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Search engine tips
Wednesday February 1, 2023
You have a new kennel website and now you need to people to be able to find it. You can advertise in magazines, give out business cards, buy keywords and banner ads, but these methods all cost money. Search engines offer a free method for people to find your website 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. However, there are no guarantees when it comes to search engines … if you’ll be listed, under what terms your website will be listed or what rank your website will be in the search results. You need to keep your search engine expectations realistic, there are over 2 billion websites on the internet today, that’s a lot of competition. All those websites want to be ranked #1. When optimizing your kennel website for these search engines, try not to target keywords that are too board. Realistically, you’re probably not going to make it to #1 for Labrador Retrievers or German Shorthaired Pointers, but you might make it to #1 for Labrador Retrievers in Missouri. Optimizing your website take some experimenting, but here are a few tips to help stack the deck in your favor.

Social Media vs Kennel Website
Wednesday February 1, 2023
Recently I went to log into the Gundog Central’s Tumblr account to check the social media post on that platform, but it wouldn’t allow me to login. I created a support ticket with Tumblr asking them to reset my account login, because apparently, I forgot my username and password. They sent me back an email saying my account had been terminated and that they wouldn’t be turning it back on. I was never given a warning or any notifications that my account was in jeopardy of being banned. I was left scratching my head trying to figure what I possibly could have done to get permanently banned from Tumblr. The Gundog Central Tumblr page was exclusively used to share pictures of dogs that were listed on Gundog Central, but somehow those post went against company policy!?!