When we’re healthy we never even stop to think about it, but feeling alert and energetic is a prerequisite for success in business. It’s not always so easy. Our eating and living habits work against us in this modern environment.

Recently I have been through a series of stressful personal events. I’m not complaining–merely stating a fact. The latest development was that, after feeling below par for several months, I discovered I have high blood sugar. This was a huge shock to me and I decided (typically for me) to take drastic action. I’ve been off sugar, tea and coffee for almost two weeks now. I also got my Dianna Schwarzbein books out and dusted them off. This woman is brilliant. If you’ve never heard of her, and you have any of the so-called degenerative diseases–or diseases of modern living–I highly recommend you go over to her Schwarzbein Principle website and watch the short videos posted there. In addition to the one on the home page, there are three more in the section about her. It will be so worth your time.

I’m feeling much better now and blood sugars are just about normal. So back to work.

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Blogging is a complex business. It’s not just a matter of throwing your words up on a web page and you’re done. Not by a long shot. You have to learn how to make your blog interesting and get noticed by the search engines. To make it even more complex, the SEO that you’d use for a regular website, while not totally irrelevant, has to be modified a bit for blogs, especially if they’re hosted on one of the major platforms like WordPress or TypePad. Just so you know, I use hosted WordPress, which means I use WordPress software hosted with my own personal webhosting provider, and using my own domain name.

A few days ago I came across this interesting website where the owner, Frank Carr was generously offering to do a blog review upon request. So I submitted my request and forgot all about it. Imagine my surprise this morning when I was checking my standing with Technorati (every blogger should have an account at Technorati–it’s a prerequisite), when I discovered that the review was already posted.

I feverishly clicked through to see what the verdict was. Click through to Optempo and you can read it too.

I’ve already implemented most of Frank’s suggestions, but I have yet to upload an RSS icon that would meet with his approval, and I’m wondering about removing the ‘more’ feature from my posts. I only recently started using this because I discovered that it can help you avoid duplicate content issues with the SEs. Now I’m stumped. I don’t know what to do. It’s true that they don’t use ‘more’ over at SEOmoz, but they probably don’t care about impressing the search engines as much as I do. If you have an opinion on whether or not it’s best to use the ‘more’ feature, do leave a comment and let’s all discuss it. You can do this without registering now, as I removed that requirement as per Frank’s suggestions.

Also, my choice of theme did not pass muster with Frank. I’m standing by that one Frank, I happen to like pink! I also think that visual diversity is essential on the Internet. Again, whaddya think?

I’m leaving off the ‘more’ feature now until I can nail down a decision one way or the other.

Thanks so much Frank, I really appreciate you taking the time to write the review for me. Best of luck to you!

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Seventeen-year-old Ashley ‘Ashbo’ Qualls is not your average teen. In fact, she runs a flourishing online business and has achieved far more than other successful entrepreneurs three times her age. The times we are living in have spawned a bumper crop of out-of-the-ordinary entrepreneurs.

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I’ve just been reading an interesting discourse over at Newsweek. It reminded me of a time when if you wanted to conduct a search, the only choice you had was Yahoo. Back then, no-one ever even considered that Yahoo might one day have to fight for their turf. Then, along came Google.

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I have had a terrible time in the past few days. I can’t convey the entire experience to you, but I will outline the bare bones of it. It all started when I got an email citing ‘abuse’ from my Web host provider.

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