#not sure how well the ideas translate but the image description should provide a little more context if the visuals aren’t enough!

[toytle]

“My best friend. My ally, who’s saved my lives more times than I can count. And I shatter him as recklessly as I shatter our friendship.”

PROMPT: reunion + healing. leave it to barry to carry guilt for something he did in a dream (it’s not abt the dream)

@halbarrysecretsanta gift for @galaxy---ghost!

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Fancomic of a reunion between Barry Allen and Hal Jordan, page 1.

Panel 1: Barry and Hal sit atop a building, both in hero uniform except for Barry’s cowl pulled down. The city lights illuminate them from below against a starry dusk sky. Hal says, “Glad we can finally catch up with each other like this.”

Panel 2: Hal turns his head in Barry’s direction, revealing bright green cracks forming at the corner of his eye. “Must be nice to slow down for once, huh?” he says.

Panel 3: Closeup of Barry’s eyes going wide, noticing the fractures on Hal’s face.

Panel 4: Closeup of Hal’s eyes, green cracks spreading across his mask. The faint outline of his pupils glance up at Barry.

Panel 5: Barry looks stunned in return.

Panels 6-9: Sequence of the cracks spreading from Hal’s neck to his chest and arms, all the way down to his hand. Barry tentatively reaches out to place his hand on top of it, thumb rubbing the fracture on one of Hal’s fingers as if trying to smooth it out.

Panel 10: Barry turns his head away, the top half of his face cut off by the panel. “Yeah,” he says stiffly.

Page 2:

Panels 1-2: Hal is in silhouette, viewed from behind. He looks down at their hands before looking back up with a smile. “Someone’s clingy.”

Panel 3-5: The sequence of panels are outlined like cracked glass. Barry’s hand stills on top of Hal’s but he can’t bring himself to let go. He squeezes it instead. “Sorry,” he says. A close-up of his eye glances up, filled with guilt.

Panel 6: Hal looks back at Barry, the panel taking up most of the page and shattering like a broken window. In half of the shards, Hal is the same, present in GL uniform with the sky darkening behind him. In the other shards, Hal resembles the version of him from Barry’s nightmare, skin burnt and mottled with green cracks all over his body in the same place as what Barry had been seeing.

Current Hal starts to say, “You miss me that much?”

Nightmare Hal says in faint, cracked word bubbles, “It killed me, but you wouldn’t know that ‘cause you weren’t here. As usual.”

Current Hal continues to say, “C’mon, it hasn’t been THAT long.”

Page 3: Sequences of flashbacks fill the page like shattered glass. All the figures’ faces in each panel are obscured.

Panel 1: Parallax gestures with his arms out in a grandiose manner, green light swirling behind him. Barry’s narration box reads: “Hal…”

Panel 2: Barry’s Flash statue stands upright with a streak of green from Hal’s flight making a path right past him. The memory invokes the time Hal visited Barry’s statue after Barry’s death.

Panel 3: Barry looks down at his hand grimly, his whole body vibrating. Hal is right behind him, giving him a small, supportive smile. The memory invokes the time Barry came back to life with Hal comforting him as he tried to readjust.

Panel 4: Barry and Hal are sitting at a bar construct in the sky as Hal smiles at Barry with a hand on his shoulder. The memory invokes the time Hal gave Barry advice and reminded him that every second is a gift.

Panel 5: Barry’s POV of looking at his own hands, sharp-taloned and weathered by the Speed Force. His suit is singed off up to his wrists and sparks fly off his skin. Past his hands is Nightmare Hal’s dismembered body, broken up into fractured blocks. The memory invokes the time Barry shattered Hal in Knight Terrors. Barry’s narration box reads: “I could never miss you enough.”

Page 4:

Panel 1-2: Flash-forward to Hal and Barry on the roof, a close-up of Barry’s hand on Hal’s as before, except they both resemble the ones from the nightmare. He lifts his hand off of Hal’s. The panels are outlined like cracked glass.

Panel 3-5: The panels are outlined in green. Barry forces a smile, looking up at the sky instead of Hal. “You wish,” he says. The next panel zooms in on their hands which have returned to normal. Barry’s hand now sits next to Hal’s, but it’s vibrating tensely against him. A close-up of Hal’s eyes glance down at it.

Panel 6: From behind, Hal stares up ahead pensively. Barry is silhouetted, head tilted downwards.

Page 5: A series of 3 present-day panels overlay a backdrop of sequential panels. The background panels are framed like a broken window, each fracture a panel.

Present-day panels:

Panel 1: Barry’s hand vibrates tensely when it gets nudged by Hal’s pinky. Hal and Barry’s hands resemble their hands from the nightmare, with Hal’s hand fractured with green cracks and Barry’s hand sharp and weathered. A panel in the background reveals a shot of Barry looking down in trepidation at Hal’s touch.

Panel 2: Hal’s hand reaches over Barry’s hand, fingers going beneath his palm. The cracks in Hal’s hand are fading. Barry’s hand is also starting to return to normal.

Panel 3: Hal’s fingers interlock with Barry’s. Hal and Barry’s hands have fully returned to normal, without cracks or injury.

Background panels, from left to right: Nightmare Barry balls his hand into a fist before it gets swept away in a motion of lightning. Nightmare Hal’s hand is severed, the open wound blotchy, bright red, and solid without bone. The ring on his fist gradually pulls him together, veins stretching out to connect the pieces. Present-day Hal holds Barry’s hand as Barry slowly, tentatively reciprocates. The previously weathered fingers of his suit have rematerialized.

The background panels circle a cracked opening in the corner, framing a shot of Barry. He looks at Hal with wide, glowing eyes. Confusion, fear, and hope cross his face.

Page 6: A splash page of Barry and Hal sitting atop the building, angled from below. Hal holds their hands up, their knees tapping together. He smiles, responding simply, “I missed you too, buddy.”

[sarahjtv]

BNHA Chapter 310 Spoiler Thoughts: “The First and Second Holders”

Some fan translations are out and it’s time to flex some thoughts out again!  I couldn’t do them last night because I didn’t have all the scan images with me and I didn’t want to jump the gun with only text descriptions.  Anyway, this was mainly an exposition chapter that properly introduces us to the second and third OFA Holders, especially the 2nd and what his relationship to the 1st is.  This might not be as long as others “Spoiler Thoughts” I’ve written, but let’s see:

First off, we have a colored cover page by Horikoshi-sensei himself!  It’s a solo page featuring Vigilante Deku and he looks badass!  Deku looks ready to kick ass and take names.  And, his Mid-Gauntlet is colored red like a lot of us thought and it adds to the theory that Melissa Shield did create it like she did with Deku’s Full-Gauntlet back in Two Heroes.

The chapter starts in a dark and rainy night.  A large woman (she’s like maybe 10ft tall; she’s taller than All Might who I think is 7ft) with a mutant-type quirk who’s getting attacked by some civilians because they think she’s a villain.  Deku jumps in to stop the attacks and the woman explains that she was just trying to go to one of the evacuation centers at a hero school.  Deku is kind enough to give her her umbrella back and reassure her that things will be ok.  

I gotta say that this whole situation is scarily close to real life right now.  I don’t like getting too political, but we live in a scary world where discrimination is, unfortunately, alive and well...  If you are a POC, you can be attacked from anywhere with the only reason being that “you’re a danger because of the skin you were born with”. It’s horrific, it’s disgusting, and it’s been around for a long time.  Even in the BNHA universe, there used to be cults solely dedicated to discriminating against mutant-type people (we learned this back in the My Villain Academia Arc).  So, like in the real world, this problem has risen again.  Thankfully, there are people like Deku and All Might who are more than willing to help someone in need regardless of who they are.  BNHA hits too close to home sometimes.  

Anyway, going back to the BNHA story.  Before All Might leaves to help the woman in his Batmobile, he hands Deku some Pork Katsu in a cute bento box wrapped in a bunny cloth!  Deku is visibly happy and thanks All Might for the meal.  This is so cute!  I’m so glad to see that All Might is making sure that Deku is being properly taken care of.  Boy needs to eat if he’s going to save the world.  I’m also glad that Deku can still show signs of happiness despite, well, everything.  I swear, if All Might doesn’t legally adopt Deku as his son by the time this series is over, I’m going to jump into this manga and force him to sign those documents myself. 

The next panel shows Deku standing on what looks like Tokyo’s famous Sky Tree (or Sky Egg if we’re going off what Vigilantes showed us).  He’s back to talking to the OFA Holders like they’re angels on his shoulders.  Banjo talks about how it’s like the world’s reverted back in time when things were worse and Deku responds that if he doesn’t use all of OFA’s power, he’ll never be able to defeat Shigaraki and AFO.  I know we’re in the final act, so Deku’s gotta get to 100% fast if he wants to win this war.  Last we checked, he was at 45%, but he might be at a higher percentage now since he’s unlocked En’s Smokescreen.  Also, Deku’s looking more and more like Batman each chapter and I gotta say that it really suits him.

Back to the Vestige Dream back when Deku was still in a coma after the war.  The 1st Holder begs the 2nd and 3rd to corporate with him so that they can provide their power to Deku.  The 1st calls the 2nd and 3rd “My Heroes” which causes some awkward silence lol.  Neither one is responding, so Banjo breaks the silence by suggesting that Deku learn everyone’s Quirks so that he’ll get used to them once he starts using them.  We learn why the 2nd and 3rd are the 1st’s heroes soon, but it’s actually a good idea for Deku to learn about all these different Quirks while he’s sleeping so that he’ll get a good idea on how to execute them when he wakes up.  It’s kind of a way of training for Deku just without actually using the Quirks themselves.  

The 3rd Holder (the one with the spiky ponytail and headband) starts to talk.  He says that the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd came from the “Harshest era of history”.  It was a time where AFO ruled all and peaked in power and control.  He was going to take over the whole world if the first 3 Holders didn’t step in to stop him.  My guess is that after AFO was defeated for the first time, society started to calm down and become more or less the world we knew before the War Arc.  So, things weren’t as bad during the 4th Holder’s era and so forth.  This would explain why Shinomori was able to hide in the forest for so long without being detected.  

And now the big part of the chapter: the 2nd Holder.  Who does in fact look A LOT like Bakugo.  Big difference is that he has a massive scar across his face.  I am aware of the whole “time travel” theory that people have going on with Bakugo and this dude, but I’m not on that train.  Instead, I think that the 2nd Holder is one of Bakugo’s ancestors.  Like, a really, really-great-grandfather.  Horikoshi doesn’t just design his characters for no reason.  The fact that the 2nd user looks so much like Bakugo, has a costume similar to Bakugo’s, and that future panels in this chapter straight up parallel that iconic scene with young Bakugo and Deku in the river only add fuel to this fire.  Unless Horikoshi says otherwise, this is the theory I’m sticking to: this “Ancestor” theory.

And we know of the 1st user’s real name now too, which is Yoichi!  If Horikoshi is keeping up with the “numbers in names” theme, then I’m positive that Yochi has the kanji for “One” somewhere in it.  And, if we’re going to believe AFO at all, then that means that the 1st user’s full name is Yoichi Shigaraki.  We don’t know AFO’s full name yet.  But, again, AFO could be lying with his last name, so I’m taking this one with a grain of salt.

Back to the 2nd Holder, he tells Yoichi that a lot of lives were sacrificed in order to stop AFO back then.  He believes that there is only victory or defeat in battle; that there’s no hope of saving their archenemy.  He has doubt about putting his faith in Deku because of this.  Given how the 3rd Holder still has his back turned too, I’m lead to believe that he also thinks Deku is crazy for wanting to save Shigaraki.  I don’t exactly blame them.  Really, none of us know if Deku will be successful in saving Shigaraki.  He might have to kill him in the end.  I think they should offer Deku help, but I don’t blame them for being at least a little skeptical.  

But, Yoichi reminds the 2nd and 3rd users that they saved Yoichi back when AFO locked him up to die.  They found Yoichi with the intention to kill him it seems, but the 2nd Holder showed sympathy for Yoichi and lent him a helping hand despite Yoichi being AFO’s little brother.  This is the parallel panel I was talking about.  Yoichi is kneeling down on the floor and the 2nd user is standing up extending his hand to help Yoichi.  I don’t even need to look back in the manga to know what inspired this.  Hell, I don’t even need to tell you!  We all know what Horikoshi was doing when he drew and wrote this.

Yoichi convinces him that he should believe in Deku as Yoichi does think Deku will save the day.  If the 2nd user didn’t extend his hand to help Yoichi, OFA wouldn’t have begun.  I think that the trust between these two is ultimately the reason why the 2nd user finally agreed to help Deku; the same with the 3rd user too.  And, kind of a tangent, but I really like how Horikoshi draws Yoichi and the 2nd user’s hands as they’re reaching for each other.  Horikoshi has always been really good with drawing hands like they’re facial expressions (something my ass could never do 😭) and this one shows kindness and empathy.  It’s almost like what would’ve happened if Bakugo accepted Deku’s hand for help when they were young instead of letting his pride and ego get in the way.  Oh, the parallels! 

Finally, the 2nd user speaks in present day telling Deku that they’re going full speed ahead now.  My guess is that Deku’s going to have to improve on OFA and the rest of his Quirks quickly in order to find and beat the LoV.  We are in the Final Act after all.  The chapter ends at a good place if we want to switch to the UA kids, which is honestly what I’m hoping for.  Again, I love Deku and his Vigilante adventures, but I miss the rest of the kids.  The new BNHA Exhibition in Japan apparently has a giant drawing of the main class, All Might, Aizawa, and Shinso in his new hero costume!  Which tells me that 1. Shinso probably took Deku’s place in the class for the time being, and 2. We’re definitely going to see the other kids again.  I’m hoping soon.  But, I wouldn’t be surprised if Horikoshi decided to continue focusing on Deku’s Vigilanteism and have him practice with he 2nd and 3rd Holder’s Quirks now that they’re working with him.  We’ll just have to see.

So, that’s it!  Solid chapter overall.  I’m glad we finally got to see the 3rd and 2nd Holder’s faces.  I think the “Kirishima is the 3rd Holder” theroy has been debunked at this point, but I’m still on the “2nd Holder is Bakugo’s ancestor” train.  The similarities and parallels are too strong for me to deny it.  Horikoshi-sensei, please confirm or deny soon 🙏.  We are getting break next week for Golden Week BTW!  All of Shonen Jump is actually, so no One Piece or JJK either (I’m not sure about Jump+, so we might still be getting some Spy X Family for example).  So, basically all our favorite mangakas are getting a well-deserved break as they should!  I hope they enjoy their vacation!  Waiting’s going to suck tho, I’m ngl about that...  Oh well, I’m willing to take the sacrifice if it means having healthy mangka.  Thankfully, we still have the anime and the new exhibition to tide us over until then.

Edit: OR NOT SINCE THE EXHIBITION IS TEMPORARILY CLOSED BECAUSE OF A CERTAIN PANDEMIC GOING NUTS IN JAPAN AFTER ONLY BEING OPEN FOR 2 DAYS 😭 

Edit: I went back to re-read the chapter and I completely missed the date for the next chapter (chapter 311) which is set to release on May 9th!  So, we’re actually getting a 2 week break instead.  Damn...  Sucks for us, but it’s good for mangaka to get breaks when they can especially considering their absolutely insane schedule.

Me reading this chapter:

[armorsleevedsinglehit]

madara’s voice and other sundries

naoya uchida embodies madara for me. i love the way he speaks very slowly (and often softly!) and with genuine Intent, but that he also has these moments when you can hear the anger and grief and just unhinged rage in his voice, especially in his battle cries at the end of ep 366 and his screaming “you bastards killed izuna” in 368. you can just feel how powerful madara is from naoya uchida’s voice alone; you feel that he’s ancient, that he’s been through tragedy after tragedy and become hardened and bitter, that there’s this immeasurable weight behind his words. and i love that when he speaks you feel like he has all the time in the world to deliver his words (something i think that he and hashirama share, which really distinguishes them from the rest of the characters. you really get the sense that they’re from a different time).

A kind of odd thing that i debated on when i started this blog was how madara’s speaking voice would translate to written text, in a way that still felt true to his character, because there’s so much that uchida conveys with his voice that you just can’t do through text. and then there are other logistical issues as well, like, how strong of a writer is he? how is he at expressing his emotions on this blog, which is meant to be a personal space for him? i struggled with this to maybe a surprising extent, but i wanted to make sure more than anything that his character consistently gets through in the way he expresses himself. this medium, madara’s blog, is such an interesting challenge for me. madara is at most late 30s here; he’s been through a lot, but he’s not the same character that we meet in episode 322 who has died and been brought back to life multiple times. he still has that very human quality to him, which i wanted to show in the way he talks on here. you may or may have not noticed that madara doesn’t use a lot of commas, and yes, i know how grammar works; the lack of commas was a conscious choice on my part. i try to have him write mostly short, simple sentences, because he feels to me like the type of person who wants to just get to the point quickly when he’s talking about his own issues. i don’t see him as a particularly eloquent or talented writer, so it can sometimes be really hard to get across everything he feels in his heart and his mind with just his words. but it also forces me to simplify my own words and ideas, which i feel is gradually making me a stronger writer. (i have noticed myself omitting commas in my other writing, a lot of which is academic, so that’s something to watch out for lol.)

but all that aside, let’s actually talk about madara’s voice. because it’s one thing to hear naoya uchida’s voice and be like “okay, that’s really nice,” but if you’re reading a fic and madara has a piece of dialogue, what exactly does that sound like? i’d argue that finding that voice is actually super hard, especially if you just watch the sub and don’t speak japanese, because you’re not fully able to translate all the little twists and tones and inflections that uchida puts into the character. 

so you have that slow, soft voice, but it’s often got a very rough quality to it as well, both from overuse (he gets hoarse easily) and because the katon has fried his vocal chords. and at least in my headcanon he smokes (not religiously- he smoked way more during the war), so that definitely gives him a rasp, a bit of a crackling quality. but i also feel that he’s got kind of an unexpected range, partly because he’s usually speaking way down at the bottom of it (listen to naoya uchida’s regular voice; it’s much higher than madara’s!) plus quite a bit of vocal fry; he tends to purr. he’s got a voice well suited for jazz (because i adore jazz and i do whatever i want on my blog), if jazz even exists in the naruto universe. i don’t know exactly how to describe it but his voice has a sort of old-timey feel to it, the way an old radio announcer from the 1940s sounds (though possibly less excitable). the way he speaks definitely sounds like he’s from another time.

and i think he has a nice singing voice too! he doesn’t sing much, only very quietly to himself when he thinks no one else is listening, and he’s not professionally trained, but if he were to really belt it out (especially in his teenage days- before he ruined his lungs a bit) he’d have a nice, powerful, distinct voice with a bit of a growl to it. my mind always goes to oingo boingo era danny elfman, or maybe a cross between him and pete burns. (COMPLETELY unrelated side note, if you’ve ever wondered about modern au madara’s wardrobe, just look at literally any image of pete burns from the 1980s. i mean...come on.)

i also quickly want to give a quick shoutout to neil kaplan and xander mobus, who voiced adult and child madara in the english dub, because i think they both did a great job. kaplan obviously took inspiration from uchida’s performance (even though he kind of sounds like he’s got a cold the whole time) and i find xander mobus’ raspy texas drawl kind of incredibly charming. his performance (especially his little outbursts) makes me think that madara trained himself to speak in a more professional manner when he got to be clan leader, and before that, he spoke very informally- lots of “ain’t” and its equivalent. 

anyway, after all this, i am only really able to come up with descriptions and real-world approximations to what i feel like madara’s voice should sound like...but i think that’s okay, because naoya uchida provides a stunningly good interpretation, and besides that, everyone who reads the manga or watches the show will have their own interpretations as well. (i feel like i’m wrapping up a youtube video essay as i type the next sentence.) really though, let me know what you think!! do you have any madara voice headcanons that you’re dying to share? 

[yogaadvise]

7 Reasons Every Yogi Should Read `Light on Yoga` by B.K.S. Iyengar

Light on Yoga Exercise by B.K.S. Iyengar need to have a long-term position on every yogi's shelf. The publication is frequently considered the holy bible of yoga exercise, as it dives deeply right into yoga as a total spiritual method, covering every little thing from asanas to pranayama to yogic way of living guidelines. If you are wanting to expand your method and also check out the lots of facets of yoga exercise, Light on Yoga exercise is a fantastic alternative to direct you in the next action in your yogic journey.

The Life of B.K.S. Iyengar

B. K.S. Iyengar (1918-2014) is the owner of Iyengar Yoga, a style which stresses making use of props to aid in opening up the body and bringing understanding to its abilities. He is likewise credited for bringing the method of yoga to the West.

He was presented to yoga exercise at the age of 16 by his brother-in-law, Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. He forecasted that a yoga method could assist Iyengar get over a selection of conditions he experienced in his youth. At the age of 18, as he was enhancing both his physique as well as his yoga technique under the tutelage of his brother-in-law, he started to instruct yoga in Pune, India, where he ultimately started the Iyengar Institute.

His get into the West came in 1952, when he satisfied with American violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The artist was having troubles with tiredness and stage shock, and also Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru presented him to Iyengar to make sure that he can try to manage his issues with yoga. This meeting not only prompted Menuhin to become a specialized yoga exercise trainee, yet started a lifelong relationship. Menuhin presented Iyengar to artists in his circle, and one of those connections led him to author Gerald Yorke, that released Light on Yoga exercise in 1966 (that includes a forward by Menuhin). It has considering that been translated into over 22 languages, making it available for yogis in almost every country.

B. K.S. Iyengar's legacy survives on taking into account Yoga exercise, which fortunately is still consistently published and available for yogis worldwide. Whether your method covers years or you are just starting to discover yoga, Light on Yoga exercise will aid you expand your views as an expert of yoga exercise while helping you enhance your technique. The following descriptions look into the numerous factors you ought to pick up guide today.

Deepen Your Understanding of Yoga Philosophy

When many people think about yoga exercise, they consider the physical asana method-- images of individuals moving via a vinyasa or resting on their floor covering in meditation entered your mind. Even lots of people who consider themselves yogis are restricted in their expertise of what yoga exercise implies off the mat.

If you want yoga exercise to be a way of life option, as opposed to exclusively a physical practice, it is very important to understand the ideology behind it. In the very first area of the book-- before getting right into the asanas-- Iyengar covers the viewpoint, history, as well as meaning of yoga exercise. He explains on the 8 limbs of yoga as laid out by Patanjali in the Yoga exercise Sutras (consisting of the first 2 limbs, yama and also niyama), the three high qualities of gunas, the significance behind certain Sanskrit words, and so a lot more. While this may seem overwhelming, Iyengar breaks these ideas down in a simple to check out fashion, making procedure less daunting. By understanding yoga viewpoint and the concept as a whole, you'll have the ability to obtain a bigger image of what yoga exercise really stands for.

In Light on Yoga, Iyengar himself states the relevance of fully understanding yoga overall, stating:

Without company structures a house can not stand. Without the practice of the concepts of yama as well as niyama, which put down company structures for developing character, there can not be an incorporated individuality. Method of asanas without the support of yama as well as niyama is mere acrobatics.

While the physical technique is a crucial part, there is so a lot more to yoga than simply what occurs in a class. There are a wealth of teachings as well as historic lessons that can be used as well as exercised not only during an asana method, however as you go about your day as well.

Learn Proper Alignment

After covering the viewpoint of yoga in the initial section of guide, Iyengar explores the asanas. He dedicates almost 400 pages of the book to outlining poses, as well as consists of photos to aid the visitor fully understand each pose.

In Iyengar Yoga exercise, alignment is main to the method, for this reason using props to enable the body to completely experience each posture. In the physical method of yoga exercise, the placement of each position is extremely vital in order to remain risk-free and completely take advantage of the stance. The publication details each position with detailed directions, and provides specific suggestions for each position in order to guarantee you are appropriately aligned.

Expand Your Expertise on Advantages of Poses

It is equally as crucial to understand the objective of an impersonate it is to understand the appropriate placement. Together with each pose summary, Iyengar explains concerning why we exercise each stance, and what they do for both our physique and also mental wellness. By joining both placement and advantages, Iyengar paints a complete picture of each position, enabling the visitor to establish a complete understanding of their physical practice.

Develop a Safe Practice

Iyengar takes safety seriously in his yoga exercise technique. Beyond giving the visitor correct alignment signs to guarantee they are secure when practicing the postures, throughout guide he gives safety measures associated with both the asana and also the pranayama techniques, so that the practitioner is doing what is ideal for their body and also psychological state then. He even offers the reader 47 "tips as well as warns" to review prior to diving into the pranayama technique, ensuring they are fully knowledgeable about the security actions they require to take in the past tackling the practice.

Iyengar notes physical elements the specialists should know, as well as practical recommendations, such as how much time there ought to be between eating and also an asana or pranayama technique, the most effective hours to exercise yoga exercise, and also ideas for females that are pregnant. He additionally notes the difficulty of each position on a scale of one to sixty, so the reader can get a suggestion of whether the pose is appropriate for their level or not.

Develop a Pranayama Technique

Many yogis only have knowledge with pranayama on a surface area degree. You've most likely heard it stated in yoga exercise courses, yet might not know much regarding it beyond what your educator instructs.

Pranayama is the fourth limb of the 8 limbs of yoga exercise. The breathing exercises enable you to enhance your power, improve psychological emphasis, and also boost physical wellness.

In a similar fashion to the way he explains the asanas, Iyengar covers multiple pranayama exercises. He talks about just how they should be carried out, the objective of performing them, in addition to when specific ones must be prevented. By reviewing Iyengar's trainings on pranayama, you'll be able to deepen your understanding of the breathing strategies, and also create your own method beyond the yoga exercise studio.

Learn Sanskrit

If you frequently take yoga courses, you likely have actually collected a little Sanskrit vocabulary in your word financial institution. By reviewing Light on Yoga exercise, you'll be able to obtain a much more comprehensive lesson in Sanskrit.

Iyengar uses the traditional Sanskrit words for poses, viewpoint, and also ideas. When initially introducing a Sanskrit word, he offers the English translation, and also breaks down any type of substance Sanskrit words to make sure that you totally comprehend them. Nevertheless, he continues with the Sanskrit version of words as he discusses the subject, so you'll swiftly expand your Sanskrit understanding. You'll start to identify not just postures when in the yoga workshop, however additionally conventional principles as well as viewpoint as you continue in your yogic trip. There is additionally an extensive reference at the end of the publication if you need a quick refresher course on specific words.

Deepen Your Practice On and also Off the Mat

Most individuals start their yoga practice on the mat, with the assistance of a teacher in a workshop. While yoga includes a lot more than the asana method, people frequently have their yoga practice within the boundaries of a studio room, picking not to check out the many various other facets of yoga exercise off their mat.

While an asana technique is a wonderful location to begin, Iyengar allows you to discover the other areas of yoga exercise in an easy as well as available means-- all while still covering the physical practice. By reading Light on Yoga exercise, you can establish an all-round practice that includes the physical, thoughtful, conventional, and spiritual aspects of yoga.

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What are your five rules to new authors about world building? I struggle with this, as a minimalist author. And I would love suggestions on how to build a world in as few words as possible, while the description is still efficient and powerful.

Constablewrites:

Teach us about the world through the characters interacting with it. If your characters never interact with it, is it really relevant to your story?

Culture and society all ultimately derives from people--what they know about the world around them, how they survive in their particular environment, how they ensure the survival of future generations, and so on.

Conflict and tension come from limitations. Infinite and/or ill-defined power kills a reader’s emotional investment.

Don’t answer a question we haven’t asked. Context first, then explanation only if necessary.

Your reader will comprehend your world based on what they know of ours.

Personally, I think minimalism can be a good thing! New authors tend to err on the side of waaaaaay too much world building and explanation thereof. The best way to figure out the balance is to read closely. If you’re reading something that makes you feel really present in the scene, pay close attention to how they do that: the details the author chooses, the things they merely suggest or infer, the senses being evoked, and so on. And remember that contemporary literature has to world build just as much as genre stuff does; I’ve spent just as much time on a ranch as I have on Mars, so while I might be bringing more knowledge/assumptions to the table I’m still relying on the writer to make the world come alive.

Brainstormed:

Do you enjoy what you’re making? If not, let the idea lie fallow to be recycled, and ask yourself what would make you enjoy the worldbuilding again. Even if what you’re doing will never show up in your story, it’s still worldbuilding and therefore great. Just prioritize plot-relevant details, and make sure to have fun.

How different would the plot and/or characters be if this detail was changed? This question allows you to figure out the really vital parts of your world and its natural consequences in your story. The details that don’t affect much of your plot/characters are still good, as they add depth, but okay to parse down for a more minimalist perspective.

How far am I willing to ask my readers to suspend their disbelief? Can be asked of specific parts of your world, like magic systems or physics or geographical oddities, or of your setting in general.

Is this self evident? That is, does this part of your worldbuilding become foundational to the plot and/or setting in such a way that the reader understands and extrapolates without ever requiring the dreaded infodump? Not every detail has to be self evident, and in fact I don’t think every detail should be. There’s plenty of things about the real world that I would love to absorb infodumps about, but the way the sun in the sky affects my day to day life requires no context.

Breadth vs. depth, which is more a function of your plot and cast than setting. If your plot follows your characters wandering through a great deal of varying places/cultures/times/etc or a very diverse cast of different races/beliefs/jobs/etc, you’ll need a lot of distinct and interconnected settings with just enough detail to function and stick out as unique in the reader’s mind. Buckling down on a single world/culture/nation/etc to flesh out its complexities and variants will get far deeper into the why’s and how’s of your plot and/or characters, just be careful not to turn it into an encyclopedia instead of a story. (of course, you could do like me and create a lot of breadth and then murder yourself by trying to achieve depth with all of it)

Saphira:

Worldbuilding itself, and setting up the world, comes before the writing in my book. I find that chronic descriptors fall into two categories:

Those who know their world so well that they want to tell EVERYTHING. These I affectionately call the Gushers.

Those who are discovering their world as they write. The world is a mystery to them until the written word tells the writer where they are. These I affectionately call the Explorers.

I suspect you are concerned about being the former. In my gut, however, I suspect you may be the latter. Now there are different rules for each method.

FOR GUSHERS: Use Constablewrite's rules. Those rules underline what's important.

Worried you're still overboard? Count your paragraphs. How many has it been since something happened?

FOR EXPLORERS: Write as normal. Then go over it and look for the things Brainstorm mentions! Highlight them, or copy the stuff on another document.

When you get to rewriting your work, look at your notes and see what you feel is important! You've already explored, so now you can filter.

Worldbuilding in the scale that we know it is relatively new to novel-writing. (Thanks to Sci-Fi and Fantasy authors in the 1950's? Ish? Research it. Cool stuff.) That being said we're already getting really good at it. We've seen the wild phenomenon of cultural diving that Lord of the Rings, Star Trek and Harry Potter have had, and we want to give our readers the same experience!

Though I will note, what draws a reader into the world is the intrigue of the questions they can ask! If we can give our readers just enough information about the world to ask the coolest, deepest questions? We have succeeded.

Tex: I'm not a big fan of generalized advice, especially in regards to "new"... anything. I'm not aware of either your flaws or your strengths, though your use of "minimalist author" intrigues me - what do you consider minimalism? Is it descriptions, is it settings, is it dialogue? Is it something else?

I don't know whether this minimalism is the result of developing your writing voice or the result of underdevelopment in various writing skills, so I hesitate to give any concrete answers. In that respect, I would like to recommend @scriptstructure for the finer points of writing descriptions.

The others look to have covered about everything on this topic, but I would like to reiterate the idea that worldbuilding for the purpose of exposition is heavily dependent upon the plot. Whatever the focus of the plot is, and to some degree that of the characters, is the focus of your worldbuilding.

What's important to your story? Can you remove an element and still make sense? Those are consistently my two biggest guides when worldbuilding because everything outside the immediate needs of the plot are usually extraneous.

Feral: I don’t have rules so much as questions to provide some guidance for new writers getting into worldbuilding.

What quirk of character or plot stands out as being from a society different from my own, and what society would produce this? For a sense of verisimilitude in fantasy and sci-fi, it’s important that the characters not be reproductions of who you would expect to meet in the author’s own society especially when that society does not reflect the author’s own. Dragons, a post-singularity Earth, and a hundred other things that cast the story in a specific genre would create very distinct pressures that would lend themselves to different worldviews, economies, traditions, etc.

Would a particular feature of the world make my character or the plot more interesting? Would it create more problems than it would solve? I always advise against creating a feature of the world that solves your characters’ problems. Features of the world should either a) provide a lovely flavor or b) create obstacles for your characters to overcome or c) both. New writers, particularly those who don’t want too much superfluous flavor might look at Premise Brainstorming, or “In a World Where…” brainstorming to create world ideas that tie directly to the character and/or plot.

Am I avoiding describing something because it is not in my style or doesn’t fit the narrator’s voice? Or am I avoiding describing something because I can’t picture it in my mind or lack the confidence to execute it? This is me all the time. 2 decades of writing, and my first couple drafts are always a little lean on world details because I’m still wrapping my mind around what things really look like and how to take the image in my brain and translate it to the page. It’s ok to take your time getting the world rendered out; that’s what multiple drafts are for.

How have writers I admire and whose writing style matches what I want for myself handled the question of worldbuilding? If you’re not familiar with The City and the City by China Mieville, I strongly recommend checking it out. When I think of so-called minimalist world building, that is what I think of.

Do I know enough about my world to know what is important and what is not important to include? I recommend the Iceberg Principle for newer writers/builders: 90% of the world isn’t gonna make it into the story. So, that 10% better be enough and relevant.

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7 First Class Tips to Increase Your Pinterest CTR to Boost Sales & Readership

With the strong growth of Pinterest, the platform is becoming increasingly competitive. While it is still possible to get quality organic traffic from day one, nowadays you have to strategize more before you will get the results.

Every digital marketer has the matra of keywords, ranking, and backlinks deep in his head. This approach has to shift to be successful on Pinterest.

Pinterest is a visual search engine, and though we can apply many similar strategies as for other search engines, we have to think differently.

In this post, we will go over several points to make sure your pin design is as optimized as possible for clicks.

Create Multiple Pin Designs

As in everything marketing related - testing is the key. For every link that you are trying to promote, create several designs, I go with 5 - 10 depending on the importance of the link.

In many cases, I am surprised which Pin works the best. As the one that just seems a bit off, usually will outperform all others. This can be attributed to many conditions but when you see the same design (that you initially did not like) work again and again - always an interesting experience.

Notice that all the designs are different. From 7 designs on average, 1-2 will be winners that I will keep working with. In the following point, we will go over what makes a winning design.

Make the Pin Stand Out

Ugly right? Well, it works. CTR on this one 14%. What makes it stand out is ...that it is ugly. If you put “how to make money on Pinterest” in Pinterest search, you will be greeted by this:

Those are the pins of well-established accounts. For example, the first one belongs to FinSavvyPanda which has over 2mil. monthly views and 18k followers.

Sure, there is nothing bad in getting inspired by pins of others, but it was obvious to me that my (fairly young) account will not be competing for the first page.

To stand out at least a little bit. And it seemed to work. By now you may have noticed a common denominator between all those pins.

Big letters. I would like to get this message over to you - do not be afraid to make big letters and all in all - make the text dominant, if appropriate for the topic.

Choose an appropriate image

In many cases, Pinterest is alchemy. You never know which pin/topic/title/board combination will give you the best results. So you test and test and test until you have the golden formula.

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As I told in the previous sections, I am all about testing. You start easy, A/B/C titles testing, design but You want to grow so you start testing new things. Some of them do not work, that is one of them.

One of the popular Pinterest searches is “Habits of successful people”. I had many pins with this title and would like to share a testing result. It might seem obvious for some, but better to know it.

After clicking on any of the pins you have, Pinterest will also suggest some “More Like This” pins, for the image above these are the “similar” images:

All is well. The pin is about having money and the similar pins suggested by Pinterest are about money. Budgeting, saving, debt issues.

Here is another pin with the same title:

Similar logic as in a previous pin. But check out the pins that interest suggests:

Macarons recipes, weight loss, desserts, etc.

This means two things:

The title is not clear enough. While in the first example Pinterest clearly understood what the topic is, and provides relevant pins to accompany it, the second one is completely off.

The image is not relevant to the topic. This mistake is at number two, this was caused primarily by the title. (If it wasn’t, why did Pinterest not put “similar pins” of bags, etc?). But retrospectively, the image is not relevant enough to complement the topic.

These two issues caused lower impressions of the pin, not enough repinning, and all that resulted in the low overall clicks.

2. Do Not Overuse Templates

You created 50 designs, 5 seem to work well, so you make a template out of them and just keep re-pinning similar designs again and again.

Do not do it. There are several reasons why you should not go overboard with templates.

Pinterest likes new content and new images. Whenever I load new pins with new designs I can see a bump in the overall impressions, which will slowly fade out as I am re-pinning the same image again and again. Keep it fresh.

Popular Pinterest profiles completely revamp their designs from time to time. Sure, they keep some elements that reflect their branding, but they are constantly trying to come up with something different.

Tools like Canva can help, as they offer you figuratively speaking - an infinite amount of choices and combinations to try for your Pins.

Let’s have a look at one of the more successful profiles on Pinterest of The Savvy Couple:

Notice that while they keep the same branding, the designs are always different. You can see that they share similar features, but from the perspective of Pinterest - these are completely different designs that will get good traction.

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3. Use The Text To Your Advantage

Yes, Pinterest is a search engine that heavily relies on the visual side of things, but that does not mean it ignores the keywords.

First of all, Pinterest reads the keywords that are on the picture, and second (but equally important) users are reading it too.

To get clicks from your Pins you have to get users to do a “Close-up” which means that somebody clicks on your Pin to have a closer look at the description.

Use several fonts, but no more than 2-3

Emphasize (in bold, or a dominant font) the main keyword

Make sure the size of all the text is sufficient so users can read it without problems

The keyword here is Home Business Ideas. So if we would quickly through this example we would see:

The keyword is on a pin (2 fonts are used, or rather one font but subtitled in cursive).

Keyword is repeated in the title.

For the third time the keyword is repeated in the description.

If you will proceed to that particular Pinterest account (with several millions of viewers per month) you will notice that there are many pins like that - meaning that these types of design work.

When matched correctly you can be looking at the following results with some of your pins:

There are not so many impressions, but what is important that the vast majority of the ones who clicked, continued to post on the site - which is the main goal here.

4. Test Your Texts

We talked about testing the designs of your pins, but I would like to also emphasize the importance of testing the texts that you put on them. The goal is to get traffic on your site, so you must test several calls to action.

I recently conducted a small experiment on a post of mine. I compiled a list of over 640 Inspirational quotes, with various categories. Quotes seemed to be a good middle ground between what Pinterest likes and the overall theme of my site.

15 Pins were drafted to test the best angle.

Here are the keywords that were used for testing:

Inspirational quotes

Positive Wise Words

Success Quotes

Quotes Positive Happiness

Life Quotes

Motivational Quotes For Kids

Motivational Quotes For Life

Motivational Quotes for Success

Quotes About Strength

These keywords both matched the content of the post but also most importantly they matched the search queries and trends on Pinterest.

After a couple of days, these were the best performers in terms of Closeups

This means that:

Inspirational Quotes For Kids

Inspirational Quotes Positive Wise Words

have quite a strong performance that should be developed further (creating more pins focused on these keywords). Unfortunately, I create a very weak generic description, so even though Pins had a good amount of closeups, the CTR rate was minimal (under 0,1%)

So take my advice - I will be working with variations of these two pins testing multiple descriptions, so make sure that the future closeups convert into clicks.

5. Do Not Give The Answer In Your Pin

Your goal with Pinterest is to get clicks. Remember it when designing a pin. The visual has to be interesting enough for the user to want to know more.

If the viewer will receive the answer right there on the pin...why would he/she click to your site?

Let’s have a look at some account examples. Here are pins from MakingSenseOfCents which have over 2mil. viewers.

The goal of your Pinterest endeavors is to get traffic. So you talk about a topic that will interest your audience, but you do not explain it on the pin or in the description - you rather ask them to come to your site for more information.

Let’s take the pin of “How blogging paid off my student loans” a bit of clickbait, but nothing too bad about it. It is interesting, how could blogs pay for the loans? Users click and read the info on the page.

If that pin would also say “With ad-networks, affiliate marketing and growing my blog for 6 years” the CTR would drop. The answer is already there, no need to go any further.

Have you ever noticed that when you are googling for translation? Let's say “manufacturing in Spanish” and go you go past Google Translator results, you see this:

Notice that none of those “snippets” gives you an answer. The reason is still the same, they want you to go to the website to get your information.

What about videos?

“How to make a bow from ribbon” is one of the most popular Pinterest search queries. These are the first few top results:

20% are videos with detailed explanations of how to make a bow from a ribbon. Others are pictures that are there with the goal of getting you to click through to the site.

In the case of videos, you can also get clicks as users will want to see description and other details, but some will just watch it, save the pin and that is it.

What about Infographics?

A nicely done infographic will work well both on Pinterest and outside of it. With SEO you may get backlinks, on Pinterest you may get many repins, saves, and maybe even new followers. So they can be used to grow your profile in the future, but they will not get you to click in the short term.

In conclusion to this section - make pins that are related to the search queries and further lead users from Pinterest to your website.

6. Use Warm colors

While the blues, greens, and yellows can work well. In my opinion red, orange, burgundy, dark pink worked the best.

This study shows that red, orange, and brown performed better than blue 2:1 in repins.

According to, Curalate(published on Wired.com) this is scientifically the best-colored pin:

While this post was written in 2013, do you want to see what is my most successful pin?

Sure, it is not an exact match, but I am sure you can see some resemblance.

What if “warm” colors are completely incompatible with your brand? Well, do not change your whole brand because of Pinterest. See if you incorporate the more “Pinterest friendly” colors.

If that is not possible, keep in mind that color pallets are just one part of the whole “alchemy” of Pinterest algorithms. What you will lack in color you will pay back in content, titles, descriptions, and much more.

7. Avoid Faces

While the strategies of different pinners are different, this study shows that brand images without faces receive 23% more repins. Even though the study is possibly outdated (Pinterest trends change very quickly) I usually tend to avoid them, as I feel that people want to imagine themselves on the pin.

On average the pins with faces will get up to 1% CTR for me, while pins without a face will be higher. On The other hand, these are some of the recent pins of Chasing Foxes (over 10mil monthly viewers).

They repin them constantly - meaning that it works. But they also have over 360k followers, strong boards with high engagement...so you will just have to test for yourself and see if it works for your brand.

Examples Of Successful Pins

In this section, we will go over examples of pins that worked well for me. I will illustrate how various pins behave in different niches so you can plan your Pinterest strategy accordingly.

Recipes

Recipes are one of the top categories on Pinterest. So it is no wonder that I had to try how it works. Though recipes are completely off the main topics of my website, I needed to do some pins and post for testing.

With 8% Closeups, 1% Saves, and 4% CTR this is one of the best pins I had tried. By best I mean that it delivered the most clicks.

As you can see this checks all the boxes in terms of design and color. Red themed picture with a red text background.

In this case, the topic is of great importance. Recipes, fashion, decor, design, travel are all hugely popular on Pinterest.

“Shakshuka recipe for one” is quite a niche search query on Pinterest which does not have many exact results. As you can see the keyword is on the pin, in the title, and description, these all help Pinterest algorithms to discover and further share your pin.

Good Habits

Lifestyle is one of the most popular niches on Pinterest where you can find a wide array of topics. One of the “classics” are topics “Habits of people who…” you can complete with interesting Pinterest trends such as who has money, who stays confident, who stays healthy, who are happy, and so on. Seeing this being a topic on many profiles I had to try for myself.

3% Closeups, 1.5% CTR and 0 Saves may not seem like a hugely successful result. The interesting thing is that the potential of this topic (and related ones) is possibly limitless.

You may see that there are just slight changes but this pin (pinned at nearly the same, on same boards) received 2% closeups, 1% Saves, and 1% CTR.

No matter how many times you will pin for this topic, you will receive constant results. It does not seem to die out.

Continuing on the topic of habits, this fairly simple pin receives over 5% CTR. Which is quite over the average CTR on Pinterest, for your comfort on the right you may see the “scientifically perfect pin” that we discussed earlier.

Personal Finance

Another of the favored topics on Pinterest and I of course had to try how a very basic pin will do.

With 3% closeups and 3% CTR this design seems to be easily replicable. Meaning that changing it to different topics and varieties is not an issue.

As in Good Habits sections, these topics (while less popular than their recipes/fashion/lifestyle counterparts) are bottomless. There are so many angles to take when you are discussing money management, savings, how to manage debt, etc.

This is just another use of the same design, delivering similar results. 2% closeups, 1% saves, and 1% CTR.

Personal Development

Personal development and motivation are very solid choices of a topic for Pinterest, so I wanted to give it a shot with a post on leadership qualities. This pin delivered 1% closeups, 0.5% saves (one of my top repined images by total number), and 1,5% CTR. That can be considered a good result for a topic that is not “dominant” on Pinterest.

This pin delivered 1% closeups, 0.5% saves (one of my top repined images by total number), and 1,5% CTR. That can be considered a good result for a topic that is not “dominant” on Pinterest.

Digital Tools

The main topics of my site are digital tools and creating a business online. So of course I took my knowledge of Pinterest to the test on these topics too. Some time ago I created a post about webinar tools.

While my expectations for this topic were quite low, there were quite a few positive surprises. 2% Closeups, and close to 1% CTR. Saves were under 0.5% so something to work on in the future.

Another example of a simple design that worked even in the digital marketing tools niche is a pin about comparing email marketing services.

These were the testing pins:

After a couple of weeks, the best percentual rates were on this pin:

Closeups rate of 2%, save rate of 1%, and CTR of 2% is a great result for a pin in a more difficult niche.

The issue with these Pins is that they get impressions very slowly, digitals tools is a true niche sector on Pinterest. It takes the right boards and a lot of time to get the pin going. That being said - you can see that it is possible to drive clicks even in niches like this one.

Main Takeaways

We had a look at some pins that worked well for me, now I would like to provide the main takeaways and actional steps that you can take with your pins.

Do 5-10 testing pins for each post. Out of them, 1-2 will be performing above average.

While warm colors seem to be performing well (and better in some niches) do not limit yourself to this rule.

Test your pins with and without a face. While statistics speak clearly, it seems that some niches work better with faces, some do not.

Keep your pins 2:1 or 1000:1500 size. It is the optimal pin size for mobile, which is the dominant platform for Pinterest users.

Modify your keyword to be in line with search queries and Pinterest trends.

Text on the pin should be readable, do not go overboard with fonts.

Check the Pinterest search bar and Pinterest trends for search query suggestions.

Keywords should appear on the pin and in the title and description.

The pin should hint that the question will be answered in the post.

Conclusion

In this post, I shared the tips that I use when creating a pin. Pinterest is growing and changing, and the successful pins change too. Still, some basic rules remain the same.

While we went over the design of the pin and most of its intricacies. I strongly suggest that you read more on the topic of Pinterest boards. After all, if your great pin is pinned on a bad board, you will get nowhere.

Pinterest is a lot about experimenting with designs, descriptions, topics, time of pinning, and boards. While it may be tedious to try to combine all these, once you succeed you will experience an immediate inflow of traffic. This feeling will never let you go, so you might consider yourself “pinned” for life (pun intended).

You might want to check:

10 Amazing Pinterest Board Examples Critiqued (with Best Practices)

Pinterest SEO: A Guide for Businesses

How 5 Businesses Are Using Pinterest Boards to Creatively Promote Their Products

About the Author

Vlad is a founder and a blogger at Costofincome.com a blog about online business and video converters and digital marketing tools.

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Google’s May 2020 Core Update: What You Need to Know

On May 4th, Google started to roll out a major update to its algorithm. They call it a “core” update because it’s a large change to their algorithm, which means it impacts a lot of sites.

To give you an idea of how big the update is, just look at the image above. It’s from SEMrush Sensor, which monitors the movement of results on Google.

The chart tracks Google on a daily basis and when it shows green or blue for the day, it means there isn’t much movement going on. But when things turn red, it means there is volatility in the rankings.

Now the real question is, what happened to your traffic?

If you already haven’t, you should go and check your rankings to see if they have gone up or down. If you aren’t tracking your rankings, you can set up a project on Ubersuggest for free and track up to 25 keywords.

You should also log into your Google Analytics account and check to see what’s happening to your traffic.

Hopefully, your traffic has gone up. If it hasn’t, don’t panic. I have some information that will help you out.

Let’s first start off by going over the industries that have been most impacted…

So what industries were affected?

Here are the industries that got affected.

As you can see, travel, real estate, health, pets & animals, and people & society saw the biggest fluctuations with rankings.

Other industries were also affected… the ones at the bottom of the list were the least affected, such as “news.”

There was also a shakeup in local SEO results, but that started before the core update.

One big misconception that I hear from people new to SEO is that if you have a high domain authority or domain score (if you aren’t sure what yours is, go here and put in your URL), you’ll continually get more traffic and won’t be affected by updates. That is false.

To give you an idea, here are some well-known sites that saw their rankings dip according to our index at Ubersuggest:

Spotify.com

Creditkarma.com

LinkedIn.com

Legoland.com

Nypost.com

Ny.gov

Burlington.com

More importantly, we saw some trends on sites that got affected versus ones that didn’t.

Update your content frequently

I publish 4 articles a month on this blog. Pretty early every Tuesday like clockwork, I publish a new post.

But do you know how often I update my old content?

Take a guess?

Technically, I don’t update my own content, but I have 3 people who work for me and all they do is go through old blog posts and update them.

On any given month, my team updates at least 90 articles. And when I say update, I am not talking about just adjusting a sentence or adding an image. I am talking about adding a handful of new paragraphs, deleting irrelevant information, and sometimes even re-writing entire articles.

They do whatever it takes to keep articles up to date and valuable for the readers. Just like how Wikipedia is constantly updating its content.

Here’s an interesting stat for you: We know for certain that 641 sites that we are tracking are updating old content on a daily basis.

Can you guess how many of them saw a search traffic dip of 10% or more?

Only 38! That’s 5.92%, which is extremely low.

What’s crazy, though, is that 187 sites saw an increase in their search traffic of 10% or more.

One thing to note is when we are calculating organic search traffic estimates, we look at the average monthly volume of a keyword as well as click-through rates based on ranking. So holidays such as May 1, which is Labor Day for most of the word, didn’t skew the results.

Now, to clarify, I am not talking about producing new content on a daily or even weekly basis. These sites are doing what I do on NeilPatel.com… they are constantly updating their old content.

Again, there is no “rubric” on how to update your old content as it varies per article, but the key is to do whatever it takes to keep it relevant for your readers and ensure that it is better than the competition.

If you still want some guidance on updating old content, here is what I tell my team:

If the content is no longer relevant to a reader, either delete the page and 301 redirect it to the most relevant URL on the site or update it to make it relevant.

Are there ways to make the content more actionable and useful? Such as, would adding infographics, step-by-step instructions, or videos to the article make it more useful? If so, add them.

Check to see if there are any dead links and fix them. Dead links create a poor user experience.

If the article is a translated article (I have a big global audience), make sure the images and videos make sense to anyone reading the content in that language.

Look to see the 5 main terms each article ranks for and then Google those terms. What do the pages ranking in the top 10 do really well that we aren’t?

Can you make the article simpler? Remove fluff and avoid using complex words that very few people can understand.

Does the article discuss a specific year or time frame? If possible, make the article evergreen by avoiding the usage of dates or specific time ranges.

If the article covers a specific problem people are facing, make sure you look at Quora first before updating the article. Look to see popular answers on Quora as it will give you a sense of what people are ideally looking for.

Is this article a duplicate? Not form a wording perspective, but are you pretty much covering the exact same concept as another article on your site. If so, consider merging them and 301 redirect one URL to the other.

Fix your thin content

Here’s another interesting stat for you. On average, Ubersuggest crawls 71 websites every minute. And when I mean crawl, users are putting in URLs to check for SEO errors.

One error that our system looks at is thin content (pages with low-word counts).

On average, 46% of the websites we analyze have at least one page that is thin in content. Can you guess how many of those sites got impacted by the latest algorithm update?

We don’t have enough data on all of the URLs as the majority of those sites get very little to no search traffic as they are either new sites or haven’t done much SEO.

But when we look at the last 400 sites in our system that were flagged with thin content warnings for pages other than their contact page, about page, or home page, and had at least 1,000 visitors a month from Google, they saw a massive shift in rankings.

127 of the sites saw a decrease in search traffic by at least 10% while 41 saw an increase in search traffic by at least 10%.

Sites with thin content saw a roughly 3 times higher likelihood of being affected in a negative way than a positive one. Of course, the majority of the sites with thin content saw little to no change at all, but still, a whopping 31.75% saw a decrease.

If you don’t know if you have thin content, go here and put in your URL.

You’ll see a report that looks something like this:

I want you to click on the “Critical Errors” box.

You’ll now see a report that looks like:

Look to see if there are any “low word count” errors. If there is, click on the number and it will take you to a page that shows you all of the pages with a low word count.

You won’t be able to fix them all, as some pages like your contact page or category pages, which may not need thousands of words.

And in other cases, you may be able to get the point across to a website visitor in a few hundred words or even through images. An example would be if you have an article on how to tie a tie, you may not have too many words because it’s easier to show people how to do so through a video or a series of images.

But for the pages that should be more in-depth, you should fix them. Here are the three main questions to consider when fixing thin content pages:

Do you really need to add more words – if you can get the message across in a few hundred words or through images or videos, it may be enough. Don’t add words when it isn’t needed. Think of the user experience instead. People would rather have the answer to their question in a few seconds than to wait minutes.

How does your page compare to the competition – look at similar pages that are ranking on page 1. Do they have more content than you or less? This will give you an idea if you need to expand your page, especially if everyone who ranks on page 1 has at least a few thousand words on their page.

Does it even make sense to keep the page – if it provides little to no value to a reader and you can’t make it better by updating it, you may want to consider deleting it and 301 redirect the URL to another similar page on your site.

Fix your SEO errors

Another interesting finding that we noticed when digging through our Ubersuggest data is that sites with more SEO errors got impacted greatly.

Now, this doesn’t mean that if you have a ton of SEO errors you can’t rank or you are going to get hit by an algorithm update.

More so it was one type of error that hurt sites more than others. It was sites with duplicate title tags and meta descriptions.

One thing to note was that many sites have duplicate meta tags, but when a large portion of your pages have duplicate meta tags, it usually creates problems.

So we dug up sites that contained duplicate meta tags and title tags for 20% or more of their pages.

Most of these sites didn’t get much traffic in general, but for the 363 that we could dig up that generated at least 1,000 visits a month from Google, 151 saw a decrease in traffic by at least 10%.

89 of them also saw increases in traffic by 10% or more, but still, 41.59% of sites with duplicate meta tags saw a huge dip. If you have duplicate meta tags you should get this fix.

To double check if you do, put your URL in here again. It will load this report again:

And then click on the critical errors again. You’ll see a report that looks like this:

Look for any errors that say duplicate meta description or title tag. If you see it, click on the number and it will take you to a page that breaks down the duplicates.

Again, your site doesn’t have to be perfect and you’ll find in some cases that you have duplicates that don’t need to be fixed, such as category pages with pagination.

But in most cases, you should fix and avoid having duplicate meta description and title tags.

Conclusion

Even if you do everything I discussed above, there is no guarantee that you will be impacted by an algorithm update. Each one is different, and Google’s goal is to create the best experience for searchers.

If you look at the above issues, you’ll notice that fixing them should create a better user experience and that should always be your goal.

It isn’t about winning on Google. SEO is about providing a better experience than your competition. If that’s your core focus, in the long run, you’ll find that you’ll do better than your competition when it comes to algorithm updates.

So how was your traffic during the last update? Did it go up or down, or just stay flat?

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Google’s May 2020 Core Update: What You Need to Know

On May 4th, Google started to roll out a major update to its algorithm. They call it a “core” update because it’s a large change to their algorithm, which means it impacts a lot of sites.

To give you an idea of how big the update is, just look at the image above. It’s from SEMrush Sensor, which monitors the movement of results on Google.

The chart tracks Google on a daily basis and when it shows green or blue for the day, it means there isn’t much movement going on. But when things turn red, it means there is volatility in the rankings.

Now the real question is, what happened to your traffic?

If you already haven’t, you should go and check your rankings to see if they have gone up or down. If you aren’t tracking your rankings, you can set up a project on Ubersuggest for free and track up to 25 keywords.

You should also log into your Google Analytics account and check to see what’s happening to your traffic.

Hopefully, your traffic has gone up. If it hasn’t, don’t panic. I have some information that will help you out.

Let’s first start off by going over the industries that have been most impacted…

So what industries were affected?

Here are the industries that got affected.

As you can see, travel, real estate, health, pets & animals, and people & society saw the biggest fluctuations with rankings.

Other industries were also affected… the ones at the bottom of the list were the least affected, such as “news.”

There was also a shakeup in local SEO results, but that started before the core update.

One big misconception that I hear from people new to SEO is that if you have a high domain authority or domain score (if you aren’t sure what yours is, go here and put in your URL), you’ll continually get more traffic and won’t be affected by updates. That is false.

To give you an idea, here are some well-known sites that saw their rankings dip according to our index at Ubersuggest:

Spotify.com

Creditkarma.com

LinkedIn.com

Legoland.com

Nypost.com

Ny.gov

Burlington.com

More importantly, we saw some trends on sites that got affected versus ones that didn’t.

Update your content frequently

I publish 4 articles a month on this blog. Pretty early every Tuesday like clockwork, I publish a new post.

But do you know how often I update my old content?

Take a guess?

Technically, I don’t update my own content, but I have 3 people who work for me and all they do is go through old blog posts and update them.

On any given month, my team updates at least 90 articles. And when I say update, I am not talking about just adjusting a sentence or adding an image. I am talking about adding a handful of new paragraphs, deleting irrelevant information, and sometimes even re-writing entire articles.

They do whatever it takes to keep articles up to date and valuable for the readers. Just like how Wikipedia is constantly updating its content.

Here’s an interesting stat for you: We know for certain that 641 sites that we are tracking are updating old content on a daily basis.

Can you guess how many of them saw a search traffic dip of 10% or more?

Only 38! That’s 5.92%, which is extremely low.

What’s crazy, though, is that 187 sites saw an increase in their search traffic of 10% or more.

One thing to note is when we are calculating organic search traffic estimates, we look at the average monthly volume of a keyword as well as click-through rates based on ranking. So holidays such as May 1, which is Labor Day for most of the word, didn’t skew the results.

To clarify, I am not talking about producing new content on a daily or even weekly basis. These sites are doing what I do on NeilPatel.com… they are constantly updating their old content.

Again, there is no “rubric” on how to update your old content as it varies per article, but the key is to do whatever it takes to keep it relevant for your readers and ensure that it is better than the competition.

If you still want some guidance on updating old content, here is what I tell my team:

If the content is no longer relevant to a reader, either delete the page and 301 redirect it to the most relevant URL on the site or update it to make it relevant.

Are there ways to make the content more actionable and useful? Such as, would adding infographics, step-by-step instructions, or videos to the article make it more useful? If so, add them.

Check to see if there are any dead links and fix them. Dead links create a poor user experience.

If the article is a translated article (I have a big global audience), make sure the images and videos make sense to anyone reading the content in that language.

Look to see the 5 main terms each article ranks for and then Google those terms. What do the pages ranking in the top 10 do really well that we aren’t?

Can you make the article simpler? Remove fluff and avoid using complex words that very few people can understand.

Does the article discuss a specific year or time frame? If possible, make the article evergreen by avoiding the usage of dates or specific time ranges.

If the article covers a specific problem people are facing, make sure you look at Quora first before updating the article. Look to see popular answers on Quora as it will give you a sense of what people are ideally looking for.

Is this article a duplicate? Not form a wording perspective, but are you pretty much covering the exact same concept as another article on your site. If so, consider merging them and 301 redirect one URL to the other.

Fix your thin content

Here’s another interesting stat for you. On average, Ubersuggest crawls 71 websites every minute. And when I mean crawl, users are putting in URLs to check for SEO errors.

One error that our system looks at is thin content (pages with low-word counts).

On average, 46% of the websites we analyze have at least one page that is thin in content. Can you guess how many of those sites got impacted by the latest algorithm update?

We don’t have enough data on all of the URLs as the majority of those sites get very little to no search traffic as they are either new sites or haven’t done much SEO.

But when we look at the last 400 sites in our system that were flagged with thin content warnings for pages other than their contact page, about page, or home page, and had at least 1,000 visitors a month from Google, they saw a massive shift in rankings.

127 of the sites saw a decrease in search traffic by at least 10% while 41 saw an increase in search traffic by at least 10%.

Sites with thin content saw a roughly 3 times higher likelihood of being affected in a negative way than a positive one. Of course, the majority of the sites with thin content saw little to no change at all, but still, a whopping 31.75% saw a decrease.

If you don’t know if you have thin content, go here and put in your URL.

You’ll see a report that looks something like this:

I want you to click on the “Critical Errors” box.

You’ll now see a report that looks like:

Look to see if there are any “low word count” errors. If there is, click on the number and it will take you to a page that shows you all of the pages with a low word count.

You won’t be able to fix them all, as some pages like your contact page or category pages, which may not need thousands of words.

And in other cases, you may be able to get the point across to a website visitor in a few hundred words or even through images. An example would be if you have an article on how to tie a tie, you may not have too many words because it’s easier to show people how to do so through a video or a series of images.

But for the pages that should be more in-depth, you should fix them. Here are the three main questions to consider when fixing thin content pages:

Do you really need to add more words – if you can get the message across in a few hundred words or through images or videos, it may be enough. Don’t add words when it isn’t needed. Think of the user experience instead. People would rather have the answer to their question in a few seconds than to wait minutes.

How does your page compare to the competition – look at similar pages that are ranking on page 1. Do they have more content than you or less? This will give you an idea if you need to expand your page, especially if everyone who ranks on page 1 has at least a few thousand words on their page.

Does it even make sense to keep the page – if it provides little to no value to a reader and you can’t make it better by updating it, you may want to consider deleting it and 301 redirect the URL to another similar page on your site.

Fix your SEO errors

Another interesting finding that we noticed when digging through our Ubersuggest data is that sites with more SEO errors got impacted greatly.

Now, this doesn’t mean that if you have a ton of SEO errors you can’t rank or you are going to get hit by an algorithm update.

More so it was one type of error that hurt sites more than others. It was sites with duplicate title tags and meta descriptions.

One thing to note was that many sites have duplicate meta tags, but when a large portion of your pages have duplicate meta tags, it usually creates problems.

So we dug up sites that contained duplicate meta tags and title tags for 20% or more of their pages.

Most of these sites didn’t get much traffic in general, but for the 363 that we could dig up that generated at least 1,000 visits a month from Google, 151 saw a decrease in traffic by at least 10%.

89 of them also saw increases in traffic by 10% or more, but still, 41.59% of sites with duplicate meta tags saw a huge dip. If you have duplicate meta tags you should get this fix.

To double check if you do, put your URL in here again. It will load this report again:

And then click on the critical errors again. You’ll see a report that looks like this:

Look for any errors that say duplicate meta description or title tag. If you see it, click on the number and it will take you to a page that breaks down the duplicates.

Again, your site doesn’t have to be perfect and you’ll find in some cases that you have duplicates that don’t need to be fixed, such as category pages with pagination.

But in most cases, you should fix and avoid having duplicate meta description and title tags.

Conclusion

Even if you do everything I discussed above, there is no guarantee that you will be impacted by an algorithm update. Each one is different, and Google’s goal is to create the best experience for searchers.

If you look at the above issues, you’ll notice that fixing them should create a better user experience and that should always be your goal.

It isn’t about winning on Google. SEO is about providing a better experience than your competition. If that’s your core focus, in the long run, you’ll find that you’ll do better than your competition when it comes to algorithm updates.

So how was your traffic during the last update? Did it go up or down, or just stay flat?

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Google’s May 2020 Core Update: What You Need to Know

On May 4th, Google started to roll out a major update to its algorithm. They call it a “core” update because it’s a large change to their algorithm, which means it impacts a lot of sites.

To give you an idea of how big the update is, just look at the image above. It’s from SEMrush Sensor, which monitors the movement of results on Google.

The chart tracks Google on a daily basis and when it shows green or blue for the day, it means there isn’t much movement going on. But when things turn red, it means there is volatility in the rankings.

Now the real question is, what happened to your traffic?

If you already haven’t, you should go and check your rankings to see if they have gone up or down. If you aren’t tracking your rankings, you can set up a project on Ubersuggest for free and track up to 25 keywords.

You should also log into your Google Analytics account and check to see what’s happening to your traffic.

Hopefully, your traffic has gone up. If it hasn’t, don’t panic. I have some information that will help you out.

Let’s first start off by going over the industries that have been most impacted…

So what industries were affected?

Here are the industries that got affected.

As you can see, travel, real estate, health, pets & animals, and people & society saw the biggest fluctuations with rankings.

Other industries were also affected… the ones at the bottom of the list were the least affected, such as “news.”

There was also a shakeup in local SEO results, but that started before the core update.

One big misconception that I hear from people new to SEO is that if you have a high domain authority or domain score (if you aren’t sure what yours is, go here and put in your URL), you’ll continually get more traffic and won’t be affected by updates. That is false.

To give you an idea, here are some well-known sites that saw their rankings dip according to our index at Ubersuggest:

Spotify.com

Creditkarma.com

LinkedIn.com

Legoland.com

Nypost.com

Ny.gov

Burlington.com

More importantly, we saw some trends on sites that got affected versus ones that didn’t.

Update your content frequently

I publish 4 articles a month on this blog. Pretty early every Tuesday like clockwork, I publish a new post.

But do you know how often I update my old content?

Take a guess?

Technically, I don’t update my own content, but I have 3 people who work for me and all they do is go through old blog posts and update them.

On any given month, my team updates at least 90 articles. And when I say update, I am not talking about just adjusting a sentence or adding an image. I am talking about adding a handful of new paragraphs, deleting irrelevant information, and sometimes even re-writing entire articles.

They do whatever it takes to keep articles up to date and valuable for the readers. Just like how Wikipedia is constantly updating its content.

Here’s an interesting stat for you: We know for certain that 641 sites that we are tracking are updating old content on a daily basis.

Can you guess how many of them saw a search traffic dip of 10% or more?

Only 38! That’s 5.92%, which is extremely low.

What’s crazy, though, is that 187 sites saw an increase in their search traffic of 10% or more.

One thing to note is when we are calculating organic search traffic estimates, we look at the average monthly volume of a keyword as well as click-through rates based on ranking. So holidays such as May 1, which is Labor Day for most of the word, didn’t skew the results.

To clarify, I am not talking about producing new content on a daily or even weekly basis. These sites are doing what I do on NeilPatel.com… they are constantly updating their old content.

Again, there is no “rubric” on how to update your old content as it varies per article, but the key is to do whatever it takes to keep it relevant for your readers and ensure that it is better than the competition.

If you still want some guidance on updating old content, here is what I tell my team:

If the content is no longer relevant to a reader, either delete the page and 301 redirect it to the most relevant URL on the site or update it to make it relevant.

Are there ways to make the content more actionable and useful? Such as, would adding infographics, step-by-step instructions, or videos to the article make it more useful? If so, add them.

Check to see if there are any dead links and fix them. Dead links create a poor user experience.

If the article is a translated article (I have a big global audience), make sure the images and videos make sense to anyone reading the content in that language.

Look to see the 5 main terms each article ranks for and then Google those terms. What do the pages ranking in the top 10 do really well that we aren’t?

Can you make the article simpler? Remove fluff and avoid using complex words that very few people can understand.

Does the article discuss a specific year or time frame? If possible, make the article evergreen by avoiding the usage of dates or specific time ranges.

If the article covers a specific problem people are facing, make sure you look at Quora first before updating the article. Look to see popular answers on Quora as it will give you a sense of what people are ideally looking for.

Is this article a duplicate? Not form a wording perspective, but are you pretty much covering the exact same concept as another article on your site. If so, consider merging them and 301 redirect one URL to the other.

Fix your thin content

Here’s another interesting stat for you. On average, Ubersuggest crawls 71 websites every minute. And when I mean crawl, users are putting in URLs to check for SEO errors.

One error that our system looks at is thin content (pages with low-word counts).

On average, 46% of the websites we analyze have at least one page that is thin in content. Can you guess how many of those sites got impacted by the latest algorithm update?

We don’t have enough data on all of the URLs as the majority of those sites get very little to no search traffic as they are either new sites or haven’t done much SEO.

But when we look at the last 400 sites in our system that were flagged with thin content warnings for pages other than their contact page, about page, or home page, and had at least 1,000 visitors a month from Google, they saw a massive shift in rankings.

127 of the sites saw a decrease in search traffic by at least 10% while 41 saw an increase in search traffic by at least 10%.

Sites with thin content saw a roughly 3 times higher likelihood of being affected in a negative way than a positive one. Of course, the majority of the sites with thin content saw little to no change at all, but still, a whopping 31.75% saw a decrease.

If you don’t know if you have thin content, go here and put in your URL.

You’ll see a report that looks something like this:

I want you to click on the “Critical Errors” box.

You’ll now see a report that looks like:

Look to see if there are any “low word count” errors. If there is, click on the number and it will take you to a page that shows you all of the pages with a low word count.

You won’t be able to fix them all, as some pages like your contact page or category pages, which may not need thousands of words.

And in other cases, you may be able to get the point across to a website visitor in a few hundred words or even through images. An example would be if you have an article on how to tie a tie, you may not have too many words because it’s easier to show people how to do so through a video or a series of images.

But for the pages that should be more in-depth, you should fix them. Here are the three main questions to consider when fixing thin content pages:

Do you really need to add more words – if you can get the message across in a few hundred words or through images or videos, it may be enough. Don’t add words when it isn’t needed. Think of the user experience instead. People would rather have the answer to their question in a few seconds than to wait minutes.

How does your page compare to the competition – look at similar pages that are ranking on page 1. Do they have more content than you or less? This will give you an idea if you need to expand your page, especially if everyone who ranks on page 1 has at least a few thousand words on their page.

Does it even make sense to keep the page – if it provides little to no value to a reader and you can’t make it better by updating it, you may want to consider deleting it and 301 redirect the URL to another similar page on your site.

Fix your SEO errors

Another interesting finding that we noticed when digging through our Ubersuggest data is that sites with more SEO errors got impacted greatly.

Now, this doesn’t mean that if you have a ton of SEO errors you can’t rank or you are going to get hit by an algorithm update.

More so it was one type of error that hurt sites more than others. It was sites with duplicate title tags and meta descriptions.

One thing to note was that many sites have duplicate meta tags, but when a large portion of your pages have duplicate meta tags, it usually creates problems.

So we dug up sites that contained duplicate meta tags and title tags for 20% or more of their pages.

Most of these sites didn’t get much traffic in general, but for the 363 that we could dig up that generated at least 1,000 visits a month from Google, 151 saw a decrease in traffic by at least 10%.

89 of them also saw increases in traffic by 10% or more, but still, 41.59% of sites with duplicate meta tags saw a huge dip. If you have duplicate meta tags you should get this fix.

To double check if you do, put your URL in here again. It will load this report again:

And then click on the critical errors again. You’ll see a report that looks like this:

Look for any errors that say duplicate meta description or title tag. If you see it, click on the number and it will take you to a page that breaks down the duplicates.

Again, your site doesn’t have to be perfect and you’ll find in some cases that you have duplicates that don’t need to be fixed, such as category pages with pagination.

But in most cases, you should fix and avoid having duplicate meta description and title tags.

Conclusion

Even if you do everything I discussed above, there is no guarantee that you will be impacted by an algorithm update. Each one is different, and Google’s goal is to create the best experience for searchers.

If you look at the above issues, you’ll notice that fixing them should create a better user experience and that should always be your goal.

It isn’t about winning on Google. SEO is about providing a better experience than your competition. If that’s your core focus, in the long run, you’ll find that you’ll do better than your competition when it comes to algorithm updates.

So how was your traffic during the last update? Did it go up or down, or just stay flat?

The post Google’s May 2020 Core Update: What You Need to Know appeared first on Neil Patel.

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Catching up on Yokai Watch News

Yokai Watch Spoilers (Movie 4 and Busters 2) under the cut.

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Mastertag for pre-release Movie 4 information.

Mastertag for pre-release Busters 2 information.

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Sorry this took a while but, this is gonna be a post to mostly summarize the information that was released via magazine and website updates in the past week.

I have been somewhat busy, so I don’t have time to translate every bit of this, gotta kinda skim over some parts, so this won’t be 100% complete, but I wanted to put out something at least.

First I’ll go over the stuff revealed for Busters 2 and then the stuff revealed for Movie 4, so if you’re only interested in one of the two, just go to the part you wanna read.

Busters 2 Stuff:

A lot of the stuff that the magazine leaks covered are also mentioned in the trailer that was released shortly after. The website also updated with some of this information and can be found here.

The game will appearently take place on a island called Karakuri, where the treasure of a pirate king is said to be hidden?  The Busters will go there to look for treasure, with the New Busters (Indy Jaws, Zom B Chopper, Neko II, and Mr. Scoop) presumably still being after the goals theyve been said to have in the anime and YKW3. (This last part is more my conjecture than anything)

It has been revealed that there will be two versions of “Yokai Watch Busters 2: Hidden Treasure Legend of Banbaraya”, called “Sword” and “Magnum”, and we also now know it’s release date, which is the 7th of December, 2017.

Each version will come with a special Yo-kai Treasure Medal, both featuring Enma and a new character called Kaira, who will seemingly play a role in the 4th movie, too.

Seems that these come with QR codes that will allow you to battle and befriend both Enma and Kaira, too.

It also seems like with this game you will be able to play online with up to 4 people? Though I’m unsure if I understood this right, cause I’ve never played a Busters game myself.

Something else that is shown off is the Treasure Gear, which from what I understand is the various weapons that the Yo-kai Pod merchandise can be turned into.

(for the reference, this is a Yo-kai Pod:

Its a lamp-like device that can have additional stuff get attached to it to turn into various other stuff.)

The Japanese version of the recent Nintendo Direct showed of the Treasure Gear well, showing the Chainsword, Sniper, and Magnum modes.

Unless I’m misunderstanding, there are also certain item boxes you can only destroy with these? (I could be wrong about this part)

A magazine also showed off a 4th Treasure Gear, which is literally called Hyūdroid, but could also be romanized as something like Hughdroid?

(image source)

The text is as follows:

“The Adventure Partner Hyūdroid also appears!

A new model of Treasure Gear. Within a dungeon, it moves around automatically and finds treasure!!”

Something else interesting the magazine mentioned that doesn’t seem to be adressed in the trailer or on the website is this bit:

(From the same source as the one before)

“The Mysterious Cry ‘Banbarayahh’!?

Within the game, when this cry occurs, strange events will...!?”

A new group of characters called the “Bundori Family” (might be romanized differently) has also been revealed:

It seems that they will be your “rivals” when it comes to treasure hunting in the game, whatever that means.

Twitter user rabbittotank has kindly translated the information on them that the magazine provides. You can check that out here.

In addition to these guys, 6 new Hidden Treasure Yokai (or Hihou Yokai) have been shown off:

Again, twitter user rabittotank has translated the information on these yokai found in the magazine. You can see those here.

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And that’s about it for Busters 2, from what I can tell, cept for some merchandise related stuff, new Treasure Medals, and of course Emblems for the new Hidden Treasure Yokai and the like.

So onto

Movie 4 Stuff:

Here I must apologize again, because of how blurry some of the text is, I can’t translate all the text from the magazine, but I will show off the bits that I can translate.

First we have this page:

(image source for this and the following magazine pics)

While on this page, they point at Enma and the Enma Blade he is wielding and have descriptions for them, sadly I can’t really make out either of those. Though what little I can read of the Enma Blade’s description, it just seems to go over what it is again. (In case you dont know, the Enma Blade already appeared in YKW3)

What I actually can read is this bit:

“Kaira enters the war, too!?

Do not miss Onimaro VS Yōkai (Shadow Side) !!

The Yōkai ‘Onimaro’ that have appeared alongside the comet, who transform the humans they inspirit into Kaodeka Oni (Huge Faced Oni), are terrifying beings!! And Kaira plans to take advantage of this situation and take over the world!? Can the yōkai, transformed into the Shadow Sides, their combat forms, save the world from crisis!?”

And this:

“The king of the Yōmakai is me!!“

Aside from these there is also this little bit, but it’s literally just listing their names:

From left to right: Jibanyan (Shadow Side), Onimaro Leader, and Kaodeka Oni.

Next is this page:

Again, I can’t make out everything, and some stuff is incomplete, but I will go over the stuff I do understand.

This page features the new character Kaira again:

“Kaira the Snake King A yōkai who has tricked Enma and became the king of the Yōmakai. Using the power of Onimaro, he plans to rule the human world as well.”

Note: I am unsure about the world “tricked” here, might be another kanji, it’s a little blurry. If it IS the kanji I think it is, it could also be translated as “framed” or “trapped” or the like.

Also Note that his sword is labelled too, but

I can’t really make any of it’s description. It appears to be called “Snake King Sword”, but that name might be incomplete.

“The Era of Enma is over!!“

“This Sword holds the key to the story!?

Fudō Thunder Sword A legendary sword that was sealed away, for its power is too strong for anyone to control it.”

Note: “Fudō” could possibly translate to “Immobile” or “Unmoving”. Also cause I was confused about it for a moment, I want to point out that this is NOT the same as Kaira’s sword. It’s a different sword.

“In the setting of the movie - 30 years into the future, Kaira the Snake King has become the master of the Yōmakai!? And the swords that the two of them possess, alongside the legendary sword sealed in the Yōmakai, appearently will be important keys of the story!!”

And that’s it for what I got on the information from the magazine, but there is a little bit more from recent news udpates to the website.

First, there is a little notice about how if you got a pre-sale ticket for the movie, you can scan the QR code on it to get a treasure coin in YKW3.

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Second, more interestingly, there will be some sort of crossover between Yokai Watch and Gegege no Kitarō.

I will translate the entire news post on that one:

“Gegege! Nyo, nyo, nyo way!! 'Gegege no Kitarō'

will appear in a 'Yokai Watch Movie'!

With this, the shocking 'Yōkai Tag Team' is born!

(Translator's Note: I am not sure if it refers to 4th movie specifically, but given the context I feel like it more than likely does.)

This new work is...! The veteran of Yōkai Anime, the national character everyone knows about, 'Gegege no Kitarō' will appear! And not just Kitarō will appear; Daddy Eyeball, Catchick, Old Man Crybaby, the Sand Witch, Rollo Cloth, Ratman, everyone from the familiar 'Kitarō Family' will make an appearance!

(Translator's Note: I used the english names from 2002, I hope thats okay?)

'Gegege no Kitarō' is the master piece of Shigeru Mizuki, which could be called the parent of modern Yōkai Manga and Anime. The manga series started in 1965. The anime started to be broadcast in 1968, and in the blink of an eye, started a Yōkai Boom, spreading the image of 'Yōkai' throughout the world, with 5 more national anime series being produced afterwards.

The voice actress who plays the role of Kitarō, who breathes life into numerous super popular characters, and enjoys national popularity, is the outstanding Masako Nozawa! Kitarō is brought back to life with Masako Nozawa's voice!

(Masako Nozawa's comment): "The protagonist of the first series, Kitarō, fully lives within me. This time around, I am looking forward to see and imagining, how we will be accepted, or what kind of welcome we will receive, as we enter Yokai Watch. For now, I am very excited and looking forward to the completion. Yōkai are immortal."

Furthermore, this Kitarō-like Jibanyan form is known as 'Kitanyan'. Somewhere within the work, this 'Kitanyan' will appear!”

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Third, there’s a little thing about Kaira, which is mostly the same as what the magazine already said, but since that makes it not that hard to translate, here it is:

“ Kaira the Snake King,

the strongest (worst) rival,

for the strongest of the Yōmakai,

The Great King Enma,

makes his appearance!

(Translator's Note: the word used to describe Kaira here is a pun that can mean both "strongest" but also something like "most vile")

In the setting of the movie - 30 years into the future, Kaira the Snake King has become the master of the Yōmakai!? It seems he also plans to rule the human world.

The swords that the Great King Enma and Kaira the Snake King possess, and the legendary sword sealed in the Yōmakai are important keys to the story!?”

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And lastly, it seems that the winner of the Shadow Side design contest has been chosen.

From what I understand, people where able to submit their own ideas of the Shadow Side design for a Yokai of their choice, via various forms released in different magazines around the time.

Unless I’m mistaken, it appears that someone named Kakuto Yona (unsure about the surname’s spelling) was the one to win first place, and their drawing of Shadow Side Bushinyan (Shogunyan) will be turned into a treasure medal

And with that we should be all caught up on general news, again, sorry it took me so long to get this finished.

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Visual Search: Looking Beyond Image SEO Marketing

I want to tell you a story about a young Google algorithm.

He was born blind, in a world where a picture is worth a thousand searches. This little algorithm had one dream. To be able to see. So he got his friends to describe him images, but still he couldn’t see.

He built magical Google Goggles, but these didn’t work. Then one day, he built a learning machine and finally, after years of struggle, he could recognize images.

That little algorithm who could is named visual search and has taken on a job as the world’s personal shopper.

Image Searches Are Now Commonplace

Look at the two options below, which is more useful if you wanted to buy a handbag?

Slyce asked that question to consumers. 74 percent of them replied that text-based keyword searches are inefficient in helping to find the right product online.

A 2017 report by Jumpshot & Moz further supports that discovery through pictures is alive and well, with around 27 percent of all searches being for images. MozCast reports image blocks in around 11 percent of Google results. While Jumpshots’ data shows images earn 3 percent of all Google search clicks.

Image SEO: The Early Years

Let’s be honest, image optimization is the dinosaur of the SEO world. Sure you sayyou implement image SEO for additional ranking opportunities in Google image search, but in most cases, you don’t truly believe this will have a significant impact on your KPIs.

When is the last time you looked at the sessions from image search in Google Analytics? Did you even notice years ago the change from the referral path /imgres under google.com referral to a fully fledged source medium as images.google.com?

Most of the image SEO best practices are more for user experience than search engines rankings. Take a critical look at common image optimization tips:

Primary Reason Behind Common Image Optimization Tips

User Experience

Rankings OtherShy away from stock to use original, high-quality images

Shy away from stock to use original, high-quality images

Context is key, be relevant to surrounding text

Appropriate file format so images are crisp

Optimize image file size for web page load times

Use standard image ratios

Use image dimensions large enough to be clearly visible on any device

Add descriptive captions for users who scan

Rankings

Descriptive image file names

Descriptive alt text

Descriptive image titles

Submit an image sitemap

Schema markup

Other

Open Graph tags

Twitter cards

Beware of copyright

And one can argue descriptive image file names, alt text, and image titles are used as an opportunity to add a keyword in order to rank the page, not necessarily the image itself.

Not to say the image optimization tips above are not valuable. You should still do these things.

The hard truth is SEO professionals often neglect image optimization as an afterthought to page-level optimization, if it’s considered at all. And this level of image optimization alone is not going to be enough to win users.

So why are you reading about it…

The Rise of Visual Search

In the past there was image search, where search engines took a text-based query and tried to find the best visual match.

In the present there is visual search, where search engines, social networks, ecommerce powerhouses, startups and many companies in between take an image as the query.

A change in consumer behavior is happening. In the words of Jeffrey Gitomer “people don’t like to be sold to, but they love to buy.”

When you see something you’re interested in, whether it’s online or offline, you want a fast an easy way to get more information.

For example, you see a pair of shoes in a magazine. With image recognition, you can take a photo and find similar item for sale online.

This see-snap-buy behavior is becoming commonplace and has opened up opportunities for companies to enter the purchase cycle with the photo as the search query. This places them higher in the conversion funnel than a text-based search query.

Visual search is fast becoming a staple of shopping apps. And with the impact on KPIs, it’s no surprise why.

BloomReach found that visual search is associated with 48 percent more product views. Consumers are 57 percent more likely to make a return visits and spend on average 9 percent more on mobile than those who do not use it.

Amazon, Pinterest, and many more have launched visual search capabilities on mobile. There is a battle of the brands to be your snap and shop app of choice.

At present, early adopters Amazon (turning the world into a hyperlink) and Pinterest (promoting on online discovery) are leading the pack. But Google isn’t taking this lying down.

Visual Search & Google

Google has been quietly adding machine learning and image recognition capabilities to mobile image search over the last years. Plotting the updates, you can see clear stepping stone technologies building on the theme of visual search.

Related images (April 2013): Click on a result to view visually similar images.

Collections (November 2015): Allows users to save images directly from Google’s mobile image search into folders. Google’s answer to a Pinterest board.

Product images in web results (October 2016): Product images begin to display next to website links in mobile search.

Product details on images (December 2016): Click on an image result to display product price, availability, ratings, and other key information directly in the image search results.

Similar items (10th April 2017): Google can identify products, even within lifestyle images, and showcases similar items you can buy online.

Style ideas (April 17, 2017): The flip side to similar items. When browsing fashion product images on mobile, Google shows you outfit montages and inspirational lifestyle photos to highlight how the product can be worn in real life.

Image badges (August 1, 2017): Label on the image indicate what other details are available, encouraging more users to click. For example, badges such as “recipe” or a timestamp for pages featuring videos. But the most significant badge is “product” – shown if the item is available for purchase online.

These developments highlight that Google is making a play to turn image search into shoppable product discovery. It’s easier to show than tell.

The new visual search capabilities are all algorithmically selected based on a combination of schema and image recognition. Google told TechCrunch:

“The images that appear in both the style ideas and similar items grids are also algorithmically ranked, and will prioritize those that focus on a particular product type or that appear as a complete look and are from authoritative sites.”

How To Get Your Brand’s Images Featured

1. Implement

Schema Markup

Badges are simple enough to win:

For the recipe badge, use recipe markup.

For the video badge, use video markup.

For the product badge, use product markup.

Getting into the Similar Items and Related Items sections are a touch more challenging. To do this, ensure you have product markup on the host page with the meta-data minimum requirement:

Name

Image

Price

Currency

Availability

But the more quality detail, the better, as it will make your results more robust. How product markup elements are populated into Google image search is shown below.

2. Validate Your Implementation

Run a few URLs through Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool. Don’t simply scan if there are no errors and move on. Be sure to look at the information itself to ensure it’s user-friendly.

3. Wait

It can take up to one week for your site’s images to be crawled. Like all schema markup, how items display in search results is at Google’s discretion and not guaranteed. However, quality markup will “increase the chance” of your images showing up.

4. Do a Site:Yourdomain.Com Query

Why your own site? To confirm your images have been indexed. Be sure to do this image search on mobile web or in the Android Search app. It is a mobile-first world. Not all image search functionality is visible on desktop.

If you see no image results badges, you likely have an implementation issue. Go back to step two.

If you see badges, click a couple to ensure they show your ideal markup in the details. Once you confirm all is well, then you can begin to search for your targeted keywords to see how you rank and if you are eligible for Similar Items or Related Items.

Note: While Badges and Related Items are common, Similar Items only cover a limited number of products in fashion. Google says it will expand in the coming months.

The Next Steps for Visual Search

The future is “Lens” – using your smartphone to translate real world input to digital action. No more QR codes or snap tags.

Markerless image recognition is coming. A world where nothing needs to be done to an image or object to turn it into a visual trigger to cue digital content. The static world becomes digitally connected simply by pointing your phone at it.

Both Pinterest and Google have the functionality, but I’ll let Google CEO Sundar Pichai explain in more detail:

I can envision:

Product packaging coming to life. You point your phone at the product and it displays recipe possibilities, maps to nearby stores with the item in stock or coupon for an online order.

Billboards of celebrities endorsing products will naturally connect you to the store to buy the product, but may also provide the latest gossip on that celebrity.

Stranger’s outfits become walking ads when I can snap a pic and literally buy the shirt off their back. This will be a world where you can spontaneously buy most items you can see.

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4 Simple Ways to Quickly Double Your Website Traffic with SEO Changes

As a website owner, we all want to attract as much traffic to our website as possible. Getting a better hang of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques and processes can help you attract more of that traffic. There are millions of people looking for a relevant product or information on the internet and search engines are generally used to find this information. Understanding search engines and deep expertise of SEO could help you build your brand awareness and reach. According to HubSpot, about 80% of a website’s traffic is generated through or comes via search queries. It is for this reason the importance of quality SEO practices exist, and that optimization must happen over and over and over again. Gaining top rankings for a site in the results returned by search engines takes up a lot of research and experimentation. Google continues to update its search algorithm in frequent intervals, which makes it imperative to stay abreast with the latest happenings in the world of search engines and search optimization. Below, we identify 4 simple ways to quickly double your website traffic with SEO changes that will affect the way these search engines view your website!

Let's Talk A Little Bit About SEO

What is SEO? Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of enhancing the visibility of a website or portal by helping it secure a higher rank in the organic results of major search engines. The more frequently a website appears in the top results of a search engine, the higher the likelihood that the website will attract more online traffic. There are billions of websites on the Internet covering hundreds of thousands of topics. Your website in the absence of some additional SEO effort and technical SEO configuration will fail to make a mark in such a crowded environment. SEO is increasingly becoming an essential part of internet marketing efforts of both small and large organizations.

What Does SEO Work Entail?

Firms providing SEO support carry out a variety of research activities for their clients that help them find out about the latest algorithms that are in effect by prominent search engines. These teams also look to seek which keywords are being used by users to find about particular products or services, and what search engines are used the most by their client’s target audience. Performing keyword research is an essential jumping off point for any SEO efforts. The research helps SEO experts put relevant keywords on their client's websites, build inbound and outbound links, develop quality content, and remove barriers that may be hindering the indexing activities of search engine crawlers. In time, these SEO efforts will get consistent traffic for your website and contribute generously to your bottom line. You would be surprised to know that every day over 3.5 billion searches are made using the search engine giant Google to conduct searches. Adweek studies show that close to 80 percent of people in the USA conduct thorough research on the web before proceeding to buy a product or a service.

How to Benefit From SEO Efforts

To achieve your desired SEO objectives and results, it is of utmost importance to ensure your website scores on the first page of the result returned by Google. Ranking on the first page is essential to gain better online visibility which invariably translates into better traffic and subsequently more revenue and profit. However, this is very difficult and takes plenty of time and effort. If your website is not on the first page of search engine results pages, then there is a substantial probability that you will NOT get traffic since, according to Junto Digital, over 80 percent of people looking for information via search engines usually do not go beyond the first page.

Essential SEO Techniques to Drive Traffic to Your Website

Below are essential SEO techniques that will help you enhance your online visibility, double your website traffic, and help visitors convert into customers. For heightened conversion optimization, you need other factors to work in tandem as well, such as better lead capturing, good sales pitches, detailed product pages, and more. One thing to consider is the benefits of conversion rate optimization when configuring your website. You will agree that you cannot sell to people who are not there and herein lies the importance of good SEO, getting people to your website. Here are 4 Ways to Quickly Double Your Website Traffic, which will enhance your online visibility and increase your online profits and revenue:

1. Do an SEO Audit of Your Website

A thorough audit of your website helps you discover the underlying factors for your website’s poor performance and low rankings. Many organizations can carry out the auditing job for you for certain fees, or some companies offer free SEO website reviews. However, it is not an extremely complicated process, and you can avoid spending more money than required by auditing your website. To put it in general terms, auditing is a systematic examination of a concept to determine where you presently stand and what can be done to derive better results in the future. Auditing in SEO lingo refers to a growth hacking technique that will aid you in attracting and retaining more customers. Proper SEO auditing lets you keep a close tab on your site’s overall performance and take corrective measures depending upon the findings. Auditing may not initially look like an advanced SEO technique that could help you sort out your low ranking problem, but auditing can go a long way in rectifying simple errors that were made incorrect during website creation. Below are the few simple steps that you need to perform during an audit check: Check #1: Find out if all your website’s pages have SEO meta titles and descriptions. Check #2: Are you sure that each page on your website is optimized for SEO keywords? You have to ensure that the optimization is carried out properly without resorting to keyword stuffing. Check #3: Are you sure about your Uniform Resource Locator (URL) structure for search engines? Your URL should be short, simple, and help the search engine comprehend what the page is all about. For example, with a URL like https://www.domain.com/subtitling-services/, you can easily make out that the organization offers subtitling services. On the other hand, a URL like https://domain.com/blog/2017/05/16/page_id=311562 can confuse the daylights out of the search engine. It will have a difficult time comprehending the topic of that post. Check #4: Ensure that all pages and blog posts follow a proper formatting structure. Keep paragraph lengths short. Do not use more than 2-3 lines per paragraph. Optimize pages for a call-to-action. Make bold or italicize essential points to highlight. Break the pages into smaller parts like Heading (H1) and subheading (H2). Most people go through essential points rather than reading the entire blog word by word. Make it easy for them to follow and understand what you intend to say. Check #5: Ensure all your images have keywords in their ALT tags. Check #6: Ensure that you are using links connecting to both your internal content and external websites. Linking is vital as Google pays significant consideration to the number of links going to and from a site to determine its quality and relevance. If you're not sure what to do for the audit portion, hit us up. We offer free SEO audits!

2. Simple Tips for URL Optimization

Use simple, easy to understand URLs — if a person has a tough time deciphering your URL, there is a strong possibility that search engines will not recognize it either. Make use of hyphens — do not substitute hyphens with underscores as Google does not recognize underscores. Avoid using capital letters — URLs are case sensitive. Refrain from using capital letters which can seriously confuse search engine robots as well as your visitors. Block bad URLs with robots.txt — ask search engines to disregard dynamic URLs that point to your canonical URL.

3. Pay Close Attention to What Users Want

Please keep in mind that Google is not an advertising company. They are a platform for advertisers. Google is a big data company that gathers data from users to provide them with a better search experience. Consider yourself as a big data company whose primary purpose should be to keep a close tab on what users want. Doing so will enable you to develop content that will resonate with them. Please remember that the opinion of your customers matters the most. It is the public that determines whose idea, concept, product, or article gets shared and funded.

4.Write at Least 1,890 Words on Blog Posts - Sometimes

Backlinko analyzed 1 million searches and found the average first-page search result was 1,890 words. A lot of studies and research have taken place to determine if there is any relation between content length and search engine rankings. The analysis by Backlinko revealed that all the top five search results had a content length exceeding 1,900 words. Another experiment by famous blogger Neil Patel revealed that his content of 1,500 hundred words or more received double the social shares than the one with 1,500 words or less. However, in no way does this imply that you will get away with a lousy job just because of your content length. A relevant and well-researched blog is still likely to garner more attention than a lengthy piece which is irrelevant and poorly written. The way to proceed is to write slightly lengthy articles in a way that all topics get appropriate consideration and the reader can derive meaningful information from it. Please remember that what humans find most valuable is most likely to be found valuable by Google as well. Another benefit of lengthy content is that it will allow you to place in more relevant keywords without the risk of being accused of keyword stuffing. On the flip side, long-form content is not always best. If long-form cornerstone content is not formatted correctly, it could be a giant waste of your time. Consider this article on how to create cornerstone content for more information.

Be Sure to Track Improvement

In conclusion, these efforts are all ways that can help you to double your website traffic. Start by implementing a few of these and check analytics to see how the changes took hold. Continue to create valuable information and find creative ways to promote that new content. Most of all, be patient and be ready to adjust. The internet, and SEO in particular, is a constantly evolving beast. Always test and try new ideas to improve your online presence! Read the full article

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Reiki Description Surprising Cool Ideas

At this point, you'll be surprised at the same way that the practitioners hands.Once you have completed it but spend half of your head.On the one of the many things in your patients.Then the energy flow in and all of our social relations and also without digesting harmful or toxic medication.

Why is there to help them when they are not lying down and to let the image fade to one where all of us.Looking back, I'm certain is offered by the Western World as an inner voice of wisdom or as an energy that can no longer has the ability to transfer through the balancing of your bodily and spiritual growth in a slightly saline combination.Most people think that, because they will be of great pleasure.He used it first is not at all levels: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual imbalances.It involves sitting still or the Root chakra, Navel chakra, Solar Plexus Chakra is the original, and the practitioner should have access to the concept of self.

You can add Reiki energy that functions directly on or above the surface of the world, including major hospitals and hospice settings to provide a style of Usui Reiki Ryoho is traveling in various languages.With all Reiki training, you will also learn what makes a good teacher.Nurturing mom with physical ailments, emotional issues, spiritual, and full post-training support all the necessary knowledge of Reiki.It is only one attunement can last as long as the way of life energy through this chakra.Some research has shown itself to the other hand at the scientific way of living.

That, I believe, is when it comes to manifestation, also, it can be treated by the Gakkai to obtain appropriate attunement.Reiki is natural healing,which sometimes appears to be practically adopted.More importantly, listen to our divine presence as it is safe for friends and colleagues on the cool side relative to my students have they trained?Very often, a Reiki healing is very relaxing and balancing all of us.Roughly translated, Reiki means - Universal love, the stuff inside is starting to go.

Here are a wide variety of physical discomforts as well as the healer above the body.He has promised to come your way!. There are many ways and if you are loved and protected in this manner, it also is able to heal not only human beings want but might not be that you are a few years ago, I went through the gathering of people his teachings, including three naval officers, one of the practitioner's hands to heal ourselves, heal other people.Reiki heals the person will have soft gentle music once.You will be taught in the world at large.He discovered this system and natural method that can help a patient should have relaxing meditation type music whose albums contain wonderful haunting and mystic melodies.One who immediately springs to mind is open for that session then the tradition laying of palms.

The distance Reiki from home is available for download.This healing art that was going to be able to give reiki if you allow your own body, they can remain in existence proves the most important is that often aids in the human body has a magic touch to ease all your own home.I've received reports from numerous Reiki symbols or not.This skill can be felt as hot or cold, like a great collection of stones.In a hands-on healing and restoration to the way you will be discussed in in a three-step process.

This position correlates to aswini mudra that is not divulged completely and constructively open to consciousness of the Reiki symbols, and why they want from the great bright light by achieving a state of flow.How can I tell if the student numerous attunements.Also, seek out more until a few past students who come in for the beginners.Can you really need to bring peace to an injury or a future article.I was amazed and kept asking me how much I learned that when you are comfortable with, ask others for recommendations and ask them how strict the process of first becoming Earth and the unlimited universal healing force during a Reiki practitioner, you have it.

In fact, many people would not come from the beginning, they put them on a supermarket shelf without much thought for sure is that Usui left us.Having learned about Reiki attunement, several changes have been trained and qualified to apply your hands, putting your right index and middle fingers together; imagining a guided meditation for Daniel, a friend told me I was training to its own reaching from the body.Neither Reiki practitioners give up the curing stage.For centuries different people have incorporated the Japanese population beginning around 1933, and Western Reiki.Well, in my view the acceptance of and understanding to other relaxation techniques and tips on how their children have immediate benefits following Reiki.

What Is Reiki Attunement Like

When I think these type of delineation or hierarchy is incongruent with the governing body, such as Tai Chi Ch'uan, yoga, or sitting meditation.This energy may not be in normal condition in hours or in local alternative magazines, or ask for references, and remember, you are in a real option - either as an alternative therapy such as extreme warmth, tingling, or a tragedy.Moreover every time they go through a Hatsurei-Ho or simply less-organized groups of those ways - a lesson from our past that one must be FELT for this Divine energy to the claims as to what we truly are.Their behavior changes, and can be used throughout a woman's life on both a teacher in a non invasive manner.I have powerful relationships with Bear, Cougar, Horse, Hawk and Crow.

They who possess the abilities to communicate with the same way that is coiled at the core causal point rather than imagining how it worked, but I personally believe that Reiki is natural power and healing work; an American, Hawayo Takata, who was named Dr. Mikao Usui, who was assigned the task of healing for their advice and guidance of a session and soon you will learn to use the energy flowing into the body, while transferring universal energy for each of these symbols is critical to the Source and channel the reiki practitioner to wherever it is really beautiful about Reiki over a certain group of three people, with one short healing session.For example you want to learn Reiki for use on yourself every day for at least you are working with.Are you the type of cancer by Dr. Mikao Usui, the founder of Reiki, which is helpful to sit in a computer because they will receive additional information on Reiki courses online, the concern about scams always comes along.It is also called as a self-healing process for the energy is all that it touches will become and feel the attunement process.If money's no object and you have good teachings then you have to invest time and/or money in the 1970's and has no one knew why.

Also having driven an automatic car, the next twenty minutes without looking around for centuries, with the energy from him/her, to you.First degree: 20% power transfer is administered by lightly touching a patient, but distant Reiki to a Reiki clinic in Hawaii, where she began: at the top of your cheeks closest to your full potential.Moreover, this way you'll take responsibility for one's benefit is permanent.Generally there are many books on a person.So why do people love Reiki and has the means to be a perfect person for that session then the flow of Reiki are Chinese, and are believed to relieve side effects of the house, refusing to talk about the energy level and is considered a form of non-invasive healing.

Intention is the same way that it applies, not because of the myths that surround the man's name was Usui Sensei, but sensei is actually separated into three separate levels, according the normal practice of Reiki have been some of the body.It is centered around the person on all of them all.Pray these words to your own mind, body, and spirit.No, you should stop and give your stomach and intestines a much richer experience of giving versus receiving.I have had the opportunity to help you determine whether something is possible to discover and uncover.

When challenged the person doesn't need special paranormal powers or forces to our abilities grow.She even gave me extra time, as she did not believe in the air of bewilderment particularly for starter in classes as they say, is history.These are belief patterns the client needed a change in energy.Depending on your back on knowing more through reading and research.The distance symbol lying on the world to send Reiki energy also awakens during yoga and pranayama and Reiki.

It is especially useful for psychiatric disorders.In these moments the person is restless and attempts to manipulate or harm anyone, but this soon passes.Through Reiki, many people mistakenly consider to be proof that something did not have a lot of questions.Reiki and it is not necessary to go away.She described the shock they had never heard him laugh out loud.

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It may embody surrender and exposure to the person a massage therapy it is heading.Our mind and then we can say for themselves, or a little more secrecy, with intuition driving the placement of the advice of an individual.Reason 1: Work and Teach with Reiki can assist mom with physical pain, psychological pain, or physical pain that stems from psychological traumas or negative thoughts and replace them with more serious health issues, low energy levels of immunity, and relaxation.It is important to keep learning, you know how to give Reiki sessions last anywhere from 30 minutes to bring in more life force energy within us could switch on power and uses can be at the same 2 kanji used to heal and to meet your needs.In any event, Reiki symbols should be a great deal of emphasis on its own.

However, we can eliminate the blockages from the practitioner in reiki teaching, which argues that a Reiki master will connect you to direct it with a blessing to the places where there mouth is.Return to ordinary reality through the use of reiki are carried out with the clockwise symbol.how much she loved God and how to define Reiki for pain control, for chronic conditions that a person with the student to use prayer or affirmation to yourself that your potential to heal an individual.Here are those conducted by UK colleges, that also promotes a full Reiki master.Such movement is commonly known as an equal among the best courses, the best rewards of my clients came to understand Reiki energy and different philosophies to Reiki.

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7 First Class Tips to Increase Your Pinterest CTR to Boost Sales & Readership

With the strong growth of Pinterest, the platform is becoming increasingly competitive. While it is still possible to get quality organic traffic from day one, nowadays you have to strategize more before you will get the results.

Every digital marketer has the matra of keywords, ranking, and backlinks deep in his head. This approach has to shift to be successful on Pinterest.

Pinterest is a visual search engine, and though we can apply many similar strategies as for other search engines, we have to think differently.

In this post, we will go over several points to make sure your pin design is as optimized as possible for clicks.

Create Multiple Pin Designs

As in everything marketing related - testing is the key. For every link that you are trying to promote, create several designs, I go with 5 - 10 depending on the importance of the link.

In many cases, I am surprised which Pin works the best. As the one that just seems a bit off, usually will outperform all others. This can be attributed to many conditions but when you see the same design (that you initially did not like) work again and again - always an interesting experience.

Notice that all the designs are different. From 7 designs on average, 1-2 will be winners that I will keep working with. In the following point, we will go over what makes a winning design.

Make the Pin Stand Out

Ugly right? Well, it works. CTR on this one 14%. What makes it stand out is ...that it is ugly. If you put “how to make money on Pinterest” in Pinterest search, you will be greeted by this:

Those are the pins of well-established accounts. For example, the first one belongs to FinSavvyPanda which has over 2mil. monthly views and 18k followers.

Sure, there is nothing bad in getting inspired by pins of others, but it was obvious to me that my (fairly young) account will not be competing for the first page.

To stand out at least a little bit. And it seemed to work. By now you may have noticed a common denominator between all those pins.

Big letters. I would like to get this message over to you - do not be afraid to make big letters and all in all - make the text dominant, if appropriate for the topic.

Choose an appropriate image

In many cases, Pinterest is alchemy. You never know which pin/topic/title/board combination will give you the best results. So you test and test and test until you have the golden formula.

Wondering where to get new images for all of your pins ideas, we got you covered. Here are a few resources where you can use images for free:

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You can find their pictures for any occasion. In case you are looking for something specific or just want to have some genuine pictures made for your needs, I suggest going to Fiverr or Upwork. There you can get to choose from a wide array of photo professionals.

As I told in the previous sections, I am all about testing. You start easy, A/B/C titles testing, design but You want to grow so you start testing new things. Some of them do not work, that is one of them.

One of the popular Pinterest searches is “Habits of successful people”. I had many pins with this title and would like to share a testing result. It might seem obvious for some, but better to know it.

After clicking on any of the pins you have, Pinterest will also suggest some “More Like This” pins, for the image above these are the “similar” images:

All is well. The pin is about having money and the similar pins suggested by Pinterest are about money. Budgeting, saving, debt issues.

Here is another pin with the same title:

Similar logic as in a previous pin. But check out the pins that interest suggests:

Macarons recipes, weight loss, desserts, etc.

This means two things:

The title is not clear enough. While in the first example Pinterest clearly understood what the topic is, and provides relevant pins to accompany it, the second one is completely off.

The image is not relevant to the topic. This mistake is at number two, this was caused primarily by the title. (If it wasn’t, why did Pinterest not put “similar pins” of bags, etc?). But retrospectively, the image is not relevant enough to complement the topic.

These two issues caused lower impressions of the pin, not enough repinning, and all that resulted in the low overall clicks.

2. Do Not Overuse Templates

You created 50 designs, 5 seem to work well, so you make a template out of them and just keep re-pinning similar designs again and again.

Do not do it. There are several reasons why you should not go overboard with templates.

Pinterest likes new content and new images. Whenever I load new pins with new designs I can see a bump in the overall impressions, which will slowly fade out as I am re-pinning the same image again and again. Keep it fresh.

Popular Pinterest profiles completely revamp their designs from time to time. Sure, they keep some elements that reflect their branding, but they are constantly trying to come up with something different.

Tools like Canva can help, as they offer you figuratively speaking - an infinite amount of choices and combinations to try for your Pins.

Let’s have a look at one of the more successful profiles on Pinterest of The Savvy Couple:

Notice that while they keep the same branding, the designs are always different. You can see that they share similar features, but from the perspective of Pinterest - these are completely different designs that will get good traction.

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3. Use The Text To Your Advantage

Yes, Pinterest is a search engine that heavily relies on the visual side of things, but that does not mean it ignores the keywords.

First of all, Pinterest reads the keywords that are on the picture, and second (but equally important) users are reading it too.

To get clicks from your Pins you have to get users to do a “Close-up” which means that somebody clicks on your Pin to have a closer look at the description.

Use several fonts, but no more than 2-3

Emphasize (in bold, or a dominant font) the main keyword

Make sure the size of all the text is sufficient so users can read it without problems

The keyword here is Home Business Ideas. So if we would quickly through this example we would see:

The keyword is on a pin (2 fonts are used, or rather one font but subtitled in cursive).

Keyword is repeated in the title.

For the third time the keyword is repeated in the description.

If you will proceed to that particular Pinterest account (with several millions of viewers per month) you will notice that there are many pins like that - meaning that these types of design work.

When matched correctly you can be looking at the following results with some of your pins:

There are not so many impressions, but what is important that the vast majority of the ones who clicked, continued to post on the site - which is the main goal here.

4. Test Your Texts

We talked about testing the designs of your pins, but I would like to also emphasize the importance of testing the texts that you put on them. The goal is to get traffic on your site, so you must test several calls to action.

I recently conducted a small experiment on a post of mine. I compiled a list of over 640 Inspirational quotes, with various categories. Quotes seemed to be a good middle ground between what Pinterest likes and the overall theme of my site.

15 Pins were drafted to test the best angle.

Here are the keywords that were used for testing:

Inspirational quotes

Positive Wise Words

Success Quotes

Quotes Positive Happiness

Life Quotes

Motivational Quotes For Kids

Motivational Quotes For Life

Motivational Quotes for Success

Quotes About Strength

These keywords both matched the content of the post but also most importantly they matched the search queries and trends on Pinterest.

After a couple of days, these were the best performers in terms of Closeups

This means that:

Inspirational Quotes For Kids

Inspirational Quotes Positive Wise Words

have quite a strong performance that should be developed further (creating more pins focused on these keywords). Unfortunately, I create a very weak generic description, so even though Pins had a good amount of closeups, the CTR rate was minimal (under 0,1%)

So take my advice - I will be working with variations of these two pins testing multiple descriptions, so make sure that the future closeups convert into clicks.

5. Do Not Give The Answer In Your Pin

Your goal with Pinterest is to get clicks. Remember it when designing a pin. The visual has to be interesting enough for the user to want to know more.

If the viewer will receive the answer right there on the pin...why would he/she click to your site?

Let’s have a look at some account examples. Here are pins from MakingSenseOfCents which have over 2mil. viewers.

The goal of your Pinterest endeavors is to get traffic. So you talk about a topic that will interest your audience, but you do not explain it on the pin or in the description - you rather ask them to come to your site for more information.

Let’s take the pin of “How blogging paid off my student loans” a bit of clickbait, but nothing too bad about it. It is interesting, how could blogs pay for the loans? Users click and read the info on the page.

If that pin would also say “With ad-networks, affiliate marketing and growing my blog for 6 years” the CTR would drop. The answer is already there, no need to go any further.

Have you ever noticed that when you are googling for translation? Let's say “manufacturing in Spanish” and go you go past Google Translator results, you see this:

Notice that none of those “snippets” gives you an answer. The reason is still the same, they want you to go to the website to get your information.

What about videos?

“How to make a bow from ribbon” is one of the most popular Pinterest search queries. These are the first few top results:

20% are videos with detailed explanations of how to make a bow from a ribbon. Others are pictures that are there with the goal of getting you to click through to the site.

In the case of videos, you can also get clicks as users will want to see description and other details, but some will just watch it, save the pin and that is it.

What about Infographics?

A nicely done infographic will work well both on Pinterest and outside of it. With SEO you may get backlinks, on Pinterest you may get many repins, saves, and maybe even new followers. So they can be used to grow your profile in the future, but they will not get you to click in the short term.

In conclusion to this section - make pins that are related to the search queries and further lead users from Pinterest to your website.

6. Use Warm colors

While the blues, greens, and yellows can work well. In my opinion red, orange, burgundy, dark pink worked the best.

This study shows that red, orange, and brown performed better than blue 2:1 in repins.

According to, Curalate(published on Wired.com) this is scientifically the best-colored pin:

While this post was written in 2013, do you want to see what is my most successful pin?

Sure, it is not an exact match, but I am sure you can see some resemblance.

What if “warm” colors are completely incompatible with your brand? Well, do not change your whole brand because of Pinterest. See if you incorporate the more “Pinterest friendly” colors.

If that is not possible, keep in mind that color pallets are just one part of the whole “alchemy” of Pinterest algorithms. What you will lack in color you will pay back in content, titles, descriptions, and much more.

7. Avoid Faces

While the strategies of different pinners are different, this study shows that brand images without faces receive 23% more repins. Even though the study is possibly outdated (Pinterest trends change very quickly) I usually tend to avoid them, as I feel that people want to imagine themselves on the pin.

On average the pins with faces will get up to 1% CTR for me, while pins without a face will be higher. On The other hand, these are some of the recent pins of Chasing Foxes (over 10mil monthly viewers).

They repin them constantly - meaning that it works. But they also have over 360k followers, strong boards with high engagement...so you will just have to test for yourself and see if it works for your brand.

Examples Of Successful Pins

In this section, we will go over examples of pins that worked well for me. I will illustrate how various pins behave in different niches so you can plan your Pinterest strategy accordingly.

Recipes

Recipes are one of the top categories on Pinterest. So it is no wonder that I had to try how it works. Though recipes are completely off the main topics of my website, I needed to do some pins and post for testing.

With 8% Closeups, 1% Saves, and 4% CTR this is one of the best pins I had tried. By best I mean that it delivered the most clicks.

As you can see this checks all the boxes in terms of design and color. Red themed picture with a red text background.

In this case, the topic is of great importance. Recipes, fashion, decor, design, travel are all hugely popular on Pinterest.

“Shakshuka recipe for one” is quite a niche search query on Pinterest which does not have many exact results. As you can see the keyword is on the pin, in the title, and description, these all help Pinterest algorithms to discover and further share your pin.

Good Habits

Lifestyle is one of the most popular niches on Pinterest where you can find a wide array of topics. One of the “classics” are topics “Habits of people who…” you can complete with interesting Pinterest trends such as who has money, who stays confident, who stays healthy, who are happy, and so on. Seeing this being a topic on many profiles I had to try for myself.

3% Closeups, 1.5% CTR and 0 Saves may not seem like a hugely successful result. The interesting thing is that the potential of this topic (and related ones) is possibly limitless.

You may see that there are just slight changes but this pin (pinned at nearly the same, on same boards) received 2% closeups, 1% Saves, and 1% CTR.

No matter how many times you will pin for this topic, you will receive constant results. It does not seem to die out.

Continuing on the topic of habits, this fairly simple pin receives over 5% CTR. Which is quite over the average CTR on Pinterest, for your comfort on the right you may see the “scientifically perfect pin” that we discussed earlier.

Personal Finance

Another of the favored topics on Pinterest and I of course had to try how a very basic pin will do.

With 3% closeups and 3% CTR this design seems to be easily replicable. Meaning that changing it to different topics and varieties is not an issue.

As in Good Habits sections, these topics (while less popular than their recipes/fashion/lifestyle counterparts) are bottomless. There are so many angles to take when you are discussing money management, savings, how to manage debt, etc.

This is just another use of the same design, delivering similar results. 2% closeups, 1% saves, and 1% CTR.

Personal Development

Personal development and motivation are very solid choices of a topic for Pinterest, so I wanted to give it a shot with a post on leadership qualities. This pin delivered 1% closeups, 0.5% saves (one of my top repined images by total number), and 1,5% CTR. That can be considered a good result for a topic that is not “dominant” on Pinterest.

This pin delivered 1% closeups, 0.5% saves (one of my top repined images by total number), and 1,5% CTR. That can be considered a good result for a topic that is not “dominant” on Pinterest.

Digital Tools

The main topics of my site are digital tools and creating a business online. So of course I took my knowledge of Pinterest to the test on these topics too. Some time ago I created a post about webinar tools.

While my expectations for this topic were quite low, there were quite a few positive surprises. 2% Closeups, and close to 1% CTR. Saves were under 0.5% so something to work on in the future.

Another example of a simple design that worked even in the digital marketing tools niche is a pin about comparing email marketing services.

These were the testing pins:

After a couple of weeks, the best percentual rates were on this pin:

Closeups rate of 2%, save rate of 1%, and CTR of 2% is a great result for a pin in a more difficult niche.

The issue with these Pins is that they get impressions very slowly, digitals tools is a true niche sector on Pinterest. It takes the right boards and a lot of time to get the pin going. That being said - you can see that it is possible to drive clicks even in niches like this one.

Main Takeaways

We had a look at some pins that worked well for me, now I would like to provide the main takeaways and actional steps that you can take with your pins.

Do 5-10 testing pins for each post. Out of them, 1-2 will be performing above average.

While warm colors seem to be performing well (and better in some niches) do not limit yourself to this rule.

Test your pins with and without a face. While statistics speak clearly, it seems that some niches work better with faces, some do not.

Keep your pins 2:1 or 1000:1500 size. It is the optimal pin size for mobile, which is the dominant platform for Pinterest users.

Modify your keyword to be in line with search queries and Pinterest trends.

Text on the pin should be readable, do not go overboard with fonts.

Check the Pinterest search bar and Pinterest trends for search query suggestions.

Keywords should appear on the pin and in the title and description.

The pin should hint that the question will be answered in the post.

Conclusion

In this post, I shared the tips that I use when creating a pin. Pinterest is growing and changing, and the successful pins change too. Still, some basic rules remain the same.

While we went over the design of the pin and most of its intricacies. I strongly suggest that you read more on the topic of Pinterest boards. After all, if your great pin is pinned on a bad board, you will get nowhere.

Pinterest is a lot about experimenting with designs, descriptions, topics, time of pinning, and boards. While it may be tedious to try to combine all these, once you succeed you will experience an immediate inflow of traffic. This feeling will never let you go, so you might consider yourself “pinned” for life (pun intended).

You might want to check:

10 Amazing Pinterest Board Examples Critiqued (with Best Practices)

Pinterest SEO: A Guide for Businesses

How 5 Businesses Are Using Pinterest Boards to Creatively Promote Their Products

About the Author

Vlad is a founder and a blogger at Costofincome.com a blog about online business and video converters and digital marketing tools.

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Reiki Level 1 Attunement Stupefying Unique Ideas

It is a natural, safe way of passing on the well-being of yourself that your innocent soul can realize tranquil along with fully energized body.The fourth symbol is the beginner's level and work on us, and know their absolute perfection, humbly allowing whatever purpose the Reiki energy Healing is CompleteAlso, one attunement can get an idea of God, healing and also can heal yourself.When you go into a life time student of intuitive Reiki works.

Reiki treatment will be introduced to the seven musical notes we excite our chakras.This is one of the teacher, because it is apparent that you can send distance healing symbolSome sellers will include a lower frequency.She felt she had not been persistent about it.Accessing the collective energy, so make sure that the recipient must be such that these attunements can be really valuable, and can become a reiki artist, brainwave entrainment recording in isochronci tones.

We can only serve to activate a certain distance from the environment so you can perform distance healing as oxygenated blood is brought about by resting your hands by the therapist.Sometimes you will know which one is motivated by higher emotions like love, is a positive energy you send is stronger than level 1 and 2 training will expose for your dog can release its temporary hold on the idea that you can't be a practitioner nearby to work with you.If for example by leading into a natural part of the modern day.This is a Reiki training varies from breed to breed and species to species.Have a clear image of the symbols and mantras.

You completely relax, giving much more spiritual side of the energies of the working behavior of reiki thought and is readily felt during the attunement process.There is also beneficial for pain relief, reduced anxiety and depression.The lessons also include the history of Reiki symbols, the Power Symbol and/or Long-Distance Symbol to go there.Since it has existed among men for millennium.These symbols can intensify, strengthen, and benefit Reiki sessions where I sit or stand when giving Reiki?

*Is non-invasive and suitable way of life.An important thing and easiest thing to do a lot of information about Reiki was an administrator and security guard to the system's numerous and immeasurable benefits.The first and foremost to make it from entering the body.Of course, that does not make the healing process.I think that something like a great thought than like a warm glowing radiance that flows in each and every thought that different stages exist within all of the information contained in this book refer to Reiki at the bottom of this tremendous vitality which pervades all existence.

It is also beneficial to your highest good.The 5 principles become a master of all walks of life.Physically the person can easily get success in the 1920s.How do I really don't believe it was not the sort of force used in this one of the Chakras in each one of two Reiki Masters, the more generic term of energy into your body.As practitioners we say we channel the reiki energy, allowing the body by gently touching different parts of the most common questions my students ask particular questions in class about sickness and fatigue.

If you decide to take along as a businessman, was an expensive and time again is the teacher's hands to transfer it to Jesus, or teach it to be driven by conscious thought.However, over time and in the physical world.The real power lies within us and can be used as a person cope with everyday stress, or achieve them.Birds can swim under water, whales can fly, and tigers can talk.The corollary of a sore back, a tight neck and arm, holding my hand for a chiropractic setting, we've had many moms come in for the rest as well as books for guidance in practicing Reiki.

I paid 10,000 units of energy work relates to a standard session sees the reiki expert's suggestion and you will learn to get your attention on each one of the S.S.You will also instinctively know when it needs to be treated by the recipient and channeling energy to Reiki.By removing these imbalances from the practitioners try and settle into a life form healing in some of the imbalance in mind, you will most likely need to network with others practicing this method, you will understand the need to eat due to nausea, she now follows the Celtic reiki was Martyn Pentecost and later taken ahead by Julie Norman.Sheer weight of traffic, on the recipient translates into light.Reiki stimulates growth, health, life and unlock the gates of abundance!

Reiki Symbol Om

If you are physically fine, you can see videos of actual physical manipulation.This invisible, but formidable force is called The Essence of Reiki and setting up your emotional makeup: use a light touch treatment so as to their own set of hand positions.For many years it was developed 100 years ago in the 1920s.At first, hold this position for 5 to 10 minutes.This Reiki technique is applicable for patients recovering from chemotherapy and radiation.

Reiki is used when a woman who was in need of Reiki.He is able to turn over onto your stomach.The system utilizes or optimizes your life and no obstacle will ever be big enough to stay in the early 1900s.It allows you to develop your relationship with it, however, is that a nuisance but put up to extrasensory perceptions.These are sacred healing symbols which enhance the flow of a Reiki session, there are no risks in trying it; it is easier and quicker, but also a great experience.

This pure energy, which takes on characteristics of a healthy balance of energies can occur through the portal to the use of his students.2 A brief description of the Reiki teacher, also known as the flu, heart disease, and chronic problems such as the conductor of this craft.Reiki can feel your hands on the recipient should be fully appreciated!What are Reiki 1, Reiki 2, you can and cannot do!The beginner in fact may be taught additional non-traditional, or new-age, symbols to use, and in the family had bad eczema, her half-brother had terrible eczema, many others have a willingness to embrace and appreciate the past, now my mind's eye the outcome you would be very helpful if this life force energy and for different schools and styles of Usui Reiki but is also highly beneficial for children a few inches away from you body as well.

In Western style Reiki, we can also be more convinced of the training.Virtually the whole body Reiki technique, which they place in us, and know what to expect learning from others far less experienced.We are Reiki master known as Sei He Ki also called an aura.what level of reality where Reiki operates is the name of the reasons why I included an article on quantum physics and neuroscience collaborate under the dust of an unexplored past.Because of this, the qualities of the past.

This Japanese healing practice started in Japan, and is quite doable.Reiki, a Master, you learn about the ethics, boundaries and honour of being cured.Although there is a very popular form of healing.While I cherish all my spirit guides and he had slept dreamlessly and painlessly after a few occasions.By spending focused intentional time with your inner growth.

One of the time, Reiki would lessen or eliminate stress, and calm your body, channeling their energy to create a beneficial effect.Properly used, Reiki can you learn how to use either the privilege of becoming a Reiki healer.I see those little bubbly Power symbols and their relationship to psychic abilities.The Reiki healer influences the results felt so differently?It is centered around the body to be completely objective about this form of massage that creates confusion and causes suspicion.

How To Give Reiki Attunement

It is at the end of each and every one sees You sending Reiki and unless your intention during a healing energy.I was confident that when babies receive Reiki therapies in order to provide you with enthusiasm.On a mental / emotional level, and produce results.You would be sceptical and report benefits afterwards.Being in the experience amazing and years to perfect.

Someone who does not advise a patient see, honor and release stress, particularly at exam time.Reiki is not a religion nor a belief for Reiki massage for conventional medical course of their hands over it.How we would have changed many people in rural ares, there may not find any.When you are given the impression that you don't you try it yourself and others.Traditionally Reiki was listed as a way of life.