SEO MissingButtn Opportunities - Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button?

Missing Buttn

I lost a button.

I don’t know when.

I don’t know how.

It fell of after years of wearing.

Playing Games of Hide and Seek, Lost and Found

“Button, button, who’s got the button” was a childhood game that we played a lot at my cousin’s house on the farm. We were all under 10 years old as I recall. That was fun. My aunt had lots of buttons of all kinds.

“You’re hot” meant if you were getting closer to where that little button was hidden.

“You’re cold” meant you were going away instead of closer to the hidden button. You were not nearby.

Then the 4 of us chose a little button. One of us hid it somewhere in their house. If you found it, you got to hide it. We took turns hiding it.

One of us hid it.

The other 3 went to look for it.

Lost and Found

That was then. Now I lost a button several years ago. I don’t know when. I don’t know how, 50+ years later. I no longer have a pile of buttons like my mother and aunt had. I could not find a match either.

And then….

I went back to my hometown again. I stayed with my cousin, not in her childhood farmhouse, but another house a few miles away.

In the room where I stayed, I saw a button in a antique decorative bowl on the dresser that looked like it matched my other buttons.

I asked her if that was hers. She said no.

I asked if I could have it. She said yes.

Elated, my missing button made me smile. Little did I know that the last time I had stayed there 3 years ago, I had lost it there.

It really depends how near you are to where you lost it.

Don’t hit the Publish button before you check the … “More settings”

You are near to publishing, but you may lose valuable readers if you do not see those 3 dots beside the Publish button in the top right corner.

More is essential — not additional information.

More might mean extra work, compared to most as a superlative term. However, in the case of Medium writing, you may be blindsided by what appears in “More settings” behind the scenes, so check it out.

For example, you can…

• Reword your title to be more effective.
• Edit your description, instead of what is automatically added.
• Double-check your tags to reflect your content.
• Change your URL to customize before publishing under advanced settings.

Before you submit a draft to a publication, check your SEO. That search engine optimization makes a difference for you and for your readers.

Take time to revise your rough draft and edit more settings for opportunities that you have lost and are now found before you submit to publish.

Step-by-step consistency and checklists

Pay attention to your priorities and checklists. You’ve been writing topics, reminders, and lost memories on pieces of paper or in a notebook, yes?

1. “Batch process” your writing by selecting a day to write several articles.
2. Then challenge yourself to submit an article a day, a week, a month. Just be consistent in your focus.
3. Enroll. If you have 100 followers or more, you qualify to enroll in the Medium Partner Program, required by many publishers.
4. Then apply to publishers you select within your niche to request to write.
5. After you have been accepted as a writer, then select those 3 dots again.
6. Select “Add to publication” to choose which one you want to submit for publication.
7. Check the box for “metered” so that pennies accrue, too.

Still not found

Does this article still need revising? Yes.

Did I check the parameters for submitting? Yes, yet I need to reread to double-check.

Missingbuttn is a word I coined to highlight lost opportunities to find hidden SEO settings when you write to optimally reach and teach others.

You need basic formatting.

Let’s share information for collaborative problem-solving.

SEO on

Lost and found again —

Would you believe that another button was loose on another blouse less than one day after I sewed on that lost button? Instead of losing it, I detached it.

I put it on the dresser.

The next day I sewed it on.

I reinforced another button, too.

I reviewed my other original articles and reinforced the SEO, too.

You could do that, too to reach more readers and teachers, too… with 3 dots.

So on and so on

So I could go on and on and on about writing and revising. I am a former English teacher in public and private schools. I am an instructional designer, aware of what to do.

So this is a start to find what is lost for me and you.

The missing o

Lost and found creates new opportunities. Be available — to be where you need to be when you’re invited to be there.

You are invited to write. It’s all about timing in the present to search and find what is lost.

Finding lost opportunities is the missing o. Check those SEO settings.

Button, button, who’s got the button?

I do.