Tuesday, April 22, 2008

How Much is your Blog worth? 'Blog Worth Calulator'

Since this is a new blog I asked permission to Emotional Abuse and Your Faith if I might use her blog. She has been existance for over 7 years, and it might very well give us a more exciting MONEY number! 'Blog Worth Calulator' is a neat tool to promote yourself!


My blog is worth $6,209.94.
How much is your blog worth?



Get the TOOL so you could use to show your authority!

Thank you Dane Carlson! Go and Grab your OWN!

Monday, April 21, 2008

Free Online Website Grader!

Website Grader is a neat tool to use to improve your rating, and see how well you are doing....lol or NOT doing!

Access My Blog Did a neat write up about it!

You can't beat FREE, and you dont have to sign up for a service to get your results!

It will show you all kinds of information!

Rating, Meta Tags, Description, incoming Links, etc.




Disney Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore Collectable Ceramic Toothbrush Holder

This Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore Collectable Ceramic toothbrush Holder is about 6.5 Inches Wide by 4.25 Inches tall.

It has a part number of AJ9303, and UPC Code of 076657298374. The label states it is hand painted, and has the Disney named molded on the bottom.

SPRINGS made in China is also present. The manufacturer of this item is "C.S. BROOKS". This would be very pretty for your bath or collectable shelve! Children and adults alike would enjoy it!

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Google Suggest Tool - Use to Help Your Traffic!

Google has a tool that could very help for both your store, and your blog in giving you words and phrases that people are searching for!

'Google Suggest Tool' helps you with keywords or key phrases that people USE to find information!

Here is an item in my store: Spring/Fall Zero Posur girls Jacket with 4 Velcro Pockets 6X

I used the brand name, and nothing really came up! So I went for the type of jacket I'm selling.




Do you see how the 'google suggest url' is giving me ideas on phrases to use for my store ad? Use this to have 'google suggest keyword' for you, or of course 'google suggest keywords' for you!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Most Read Posts For Blogger Widget!

While I was over at Wordpress I really enjoyed a widget that listed my most popular posts, and it updated it automatically. I could find nothing on blogger, and I have say I missed it!

Since this blog is pretty new since I moved it over I don't presently have the widget I'm about to show you. Emotional Abuse and Your Faith did use the process, and I asked for some feedback on her experience!

First I pointed her to instructions I found online from Access my Blog.

She had mentioned the directions were very easy, and you didn't need to be member to use the service. Towards the bottom of the directions they mention you can enter your blog address, or the code that it gave you once you placed a widget on blogger itself. She mentioned you only need to use the actual code number itself, and NOT the actual html code for the second step. She also mentioned that she had to place the new html code into its own widget, and then later you she placed original code into the box where the data will appear in time. It will take time for the date to appear in the box.

The directions were very clear with pictures and everything! Thank you Assess my blog, and Web Weaver World for your input on SpotPlex!

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Google Analytics: How the heck to you use it?

I have Google analytics on this site, but it took some doing to understand some of the reports. I'm sure I still have something to learn. I just wanted to start with the basics here today.

Lets look at a couple of sections today.

Search Engine Keywords - are the words that drew them to your site. They are clicking on those to read you content.

Referring Sites - those are other sites that have links to your site, and content within your site.

Visitor type - What number of your visitors are NEW, and what number are returning to read your content!

These are important starting points to understanding analytics. One thing that is nice is you don't have to have that counter on the bottom of your page any longer! There is not need for it anymore.

Visits: Number of times somebody came to your site in the week.

Pages/Visit: Measures number of pages read on average to show you how "engaged" your readers are with your content.

Avg. Time on Site: Measures the length of the typical visit to your site. In general, the higher quality your content is, the longer the average visit.

% New Visits: This one is a little confusing. Basically, measures what percent of visits are made by visitors who have never been to your site before. In general, you want to see this number drop as more and more visitors return to your site because they are enjoying your thoughts, concepts and information you provide.

Bounce Rate: NOT what I thought it was! Bounce Rate is the percentage of visits to your site that result in only one page being visited. For most types of sites the lower bounce rates are better.

Here are some basics for you for Google Analytics! Use those reports to realize what content is getting you traffic, what keywords are important for one! Then continue to find ways of writing content that people will enjoy reading, and content that sells YOU and your product!

What has anyone else learned about this program that you use for your site?

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Jazz up your RSS icon or button FREE



2 create a website is offering some neat RSS icons and buttons for free!

Getting more readers increases your odds of traffic and income! If you need something to jazz it up a bit in your store, website, blog grab one of these neat graphics to catch that attention!

She has more on the link above......CHECK THEM OUT!

Monday, March 24, 2008

Grab more attention using Video!

CamStudio - Free Streaming Video Desktop Recording Software

Are you writing that article on your blog, and things are getting frustrating, because you aren't really sure you are getting your point across in words?

Would a visual help along with some dialog?

This free program is a great way of doing just that!

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).

You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell!

You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them !

It sounds like a neat program, and one I will be checking out myself real soon!

Friday, March 21, 2008

4 Social Media Marketing Tips for Bloggers

Problogger has a good article on social marketing, and he includes a video.

To summarize - I share 4 simple tips on marketing your blog with social media sites.

1. Be an Active Participant
2. Have a Consistent Presence on Different Social Media Sites
3. Add Value to the Wider Community
4. Let Others Sell You

Another good article I found recently was from 2 create a website, and she wrote about increasing your blog traffic!

She speaks about how people in general don't write good content, and does have a link to an article that may be of help to you if you are struggling with that aspect.

How NOT to get carried away with pluggins, and how the graphic appeal is also important. There are many helpful hints, and she has a nice writing style as well!

Check it out!

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Backing up your blog!

We have all heard about how we need to backup computers, make sure you save your files as you work on them. What happens when you blog goes south?



Is a service worth looking at! They do have different levels of service, and you need to decide what level works best for your application. The first level is free of charge, but the paid levels are definately worth looking at!

BlogBackupOnline is designed to backup and restore your content. This includes posts, comments, categories, and tags.

Here are a couple of the options below! They also have a blog to keep you up to date with things. Its a easy process, and not hard to figure out at all!

Monday, March 17, 2008

Website FUN goodies!

I wanted to throw in a fun site today!

It has some free templates if that is what you are looking for, but I wanted to have some fun with graphics today!

You do have to be careful using them, but on the other hand they can also be very handy when you are trying to make a point.

Website Goodies!

http://www.websitegoodies.com/smilies/gfx/sign0073.gif

http://www.websitegoodies.com/smilies/gfx/sign0010.gif

Here are two for you!

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Find your NICHE on the internet!

I read a lesson today on NICHE marketing basically on the internet! Lets take my industry - Engraving. Lets just say the chance of me getting to the top 10 on the internet JUST because of Trophies isn't very likely! I mean engravers or trophy house are plentiful aren't they? I can't say that I'm someone in the middle of quality, because I don't think I am! We do a good job, but how many times are people willing to go do page 30 of the internet to find me? People on the internet AREN'T very patience! I know I'm not either at times! LOL! Its the same thing when you hear about people that sell baskets, children's clothing, jewelry for example!

I decided I was going to take this free SEO course that I found online. SEO Training by GNC Web Creations is the name of it, and its all yahoo group based. It has lessons that you do to learn. I may not be able to apply EVERYTHING to my free website, but it will give me a good idea of what I need when purchase of webspace comes into the picture!

As you can guess the lesson today was about finding your NICHE! One of the teacher's examples was she does web design, and made a point of letting every one know just HOW MANY web designers there are! She targets (for one thing) motorcyles websites!

She mentions that every page within your website is a door to people. My example may not be as DYNAMIC, but I will give a try! One page on my site may be dedicated to SOCCER TROPHIES, and another page BASEBALL TROPHIES. If I have one page with all themes one page chances are good no one is going to stick around searching pass the cheerleader trophy, science club trophy, football trophy to get their SOCCER trophy! She hasn't said it yet, but I would assume you are to optimatize each page per theme! It doesn't matter if your customer comes to your site on page 2000 if that is where their product is!

Does this mean you leave out all those OTHER products that you sell? Nope! Just focus on the 'special' or 'niche' trophy in my case! It may not even be TROPHIES for me. I will have to see!

She had a good article on her site!

A Million Dollars Check it out!

Baseball Flame Spinning Resin Figure Trophy Award or Gift

Soccer Trophy

Baseball Flame Spinning Colored Sports Resins Award. This trophy or gift will be well received by your recipient! They come in specially designed boxes!

With this charming design you have the weight of resin material, and comes with a ball that spins. Something new besides the traditional awards we may have received in the past. Get noticed by giving something different, and exciting!

They are approx 8" tall, and accept 7/8"x 3 1/2" plate approx.
Part Number JDS302
We will send your engraved plates separately!

Friday, July 13, 2007

Interactive help with learning html

HTML Now! This is a site I went to to learn basic html, and some advanced lessons as well. You don't have to have any special html editor software or anything. See the screen shot below!



Above is a screenshot. Above that he helps you with a html principal, and then asks you to use the screen to type in the html to see if you got it right. I really got alot out of it, and wanted to share!

Diamond Resin Plate Trophy Award for Cheerleader, Cheerleading



Diamond Resin Plate Trophy Award for Cheerleading Cheerleader

These trophies include hanger and bolt for standing. They are Individually boxed and we will send you an engraved plate for it.

Comes in two Sizes!!

Size is appox 4.5" x 6"
Plate area is approx. .75 x 2.25"
Part Number DPS63

Larger Size is 6" x 8.5"
Plate area is approx. 1" x 2.75"
Part Number DPS13

Thursday, July 12, 2007

GooglePages are FUN! You have one yet?

Here is the "about" page for Google Pages

Google page basically allows you to make a couple of webpages for yourself. You do have some access to the html, so you can dress them up a bit! One requirement is to get the gmail (basically google's email program) in order to do this. I personally didn't think it was all that big of deal! You can still use your own email and passcode to sign into your google account. My sign in name is the one I choose for gmail so don't let it take you back when you see it after you sign in! It wont' show your email name that you opened your google account with anymore.

The more items you use OFF this program the more webspace you can use! For example, I still use photobucket for my images. My account as of now still has tons of space left! The help section seems to be pretty active, and if you do a search for what you are looking for chances are you will find it!

I was reading the help section, and I came upon a poster that had his own googlepage with tips! I went there and did some fast reading. I learned that you can use templates from other places, and NOT use the ones avaiable! That is all fine and great except you have to break the template UP and place in the separate sections of their TEMPLATE! I found that out the hard way! When you start playing around with it you see the button to edit the html, and so of course I did! I erased all the html that was there, and then copied my template html that I worked on instead. What I didn't realize is that I placed my entire template within the header portion of the page, and it looked AWFUL! You have to break up your template into the separate sections.

The preview section isn't all that helpful! I found you must view it live in order to get a good feel for what it will look like live! YES you can play around with it without it being LIVE on the internet, and if you decide to take it down off the internet it gives you that option also!

My page is still a work in progress! Here is is!

Engraver For You

Now you can't add meta tags or keywords into your html from what I have read. You must make sure your page is keyword rich, and do this naturally! Then make sure you get some of those one way links to drive up the page rank of your site!

Helpful tip page from another google page member

What I would LIKE to do is use this page for an entrance into my ecrater store! I placed a note on my google page noting that if they click the 'baseball' button for example it will take them to the baseball trophy section of my store! I will be adding additional sports trophies, and pages with time. Remember to use your anchor text along with other items!

Car Magnet Full Color Design up to 72 Square inches



The Full Color Car Magnet images above are samples with approximate sizes. You may request the design or layout of any of these samples or describe what you would like and we will lay it out for you. Team sport magnets will be customized to your school colors (and mascots or logo if available).

Click on images above for larger view. 4" x 18" or 6" x 12" or 8" x 9" are popular sizes! Basically up to 72 square inches in a rectangle shape

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

How to Get Your Blog Noticed Quickly and Widely

Below is an article I found that I felt was VERY useful!

How to Get Your Blog Noticed Quickly and Widely
By Gregory White

1. Submit your blog to all of the directories listed on http://pingomatic.com/. Pingomatic will ping 15 services all at once.

2. Ping your blog after every post at http://pingomatic.com/

3. Here's a real gem: Submit your blog to http://www.pingoat.com/ Pingoat will ping over fifty blog ping services all at once. So you don't have to hunt for ping services and manually ping them. Pingoat pings over fifty blog ping servers (growing) with just one click.

4. Ping your blog after every post at Pingoat at http://www.pingoat.com/

5. Sign up for a free account at BlogExplosion.com and register your blog there: http://www.blogexplosion.com/

6. Submit your blog to all of the directores listed at http://www.rss-feeds-directory.com/blog_lists.html

7. Sign up for a "My Yahoo" at http://my.yahoo.com/ and attach your blog to your own "My Yahoo" account. This will get your blog included in Yahoo very quickly. This is worth the effort to stop what you're doing right and do it, since Yahoo has a PR 9.

8. Use this code: "http://add.my.yahoo.com/content?url= http://www.yourblog.com/urblog.xml" in your blog to allow others to put your feed on their own "My Yahoo" account.

9. Sign up for a "My MSN" at http://www.my.msn.com/, and attach your blog to your own "My MSN" account. This will get your blog included in MSN very quickly. This is also invaluable because MSN has a PR 8.

10. Use this code: "http://my.msn.com/addtomymsn.armx?id= rss&ut=http://www.urblogfeedaddress.com/urblog.xml" in your blog to allow others to put your feed on their own "My MSN" account.

11. Place the link and description of your blog in your signature, so that any posts to Forums, Outgoing Emails, Autoresponder Courses, etc, will promote your blog.

12. Post a link and description of your blog on each of your sites.

13. Place your blog on all the major search engines. AddMe.com will submit your blog free to the top 14 Search engines here:
http://www.addme.com/submission.htm

SubmitExpress.com will submit your blog free to the top 20 Search engines here:
http://www.submitexpress.com/

14. Use Article Directories as a resource for articles to post on your blog. Here are a few:
http://ezinearticles.com/
http://goarticles.com/
http://www.knowledge-finder.com/
http://www.informit.com/articles/

15. Locate blogs with a lot of traffic and place useful comments in their comment box. Be sure the blog and your comments are relavent to both your blog and theirs. Senseless posts won't help you, they'll hurt you.

16. Once you get around 5 to 10 posts on your blog, start a PR campaign and announce it to all relevant channels.

17. Make a blog post as often as possible. More than once a day is not really necessary. Remember, if you can't write that much, go to step # 14.







Greg White, Internet Marketer, Author, Consultant and Project Manager has been running successful web projects since 2001. His sites and blogs cover Blog Marketing Tactics, Internet Marketing Tactics and a variety of 'Niche' topics, in addition to starting and marketing profitable web project.


http://www.blogmarketingtactics.blogspot.com/
http://internetmarketingtactics.blogspot.com/

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Gregory_White

Soccer ball Lighted Resin with High Gloss Wooden Base
lighted soccerball lamp
Soccer ball Lighted Sports Lamp. This trophy or gift will be well received by your recipient! They come in specially designed boxes!With this charming design that includes "AA" battery. It has an on/off switch on the bottom of the wooden base. The base is a high gloss finish. Use it as a trophy or a gift for that someone special!They are overall 4.5" in height, and the engraved plate is 1" x 3 3/8" in size.
Part Number LTR102
We will send your engraved plates separately!

Monday, June 4, 2007

Placing your own images on Squidoo

There is an option to upload on squidoo, but you have more control over your images when you use a little html.



Above the code for today!

Anyway, the first thing you need is a place to host your pictures for you to use on squidoo! I personally have been using www.photobucket.com for years! Once you place your images on your photobucket account (or whom every you use to host your images) we can go on to the next step!



these are your options with photobucket, and for this example we are going to use the top choice or URL link! Replace the website information that is given in the code I showed on top with this code that you grabbed from your photobucket account. Right now you are READY! You have now written for your html coded picture ready to use on squidoo!



The code above allows you to hyperlink your picture directly to the site it refers to!



If you click on the above picture it will take you directly to my squidoo page for the hat shaped name badges! The above code will allow you to do the same things with your items! As you may have figured out already, the top set of quotes is for the website you want them to go to, and the second set of quotes is the photobucket URL link for your picture! Pretty cool huh?

I'm going to show another picture with directions this time. Just I just grabbed a screen shot with directions! This is how you wrap text around your picture in squidoo!



Sunday, June 3, 2007

Squidoo and the email link!

If you wish to include a link so your vistors in squidoo can email you that is very simple! YES we are talking basic HTML again! The last example was pretty simple, and this one will be also!



Again try to use some anchor text instead of EMAIL ME!
Take out your notepad program again, and don't use the word processor! In the first section between the quotes ("") you have some text that states mailto: leave that part alone, and delete the rest of it! Place your own email address in that blank!



Again between the >< place the text you wish to see highlighted in your module over at squidoo!

My Email Contact is what it will look like! AND YOUR DONE!

Basic html on squidoo is a really neat idea to personalize your modules, and make them something people will want to return to!

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Squidoo and the hyperlink!

I have been extremely busy lately, but I finally had the time to do two Squidoo lens for the store online! Within 5 minutes of posting the first one I had 7 visits and a rating of 5.

Now it would seem to me that the more relevant tags you use (and if you think about its really KEYWORDS) the more success you might have for traffic! Its really strange to start so low, and watch the numbers grow day by day! Don't forget to use the keyword tools I placed on the sidebar to make sure you use something that the search engines like!
What is NICE about squidoo is that you are able to use html. Now don't get excited because basic html really isn't all that hard to learn! When you find little pieces of code save them in the notepad program and not your word processor.

You can use HTML in the modules that they supply. From what I have figured out - all of them! The first module has the html editor in there, and that did confused me because the rest of them didn't! For visual purposes make sure you click 'wrap text' for that module that offers the html editor. I added the code directly into the other modules. Here are some basic html codes for you.

We are going to start by making a hyperlink. That means you click on some words and it ZOOMS you to that website! Below is the code:



When making a hyperlink to a website don't forget to use that ANCHOR text! Don't use 'click here' for my site! Remember your tagline for your website, blog, store etc and use that! For this example I will use the title of my lens. Above is a snippet of code to paste into your note pad program! Then I will explain it!

Now you see the website in the first part between the quotes (“ “)? That is your first section! The easiest way at first is to actually GO to the website you want to hyperlink, and look to the address bar! Highlight that address (the whole thing) with your mouse and copy it. You can do that a couple of ways.

1. Right click and hit copy
2. Look to the very TOP of the screen and click Edit and click the copy command
3. Click your control button or CTRL button and then hit the C button.

Next go into that code above and delete the domain dot com part (the whole thing), and just leave the quotes. With then paste your website address in there!

1. Right click and hit paste
2. Edit again and then click paste
3. Control (CTRL) and V

Now wasn’t that easy? YEP and you are halfway there!
The second part isn’t that hard either! In between the >< where is says my website – delete that and USE your anchor text! Below is a hyperlink right to the page I mentioned before! I will get you another basic lesson tomorrow!

Below is an example that I used with the squidoo link to my page that I am talking about the badge in the description below!

Name Tag or Name Badge Full Color and Tooth Shaped Dentist



Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Domestic abuse in the church

I found a video on Focus Ministries on You Tube. It touches on some of the awesome things they do, and also educates its viewers on what domestic abuse is. This is the ministry we started the store, and this blog to support and help continue to aid in their financial need!

Focus Ministries



Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Do you Squidoo? Could help your Traffic!

For the last couple of days I have been helping a partner from another site Emotional Abuse and Your Faith put up some Squidoo pages. It seems to be fairly simple, and easy to do! Its nice because they do have a blog going into more detail, and also a forum you can go to and ask questions! Use your keywords, and you also need (at times) some basic HTML.

When you read the squidoo site they speak about 'lens', and basically all that means is a web page! We took a couple of her pages, and a couple of new articles that she wrote and placed them on squidoo. As we searched around a bit we found new ways of doing this to gain some income. YES squidoo will pay you for being there! They have adsense articles on your page, and you also can choose some advertisers as well. You have a choice of either pocketing the cash, donating it to a charity, and part of it to a charity.

You can use up to 40 keywords, and like most other places you use visit some other pages to get an idea of HOW they format, and what keywords they use. We used her articles to promote BOTH her blog (Emotional Abuse and Your Faith), this blog (Nice Used Clothes For Charity), and the store (Ecrater - Nice Used Clothes For Charity) we write about here. I haven't checked with her, but I have noticed that I got some hits from it already here! Our ranking when we placed the articles on there at the beginning was +100,000, and it has risen to +20,000 in a couple of days.

We both figured out HOW to do the pages, and this morning I submitted them to search engines and blog engines as well! I sent out a couple of emails to friends about it, and she is going to place her pages on her blog. This week I plan on placing some advertising for the store on there.

Here are a couple of her pages:

Emotional Abuse and Your Faith - Introduction Page

When Everything I do is not right!

Is this the Proper Form of Communication?

The Abusive Person

Jesus Heals Abuse Board - Domestic, Verbal and Emotional Abuse

Head over to Squidoo, and gets your ranking to grow and traffic to your site! We will write about this more later! Let us know what you can learned!

Jaclyn Smith Womens Sweater Gorgeous White w/ pearls crochet

Jaclyn Smith Womens Sweater Gorgeous White w/ pearls crochet

White to Light Ivory Jaclyn Smith Sweater with Pearls, Extra Embellishments in Stitching, and some silver metallic thread – Please see smaller portion in picture to see some of the detail!

It has a crocheted neckline with a pearled hoop closure in the back.

Tags states: RN 79286, Style NO 9373

73% Acrylic, 24% Nylon

Size Large

Hand wash with mild soap – do not twist or wring – reshape dry flat

Garment laying down flat

Armpit-to-Armpit 23”

Shoulder-to-Shoulder 23”

Inseam armpit to hem of sleeve 20

Shoulder to Hem at bottom 25.5”

This Jaclyn Smith sweater is in perfect shape – not a mark on it! I would be surprised if it was worn ONCE! The detail on the top of the sweater is JUST very detailed and very feminine! It’s hard to get all the detail in this beautiful Jaclyn Smith sweater!

Friday, May 25, 2007

Guaranteed Linkbacks - Here is HOW!

As we have spoken about before linkbacks can help you in your quest for search engine rankings, technorati, and also traffic to your site!

Courtneytuttle.com has a neat list on his site called, "D-list". This list is some blogs that have added some special HTML that states their blog will follow you automatically when you leave a comment on their blog - or linkback to you. If you use this service - or actually major favor - they don't want some crazy comments, spam, etc. I would assume just like any other blog they will delete the comment! They are truly looking for GOOD comments to keep the dialog going! Just like you would wish for your own site!

Right now the site has a list of over 170 blogs to choosee from. If you read a couple that seriously don't do anything for you don't worry about it! The list has quite a selection to choose from! Not only do you get a cool linkback, but you might learn something. You might even find a site that keeps your interest so you keep coming back, and find new friends!

Pretty cool huh?

Billiards or Pool Resin Statue Trophy Award Gift Full Color

Billiards or Pool Resin Statue Trophy Award Gift Full Color

Billiards or Pool Resin Statue Trophy Award Gift Full Color

Billiards or Pool Full Color Award is individually boxed.
They are approx 4.5" tall, and accept 7/8"x 2 7/8" plate approx.
Shipping is based off one item shipped.

PLEASE NOTE: If you wish to purchase more than one item at a time contact us directly because the system will charge you shipping per item, and not group the order together. We will invoice you directly (supply us with your zip code), and we will ship out the best way available.
With this charming design you have the weight of resin material, and you can see the details of the figures. Something new besides the traditional awards we may have received in the past. I always get comments of PRAISE from these types of products!

They are individually boxed and we will send you an engraved plate for it.

You have a group that you need to buy for? NO PROBLEM...we can do groups for you as well! Please let us know the number you need, and we will arrange to get your what you would like for your engraving.

Product is normally shipped out within 2 business days if not sooner AFTER payment has cleared!

We will do combined shipping, and you can order different items as well. For orders of 2+ please contact us for a shipping quote!

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