So I thought I would do a quick up date on my “back the truck up in the driveaway ‘win’.”  I decided to start 2012 at least a little less stress. December 31, 2011 I sent Christy at Sweet Posh Baby an email telling her I give up. I am not going to try and get the rest of my win. I wished her and her family well. I’m done.
Why?
Wellllllll…. from the beginning I knew something fishy was up.  I was reading emails on July 28 see the story below… I was over the moooon excited!! Now I enter a LOT of giveaways I know you only have a certain amount of days to claim your win… well this was A HUGE win I wasn’t takin’ any chances! I immediately responded on Facebook.  WOOO HOOO!  Christy’s response was “did you get an email from me?”  Ummm no … other than the blog update I get from you when you update your blog.  Then nothing.  No emails.  No nothing.  So I waited a few weeks.  Nothing.  Several items have personalization so I would think I would be contacted via email first?  Then I started writing to Christy.  Nothing.  So I posted on her Facebook page and that entry was deleted.  Ummmmm not so excited anymore. So I asked fellow bloggers what they would do.  Everyone said “start writing to the companies”.  So I picked a few and started writing.  The companies were AMAZING!!  (I wrote thank you blog posts with their products as a thank you).  A few exceptions the lullaby people said they would contact Christy and then get back to me.  I never heard back from them.  The WubbaNub representative basically called me a liar and if I had won they would have sent it to me.  (ohhhh okay maybe I worded that email wrong?!) Each company had no idea I had won. They all acknowledged being a part of the giveaway but had never been given the winners information. They were WONDERFUL to me!!  Some said they would contact Christy……. who…… NOW all of a sudden now writes to me (in September The GIVEAWAY ended in APRIL) asking me where I was on my wins. What have I received to date.  I sent a list.  As a matter of fact I sent a weekly update. I figured AWESOME my wins will start coming in!!  WOO HOO!!  Excited all over again.  Righhhhhhhttttt!!  NOT!!  So January 10, 2012 I give up.  I’m done stressing about it.  Hopefully whoever get’s the goodies enjoys them!!
For the record Christy never even acknowledged the last email either.

I was sitting here reading my blog emails.  (yes, I am addicted!) I had an email from Sweet Posh Baby I’m reading the email…… down toward the bottom is:
Drumroll please……

Ended out to be a BIG OLE SCAM!!!! Sweet Post Baby?? Hoped I wouldn’t see the announcement on her page. She never contacted any of the sponsors.  I contacted each of them….. most were met with “We have no idea what you are talking about” 

BEWARE of Sweet Posh Baby

THE WINNER OF THE 2011 SWEET POSH BABY VIRTUAL BABY SHOWER is…

Connie of Peanut Butter and Whine.
{Let me just say I LOVE that blog title!!}
Congratulations, Connie!!
Enjoy the goodies!!!

I did a double take!! HEY!! THAT’s ME!!!!!  So I look to see what my “goodies” are. So then I start to get more excited and louder… I’m still not sure I won what I think I won.  So I text my daughter Selena here is how the texting went
Me: “check your email”.  (I forwarded the email and the link to what I think I won.

Updating My SEO Because Even the Internet Needs a Good Declutter

If you’ve been poking around peanutbutterandwhine.com lately and thought, “Huh, something feels different,” congratulations. Your instincts are sharp and possibly paranormal.

I’m deep in the process of updating my SEO. Not the glamorous kind of update where confetti falls and Google personally thanks me, but the gritty, behind-the-scenes kind where old posts get dusted off, links get refreshed, and keywords are gently coaxed into behaving better. Think less makeover montage, more haunted house cleanup.

While revisiting early posts, I discovered something unsettling. Many of the original photos and videos have completely vanished. Not broken links. Not corrupted files. Gone. Poof. Into the digital ether. This can only confirm one thing: peanutbutterandwhine.com is haunted.

There is no other explanation. Sure, it could be old hosting changes, platform migrations, or me being wildly optimistic about my organizational skills a decade ago. But let’s be honest. It’s ghosts. Internet ghosts. Possibly annoyed by my early font choices.

So here I am, updating old posts with new images, clearer formatting, better internal linking, and SEO-friendly structure so Google can finally understand what I’ve been yelling into the void all these years. I’m also making sure posts connect to each other logically, like linking back to my ongoing fun stuff such as the Monthly $50 Your Way Giveaway right here:
👉 https://peanutbutterandwhine.com

Internal links help readers stick around, help search engines crawl the site, and possibly appease the spirits living in my archives.

I’m also adding relevant external links to trustworthy sources, because Google appreciates good neighbors. For example, SEO best practices straight from the pros over at Moz:
👉 https://moz.com/learn/seo

The goal isn’t to rewrite history. It’s to make sure my content is still useful, readable, and visible in a world where the internet changes faster than my craft room fills up.

If you stumble across a refreshed post, missing photos, or suspiciously improved clarity, just know it’s intentional. And if something disappears again overnight… I’ll be lighting a sage bundle and updating my alt text.

Stay tuned. The ghosts are watching. 👻