons!!!

Get these great new coupons before they run out! These will go fast!!! Remember you can print each one twice per computer.

Babies & Kids

General Mills Breakfast

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SAVE 50¢ when you buy ONE BOX Lucky Charms® cereal
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$2.00 off Airwick Coupons!

Airwick has teamed up with the National Park Foundation! Join now and get $2.00 of 2 products from their new National Park Fall Collection! Which is your favorite fall scent?

Earn great rewards just for visiting my blog!!

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Join the Disney Book Club now and get four brand new books for your child for only 99 cents each!! That's a savings of 80% off the retail price! Just for trying out the Disney Book Club you also get the Winnie the Pooh Backseat Organizer absolutely free! You can cancel your membership at anytime for any reason at all. This is a great way to help your kids learn to read. It also makes a great Christmas present :)

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Hunter Moon Book Cover Reveal

Here's a great new cover for Cait Lavender's book Hunter Moon! Fill out the rafflecopter below for your chance to win a signed copy of this book and a $20 Amazon or B&N gift card!

Be sure to join her book bash on August 30, 2012 at 3:00pm PDT or 6pm EST! http://www.facebook.com/events/337632702996687/

Hunter Moon

Bawling cattle tore Shelby Flint from her bed. With lawyer fees to pay in her struggle to keep her ranch from the clutches of her greedy cousins, she couldn’t afford the loss of even one calf. When she sees a large wolf circling her cows, she aims and fires. While the wolf escapes, Shelby can’t seem to get away from her troubles when a marijuana grower sets up shop on her land, sabotaging her property and eventually coming after her. Adding to that, a handsome game warden is poking his nose into her business and working his way underneath her skin. Shelby will have to fight harder than she ever fought before to keep from losing her heart and everything she ever loved

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Here is the New Cover!

In celebration of the new cover Cait Lavender is giving away 3 autographed copies with her NEW cover and a $20 Amazon or B&N GC (Prints to US or digital INT) Ends 9/11 @ 11:59PM EST Fill out the form below to enter to win!

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Labor Day Blogfest & Book Fair Giveaway!

In honor of Melynda Fleury's close call to losing her eyesight because of diabetes, Wayman Publishing is throwing a Blogfest and Book Fair Giveaway during the week of Labor Day. ALL ENTRANTS will have unlimited access to download any of Wayman Publishing's Top 10 Books during the following dates: Sept 2 through Sept 4 (direct link will be provided to all entrants on Sept 1st). This is a great way to get some awesome books to read for free! In addition, Mommy Blog Designs, the blog designer with an AWESOME reputation for her service and blog designs throughout the blogosphere, has also agreed to contribute one of her Premade Designs with full package ($269 Value) for FREE to one lucky winner! PLUS, we are also giving away $200 paypal cash! Thanks to all the hosts voiceBoks, Linkie's Contest Linkies, Mommy Blog Designs, and Terri's Little Haven for helping make this giveaway possible!

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Monday, August 27, 2012

Juno Lucina Pendant Giveaway!

The goddess Juno has long been worshiped as the goddess of fertility and children. Now this legacy is continuing with this gorgeous pendant designed to reflect her devotion to mothers and their children everywhere. Just fill out the rafflecopter form below for your chance to win one of these great pendents.

Juno Lucina has been the symbol of childbirth for over 1000 years. She is the Roman goddess of childbirth and she protects mothers and their newborn babies. This pendant resembles Juno Lucina's hands that are cradling and protecting the heads of both the mother and child. Check out their NEW website for more symbolic gifts, the story behind them, and a discount code! These make great "push presents" for the new mom in your life.

GIVEAWAY: one lucky winner will get the Juno Lucina Signature Pendant! This gorgeous piece is 14K white or yellow gold and has a total 1/5 carat weight with natural diamonds. Retail price is $499. Please use the form below to enter--ends September 17th. Thanks to Emily at Baby Dickey for organizing this giveaway! You can read her personal review of the Juno Lucina pendant on her website.

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Disclosure: I am not affiliated with Juno Lucina or Baby Dickey in any way, nor did I receive product or compensation for this post. By posting this, I am entering into a referral contest for my own pendant from Juno Lucina. Tianna's Coupon Cafe is not responsible for delivery of this prize.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Guest Post: The Art of "Slickdealing"

The Art of “SlickDealing”

From the perspective of an experienced bargain hunter

Bio:

I call myself a “Slickdealer” because I don’t believe myself to be cheap but rather frugal (a term that a lot of people mistakenly think means being cheap). The dictionary defines frugal as the following:

“Economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful”

It’s not that I don’t want to buy high quality items, it’s that I would like to buy such items at the cheapest price possible, thereby being economical and not wasteful. I have been practicing the art of ‘SlickDealing’ for many years and it has saved countless dollars!

Example:

My best example of SlickDealing is a story from when I was 10 years old. The new Tony Hawk Pro Skater game had just been released for N64 and cost a whopping $60. My mom and I went to the local GameStop to take a look at what they had and, of course, the game wasn’t any cheaper. I didn’t want my mom to spend that much money on a video game that I knew would be cheaper in a few months, so I started wandering the store looking for another game to buy. After a few minutes I noticed a sign on the wall that read, “trade in any 5 of these games and get a free game of your choice!” Attached to the sign was a list of eligible games for the promotion. I began to wonder if any of the games on the list were on sale at the shop for a low, discounted price. Low and behold, this Gamestop had all of the games on the list. I walked around the store collecting the five cheapest games on the list. After around 10 minutes of price comparing, I had a total of around $37 in used games, all of which were eligible for the promotion. I walked up to the cashier and purchased all of them. When the transaction was finished I thanked the cashier and said, “I would like to exchange these for the new Tony Hawk game using the promotion on the wall.” The look on the cashier’s face was priceless. His next move was to call over the manager, who confirmed that I was allowed to do this. So the manager finished the transaction and I walked out holding my new Tony Hawk game for a grand total of $37. As I walked out of the store, I could see out of the corner of my eye the cashier walking around the store removing all of the promotional signs!

Purpose:

In this series, I hope to show you the steps and measures that I routinely go through when I’m looking to buy a certain product or service in hopes that I can help you get the best bang for your buck on whatever you are looking to buy. It basically boils down to 3 general steps:

1. Quality Research

2. Merchant Research

3. Price Research

You might have noticed that the word research is in every one of these steps. That is no coincidence; SlickDealing is pretty much all research!

Erik Johnson is the promotional manager for SuperheroDen.

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Guest Post: Basic Guide To Getting Started With Pinterest

Almost everyone I know, is talking about pinterest. It is basically an online cork-board that allows you to share your thoughts by 'pinning'. People who are already members of the site tend to state that it can make your life craftier, easier and even interesting. For a newbie, they might find the site to be quite challenging as they are not familiar with it. This being the case, it would be great if you had five simple steps that can help you create an account and start using pinterest effectively.

1 Getting an account

Pinterest is not an online platform that you can join just like that. Registration is only through invitation. It is not hard to get an invitation as you can do so by requesting one from the site or from someone you know who is already a member. It is likely that a Facebook friend might be on pinterest and can easily send you an invite. When you are registering for a username, it is advisable to get one that is similar or closely matching the rest of your usernames on other social sites. This will help people who are looking for you to find you easily.

2. Create your Pinterest boards

Once you have registered and created your basic biography, you can begin creating boards. Think about the pinning topics. It can be cool hairstyles, healthy recipes and nursery inspirations. Boards are available in all types of categories. Your pinterest boards can be about your business, your hobby or just anything you feel like putting up.For example, there is a pinterest board that is called 'things that make me laugh' and another 'if I had a million dollars'. If you are not sure what you want as your board, you can take a look at the site and find ideas of what you can use as your board topic.

3. Find people to follow

Now that you have created your boards, you will need to find followers. A good idea would be to look for people who are already following you on other social sites like Facebook and Twitter. When you invite such people to join you on pinterest or to follow your boards, you have a high chance of getting the people who follow them from other sites. This will in turn give you a bigger following of people with different ideas and skills.Once you have found people, connect to them and comment on their pins, like or re-pin them to your own boards. Take note that you do not need to follow all of an individual's boards. Clicking follow on their profile is enough. This way, you will avoid overwhelming your feed.

4. Start pinning

The fourth step is having fun with pinterest by pinning. The best way to go about this is adding the bookmarklet to your browser. This should be done via your account as it will allow you to pin anything you come across when you are browsing the web. Once you see anything you like when browsing, just click on the 'pin it' button. A pop up window will appear with instructions on the rest of the procedure. Images that are attractive have a higher likelihood to be pinned. If you are on the go, you can use the Pinterest iPhone app.

5. Like, re-pin, comment

Pinterest is a social network. This means that connections are the key to success. They are also the key to become part of the community and a fun way to meet new people. Apart from looking for inspiration to pin, you should also acknowledge pins by others. In pinterest, it is easy to 'like' something. You just follow the same process you would on Facebook or Instagram. This is the same process that will occur for commenting. You comments and likes in pinterest will appear in your main page, just the same way they do on Facebook. You can also re-pin an image, which will mean you will be actually putting it on your own board.

Basically, following these steps will not only ensure you have an account with pinterest, but it will also ensure your site is up and running. Such steps will also help you gain a lot of followers and knowledge making your pinterest experience worthwhile.

About the Author

Rahul Makhija has been in the internet marketing industry for more than 6 years. For more information you can visit web design. He is an expert on SEO & PPC tactics and in his free times likes to read and understand about human behavior.

Guest Post: What is SEO? (Search Engine Optimization)

Search Engine Optimization, also known as SEO, is the ongoing process of making web pages rank highly in a search engine’s search results for certain search terms. SEO refers to the optimization or organic search results, which are not to be confused with paid search results. While there are many different tasks that an SEO must do to make a webpage rank highly within a search engine’s results, the various tasks can be categorized within three main areas: structural website optimization, content optimization, and off-site optimization. While I will be discussing each of these three areas if discipline in later articles, this article should serve to give a very basic understanding of what SEO is.

To begin, you may be wondering why, or how, SEO exists. In order to answer this question, we should first acknowledge, at least briefly, how search engines work.

First, search engines gather data by crawling web pages online and evaluating these pages based on a long list of criteria, also known as ranking signals. Depending on how well a given web page meets each individual criterion, that web page is given a certain ranking within the search results for a given set of search terms.

By understanding how search engines work and understanding the major criteria for ranking highly in search, webmasters can begin to optimize their webpages for high search rankings. While we can thank those who have dedicated themselves to investigating the search signals and testing their hypotheses, the ability to perform SEO is actually a natural side effect of how search engines work.

At this point, I’m sure many of you are wondering how SEO works. While this requires a very in-depth explanation that I will give in future blog posts, I felt it appropriate to give a very brief explanation here.

Search Engine Optimization begins within the code of the page you are trying to optimize. The webpage should be properly tagged in order for the search engine to know what the page is about. This involves having appropriate titles for the page as well as having tags within the page’s code that tell the search engine that the page is relevant for search results.

Next, the page needs to have good, substantial text content. This content should be original and should be focused on a single topic. If you wanted your website to rank in search results for five major search terms, it would be best to discuss each term on five different pages (and try to optimize each page for a certain term), as opposed to discussing five major terms on a single page. Remembering this will help you to create good, focused content.

Last, SEO requires you to make sure that other related websites are signaling to the search engines that your webpage is relevant, and worthy, to rank for a given search term. This is done primarily through obtaining links from external sites to the page being optimized. While this aspect of SEO requires an explanation longer than a single sentence, this should provide a general understanding of what off site elements are necessary for rankings.

Hopefully this article has provided you with a general understanding of what SEO is and how it works. Please leave questions in the comments section and I will try my best to answer!

George Fox is a marketer for SuperheroDen.

Guest Post: 4 Affordable SEM Strategies

Nowadays, there is a lot you can do with Search Engine Marketing. The Internet is in any case an excellent means for promotion and winning end users over. As a matter of fact, it’s a tool most businesses prefer to use, because of its capacity as a client magnet. Well, if you’re not a business owner, you can embark on SEM as well. For those who don’t have a big of a budget, the following are four affordable SEM strategies that will surely live up to your desires:

Social Networking

Unlike what most of us think, social networking is not just for pleasure and amusement. In business, social networking sites do take a vital part. You can market your products and services via Facebook and Twitter or other social networking sites on-hand as soon as you have finished creating your own account. Moreover, this allows you to join in online forums where you can post links to your webpage and advertise to potential consumers. This is also one great public relations approach for your business.

Pay Per Click

PPC is in demand these days too. Those with their own websites can enable advertisers to post ads on their website. Every click on these ads is equivalent to a certain amount. That’s wonderful isn’t it? The price per click would be subject to the arrangement with the promoter. It could one of two kinds of rates, fixed or based on the established bid. This will also push traffic straight onto the business’s website.

Search Engine Optimization

SEO is also becoming popular now. With merely quality content materials added on your website, you’re good to go. You increase your website’s visibility on the internet through utilizing keywords, thus people will have no trouble finding your website on Google, Yahoo, and other search engines. This is highly to your benefit if you’re aiming to boost up your rankings on any on search engine. It is suggested that the keywords be placed first and/or last in the paragraphs.

Link-posting

One more SEM strategy that is surely within your means is by publishing links on blog sites or online discussion boards. For those with their own blog site or if you leave comments on other people’s blog sites, you are able to post links to your website. This is an effective technique to increase traffic to your site. For sure, besides blog sites and web forums, you can also place links via social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. This will let you to get to more and more probable patrons and improve your productivity.

There are countless advantages with SEM. So if you want your business to make it big, start doing some SEM now!

This article was written by the writer of HowMuchIsIt.org, a website that talks about the costs for just about everything.

Friday, August 24, 2012

Earn Extra Cash with Opinions Outpost!

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Guest Post: Duplicate Content and How to Avoid It

It is very easy to inadvertently create duplicate content on a website. The definition of duplication in this context is where the same content appears under multiple URLs. Duplicate content can potentially decrease traffic to a web page because the search engines will be unsure of which page is the most relevant for a particular query. Below are some common issues and solutions:

Canonicalization

This is

the most common form of duplicate content problem and is caused when the web pages can be accessed using various URLs e.g.

www.mywebsite.com

http://mywebsite.com

www.mywebsite.com/index.html

Although all of these URLs access the same web page, the search engines view them as separate pages and confusion will arise.

Solution

This can be resolved by using a server-side redirect to ensure that only one page URL is served; how to carry this out will depend on the specific server set up. Alternatively, choosing the preferred URL can be done via Google Webmaster Tools. Specific instructions for the latter option can be found

here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=44231

Printable Pages

Websites which have information pages such as News sites and RSS feeds often have a 'Print' feature which loads the page content with a format which is stripped of CSS styling and images more suitable for printing. However, the printable format creates a new URL by adding /print and is seen as duplicate content.

Solution

There is a very simple way to overcome this type of duplication and that is to use a rel=canonical tag on the \print page pointing towards the original page.

Blog Pages

The problem with blogs is not the pages themselves; it is the tags that are associated with them or the categories that they are placed under. Different blog articles will often contain the same tag words and will inevitably be posted under a category more than once.

Solution

The solution to this particular problem is again fairly simple. Most bloggers use a 'format' which features only a few different categories but numerous tags, in which case using "no index, no follow" on all of the 'tag' pages will resolve the problem. For those who do have a larger number of categories than tags, add the code to the 'category' pages.

Relative Linking

Many webmasters use relative internal linking as the faster, easier option, but when used in conjunction with HTTPS pages and sub domains especially, it can result in occurrences of duplicate pages.

Solution

Some issues can be overcome by simply using a 'self-referential' rel=canonical tag for each page that could be affected in this way. However, there is no guarantee that this will be successful for every searchengine.

The only other way is to make all internal links 'absolute' which means using the full URL in the link rather than serving the information from an internal source. Each absolute URL is unique and points directly to the file required.

Summary

There are other issues that can cause duplicated content to arise quite innocently, but the ones mentioned above are by far the most commonplace.

Most are easily resolved with a little bit of time and application, others can easily be avoided by a little more thought going in to the design and coding of any new web pages produced.

Cover Reveal of Ever My Merlin!

Looking for a good book to read? Then check out the Merlin Series by Priya Ardis! Fill out the rafflecopter below to enter to win a signed copy of the first two books in the series!

Cover Reveal for the "My Merlin Series" Ever My Merlin coming this Fall!

My Boyfriend Merlin

He was a little older than he was letting on. By a few eons…

In this modern day teen Arthurian, 17 year-old Boston high schooler Arriane, aka Ryan, DuLac just found out the guy she's been crushing on, hot biker Matt, is a little older than he was letting on. In fact, he is really Merlin—the Merlin, King Arthur's Merlin, the greatest wizard who ever lived. Frozen in a cave for over fifteen hundred years, he's woken for a purpose. But Ryan's not impressed. Tired of being a relationship loser, she'd rather kick his legendary behind.

Sure, the world has been crazy ever since the sword and the stone fell out of the sky like a meteor. But despite gruesome gargoyles, a deadly new world of magic, and the guy driving her crazy, Ryan knows that family is everything. Will Merlin sacrifice hers to save the world? Will she be able to stop him?

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My Merlin Awakening, Book 2, My Merlin Series

If you haven't broken the rules, have you really lived?

Two wizard brothers. One sword. One chance to make a difference.

In this modern day teen Arthurian, Excalibur has been pulled from the stone, but what does it mean? 17 year-old Arriane (aka Ryan) DuLac has bigger problems—as student president, she's got to put on the Prom. While the Wizard Council debates their next move, she leaves the craziness behind and heads home. But she can't hide forever. Sooner than she'd like Merlin (aka Matt) has her chasing mermaids on the trail of the Fisher King. The wounded king defeated by Merlin's brother, Vane, in the past holds the key to save the future.

At a time of shifting alliances, she must decide whose side she's on—the brother who struggles to do right or the brother who dares to break the rules? And Ryan must decide who she is—a regular girl or a champion? One wrong decision and her family falls apart. One wrong decision and the world falls apart. No pressure.

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Coming This Fall!

Priya Ardis loves books of all kinds—but especially the gooey ones that make your nose leak and let your latte go cold. She started her first book at sixteen, writing in notebooks on long train rides during a hot summer vacation in India. Her favorite Arthurian piece is the poem The Lady of Shalott by Lord Alfred Tennyson. A hopeless romantic, she's a longtime member of the Romance Writer's of America. When not living in her characters' world, she might be found at the local coffee shop—her nose buried in a book.

Website: http://www.priyaardis.com

Blog: http://merlinblogs.priyaardis.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/priyaardis

Twitter: https://twitter.com/priyaardis

Priya Ardis is giving away a prize pack of the first two books (signed) to one lucky winner!

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It's SEO Saturday!!

Each Saturday I'll be featuring a series of posts that deal with Search Engine Optimization. Many of these posts are guest posts from some really great bloggers. Hopefully you'll learn a lot from them :)

Thursday, August 23, 2012

netTalk Duo Review and Giveway

How would you like to win a free year of telephone service from netTalk? Enter this great giveaway to get a free netTalk Due Wifi device plus a free year of service! Just fill out the rafflecopter to enter today :)

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Is Cinnamon The Key To Infertility?

Cinnamon is often lauded as an almost miraculous spice because of the amount of ailments and conditions it can relieve. Possibly only second to Vinegar when it comes to simple treatments we probably all have or can easily get out hands on, cinnamon is capable of helping many, many conditions ranging from the severe like heart disease and arthritis, to upset stomachs and colds. It can also improve things like blood pressure or hair loss. Now when I say ‘help’, that can be a very arbitrary term, because there is not always a clear cause-and-effect relationship. Cinnamon is afterall, just a herb and not a medicinal pill. Those who take it have seen dramatic improvements in their condition, though it is not to say that cinnamon was the one cause; in those cases it could another or a combination of factors. Cinnamon is however a welcome addition to anyone who has been told they need to re-consider their lifestyle and the effect on their health, or who have been suffering from one of those ailments listed above. In other words, it can’t do any harm, and will most likely be a benefit overall.

In relation to infertility, cinnamon is one of several changes or additions one can make to improve their situation. When issues surrounding an ability to conceive occur, it is often the case that a GP will recommend a few different things before a problem sought out as the explanation for why someone can not get pregnant, just so the body is in as optimum condition at that point. For instance, stress can have a massive impact on the body’s functions.

These can include diet issues, such as a deprivation of particular nutrients or minerals like zinc, which is often stripped from many foods through processing but yet which we all need. What is great about taking stock of what minerals we are actually taking in, is that these are not medicinal, and can easily be bought from a pharmacy or at our local supermarket in the form of foods which are rich in it; for instance, zinc is found in high levels in foods like pumpkin seeds and fish. It is also a general problem with diet, that has occurred over the years, whereby the average diet has digressed in terms of quality or inclusion of the necessary fruit and veg one should get. This would not have been an issue a few decades ago, but because lifestyles change over time, the problems occur. These tie into social or cultural issues as well, with perhaps more women smoking than was culturally acceptable 60 years ago, or having their own careers. Where we get our produce from is also an issue, with perhaps more of us turning to larger supermarkets who treat their produce differently in order to mass-distribute it and keep it fresh for longer.

Often it is when we try to do something strenuous on the body, like conceiving or going through labour, that we realise just how healthy we are ourselves. Like walking up an abnormally large hill, our bodies are truly tested; sometimes, and unfortunately so, we realise at these moments if we have harmed our bodies in some way or if we have inherited some medical condition, usually because this is when deeper medical tests are performed. Without being too rude, those who are trying to conceiving may be having sex a lot more frequently, sometimes at times which they would not expect, like when the woman is ovulating; this requires both to be not only in the mood but in relatively good condition to “perform”.

Returning to cinnamon as the be all and end all of fertility; unfortunately there is not a lot of significant medical research to back up any claim that it can reverse infertility. What it does help is those women who suffer from Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), a disorder of the ovaries, is a large cause of infertility in women. What cinnamon can do is reduce insulin resistance in sufferers, through its capacity to control blood sugars (which is why cinnamon is recommended to diabetes sufferers). While it is not ideal or a solution by any means, it is one step that can help those with PCOS trying to conceive.

For those who do manage to get pregnant, keeping cinnamon in one’s diet, whether through cinnamon bark in cooking or through cinnamon supplements themselves, is very much a positive as it can help relieve fatigue and is immune-boosting, which is beneficial for not just the mother-to-be but the baby too.

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Here's a great new cover for Cait Lavender's book Hunter Moon! Fill out the rafflecopter below for your chance to win a signed copy of this book and a $20 Amazon or B&N gift card!

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

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