Here’s my Mother’s Day dream gift list for the blogger in your life!

1.  Their blog perfectly SEO’d (that’s search engine optimization for those of you that don’t speak blogger).  Especially if they’ve recently moved from one platform to another.  Going through old posts, doing the keyword research and tweaking posts slightly so that the grey bubble from the Yoast plug-in becomes the beautiful green ball that we are searching for isn’t difficult – it’s incredibly time-consuming.  But oh so important to what we do.

2.  While we are speaking about back-end blog needs, most bloggers could use some template adjusting.  Whether it’s your share buttons (maybe one of them isn’t working right or they aren’t where you’d like them to be), your mobile format not flowing the way it should, needing a few plug-ins to do certain things so that you don’t have to do them manually, or adjusting your categories so that your URL’s have that name in them instead of the date (I know you told us to do this Fran, but I can’t figure out how), having a person who’s an expert in your corner and can easily update these things for you is PRICELESS.

3.  Updating social media accounts.  Yes, all of them.  Whether it’s Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+, Tumblr, Triberr, or something else, most of us have tons of accounts that are floating around barely used.  Let’s pick the ones that will really add value to our blog & business and get them at 100%.  Max out everything that you can do with them, understand how they work and how they can work for you and RUN WITH IT.

4.  A clean house!  No, this is not directly related to blogging, but every blogger I know is always stressed and pressured because of time.  A really clean house – and I mean CLEAN, not just picking things up but scrubbing all of the places that never get scrubbed.  Moving furniture and cleaning behind it.  Washing windows and light fixtures.  Basically evicting any dust bunnies and cobwebs that are having a party would be HEAVEN.

But the best gift of all I think would be a day off.  A true day off.  From emails, notifications, questions, paperwork, phone calls, laundry, errands, and everything else that moms handle.  Not a day that we don’t do any of those things (which just makes them pile up and we’ll have more to deal with on Monday).  But a day where it just stops.  One day that we can enjoy it however we choose.  If that’s sleeping, reading a book, and spending the day in quiet peace  - fantastic!  Or if it’s spending the entire day with our family and really engaging them in whatever activity we choose without stopping to check our email, Facebook, Twitter, et al, with the worry that we are missing something.

I’ll be spending the day with my family, offline, and wishing for the magical blog fairy to come and take care of numbers 1-4 above.  How will you be spending Mother’s Day?