We are giving away a $100 Lowes Gift Card this week! It is in honor of a new book, Start, by Jon Acuff that was just released. Everyone I know who has read it, has loved it!

It is really good at showing how you stop living an ordinary life and get your passions “unstuck”. The great thing is that it could be applied to nearly ANY passion. To enter, simply click on the “Answer a Question about START” in the box below and follow the directions. If you have a Twitter account, you can even get an extra entry into the contest each day.

Good luck! Thanks so much to HHE for sponsoring this giveaway & post.

Let’s Refresh This Really Old Post, Shall We?

This giveaway has been over for YEARS. Like… embarrassingly over.

I’m deep into updating old posts, and let me tell you—SEO cleanup ranks right up there with cleaning behind the fridge. Necessary. Slightly horrifying. The Head Peanut is not impressed.

What was supposed to be a “quick update” turned into a full excavation.

I opened an old post and found:

• Missing images
• Dead links
• Fonts that scream “questionable life choices”

The Ghost of PBnWhine Past 👻

Somewhere in my blog lives a ghost deleting photos like it’s personal.

Now tutorials look like:

• Step 1: Do the thing
• Step 2: [image missing]
• Step 3: Believe in yourself

Helpful? Debatable.

Broken Links, Broken Dreams

Half the brands I worked with have vanished, rebranded, or turned into something like “AI Wellness Crypto Collective.”

Clicking links now feels like a gamble:
Error 404: Gone forever.

So Here I Am…

Fixing images. Updating links. Adding keywords. Whispering to Google, “Pick me.”

It’s not glamorous—but it makes the blog faster, cleaner, and easier to find.

While You’re Here…

Check the current giveaway (this one is actually alive):
👉 https://peanutbutterandwhine.com

And yes, Rakuten still pays you to shop:
👉 https://www.rakuten.com

The Reality

If you see me talking to my laptop, don’t worry.

I’m not spiraling.

I’m optimizing.