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Lake Hartwell 3 BR 2 1/2 BA Hot Tub - Boat Dock - Deck
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- Minimum stay:Contact owner
- Sleeps:6
- Bedrooms:3
- Bathrooms:2.5
- Property type:House
- Internet:Yes
- Pets considered:No
- Wheel chair accessible:N/A
About the Property
House, 3 Bedrooms, 2.5 Baths, (Sleeps 6)
You're on vacation from the monent you pull in. Our 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath 3000 sq. ft. home is yours to enjoy!
Located in a restricted private Lake community, on the lake Seneca side of Lake Hartwell, at Bouy S37A, we are just a short boat ride to Clemson University.
The entry, living and dining rooms are vaulted, with beautiful water views. There are 2 livingroom seating areas - one for TV, and the other for talking and games. (And we leave you plenty of games and DVD's)
Up 5 steps to your master suite - with old fashioned leather arm chair and ottoman. Step out to your private balcony with lake view. The master bath has a jacuzzi tub, separate shower, and twin sinks.
Down a few steps to the second and third bedrooms (the second has a beautiful lake view!)A few more steps to the bonus room with second fridge, wet bar and pool table. This level has a second fireplace( the first is in the living room)and a separate TV area.
Off the bonus area is an oversize screen porch with seating group.
Half way to to dock is a covered hot tub with sun chairs. On to the dock, with its rooftop 28X26 foot deck. This is great after a day of boating - to just relax, and enjoy the second bar-b-que.
Kathleen has done another excellent job of decorating! Promise you'll take care of our second home, and enjoy!
If you would like to book this lake house, please call Mark Mitchell directly at 770-928-7206 or email at firstname.lastname@example.com - this property is NOT a part of Sandpiper Vacation Rentals. It is personally owned and operated by the owner of Sandpiper Vacation Rentals.
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Member since: 2002
Property Type
- House
House Rules
- Children Welcome
- Non Smoking Only
- Pets Not Allowed
Accommodation Type
- Vacation Rental
- Guests Provide Their Own Meals
Bedrooms: 3 Bedrooms, Sleeps 6, Beds for 6
- CD Player
- DVD Player
- Cinemas
- Live Theater
- Museums
- Restaurants
Local Services & Businesses
- ATM/Bank
Leisure Activities
- Antiquing
- Boating
- Shopping
- Sight Seeing
Location Type
- Lake View
- Lakefront
- Water View
Sports & Adventure Activities
- Cycling
- Fishing
- Golf
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Jet Skiing
- Kayaking
- Rock Climbing
- Sailing
- Snorkeling/Diving
- Swimming
- Water Skiing
- Dining Area
- Balcony
- Deck / Patio
- Gazebo
- Outdoor Grill
Pool / Spa
- Hot Tub
- Jetted Tub
Currency ConversionSept 7-May 21, 2016...............$1200/week, $200/night May 21-Aug 13 .......................$1800/week, $300/night - July 4th week + 10% Aug 13-Sept 5 ......................$1500/week, $250/night Clemson game weekends ...............$1000 for up to 4 nights Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Easter. $1500/week, $250/night 4 night minimum in summer,2 in winter. $150 cleaning fee, 8% tax additional.
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Owner info
Sandpiper Vacation Rentals
Year Purchased: 2002
About the owner: Our family bought our lake house in 2002. We just love to spend time here. Leave your watch at home and come enjoy lake time!
Why the Owner Chose Townville, SC, USA:
Lake Hartwell is a large lake - away from the big city. Very little traffic, and plenty of space for every type of boating activity.
The Unique Benefits at this House:
We love to be on the boat deck in the late afternoon. The sun sets beyond our house - with a beautiful reflection accross the lake.
We also love to play games and talk at the second sitting area in the living room.
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Lake Front Lake Hartwell House
Covered Hot Tub and sun deck
Family Room Fireplace and Flat Screen TV
Formal Dining Area - Sits 8
Stainless Kitchen
Breakfast area - sits 6
Master bath with dual sinks, shower, and jacuzzi
Second Queen Bedroom with Lake View
Third Queen Bedroom
Lower entertainment area
Stairs to Lake & Private hot tub!
View of the back of the house
Lake view from the back balcony
Covered Boat Dock and Deck (space for your boat on the left side)
Separate seating area
Upstairs Deck with Lake Views & Outdoor Dining Space - BBQ Grill too!
Double Ovens & New Stainless Fridge
Master King Bedroom - Lake view and Private Balcony
Master Bath Jacuzzi
Guest Bath with Dual Sinks and Bath/Shower Combo
Downstairs Living Room with Flat Screen TV & 2nd Fireplace
Downstairs Screened Porch
Private hot tub!
Gorgeous Lake Hartwell views!
This listing was first published here in 2002.
Date last modified - Tuesday, March 28, 2017
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"Camptown Races" is a comic song by Stephen Foster, published in 1850 in Foster's Plantation Melodies. I'm including three of my own arrangements of this song but I haven't recorded it. It's an easy melody and is a great beginner song for learning Travis picking on the guitar.
The first arrangement is Melody & Accompaniment, with alternating bass and strumming in the guitar part (bottom line).
The simplified arrangement below might be best thought of more of an exercise or a demonstration of how Travis picking works. If you go along and just play the notes on the top three strings you will be playing the melody. If you just play the notes on the bottom three strings you are playing alternating bass notes. Playing them both at the same time takes some practice. In this exercise there are only quarter notes so you'll have less to worry about while getting used to the technique. When you're ready for a challenge try the more advanced Travis picking arrangement of Camptown Races.
When playing the G chord, be sure to use fingers 2, 3, and 4, with your 4th finger (pinky) holding down the 2nd string most of the time instead of the 1st string (because the melody happens to be on the 2nd string). Remember, any time you see a chord chart it tells you the general position your fingers should be in, but if the tablature tells you to play a different position while holding the chord you should make that change but still hold the chord if possible. In this case much of the melody is on the 2nd string 3rd fret and very little on the 1st string 3rd fret, so it's easy to hold down the 2nd string with your pinky while still holding down the regular chord position for the G chord on the 5th and 6th strings.
The D chord is also different in this arrangement than you are probably used to. The 1st string and the 6th string are both tuned to E when played open, so played at the 2nd fret they would both be F# notes. Therefore in order to get a better bass sound we're playing the F# on the 6th string and not worrying about holding down or playing the 1st string unless necessary.
Here's the standard Travis picking arrangement. It takes the arrangement above and adds in eighth notes, hammer-ons, and pull-offs…
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This is a couple of easy tablature arrangements of the great Stephen Foster classic, "Beautiful Dreamer." On the recording I was playing the pattern picking arrangement.
Here's the melody and accompaniment with strumming:
And the pattern picking arrangement:
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Another Stephen Foster classic, "O Susanna" works out well in the clawhammer style for ukulele. Sorry about the quality of the video. It's an old video from about ten years ago and I haven't gotten around to re-recording it since then.
There are four tab arrangements, with the first being the melody and then three levels of clawhammer uke arrangements including a beginner arrangement, an intermediate arrangement with slurred notes but no drop them, and finally an arrangement that includes drop thumb.
Clawhammer Arrangement #1 (Basic):
Clawhammer Arrangement #2 (Intermediate – Includes slurred notes but no drop thumb):
Clawhammer Arrangement #3 (Advanced – Includes slurred notes and drop thumb):
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I'm including four tablature arrangements of this song — the melody, two clawhammer ukulele arrangements, and a bluegrass ukulele arrangement that uses bluegrass style rolls on the uke. I haven't done a lot of bluegrass style arrangements for the uke but it works out well for many songs and if there's any interest in it I'll do some more in the future. Let me know if you'd like more of those.
As always, if you're not familiar with the clawhammer ukulele technique you should watch my four videos that teach this technique.
The video is actually just my original MP3 recording from 2005 that I put in video format so I could upload it to YouTube. Since it's a well known Stephen Foster song that's now in the public domain there are no copyright restrictions so I may do a more in depth video tutorial on it at sometime in the future.
All of the other arrangements use this one as their basic foundation.
Clawhammer Arrangement #1 (Basic):
Clawhammer Arrangement #2 (Intermediate):
Bluegrass Arrangement:
This arrangement uses bluegrass-style banjo rolls adapted for the ukulele.
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This video is 1 of 31 videos that make up the Basic Ukulele Video Course, which is designed especially for beginners.
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"What Does the Fox Say" Valentine Card and Other Forest Friends
Are your kids as obsessed with the song "What does the Fox Say" as mine are? They just had to listen to it on You Tube one night, so we found it and I was sure there had to be something disgusting and distasteful about the whole thing because otherwise it just doesn't make any sense at all. But it wasn't at all. It was just.....well....dumb I guess. But kids absolutely love it. So when I was thinking about what to make my kids for Valentines day I was searching for ideas online and happened to see a super cut fox craft and that inspired my idea for this card:
I am going to fill the card with stickers (since my kids love to put stickers on EVERYTHING). It is just silly, they will love it because we sing the song all the time at our house and change the words and the sounds. I don't actually know any of the words or sounds but as long as you know the tune you can pretty much fake it til you make it. I think any kid will get a major kick out of it. I found the pattern for the fox here. I resized it in my word program and then cut out the pieces and traced them on paper. I chalked the edges to give it extra dimension. I stuck it on the card with foam dots to make it raised. After making the fox my mind started racing thinking how cute it would be to have a whole set of little forest creatures to surprise my kids with on Valentines morning. So I adapted the pattern, changed some of it and added new pieces and created this super cute forest friends set:
Meet Raccoon.
And skunk.
And you already know Mr. Fox
I am not sure exactly how I am going to use them all yet but I just had to share them with everyone. They are really easy to make and so adorable. They would be cute for any time of year, not just Valentines day. If you would like patterns for the Raccoon and Skunk you can find links below.
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Love them - Thank you for a great post - funny I thought the same thing about the song - I think they would look great hung in frames on a baby's room wall - Hope you have a great valentine's day
April I was looking for the best Valentine card designs and absolutely these ones on your blog are cuties :D My students would be happy to do them. yay.. Would love to try any of them along with cute Valentines day quotes. they'd suit each other really well! looking forward to more of your creations on any occassion dear. :)
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Some of the most powerful pieces of technology in the wastes, and perhaps the most iconic as well, is Power Armor. This mechanized suits of armor feature some of the most advanced technology available and can turn one soldier into a human tank. Typical features in each version of Power Armor include special servos that increase the wearer's strength well boyond a normal human, allowing them to carry heavy weapons that would typically require a team of soldiers to deploy. There are many different types of power armor waiting to be discovered, but here we will cover the most common types available to player characters.
Name | AC | Max DEX | Penalty | Speed | STR | RR | DR |
T45-d(1) | +7 | +0 | -6 | 20 | +2 | 4 | 4/- |
T51-b | +7 | +1 | -6 | 20 | +2 | 4 | 5/- |
Advanced(2) | +8 | +2 | -4 | 25 | +4 | 5 | 5/- |
Tesla(3) | +8 | +2 | -4 | 25 | +4 | 6 | 5/- |
Salvaged(4) | +6 | +0 | -6 | 20 | +0 | 0 | 4/- |
(1)Due to the less advanced servo-motors in the T45-d armor, it is not as agile as later models and imposes a –2 penalty to DEX
(2)The stabilization gyros in the Advanced Armor grant the wearer a +4 bonus to resist Trip and Bull Rush attempts
(3)The energy dampening eguipment installed in this armor adds greater protection against energy weapons, increasing its DR to 6/- against energy-based attacks
(4)Salvaged Power Armor does not require the Power Armor Training feat to wear
While the T-45d armor is similar in its overall shape to the more advanced T-51b power armor, it is significantly less advanced than its later counterpart, and uses riveted steel plates instead of plastic composite materials in its construction. Various electronic and mechanical subsystems of the armor are exposed on the outside of its casing rather than sealed within as in the T-51b, making it far more susceptible to damage. In addition, a specialized body suit is required to be worn underneath the T-45d's armored shell in order to facilitate linking the armor's servos to the wearer's own motions and to make the armor more bearable because of its heat dissipation problems.
The T-51b Powered Infantry Armor represented the peak of armored infantry technology before the Great War. The armor is fitted with a back-mounted TX-28 MicroFusion Pack which generates an output power of 60,000 Watts to power the HiFlo hydraulic systems built into the frame of the suit. Made of a poly-laminate composite, the outer shell of the T-51b is lightweight and capable of absorbing over 2500 Joules of kinetic impact. The 10-micron-thick silver ablative coating can reflect laser and other radiation emissions without damage to the composite subsurface. The armor usually carries enough fuel to last for one hundred years. Now, only the most technologically advanced factions with ties to the pre-Great War American military or federal government, such as the Brotherhood of Steel or the Enclave, have access to this type of Power Armor.
Advanced Power Armor
The armor was created by the Enclave's skilled team of engineers and scientists after the Great War, as a result of a research program initiated in 2198, part of a larger project to develop various technologies. It is composed of lightweight metal alloys, reinforced with ceramic castings at key stress points. The motion-assist servo-motors used in the armor appear to be high quality models as well, giving the wearer even greater strength. The suit has an auto-gyro system to keep it upright and the knees can be locked in position, to prevent the wearer from falling over, if, for some reason, he loses consciousness on duty (e.g. takes a nap). Additionally, like the T-51b Power Armor, it includes a recycling system that can convert human waste into drinkable water, enhancing survival.
Tesla Armor
Tesla Armor is a name given to various kinds of armor designed to protect against directed energy attacks. They were constructed from plans left behind by Nikola Tesla that were confiscated by the US government after his death. The most common version found in the Capitol Wasteland is a variant of the Enclave's post-War Advanced Power Armor Mk II jury-rigged with a Tesla device that is capable of dispersing a large percentage of the damage done by directed-energy attacks
Salvaged Power Armor
It is possible to strip down a suit of power armor in order to make it accessible to those who lack the proper training. The main differences from regular T-45d power armor are its lack of the original shoulder pauldrons, and parts missing from the legs. Essentially this is a suit of metal armor made from the scaps of a damaged suit of power armor.


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So, sometimes it's got to be done. Just make sure you know these super money saving facts before hunger and hurry blur your senses...
Value for money?
- Loo roll- It's all in the thickness, not the cheapness. Penny pinching goes too far when you're using three times as many sheets and getting through a pack of 12 a week!
- 2 for £2- Before you throw two bags in the trolley have a look at the original price and work out how much you save- it's usually not much more than 20p, and would you have brought two without the offer?
- Fruit/veg multipacks- Loose veggies (by kg) actually work out cheaper and save on wastage, especially if you only buy that 3 pack of peppers for the red ones!
- Look closely- Did you know supermarket shelves are arranged so that brands and luxury range items are at eye level and the cheaper range stuff is on a lower shelf? You are less inclined to bend down for a less attractive pack of 'you'd butter believe it'- even if the contents taste the same!
- Group shopping- Instead of having 5 milks, 4 loaves and a load of rotten fruit, club together for the basics! Or create a joint bills kitty for food/toiletries?
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Fish fingers (x10) | 65p | £2.00 | £1.35 |
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Kiribati, Micronesia |
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Kiribati is a country in Micronesia at latitude 0°00′00″ North, longitude 170°12′00″ West.
About Kiribati
Kiribati is located in Oceania, spanning over 3.5 million km², mostly sea. The landmass is only about 811km². There are 32 atolls and 1 separate island. About 100000 people live there. What is somewhat important for mappers: Kiribati may be the first country to disappear due to sea level rise.
More about Kiribati on Wikipedia.
Users interested in mapping Kiribati: User:edvac, User:Quarksteilchen, User:makauro, User:Kiribati, User:SonoCrasheR
Users located in Kiribati:
Data Sources
Already Used Data Sources
- Bing Aerial Images are available for a good portion of the islands
- Mapbox Aerial Images are available for even more islands, but slightly lower quality
Possible Data Sources
- Department of Ordnance Survey (DOS) triangulation maps, found on wikipedia.
- Local with Walkingpapers for POIs and other details.
- Ask map copyright holders.
Kiribati-specific features
The heart of any Kiribati community is its Maneaba or meeting house. The maneaba is not just the biggest building in any village; it is the centre of village life and the basis of island and national governance.
There are also church maneabas that belong to its corresponding church, that are usually near to each other. And there are sometimes maneabas inside the schools.
A traditional maneaba is an imposing structure, with slabs of coral supporting a huge roof formed from coconut wood, held together with coconut string and thatched with pandanus leaves. The whole community is involved in its construction, and every aspect of the maneaba has a symbolic as well as a practical function.
But nowadays, many maneabas are constructed with concrete, and the roofs with corrugated metal.
Mapping a maneaba from aerial imagery
Spotting a maneaba when using imagery is normally easy, as you will see a big rectangular building that seems to have an inner roof inside the outer roof. This is due to the way the entire roof is built, as you can see in the image above. Be aware that many maneabas are nowadays built with industrial materials, using corrugated metalic material for the roofs.
Following is a collection of different maneabas around the islands of Kiribati:
Tagging of maneabas
As they are centres of a village life, maneabas should be tagged as:
name=* (in case you know it. Please, avoid name=maneaba)
operator=* (in case you know who operates it)
In the case of church maneabas, they are still quite a community centre. But in the case of school maneabas, they should be tagged as just another building of the school: building=school
Coral atoll
All islands in Kiribati are coral atolls. A coral atoll is a coral reef including a coral rim with cays (sandy islets) that encircle a lagoon. Some atolls in Kiribati don't have lagoon (like Arorae and Tamana in the Gilbert Group). But the majority of atolls do have a lagoon, that usually connects with the coral rim through the spaces between the islands and islets that conform the atoll. Some atolls like Kiritimati (Christmas Island) have one or more lagoons that are completely surrounded by land.
Some of the islets and islands are connected each other through bridges or causeways.
For the tagging of an atoll we will consider an atoll that has a lagoon conected to the sea in different points, and a completely enclosed lagoon inside one of the islands of the atoll, with a small islet inside it. Islands have beaches, forests and residential areas.
The proposed tagging of the whole atoll would be as follows:
Trace the coral reef, and tag it as
If there are parts where there is no reef, that means, stretches where the open sea enters freely to the lagoon, just connect one end of the reef with the following with a line.
In case the reef surrounds all the atoll in one single line, add the following tags to the reef:
name=* Name of the atoll
In case the reef consists of several lines, put all of them and the connecting lines between them in a relation:
name=* Name of the atoll
Role is 'outer' for all the members.
The perimeter line of each islet or island would be tagged in general as:
Remember that the coastline has to be traced with the sea to its right.
But to properly trace beaches, forests, residential areas, etc, we have to do it using multipolygon relations.
This means we will have to cut the coastline in several parts, unless a beach or forest surrounds all the island.
Then, we collect all the lines of the coastline in one relation, as follows:
name=* Name of the island in its original language, if you know it
Needless to say, the members of the multipolygon have to be all the parts of the coastline that conform the island, with role 'outer'.
With this tagging schema, we can now reuse any parts of the coasline for beaches, forests, etc. For a beach, it would be a relation like this:
name=* Name of the beach, in case you know it
Finally, a lake inside one island should be tagged as natural=water or natural=wetland, depending on what it is. If you have an islet inside that lake, then you would have to map it as a relation of type=multipolygon, with the perimeter of the lake as role=outer, and the perimeter of the islet as role=inner.
Mapping progress
Island Group | Name | Bing | Progress | Notes | Location |
Gilbert Islands | Abaiang | yes | 75% | roads, atoll, buildings | N1.85° E172.94° |
Gilbert Islands | Abemama | yes | 70% | roads, some buildings, some pois | N0.34° E173.86° |
Gilbert Islands | Aranuka | yes | 65% | roads, some buildings | N0.16° E173.61° |
Gilbert Islands | Arorae | yes | 80% | buildings, some POIs | N-2.64° E176.82° |
Gilbert Islands | Beru (Island) | yes | 65% | roads, some buildings, names | N-1.33° E175.98° |
Gilbert Islands | Butaritari | yes | 40% | main road, some features | N3.16° E172.79° |
Gilbert Islands | Kuria (islands) | yes | 85% | roads, buildings, names, features, correct atoll | N0.26° E173.39° |
Gilbert Islands | Maiana | yes | 60% | main road, some buildings, names | N0.92° E172.99° |
Gilbert Islands | Makin (islands) | yes | 25% | airport, lake | N3.38° E173.00° |
Gilbert Islands | Nikunau | yes | 65% | roads, some buildings, some features | N-1.36° E176.46° |
Gilbert Islands | Nonouti | yes | 60% | main road, some tracks, some buildings | N-0.69° E174.40° |
Gilbert Islands | Onotoa | yes | 65% | roads, buildings, features, atoll problem | N-1.86° E175.56° |
Gilbert Islands | Tabiteuea | yes | 65% | main road, some buildings, features, atoll problem | N-1.32° E174.87° |
Gilbert Islands | Tamana | mostly | 65% | streets, some buildings | N-2.50° E175.98° |
Gilbert Islands | Tarawa | yes | 70% | nominatim n.f.!!! road tracks buildings, atoll problem | N1.42° E172.98° |
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Line Islands | Caroline Island | mb part | 5% | nominatim nf, PGS only | N-9.95° E-150.21° |
Line Islands | Flint Island | mapbox | 95% | uninhabited, correct atoll, lakes, features | N-11.43° E-151.82° |
Line Islands | Kiritimati (Christmas Island) | yes | 75% | N1.95° E-157.47° | |
Line Islands | Malden Island | mapbox | 90% | uninhabited, a-bomb tests, features | N-4.02° E-154.93° |
Line Islands | Starbuck Island | mapbox | 80% | features, ruins | N-5.64° E-155.90° |
Line Islands | Tabuaeran (Fanning Island) | yes | 70% | main road, some buildings | N3.88° E-159.33° |
Line Islands | Teraina (Washington Island) | yes | 85% | roads tracks buildings | N4.68° E-160.38° |
Line Islands | Vostok Island | no | 5% | nothing, not even landsat. | ~N-10.1° E-152.4° |
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Phoenix Islands | Abariringa (Canton Island) | yes | 80% | roads tracks buildings, nominatim nf | N-2.81° E-171.68° |
Phoenix Islands | Birnie Island | mapbox | 40% | mapbox, lake, woods, uninhabited | N-3.58° E-171.52° |
Phoenix Islands | Enderbury Island | yes | 35% | woods, uninhabited | N-3.13° E-171.08° |
Phoenix Islands | Manra Island (Sydney Island) | yes | 70% | lake, woods, uninhabited | N-4.45° E-171.24° |
Phoenix Islands | McKean Island | mapbox | 90% | mapbox coastline, shipwreck, ruins, uninhabited | N-3.59° E-174.12° |
Phoenix Islands | Nikumaroro (Gardner Island) | mapbox | 90% | mapbox coastline, natural, features, uninhabited | N-4.67° E-174.52° |
Phoenix Islands | Orona (Hull Island) | yes | 20% | coastline, uninhabited? | N-4.51° E-172.19° |
Phoenix Islands | Rawaki Island (Phoenix Island) | mapbox | 20% | coastline, uninhabited | N-3.72 E-170.72° |
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Banaba (Ocean Island) | mapbox | 65% | streets, areas, inhabited | N-0.85° E169.54° |
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By Charlotte Lee on May 20, 2015
If you're going to have even the slimmest chance of standing out in a crowded marketplace, it's essential you have a solid understanding of who you are, what you do well, and how to brand and differentiate yourself.
On the most basic level, differentiation is your ability to be memorable. And memorable is hire-able. Think about it this way: After you've had your interviews and walked out of the room, what will people remember? They'll remember that the procurement guy was a former Navy officer, that the banker with the blond hair is fluent in Madarin, that Roger was a Rhodes Scholar, Aisha is a designer (but a lawyer by training), Rob is an Eagle Scout, Karen is an MBA, CFA and CPA, and Peter is a Master Black Belt in Six Sigma. These are all great differentiators—making these candidates unique and stand out from the crowd. And that's a good thing, given that this is a buyer's market, where employers can frankly get exactly whom and what they want in an employee.
So what will people remember about you? The things that make you memorable—the things that make you uniquely "you" and define your personal brand. Your personal brand is made up of three distinct components, which, together, I call your inventory.
- Your skill set. Identifying your skill set is pretty easy. Come up with a detailed list of everything you actually do—all of your skills. Do you manage people, analyze data, reduce costs, streamline processes, generate revenue, develop strategies, or market products? Great, write it down. And don't limit yourself to this list, so think about all of your skills—even those you may not think are business related.
- Your operating style. To help you describe the way you work, ask yourself these questions: are you collaborative or dictatorial? Do you work better alone or on a team? How do others perceive you—whether they are junior or senior to you? What would your last boss say about you? What do you think you're known for? Are you the go-to person? Are you a problem-solver?
- Your personal style. While this component of your brand is deceptively simple, many have a hard time identifying it. Are you formal or informal? Conservative or a risk-taker? Extroverted or introverted? The old HR adage goes like this, "can do, will do, fit." This is the "fit" part. Companies want someone who'll mesh seamlessly with their existing structure and culture.
Overall, your brand should reflect a distinctive combination of skill sets or something unique about you that the company you're interviewing with needs or will find compelling. You don't know what may stand out, so be prepared to share a few things that with help you connect and set you apart.
Charlotte A. Lee is a Senior Vice President with Lee Hecht Harrison, the largest outplacement firm in the world. She coaches senior executives from all industries with a focus on financial services, legal, pharma and consumer. This article is adapted from her book, "Bring a Dead Mouse: The Secret to Finding Your Perfect Job," published by B.A.D. Mouse Publishing, Inc. in 2014. Visit www.BringADeadMouse.com. For career insights and advice, connect with Charlotte on LinkedIn.
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Fathers in books, like fathers in life, come in many types, each with valuable lessons to share. Here are my favorite dads in literature and why:
1.Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. There are so many reasons to admire this calm, thoughtful, supportive and loving single dad as drawn so brilliantly by Harper Lee in her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, and beautifully reproduced on both the Dallas Children's Theater, Dallas Theater Center and Casa Mañana stages. The challenge is to focus on just a few. Here goes: Atticus is the epitome of showing rather than telling. He shows his children by example the importance of standing up for what is right, even when it costs him popularity in his community. He shows compassion both for those who have wronged him and for those in need, who can only afford to pay him in the crops they raise. He shows his children that he expects them to do the right thing even when others wrong them as well. When his son, Jem, angrily cuts the tops of the flowers of their elderly, angry, racist neighbor who says nasty things about Atticus and others, Atticus not only makes him apologize, he makes Jem read to her several hours every day. That's how Jem learns that one of the reasons for Mrs. Dubose's temper is that she is battling to rid herself of her morpine addiction before she dies. As with Atticus' ongoing kindness to the Radley family, which results in an unexpected blessing for his family, Atticus shows that you can stand up against those who are wrong without judging or demeaning them.
2.Hugo's father in The Invention of Hugo Cabret. I know, we don't see much of Hugo's father in this wonderfully inventive Caldecott winner by Brian Selznick, whom I interviewed most recently last year before his film screened at the Nasher Sculpture Center. But this kind dad, who loved and encouraged his son and taught him the skills he needed to repair the automaton they worked on side by side, gave Hugo the confidence and tools he needed to persevere after his father's death. Also, this is really a story about two remarkable dads -- Hugo's biological dad and the dad who eventually adopts him, Georges Méliès, who provides Hugo with the support and love he needs on the rest of his journey to adulthood.
3.Mr. Murry in A Wrinkle in Time. How can you not love a dad who nicknames his daughter, Meg, Megaparsec? Meg's drive to find her father and her belief that her father is out there and has not abandoned her and his family drives Madeleine L'Engle's Newbery Medal-winning tale, which received an electric and inspiring production by Dallas Children's Theater this season. This is a dad who is proud of having a smart daughter and who believes in her strength. His instinct is to protect her, but not at the expense of admiring her and acknowledging that there are things she can do that he cannot.
4.Trixie's dad in Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale. From the sublime to the deliciously ridiculous, this Caldecott Honor winner by Mo Willems shows dad as a pair of legs walking with tiny Trixie. This very human dad's flounders and foibles are very much modeled on Willems' own, as the author/illustrator told me before Dallas' 2010 USA Film Festival's KidFilm Festival. While the dad in the book is far from perfect, in fact he just may have played a role in the loss of the beloved Knuffle Bunny. But he is a father determined to rectify his mistakes and nothing will stop him from getting Knuffle Bunny back. That brings him to the top echelon in my book!
5.Horton in Horton Hatches the Egg. Dr. Seuss' faithful elephant is one of the greatest dads of all time and one, I have to say, whose steadfast faithfulness reminds me the most of my own late dad, Douglas Churnin, who died Nov. 1. Be assured, my hard-working, devoted, loving mom is no Mayzie, a bird who convinces Horton to sit on her egg while she takes a short break. But my dad, like Horton, could never do enough for those he loved and we often joked that if he could have borne the babies for my mom, he would have done it gladly. In Dr. Seuss' story, Horton refuses to leave the nest even when Mayzie does not come back as she says she will, even when he is laughed at by his friends, captured by hunters and put in a traveling circus. He refuses to leave even though as everyone points out to him, it is not even his egg. But when the egg hatches, the baby is an elephant-bird with wings -- a beautiful metaphor to the way that loving dads can give their children wings to achieve their dreams. And, well, I can't think of any paraphrasing that improves on Dr. Seuss' own ending: "And it should be, it should be, it SHOULD be like that! Because Horton was faithful! He sat and he sat! He meant what he said/And he said what he meant.../And they sent him home/Happy,/One Hundred per cent!"


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This selftitled album is the twelfth studio album from Genesis. It�s a step
forward from the below average Abacab album from 1981 which IMO will always
stand as one of the weakest Genesis albums. There are a few enjoyable songs on
that one but not many. Genesis is a much better album and I was actually very
surprised how much I like this one now as opposed to how I felt about it ten
years ago when I was first introduced to it. It seems my taste has changed. The music is similar to the music on Abacab in the respect that this is basically sophisticated keyboard dominated pop music and not progressive rock. There are progressive tendencies in some songs but pop music it is. The drums have a more artificial sound on Genesis as opposed to Abacab but it�s not a big problem IMO. The album starts with Mama which is a slow building song that has lots of power and some intriguing keyboard moments. Phil Collins sings with lots of emotion on this one. That�s All is one of the semi-ballad songs on that album and allthough it�s not my favorite here it�s still a well composed track. Home By the Sea and Second Home By the Sea which is basically one song as the first seques into the latter is the best song here and one of the best Genesis songs with Phil Collins behind the mike. Beautiful song lines that moves me and intriguing arrangements. The second part has a good instrumental part. Illegal Alien is a silly song where Phil Collins sings with spanish accent and makes fun of Illegal Alien clich�s. I can�t say I enjoy this song much. The music isn�t that interesting either, but on the other hand I was never much into happy songs. Taking It All Too Hard is the second semi-ballad on the album and the best song here in that style. It�s commercial but still beautiful IMO. Just A Job To Do is a good rocker ( well as much rock as Genesis is). Silver Rainbow is another great song with a good melody line. I�m reminded of ...and Then There Was Three. It's Gonna Get Better ends the album as the third semi-ballad on Genesis and probably the worst. I�m not too impressed. The musicianship is great. The two dominant features on this album is Phil Collins voice and Tony Banks keyboards. The drums are pretty trivial and Michael Rutherford�s efforts are overshadowed a bit by the two other gentlemen�s. His playing is of course good as always though. The production is pretty warm for an eighties album even though the drums have a strange electronic sound. Genesis is a good album and not at all the disappointment I remembered. This will never be as good as seventies Genesis material but less will do and this album fully deserves the 3 big stars I�ll rate it.
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Old Hampshire Mapped |
Cary's New Itinerary, Hampshire 1815Notes byMartin and Jean Norgate: 1999 |
Contents |
Introduction | ||
Transcriptions; Hampshire parts of Cary's Itinerary, and general sections. | ||
General map of England and Wales. | ||
Gazetteer, place names. | ||
Road diagram derived from the itineraries. | ||
Ogilby's influence on Cary's roads. | ||
Index to market towns, etc. | ||
John Cary. | ||
Other maps. | ||
Introduction |
These notes and transcriptions are made from:-
Cary, John: 1815 (6th edn): Cary's New Itinerary: (London)The copy of the itinerary used in this study is in the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museums Service, item:- HMCMS:B1990.1794The copy has been cheaply rebound at some time in its life; and this is falling to pieces. The page size is about 12x19cm. REMEMBER: Except in the introductory pages, only material relevant to Hampshire has been transcribed, including a few places round the edge of the county which are included as they are useful points on routes; data ignored is NOT indicated by ellipsis. Marginal notations against each section have been added by us, they are not in the roiginal. Sections are presented in the order they appear in Cary's book, except where noted. |
John Cary |
John Cary was born about 1754, wa an engraver and publisher,
and died 1835. He set up in business as engraver, map and
print seller, corner of Arundel Street, 188 Strand, London,
about 1783. In 1791 he moved to 181 Strand, wher he
remained until his premises were destroyed by fire, 17
January 1820. He then moved to 86 St James's Street where he
was joined by George Cary soon after this date. |
References |
Box, E G: 1932=1935: Hampshire in Early Maps and early
Roadbooks: Hampshire Field Club: XII: pp221-235 Cary, John: 1815 (6th edn): Cary's New Itinerary: (London) Fordham, H G, Sir: 1925: John Cary, Engraver, Map, Chart and Printseller and Globe Maker: (Cambridge) |
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The Yoast SEO Plugin by Joost De Valk is the most robust WordPress SEO plugin out there, but it must be setup and used properly if you want the best results for your WordPress SEO.
You can break Yoast down into 3 steps: configuring the Yoast SEO settings (while adding AMP Pages to make your mobile site load faster), researching focus keywords, and creating optimized pages with the help of green lights. I will also show you how to fix crawl errors (broken pages) and optimize your website with rich snippets and Google Search Console.
This is a COMPLETE guide to Yoast SEO. If you don't have Yoast go to plugins → add new → search Yoast SEO → install/activate. If you already have Yoast, make sure it's updated to the latest version since they constantly update this plugin. Leave a comment if you have questions and if you like this tutorial, check out my guide on optimizing WordPress with Search Console.
2. Titles & Metas
3. Social
4. XML Sitemaps
5. Advanced
6. Tools
7. Search Console
8. Go Premium
10. Import The Same Yoast Settings I Use
11. Focus Keyword Research
12. Green Light Optimization
13. Anatomy Of A Perfectly Optimized Page
1. Dashboard
Company Info
Webmaster Tools
Verifying Webmaster Tools
- Sign up for Google Search Console (Bing/Yandex have same process)
- Select the "HTML tag" verification process
- Copy the code and paste into the Google Search Console field
- Delete everything outside of the quotations (including the quotations)
- Save changes in Yoast
- Click "Verify" in Google Search Console
- Repeat for Bing and Yandex (Russia's largest search engine)
- This will help you fix crawl errors (broken pages) using the Search Console tab, as well as many other optimizations you can make with Google Search Console (full tutorial)
Noindex – means you're choosing not to index (publish) something in search engines.
2. Titles & Metas
Force Rewrite Titles
A common issue with Yoast is duplicate sitenames in the SEO title. To see if this is happening to you, open your site and hover over the browser tab to check for duplicates (photo below). Enabling force rewrite titles can fix duplicate sitenames, but it's not preferred according to Yoast since it can slow down your site. The preferred solution is to go to Appearance → Editor → Header.php and delete everything between <title> and </title>, then replace it with the code below. When done, make sure the duplicate is gone (by hovering over the browser tab).
<title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>
Post Types
Custom Variables – the templates above are only used if you DON'T write custom SEO titles + meta descriptions (which you should do for each page/post). While there are other templates you can use, the one from the screenshot "Page Title – Sitename" is generally the best. This would read: The Ideal Yoast SEO Plugin Settings – Online Media Masters. An excerpt is simply an optional summary or description of a post taken from your content. The templates should not matter as long as you're writing your SEO titles + meta descriptions, which you should.
Meta Robots – whether something is indexed in search engines
Date In Snippet Preview – enabling this shows each article's publish date in search results. This can increase click-through rates for new content, but can decrease it for old content. You can include the "Last Updated" date in the very top of your posts (like I do) to make Google show this date instead, which will be more current than the publish date and keep CTRs up.
Last Updated
Yoast SEO Meta Box – this is the content analysis (meta box) that helps you optimize content. You definitely want this for pages, posts, and blog category pages if you're optimizing those.
Noindexing tags prevents duplicate content penalties where the same content is on two pages.
Subpages Of Archives – if you have content where a "next" button is used to get to /page2 then you want the FIRST page to appear in search results (not the second). Keep this checked.
3. Social
Filling out Yoast's social settings helps Google learn about your profiles, but the main thing is enabling each social network's meta data. This allows you to upload custom graphics to each page/post which makes it's image thumbnail format properly when that page is shared on social media. This is what Facebook Open Graph, Twitter Cards, and Google+ meta data does.
You will need to complete a few additional steps to verify your site with Pinterest.
Social Media Optimization – once meta data is enabled for each social network, you can upload custom social media images in the content analysis section using the "share" link (see below). This makes the content's image thumbnail format properly when that page is shared on social media. Yes, this means you will need to create 2 separate graphics for each post.
- Facebook Image: 1200 x 628px
- Twitter Image: 1024 x 512px
4. XML Sitemaps
Submitting Your Yoast Sitemap To Google
- Go to SEO → XML Sitemaps
- Click the XML Sitemap button (see photo above)
- Copy the last past of the URL: /sitemap_index.xml
- Login to Google Search Console
- On the left, go to Crawl → Sitemap
- Paste the last part of the URL (screenshot below)
- Test and submit
- Repeat for Bing and Yandex
Post Types
Excluded Posts
5. Advanced
Breadcrumbs – this is the navigation text that appears at the top of your content:
It helps users and search engines learn your content and site structure. I don't use breadcrumbs to prevent clutter, but I recommend them if you don't mind the extra text. To enable breadcrumbs, add this code to Editor → Index.php by pasting it under get_header();
get_header(); ?>

<?php if ( function_exists('yoast_breadcrumb') ) {
yoast_breadcrumb('
','
');
} ?>

Strip The Category Base From The Category URL – if your permalink structure has the word "category" in it (not preferred), this will remove it. Removing it can cause many of your URLs to change, so setting up a 301 redirect for each URL this affects is a good idea. However if the URLs have lots of traffic and links, it's probably best you leave them and NOT enable this.
Redirect Attachment URL's To Parent Post URLs – if people happen to find an image URL, PDF URL, or any file you upload to WordPress, enabling this will redirect visitors who find that file URL to the parent post URL (they will be redirected to the actual page it was uploaded to).
Remove Stop Words From Slugs – stop words are words like the, a, and, how, why… and other non-descriptive words you may not want included in your permalinks. While you may want to shorten permalinks to be more SEO-friendly, I do NOT recommend leaving this up to Yoast since it can make your permalinks read funny. Instead, I would do this on a page/post basis.
Remove The ?replytocom Variables – removes these types of URLs: http://yoast.com/user-contact-fields-wordpress/#comment-110294 which is good since it prevents duplicate content and improves search engine crawling efficiency. This Moz thread explains it well.
Redirect Ugly URL's To Clean Permalinks – if people use an incorrect letter or parameter when linking to you, this tries to redirect people to the correct URL, but is not recommended.
In your RSS feed, here's what will appear before each post…
And here's what will appear after each post…
6. Tools
Bulk Editor – edit SEO titles and meta descriptions in bulk (without having to go through each individual page/post). Making sure these ready nicely can significantly increase click-through rates by making your snippets more appealing to click on. Don't forget to include that post's focus keyword in both places. SNIPPETS ARE LITERALLY THE FOREFRONT OF YOUR SEO!
File Editor – edit robots.txt and .htaccess files.
Import And Export – import my recommended Yoast SEO settings or export your own Yoast settings to use on other websites you manage. If you're currently using another WordPress SEO Plugin, use the "Import From Other SEO Plugins" tab to migrate it's SEO data to Yoast.
7. Search Console
Authenticate Yoast With Google Search Console – this will show you crawl errors (broken pages on your site) so you can redirect them to the correct page on your site. This is VERY important if you ever changed permalinks, deleted pages, or migrated your website. You will need to verify Search Console in the Dashboard tab before proceeding. Once you're verified, go here and click "Get Google Authorization Code" and it will prompt you with a few steps…
Fix Crawl Errors With Redirects – after authenticating Search Console, give it a few minutes (or hours) so Google can populate your crawl errors. You will eventually see the errors (page not found, server errors, soft 404s…). You should fix ALL these by setting up 301 redirects which come with Yoast SEO Premium, or try using the free Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin…
Setup Redirects – to setup a 301 redirect using the Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin, install the plugin and go to Quick Redirects → Quick Redirects (left tab in WordPress). Enter a URL from Yoast, then enter the correct URL (the most relevant page or post on your website)…
More Google Search Console Optimizations – fixing crawl errors is just one of many ways to optimize your WordPress site with Google Search Console. I HIGHLY recommend looking through my Google Search Console tutorial to learn about adding rich snippets to WordPress, international targeting, security issues, search analytics, and other important parts of SEO. My full Search Console tutorial shows you how to optimize your WordPress site with all these…
8. Go Premium
Yoast SEO Premium is $69/year and includes a redirect manager, the option to set multiple focus keywords, social previews, and support from the Yoast team. You should learn what each of these features do (and don't do) before buying Yoast SEO premium. Here's an explanation…
Redirect Manager – use this to fix crawl errors (broken pages) from Yoast's Search Console tab. Do this by add the old URL and new URL to redirect each one to the most appropriate page. If you already have redirects from the Redirection Plugin or .htaccess, you can import these into Yoast. While a free plugin like Quick Page/Post Redirect does the exact same thing, Yoast's redirect manager will automatically setup a redirect if you ever change a permalink…
Here's how to setup a redirect…
Multiple Focus Keywords – there is a specific strategy for optimizing content for multiple focus keywords (see below). Secondary keywords are often included as partial matches which means the content analysis checklist is virtually useless since Yoast only detects exact keyword matches. It does help you keep track of secondary keywords in your dashboard so you can use those partial matches, but don't expect to get a lot of green lights. Targeting secondary keywords is more about crafting a nice title and meta description to include individual words from both phrases – rather than simply listing keywords which looks spammy.
Social Previews – as long as you're optimizing content so it will format properly when shared on Facebook and Twitter (step 13), you really don't need the social preview features. But if you like seeing what your content looks like when people share it, that's exactly what this does.
Premium Support – I have never used their support, but you do get it with Yoast Premium.
Accelerated mobile pages (AMP) are a recent Google project that make your mobile pages load faster and will add that nice "AMP" sign to your mobile snippets. This is quite easy…
- Install the AMP Plugin by Automattic
- Install the Glue For Yoast SEO AMP Plugin if using Yoast
- Add /amp/ to any page on your website to see how it looks and make sure it works
- Go to Yoast's Settings → AMP to change your design and enable custom post types
- Wait for Google to recrawl your site and add the AMP sign in mobile search results
- Visit the "Accelerated Mobile Pages" section in Google Search Console to see errors
A common issue is featured images appearing on the top of posts when you might not want them too. There is a work around for this, but it's not perfect. You can either have no featured image, or you can set a default featured image in Yoast under SEO → AMP → Design → Default Image. This will only show if NO featured image is set, but if one is, that is what will show on the top of the post. You can read Yoast's AMP guide but I basically just summed it up.
10. Import The Same Yoast Settings I Use
To use my Yoast settings, download the zip file and upload it under SEO → Tools → Import And Export → Import. This configures the settings, it does not delete focus keywords or meta data.
Download My Yoast Settings (Updated 6/22/2016)
Things You Will Still Need To Do:
- Dashboard → Company Info (use your own company name/logo)
- Dashboard → Webmaster Tools (verify each one using the HTML tag option)
- Titles & Metas → Force Rewrite Titles (see this section to learn whether this should be enabled and how to fix duplicate sitenames, also adjust 'title separator' if you want)
- Titles & Metas → Homepage (includes fields to write homepage's SEO title + meta description if you're using a widgetized homepage, or links where you can write these)
- Titles & Metas → Post Types + Taxonomies (go through these and choose whether you want to index certain content by turning "meta robots" on or off. Also choose whether you want to include "date in snippet preview" which adds the publish date to snippets)
- Social Settings → Enter URLs of your social profiles, upload your logo in the Facebook tab, verify your site with Pinterest, and enter your Google+ Page in the Google+ tab
- Advanced → Breadcrumbs → Anchor Text For Homepage (use your own sitename)
- Advanced → Permalinks → Strip The Category Base From The Category URL (if you had the word "category" in your blog post's permalinks, go back and disable this)
- Enable Breadcrumbs (visit section)
- Search Console → Settings (authenticate Yoast with Google Search Console, wait a few days for the data to populate, then fix crawl errors (visit section). See my Google Search Console tutorial for even more tips on optimizing your website with Search Console)
- Add AMP Pages (visit section)
11. Focus Keyword Research
Stop thinking you know your keywords and do the research! My method works quite well…
- Learn what people search (using Autocomplete and Keyword Explorer)
- Write down all relevant phrases so you have a robust keyword list
- Google each keyword using MozBar and filter out competitive phrases
- You will be left with high opportunity keywords you can get on page 1 for
Google Autocomplete (Initial Keyword Research)
Go to google.com and start typing what you think people are searching. Use the underline character anywhere in the phrase to have Google fill in the blank. Look for long-tail keywords (usually phrases with 3+ words) since these are less competitive and bring a more targeted visitor to your site. For example "Chicago Photographer" is broad and too competitive. "Chicago Wedding Photographer" is a longer-tail keyword. "Average Cost Of Wedding Photographer In Chicago" is an even longer-tail keyword and can be targeted in a blog post…
To see even more keywords in the dropdown, use plurals and different word ordering…
Each service (and location) should be targeted on separate pages on your website…
You can do the same thing in Youtube to learn video keywords…
Moz Keyword Explorer (Better Than Keyword Planner)
To make sure you don't miss any keywords from Google Autocomplete, use Moz Keyword Explorer which is like Google Keyword Planner only better (and free). Start with a broad phrase, run the tool, then under Group Keywords select "yes, with low lexical similarity." This prevents you from having to scroll through similar keyword variations over and over again.
HubShout WebGrader (Competitor Keywords)
To see a full keyword list for competitor websites, run them through HubShout WebGrader…
MozBar (Keyword Competition)
Now you should have a robust keyword list. The final step is to install the MozBar Google Chrome Extension and Google each keyword. The higher the PA (page authority) and DA (domain authority), the more competitive the keyword. Try to select keywords within your own DA/PA range. You can increase these by creating awesome content to get links. The best keywords are those that if you Google, weak (or irrelevant) content exists in the top results.
12. Green Light Optimization
The first step to optimizing content is researching focus keywords – make sure you do step 11 first. Then you can start creating content (or optimizing existing content) for those keywords.
There's a lot of confusion about what makes content optimized and green lights (which are mostly keyword recommendations and has little to do with it). Content optimization is about Googling your keyword and creating better content that whoever's in the top results. Yes, you want to include your keyword in the right places, but if your content is short and only consists of text and photos, maybe it's time for something different. I will walk through Yoast's green lights, just be sure to check out the anatomy of a perfectly optimized page when you're done.
Basic Rules Of Yoast:
The green light obsession – if you're copying/pasting focus keywords throughout your content to make Yoast happy, stop it right now. This article you're reading is WELL optimized (it's super useful and organized) and half my bullets are red. Stop obsessing over green lights and start obsessing over your content. Add an infographic and video to a page and see what happens.
You can only set 1 focus keyword – Yoast premium allows up to 5, but if you don't have success with 1 keyword then don't try 2. However it's not that hard (just make sure the secondary keyword is very similar to your primary) and sprinkle partial matches throughout the content. Generally, each unique keyword should have it's own page with content reflecting that phrase. Each of your services will have it's own page – sometimes multiple pages. I have separates pages for WordPress SEO Services, WordPress SEO Consulting, WordPress SEO Audit, etc.
Yoast only detects exact keyword matches – if you're using synonyms, your Yoast lights will be red (which is OK). If my focus keyword is SEO Consultant and I use SEO Consulting in the content, Yoast will not pick it up. But I can assume keyword density is higher than Yoast says.
It doesn't always have to be an exact match – there's a fine line between writing a headline that sounds good, and writing a headline so it includes your keyword. Find the right balance. Crafting a headline that people will actually click on is a HUGE part of content optimization.
Yoast only detects keywords in the main content body and search engine snippet – not the sidebars, not the footer, just those two areas. This is also good since search engines analyze content in blocks and your content body/search engine snippets are the important areas.
Focus keyword for homepage – your homepage should usually target your primary keyword. If you have a widgetized homepage you won't have Yoast's content analysis checklist (since you're using widgets). That's OK, just use the same on-page SEO strategies as the other pages.
You usually do want to target a focus keyword for these pages…
- Homepage
- Product/service pages
- Location pages
- Blog posts (non-promotional keywords)
You usually don't want to target a focus keyword for these pages…
- Contact page
- Team pages (unless their names are being searched for)
- Testimonials
- Work/portfolio
- Main blog page
Now create a page, set your focus keyword, writing some content, then see my suggestions…
Page Title – include your keyword here. If it's a blog post make sure you write a kick-ass headline preferably with your focus keyword in the very beginning of the title.
URL – use short permalinks. I shortened mine to /yoast-wordpress-seo-settings/.
Keyword Density – include your keyword in the first couple sentences and sprinkle it a few times in the content. Use LSI keywords (synonyms) instead of using the same keyword over and over. These can be secondary keywords you want to rank for. Make these sound natural.
Image Alt Text – when you upload an image to WordPress, the visual editor automatically uses the image file name as the alt text. This means you need to label images before uploading them! The file name should simply describe the image. If the image resembles your focus keyword, use it in the file name, but do NOT stuff keywords in your alt text. I can't believe how many people obsess over this when they could be investing that time into improving content.
Image Speed Optimization – you can run any page through GTmetrix to see all unoptimized images on a page. Large images need to be resized to fit the correct dimensions. If your content body is 680(w) you should be using images that are resized to 680(w). Also use a plugin like Imagify to losslessly compress your images. Images with the "specify image dimensions" error means you need to specify a width + height in that image's HTML or CSS:

Internal / External Links – use a few links on your page. Google likes this and as long as you're actually linking to helpful resources (I'm not talking about Wikipedia), then visitors will also find this helpful. Internal links are good because they keep people on your site and are a natural way to build links, but you will need a good amount of content for this. External links are good because they're like citing sources for the article, which Google likes. Both are good.
Yoast suggests internal links for you (right side of your dashboard when editing a post), but you really want to think of your links as resources, and not just include them for SEO…
SEO Title – these are the blue links in search results and are the FIRST thing people see. If it's a page, don't just use "Chicago Wedding Photographer – Tom Dupuis." Use a modifier to spice up your headline so more people click on it… "Award Winning Chicago Wedding Photographer – Tom Dupuis." For posts, you can usually leave these as-is so long as your post title is a nice keyword-rich headline. Also make sure these are a decent length (bars below should be green).
Meta Description – these are the summaries below your SEO title that appear in search results. The main purpose of these is to entice people to click on your link, so you want to spend some time writing these. Your meta description should also include your focus keyword.
Post Long Content – short, crappy content doesn't rank. Long content that covers the topic extensively (especially content that includes a video or infographic), will. Google measures "average time on page" so your primary goal is to increase the "dwell time" of your visitor.
Social Media Optimization – assuming you configured the social tab in Yoast's SEO settings, you can use the "share" link (below) to upload custom graphics so your post image formats properly on Facebook and Twitter. This is a small ranking factor but it will also increase your social sharing which is excellent for SEO. And yes, this means you need to create 2 graphics…
- Facebook Image: 1200 x 628px
- Twitter Image: 1024 x 512px
Now you can share content with your awesome new graphics…
Rich Snippets – these enhance your snippets with review stars, videos, and information about products, events, recipes, and other types of data. This isn't part of Yoast but it obviously helps your SEO and click-through rates. I use the premium WP Rich Snippets plugin (here's my review of it) which has way more options and looks better than free plugins like All In One Schema.org. If you would like to add rich snippets to your WordPress site, follow that tutorial.
Targeting Multiple Keywords – I touched on this in the Yoast SEO Premium section, but here's an example. You'll want to craft your SEO title/meta description to include elements of both…
Primary Keyword: SEO-Friendly WordPress Themes
Secondary Keyword: SEO-Optimized WordPress Themes
Page Title / SEO Title: 25+ SEO-Friendly WordPress Themes For Everyone
Meta Description: Browse over 25+ SEO-Friendly WordPress Themes which have mobile responsive and HTML5 design, all of which are SEO optimized via the Genesis Framework.
Now sprinkle your secondary keyword (or a partial match of it) in your content. Your permalink should usually just include your primary keyword: /seo-friendly-wordpress-themes/. You do not need to purchase Yoast SEO Premium to target secondary keywords – just use tools like Google Autocomplete to find a secondary keyword, then sprinkle it.
13. Anatomy Of A Perfectly Optimized Page
I borrowed this from Backlinko which emphasizes why content optimization is more than "green lights." It's more about creating damn good content using infographics, videos, and creating "the ultimate guide" with a table of contents (like this post). Stop worrying so much about green lights, get off the "text and photos" route and start doing something different.
I also created a version for WordPress…
Other Tips:
- Create infographics using canva.com
- Add rich snippets to your WordPress content
- Spruce up your content using over 21 methods
- Create videos in conjunction with your content
- Configure W3 Total Cache to make your site load faster
Whaddaya Think?
I know there's a lot to configuring the Yoast SEO plugin settings, focus keywords, and optimizing content. If you have questions, simply drop me a line in the comments. And if you're looking for a WordPress SEO consultant who actually knows what they're doing, I'll be here.
See Also: How To Fix A Slow WordPress Site And Get .4 Load Times


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