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Is Soy Hot or Not?

Is Soy Hot or Not?

There are some issues that are black and white, but most issues have at least “50 shades of gray”. Including Soy. Is soy good? Is soy bad? Is soy ok? What’s up with soy? Most of the information that I have found about soy points to that soy is bad for our health. If this is… Continue Reading

Analytics Part 4

Keyword Report: This is one of the most important reports! This report will tell you what people searched for on google (and other search engines) that drove them to your site. In this case, Scott had 370 visits from search engines. From this list you can see that: 177 people searched for “scott hargis” 64… Continue Reading

Analytics Part 3

Referring sites means that Scott posted something at another site, or was mentioned at another site and had a link back to his main website. Clicking on referring sites brings us to this page. Here we see that he had 161 visits from photographyforrealestate.net, 159 visits from his wordpress.com blog, 81 from the strobist.blogspot.com and… Continue Reading

Analytics Part 2

Clicking on the map will show where people came from to your website. The first map will be of the world (03a). In this case, Scott had 794 visitors from the USA, 106 from Canada, and less in other countries. You can also see that the people from Canada spent 2x as much time on… Continue Reading

Analytics Part 1

Google analytics is a very powerful tool in analyzing your website. It can give much insight as to how people got to your site, as well as what they viewed. The analysis of analytics that appears below was written in June 2010, but it still applies today. I took a look at a friend’s google… Continue Reading

Green Beans

Green Beans

I have been craving Green Beans! When I was at one of my favorite stores (COSTCO) I bought some. Not only did I buy SOME, I bought A LOT. This bag is a 4 pound bag of frozen organic green beans. But I wanted some. Guess I’ll be having some for the next few weeks… Continue Reading

Homemade Pizza

Homemade Pizza

The question of “What’s For supper” comes up every day at our house. We need to get on track and put our menu together so that it’s planned out in advance. Then each day, we won’t be in the never ending quandary of “what’s for supper”. When we used to buy pre-packaged food, such as… Continue Reading

Shrimp Sushi

Shrimp Sushi

My boy Jacob likes sushi. But only a specific kind of sushi. Basically, the kind I make at home for him. It’s plain, and it’s easy, and he eats it. We have trouble getting him to eat other things, but he goes to town on sushi.  I’m certainly not complaining that he eats sushi as… Continue Reading

Granola

Granola

What a simple delight! I love granola. So does my family. I think we could eat a pound of granola every day. But we don’t want that going to our waist lines. So we’re limiting the kids to 1.5 small bowls per day. I’m not sure how much that is by weight; someday I’ll weight… Continue Reading