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desertdollranch · 1 month

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Dolls brands I never thought I'd own, part 4: Global PenPals

Meet Amity Anderson!

This doll was a tough cookie to track down. I first stumbled across her last year while searching for a completely different doll on eBay. I thought she was adorable, but priced way too high, so I let someone else have her. When I saw her come up again recently for a lot cheaper, I lost the bidding war. When she popped up unexpectedly a third time, I managed to snap her up right away.

The first time I saw her, I was curious about her origin, since the listing said nothing about the brand, Global PenPals. I figured it was someone's small business, because it's an unfortunate truth that many, many 18 inch doll companies produce beautiful and quality dolls for a few short years and then go out of business. Because she certainly didn't look poorly made or low quality; she obviously had a lot of love put into her production. I could tell she had a really nice wig and a carefully sculpted, realistic face mold. She was meant to be more than just a toy, but a little friend as well. That's what I liked about her. She was special, rare, obscure, and unique. And as much as I love my American Girl dolls, I also love the rare and obscure 18 inch dolls that have fallen into my lap over the years through pure luck. That has turned me into a connoisseur of obscure dolls. The rarer, the better.

So for that reason I couldn't get her off my mind. I became very fixated on finding one. I did a Google search that brought up nothing but the listing for her, plus a few dolls with similar brand names, or sites for finding an actual human pen pal. But I noticed the listing photo included a picture of her box, which had the URL of the brand's website. It was defunct, so I plugged into the Wayback Machine at archive.org to see what I could find.

Keep reading for a deep dive into The Global PenPals.

(Hello to anyone in the future who might be doing a web search about this doll! I'm sure you've found little to no information. I've put everything right here for your convenience!)

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The site's first snapshot was taken in February 2011. It has a very short intro:

"This site is dedicated to children everywhere. Autumn Woods and Amity Anderson will begin pen pal corresponding with children in other parts of the world. They will learn about different living conditions and diverse cultural traditions. Will they discover that children are the same worldwide? Come along with us and see!"

None of the links on the sidebar were archived by the Wayback machine, so I looked at the next three snapshots, taken in July 2013, January 2014, and December 2014 (the final snapshot).

Now this snapshot displays a lot more content, although once again most of the site didn't get archived. The intro is more or less the same. But now we can see illustrations of the two main characters, Autumn Woods and Amity Anderson.

Clicking through the "Meet and learn more about Autumn" graphic linked to a page that had biographies for both characters.

Autumn Woods introduces herself first. She was born in October, hence her name, but she loves Christmas more. She lives in Kennewick, Washington with her parents and younger sister, and likes her school. She's athletic and loves to do cartwheels. Her best friend Amity lives in Basin City, near the farm where her grandparents live. She doesn't know a whole lot about the world outside of Kennewick, so she's looking forward to making pen pals all around the world.

Amity Anderson introduces herself next. She loves living on a farm in Basin City, and most of the other kids at her school are also from farming families, or live in the area seasonally, which has made her curious about the lives of other children of different background. Her family grows cherries, and sometimes the crops fail due to weather conditions. They also have lots of animals including dogs, cats, and cows. She has a secret hideout in the hay loft.

The next page linked at the top contains all of the pen pal letters to and from Autumn and Amity.

There are 10 pages of these letters. The first letter is dated June 11th of 2011, and the final one is dated August 14th of 2013.

Next link is Marcia's Dolls.

To sum it up, Global PenPals was started by Marcia Elovich in 2010. She had always sewn doll clothes for her granddaughter, and her husband built doll furniture. She used dolls to help schoolchildren learn more about the lives and perspectives of children all over the world. She modeled the dolls' faces on her granddaughter and niece, and hopes to introduce more dolls to the brand.

The next link is to the shop.

Only the Amity doll is being sold here. All the images are broken, but I can see that Amity cost $59.00.

The next tab, Media, is pretty much empty.

That's all that I can access with the Wayback Machine, but I didn't stop there.

I Googled Marcia Elovich and found the three Global PenPals books she has published.

These are current, no need to use the Wayback Machine. Here's the link to the list if you're curious about the books. You can click through and read summaries of each.

"About the Author" on the second and third books:

Marcia Harvey Elovich has enjoyed interacting with children in family, at school and other community settings. When she began looking forward to retirement from the local school district, she set up a website around two fictional characters, Amity Anderson and Autumn Woods, using her granddaughter and her niece as visual models for the character images she draws. Through the website, Marcia continues to story-tell to youngsters and adults alike. Amity lives on the farm in Basin City where, in fact, Marcia was raised, and she pursues many of the same interests and activities Marcia did while growing up with her best friend Linda. Autumn lives in town and attends Amistad Elementary School, where Marcia formerly worked as a para-eductor, and earlier as a nurse in the Kennewick School District. This was the birthplace of her peaked interest in interacting with children and later-in-life interest in education. Marcia has recently begun manufacturing of the character dolls and is now converting the website stories into children's books. Also within the framework of her stories, Marcia has interactions from her personal pen pals with whom she is communicating around the globe. Through contrast and compare, she can better present awareness of how alike we are from country to country, culture to culture, religion to religion. "Perhaps the next generation will be more compassionate, not merely tolerating diversity but embracing it!" she adds. In their retirement, Marcia works with her husband and sidekick Bob, marketing her dolls and his woodworked doll furniture. She has one young adult son living at home and an older son living within the community. Her daughter and grandchildren live out of state, so she has to love them long-distance. Through Bob, she has acquired a second daughter who lives in the area and a step-son living out of state. Marcia specifically wants to thank her mother and father, Bob and Kay Harvey, for providing a childhood almost as colorful as the fictional one of which she writes. They gave to her, her three brothers and many childhood friends their mentoring in an era when the village actually did help raise the children.

I also found Marcia's Pinterest profile. She has pinned exactly four images.

The first two are the illustrations seen on the website. The other two are pictures of the dolls.

This picture's caption:

"Amity Anderson if one of the first two characters at www.theglobalpenpals.com and the first to be manufactured as a doll. She is vinyl with soft body and has beautiful peach complexion, with perfect detail down to tiny doll- scale freckles across her nose. She comes in clothes as seen, turquoise tennis shoes, and the matching elastic headband on her long, tangle-free auburn hair. I designed the doll after my own granddaughter. Lovely presentation box designed solely for The Global PenPals."

This confirms that the doll I have is indeed Amity, not Autumn as I had sort of guessed. Amity is illustrated with bangs, but it seems that changed at some point in the doll's design.

I guess that's Autumn on the left? I see no indication on the site or elsewhere that she was ever sold, so it's possible she never made it past the prototype stage.

There's very little else out there about the dolls. A few pictures on Worthpoint with captions stating what I've already put here.

Amity seems to be one of those ultra-rare dolls that only a few collectors know about. After losing out on two other listings, I know that at least two other people do have one and know what Amity is worth. But I have no idea exactly how many dolls were ever produced and sold before the brand disappeared, which probably happened within three years of their debut.

I wonder if their failure may have been due to the price point, $59, which seems very low for a doll with such a nice wig, sleep eyes, a cloth body, a beautifully designed box, and proprietary clothing.

#long post #global penpals doll #amity anderson #18 inch dolls

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spnfanficpond · 11 months

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Weekly Pond Newsletter!

The year is only halfway done, and yet the US Supreme Court has made this year feel like it's going in reverse. To our non-US members, please keep us in your thoughts. To cheer us all up, have a gif of behind-the-scenes Bobby and Crowley kissing.

Old Business:

Manta Ray in the discord server! Admin Stacey was originally supposed to be in the server yesterday, but due to Life, the Universe, and Everything, had to postpone until today. If you want to come in and chat, head to the discord server in about 10 hours!

It's Fishing For Treasures weekend at the @fanficocean! In July, we're celebrating RPF stories so head on over there this weekend for some quality non-SPN actor fics! In two weeks, we'll be doing the same thing here, so if you've got some RPF fic recs for us, either submit a link via the submit button on the blog, or drop a link in the #fishing-for-treasures channel in the discord server. The deadline to submit is Friday, July 14th at midnight, Eastern US time.

Last week's #TweetFicTues prompt was:

Still working on building our own prompt generator, and what's coming out of what we have so far is WILD! How about for your #TweetFicTues you have Amara as a tattoo artist and Zeus as a chef in the 1980's with singing? Remember to tag us in whatever you write so we can RT it!

New Business:

Angel Fish Award nominations for June are due tonight! Although we accept AFA nominations all the time, the deadline tonight is to be included in the raffle drawing for prizes. Check out the prize list here. Every nomination is one entry into the raffle, and you can send in as many nominations as you want! Not sure who's a member? Click here for our member list! Nominations can be submitted via the submit button on the blog, or sent by DM to @mrswhozeewhatsis. Just send us a link to the fic and a few words on why you liked the story!

Manta Ray in the discord server! Next weekend, Admin Michelle will be in the discord server just hanging out! Wanna talk about Tumblr, writing, life, poop, or anything else? Come on in and chat! You can find the exact dates and times of Pond events on the Pond Google calendar, shown in your time zone. Or, stay tuned for announcement posts here on the blog!

Do you know about the Pond Tag Sheet? If not, you should check it out! Writers can use the sheet to find readers who want to read their fics, and readers can be added to the sheet and get notifications in their inbox of new fics they'll love.

Writers: Using the filter function in Google sheets, you can find a list of readers who want to read exactly what you're posting. Readers have to ask to be added to the list, so you know that they WANT you to tag them! There is no worry that you're bugging people, because if they don't want to be tagged, they will ask us to remove them from the list.

Readers: To get yourself added to the list, send an ASK to the blog with the following information: Your URL, if you are over 18 or not, and a list of what you want to be tagged in, organized by tab and column. For example:

Hi! I want to be added to the Tag List, please! My name is Michelle, I'm over 18, and I want to be tagged in the following: CHARACTER READER INSERTS: Fluff, angst, smut, crack, orgies, OC/OFC, Dean, Sam, John, Castiel, Benny, and Gadreel. PAIRINGS: Fluff, angst, smut, crack, all pairings. RPF READER INSERTS: none. GENFIC: fluff, angst, crack, reader insert, non-reader insert, all characters. Thanks!

(Divider by @glygriffe!)

That's all for this week! To see all Pond events, and also other SPN-related things like conventions and online concerts, check out our Google calendar! We try to keep it as up to date as possible. If there's something you want to see on the calendar that's not there (maybe a convention we missed, or cast birthdays, or something similar), send us an ASK and let us know!

Hope you have a great week! - From your Admins and Manta Rays, @manawhaat, @mrswhozeewhatsis, @mariekoukie6661, @princessmisery666, @thoughtslikeaminefield, and @katbratsupernaturalwhore!

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sa6566 · 25 days

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shwarmii · 10 months

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hi, i'm @/shwarmi, and tumblr tERMINATED MY BLOG (AND ALL MY SIDE-BLOGS WITHOUT WARNING ME) and i messaged them to get it back but idk when theyll get back to me, so here i am in the meantime, hello, i guess this is my back-up account now, yes, my url is a pun on Roman numerals, anyway, sure do fucking hope i gET MY BLOG BACK JFC

edit: i've been filling out a ticket form about Account Termination once a day (here's the link to it if you ever need help finding it for yourself in the future; please don't try to help me via spamming the ticket form or anything, they explicitly ask to not involve other people uninvolved in your account AND i feel bad enough doing spam once a day already; but, anyway, yes, i recommend doing what i did and having bookmarked the aforementioned link and just copy&paste my form answers into the ticket from a seperate document, like from Google Drive or something, so you don't have to retype it everytime), and i have recieved no reply nor even a confirmation e-mail. hence the lack of updates on how my account is doing. there's no other way to contact staff, except maybe via Twitter, as their support e-mail is no longer accepting messages (hopefully bc of the following they will be in contact with you sooner than they have been with me, bc i didnt know this following tip this past week i've been filling out that ticket and noW YOU DO, you lucky bastard. do what i did with a seperate document to prep in case this is a multi-day process, but hopefully you'll get farther in less time than i have bc jfc i wasn't even getting a confirmation e-mail beforehand big McYikes)

BUT!!1! a friend of mine who was terminated last year said to attach my un-terminated e-mail's account (aka the e-mail i am using right here for @/shwarmii, and not for the terminated @/shwarmi like i had been doing liKE A DUMMY APPARENTLY) to the ticket's general "Put your e-mail here" slot and to explain within "The more details, the better" part your original e-mail attached to the terminated account in addition to the rest of your explanation. and i finally got a confirmation e-mail that my ticket has been recieved! yes, it was just an automated response but yay! finally!! progress!!1! i at least got a fUCKING CONFIRMATION E-MAIL, HAHA, VICTORY!

god i fucking wish i knew about the "just dont use your e-mail linked to your terminated account" tip a week ago jfc on a hot dog stick, my guys, finally, a confirmation e-mail, gahhh

since i now have a confirmation e-mail, i will wait five buisness days (so today is the 8th and a Monday, therefore, i'll wait until Saturday which is the 12th except i said "business days" ergoooo Monday the 14th) to e-mail them again. i hate waiting tho ughhh like, fine, i'll do what i gotta do but also ugghhhhh

↳ additional note: this update/edit was made on 8 August 2023. @/shwarmi has been terminated since 31 July 2023 (or 30 July 2023, and i just was too exhausted to make the account/post until the 31st. i forget. i was in the middle of moving and im disabled, so i was over-exerting myself big-time. i had processed that my account had been terminated at the time and just responded by taking a nap lmao rip but yeah, therefore, it's all been a blur)

NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. COOL. (Narrator: It was not, in fact, "cool".) I WAITED AS PLANNED (this update is being written on 14 August 2023) AND STILL NO FOLLOW-UP TO MY CONFIRMATION TICKET. HATE THAT FOR ME.

instead of sending in a new ticket as i originally planned, i replied to their confirmation email since it said i could do that (for permalinks or whatever) so that they will HOPEFULLY get back to me without me having to be a pest about their automated systems, ugh.. (i have cropped out my email and the Ticket Number(? i assume that's what that string if letters and numbers are anyway) for privacy reasons, but here is what the confirmation e-mail looks like and how i replied. i am including this mostly to help out anyone who may be terminated in the future have an idea of what to expect and an expectation of "OH, okay, so i can reply to THIS email-address, got it" kind of nonsense or whatever. why not lmao)

i will wait another five buisness days, so that'll be on the 21st of August 2023. hopefully, i will update with good news before then (aka: they'll haVE REPLIED MAYBE PLS PLS PLS) but i guess i will have to be annoying if not

it is the 20th (so they have one more day before i have to be annoying anD I DONT WANNA BE.. pls send me ideas of how to be annoying that doesnt include the Hateful Xitter pls, my only idea is to DM them there and i dON'T WANNA) and even my gmail thinks the lack of response is fucked up lmao rip

having a Bad Brain Day streak rn due to my (abusive) dad's failing health and unpacking and all this other shit i have to do post-moving like switching my insurance and renewing my liscence and fuck all, so bothering tumblr about not replying to me is gonna take a bit more of a backseat for a minute, hold on

it.. is now August 30. brain still in gutter, but i forced myself to make a xitter/twitter (don't follow, ill delete the account after they help me or not). and it wouldnt let me dm, so i had to just @ them and post. brain so sad that i cannot even be amused rn that @/shwarmi on there was taken by a shwarma restaurant. @/tumblrsupport's Replies tab shows signs of helping people as recently as 2 hrs ago, but idk if there's another queue here. i guess we'll find out?? i just want my accounts with all their posts and shit back pls, this has taken so long to try to do 💔

edit: if you're curious, it is 3 Sept 2023 and i am still waiting (it looks like they are looking at people who @'ed them on Sept 1 rn and iM LIKE "PLSSSS, I @'ED YOU ON THE 30TH OF AUGUST PLSSSSSSS", gonna give them until the 5th before i tweet again i guess 🥺)

i am not god's strongest soldier. i continue to cry out for help, alas, i have yet to receive an answer

it does not help that the twitter account sometimes says to people: "What is your Tumblr URL? We can check and see if there was a glitch of some sort. But be advised that if it is a TOS violation situation or a bigger tech issue, we cannot assist/reply on Twitter" so that doesnt make me panic aT ALL that maybe i broke TOS without any form of a warning or knowledge that i wasnt following tumblr's terms of services regarding things like nsfw and whatnot (narrator: they were panicking)

i hate it here. staff should at least be able to tell me (via email, if not twitter) that i wont be getting my account back or whatever else instead of just saying NOTHING??????

going to do all this again (tweet support, make a whole new ticket (i still have the info saved thankfully), reply to my old email confirmation) on September 27th (an arbitrary date based on I Have A Lot Going On Rn) if they continue to not reply. if i hit the 30 images limit, guess ill be reblogging and adding even MORE to this thread jfc juST TALK TO MEE!!!1!

#me #shwarmi #never have i been so glad that i have a google doc of mcs and all the i.f. games theyre from &&& also #how much i screenshot from tumblr to tell me who i was following before lmao rip

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rushikshah · 5 months

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vaporweb · 7 months

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Keep the Internet Weird

Remember when the web was more than just Amazon, Google, and social media?

I miss that late 90s/early 00s aesthetic, but more than that I miss the fun, strange websites that show how creative the internet can be. Not saying they're still not out there, just that they're probably not SEO friendly and harder to find. How often does the average user type the url directly into the address bar instead of googling?

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aboutlawfirmmarketingdallas · 7 months

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firmsfinder · 9 months

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lockejhaven · 2 years

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↪ 𝚘𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 / 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟸 --- monthly summary 02

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Hello, my sprites! Here we are for another wrapup ❤︎

It's been quite a busy month full of progress and creation! I'm excited to see what I've accomplished, so let's get into it!

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𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚕 𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚜 —

➺ First of all, I created a kofi ! I’ve been more active in the community and as such, I’ve offered to help others with tumblr theme coding, WIP graphics, and more, for free! The kofi is for those of you who would like to support what I write and do ^^

➺ In a similar vein, I created a Notion template for free use; it’s a character masterlist, includes an expanded character page template, and is completely free for any notion user. (That said, Notion does offer a free premium membership for students, if you have a student email c;)

➺ This month has been a major increase in activity. We welcome 52 new sprites to the Haven, for a total of 540 members! I'm elated that so many of you are interested in my work ❤︎

➺ Along with this, I’ve reached two other milestones; 5,000 liked posts and 1,000 original posts. Honestly, I’m not too sure whether to be proud of these or not. If anything, it’s slightly unnerving to see how active I am, LOL.

➺ The writeblr list is up to 37 members and is still open to adding more! Simply fill out the form, reblog the original promo post, and I’ll tag you once I’ve added you to the Locket.

➺ North Haven Discord has reached 52 members! I’ve also worked hard to bring in new bots, reorganize realms, and allow members to share their work in a more effective manner. All writers are welcome to join, and if you do, I ask that you reblog the promo post for it!

➺ I’ve been generally more active this month, as have all of my lovely sprites! My inbox has been absolutely overflowing with asks and I’ve got plenty of tag games to work with; I’m extremely grateful for everyone’s support, and I will always get to your asks + tags.

➺ That said, I wanted to give a few mutuals a shoutout, as my community has grown quite a bit and I’ve started interacting with even more wonderful writeblrs ❤︎

@writingpotato07 @kaatiba @ink-fireplace-coffee @andromedatalksaboutstuff @aghostwriteblr @bloodlessheirbyjacques @sweetieguk @tragicbackstoryenjoyer

Each of you have been so wonderful and supportive, and I’m so grateful to have the pleasure of sharing my works with you and to get to learn about yours ❤︎

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𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚜 —

➺ I created a tag list for my writing, poetry, snippets, and more; reblog with which lists you’d like to be on! (A/N: If you want everything, you’ll be added to the ‘general’ list)

➺ Most of my writing has been fully compiled into Google Drive and Notion, with a few straggling bits of info in notebook.ai and kumu.io. This is the closest I’ve ever gotten to having everything in one, single place!

➺ All of my characters have been noted down in Notion (or, most of them) in one big masterlist; a few have linked pages, which I’ve been slowly working on expanding!

➺ Faefinder has had a major update! I made an intro, designed some covers, and even managed to post the first part! I’m still mostly in the planning stages with this one, but at the very least I have a general idea of the direction I want to go!

➺ My blog has expanded into multiple new pages, with more yet to be added! Please welcome the following to my page list…

WIP Pages A Ghost, a Quill, and a Mockingbird Angel to Mage Fable: Servant to Dragon and King Faefinder

Character Pages Archaics Inamorata StDK (Cast) Luminaries

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𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚜 —

BLORBO BLURSDAY

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Myhren & Artwyn 02 Krisdi Varalei 01

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TAG GAMES

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Find the word 03 Find the word 04 Find the word 04 (2) Find the word 05 Find the word 06 URL music tags Heads Up/Last Line 01 Heads Up 02 3 images tag (01-StDK) 3 images tag (02-AtM) Pick your poison Favorite movies Deify yourself Get to know me 02

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STORYTELLING SATURDAY

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WIP Symbols WIP Progress

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WORLDBUILDING WEDNESDAY

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The Locket: Energy

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WRITING/LORE/ART

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A Bond Broken (Repost) Midnight Banners Angel to Mage Snippets StDK: The Blade GQM: Updated Intro

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POETRY

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The War w/ Wallpatternz Refusal

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OTHER ASKS/OC ASKS

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Writing questions 01 Writing questions 02 Writer’s asks 01 Adjective asks 01 Adjective asks 02 Adjective asks 03 Fall asks 01 Flustered 01 Flustered 02 Word search 01 OC asks 01

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𝚘𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 — --- checklist

I actually managed to make progress on my goals from this past month…

➺ Progress w/ Character Library ➺ Continue answering asks ➺ Update The Locket ➺ Introduce a few more WIPs and Characters

𝚗𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 — --- checklist

Which means… I can make a list of new goals for the coming month!

➺ Complete a few more WIP + Character pages ➺ Post my favorite snippet c; ➺ Expand on character masterlist info ➺ Answer asks + tag games

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This marks a two month streak on monthly wrap-up posts, which I’m super proud of! It turns out that the motivation of seeing my progress laid out is more than enough to do this, and hopefully, I’ll be able to continue this next month as well. Once again, thank you to every single one of my sprites for the support and love; I can’t wait to see what the next month holds for us ❤︎

~ Of Fables & Feathers,

🕊️ Locke J. Haven

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@365runesofwritingg @enchanted-lightning-aes @thepixiediaries @midnight-and-his-melodiverse @perasperaadastrawriting@fearofahumanplanet @orphicpoieses @writeblrsupport [ your tag could be here… ]

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#lockejhaven #monthly wrapup #october #october 2022 #2022

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digitalarijit · 10 months

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What is SEO in Digital Marketing? Benefits & Types Of SEO

SEO

What is SEO in Digital Marketing?

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It is an organic process used to enhance the visibility and ranking of a website or webpage on the search engine results pages (SERPs). SEO aims to drive organic (unpaid) traffic for a particular’s web page/website.

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saviwebdezine · 10 months

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8 Ways for Website Optimization of Small Business

Understand How Search Engines Work

Search engines like Google and Bing use advanced algorithms to analyze millions of web pages and determine the most relevant results for user queries. To do this, search engines crawl the web and look for different elements on the page, including title tags, meta descriptions, content, images, and more. The search engine algorithm looks for clues that the website is relevant to a particular query. Websites with high scores for usefulness tend to appear in search results. As a small business owner, it’s important to understand how search engine algorithms work to optimize your website and make your site more visible to potential customers You can improve your website’s ranking by optimizing key elements of your page for search engines. Title tags and meta descriptions are two of the most important things you can modify to make your website interesting for search engines. You can also do keyword research to find the words and phrases most relevant to your business group. Also, this optimization of your URL and images will make it easier for search engines to read and rank. By adding the right text and using schema markup, you can improve your website content making it easier for search engines to understand what your page is about. Properly creating and positioning data, as well as website graphics and other elements, will help it rank faster in search engines.

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varunshrimediasolutions · 10 months

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The 12 Most Important SEO Steps for Solving Low Visibility

Introduction

A strong online presence is critical for the success of any organization in the digital age, where online competition is tough. Even with a well-designed website and great content, many businesses struggle with their search engine presence. This is where Search Engine Optimization (SEO) enters the picture. Businesses may improve their website's rating on search engine results pages (SERPs) and increase their online visibility by applying the correct methods. In this blog post, we'll look at the 12 most crucial SEO procedures for resolving low visibility concerns and putting your website back on the map.

Conduct a Thorough Website Assessment:

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Conduct Keyword Research:

The core of SEO is keywords. Investigate relevant keywords and phrases used by your target audience to look for items or services in your niche. Use keyword research tools like Google Keyword Planner and SEMrush to uncover high-volume, low-competition keywords for your content.

Optimize On-Page Content:

After you've found your target keywords, optimize your on-page content. Create high-quality, entertaining, and instructive material that naturally incorporates the chosen keywords. To make your material more search engine friendly, pay attention to meta titles, meta descriptions, heading tags, and URL structures.

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Google places a high value on the user experience. Make sure your website is mobile-friendly, easy to use, and visually appealing. A good user experience encourages visitors to stay on your site longer, lowering bounce rates and enhancing search rankings.

Build High-Quality Backlinks:

Earning backlinks from respectable and relevant websites can dramatically increase the authority and visibility of your website. Concentrate on producing useful content that other websites will want to link to. Build a solid backlink profile by collaborating with influencers, partners, and industry leaders.

Local SEO should be optimised:

Local SEO is critical if your company services a specific geographical area. Claim your Google My Business listing and give the correct business information, such as your address, phone number, and hours of operation. Encourage customers to post favourable reviews, as they can help you rank higher in local searches.

Utilize the Power of Social Media:

Social media platforms influence SEO in addition to engagement. Share your material on multiple social media platforms to boost your reach and the possibility of obtaining backlinks. Engage your audience and cultivate a loyal following, which can help you rank higher in search results.

Increase the speed with which your website loads:

A website that takes too long to load can result in higher bounce rates and lower search rankings. To improve the speed of your website, optimize images, employ browser caching, and use content delivery networks (CDNs).

Optimizing for Voice Search:

With the rise of voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa, optimizing for voice search has become critical. Long-tail keywords and natural language phrases should be used in your content to match how visitors express their queries.

Apply Schema Markup:

Schema markup assists search engines in better understanding your content and displaying rich snippets in search results. This can result in increased click-through rates and visibility. To successfully deploy schema markup, use Google's Structured Data Markup Helper.

Update and refresh the content on a regular basis:

Keep your website fresh and current by periodically updating and revising your content. Add new blog posts, modify old ones, and make sure your content is relevant and up to date.

Evaluate and Analyze Performance:

SEO is an ongoing activity, and it is critical to routinely evaluate the performance of your website. Track your search rankings, organic traffic, and other important metrics using analytics tools. Adjust your SEO strategy as necessary to maintain your visibility.

Conclusion:

Solving low visibility concerns with SEO is a comprehensive process that demands commitment, perseverance, and a well-rounded strategy. You can overcome low visibility challenges and establish a strong online presence by conducting a website audit, performing keyword research, optimizing content, and focusing on user experience, backlinks, local SEO, social media, loading speed, voice search, schema markup, content updates, and performance analysis.