ALL GIVEAWAYS CLOSED

By now y’all know I love entering the giveaway’s and sweepstakes.  I found the greatest site that gives you a good overview at how easy (And how too) enter giveaways.
Rachel’s Reviews and Giveaways. I also have her button on my sidebar because she has some great giveaways going! You should go look! One of the giveaways is for Tropical Traditions Coconut Oil.  This one sticks out in my mind because my daughter Selena has been wanting to try it.  Then the Lilla Rose clip giveaway (but you have to hurry fast for this one it ends today (3/16 HA! … sorry! I only saw it this morning and swear I thought it said today! See? Don’t feel bad… I missed it too!)
Anyway… if you’ve ever wanted to know how to go about entering giveaways go see Rachel!

But…. while you are here… meet the newest Gruning family member…… Look at that cute face!! 10 little fingers, 10 little toes and a………. nope…. you’ll find out on the 2nd of April! HA!

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. 👻