Lori Bourne

Me at YOUmoz!

I'm excited, because the other day I submitted my first blog post to my favorite blog, SEOmoz. They have a "YOUmoz" section where readers can submit their own posts. My post is about how lots of my webstore pages are in Google's supplemental index, and what I can/should do about that. I'm sure it's only of interest to people who love SEO (search engine optimization), but I think it's cool.

After my husband read it, he commented that it made him remember back to when we first got married and I wanted nothing to do with the internet. I refused to get an email address even though all my friends had one. Wow, I have come a long way!

My store is found all over the internet at different blogs and Montessori sites. That is so incredibly cool. There are also two Squidoo lenses about my business - one by me, one by someone else:

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Check them out!

A Royal Engagement

...well, almost! As I've been setting up my new webstore, I've been learning a lot about SEO (search engine optimization). One SEO blog that I read every day can be found at SEOmoz  - they have tons of great info about how to get great rankings in search engines.

Anyway, the founder and CEO of SEOmoz is a young man named Rand Fishkin (I can call him young because I'm actually older than he is). He has a girlfriend name Geraldine who sometimes posts at his blog and seems like a super-smart, funny young woman. Anyway, he wanted to propose to her but do it in a special, memorable way.

His first choice was to make a 30-second tv spot asking her to marry him and have it air during the Super Bowl. That didn't work out, so he went with plan #2. He had the proposal air during her favorite show (and one of mine too), Veronica Mars. He videotaped her reaction when she saw him show up on television asking her to marry him, and it's really awesome. She was stunned, as you would expect. Thank goodness, she said yes! Naturally, Rand blogged about the whole experience (Geraldine goes by the name "Mystery Guest" when she blogs at SEOmoz).

Anyway, I've been watching Veronica Mars for a long time, and reading Rand's blog for awhile, so it was neat to see the two intersect. Congratulations and best wishes to Rand & Geraldine, naturally!