Small Business Saturday!
This is such a great campaign! I think everyone should participate in this!!
It’s called Small Business Saturday and it’s a movement created by American Express that takes place on Saturday November 26 – sandwiched between Black Friday and Cyber Monday on the busiest shopping weekend of the year.
There are so many local small businesses that I would hate to see leave! But times are so hard financially that you can’t take it for granted they will always be there! So shop local! Help out your home town!!! Ohhhhhhh honey…. I need the checkbook please!!
If walls could talk, my blog would whisper, “It wasn’t me.”
Because somehow, somewhere between coffee refills and letting the dog out, the Ghost of Peanut Butter and Whine keeps sneaking in and removing pictures and videos.
I don’t delete them. I would remember that. I am a responsible adult who double-checks things. And yet… photos vanish. Videos evaporate. Blog posts wake up looking underdressed, like they forgot their pants.
Cue dramatic music.
After the fifth “Where did that image go?” moment, I decided to stop fighting the paranormal and use it as an opportunity. If the ghost insists on rearranging my content, then I’m going to roll up my sleeves and improve my SEO score while I’m at it.
Because if I’m re-uploading images anyway, they might as well have proper file names, alt text, and sizes that don’t make Google sigh heavily. Videos? Optimized. Old posts? Updated. Keywords? Polished like they’re heading to prom.
SEO updates aren’t glamorous. No one brings a casserole when you rename image files from IMG_8472.jpg to ghost-proof-blog-photo.jpg. But they matter. Search engines like clarity. Readers like faster loading pages. And apparently, ghosts like chaos.
While I’m updating, it’s also a great time to remind you about my monthly $50 Your Way Giveaway, where one lucky winner gets PayPal, Venmo, or a gift card of their choice. You can find all the details right here:
👉 https://peanutbutterandwhine.com (check the giveaway section)
And because Google loves good neighbors, here’s an external resource I actually use when brushing up on SEO basics:
👉 https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo
So if you notice posts looking sharper and loading faster, don’t worry. It’s not a haunting.
It’s just me, outsmarting the ghost… one optimized image at a time.