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!

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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!

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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?

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!

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



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!

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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

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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

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!

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Logo's and their importance!

Seth's blog has an article about Logo's that I felt was very worth the read!

People get so caught up in the logo process at times, and they forget at first that logo isn't going to do much for them! I'm not saying you shouldn't do a good job in making one! Of course that is important, but don't waste a lot of money and NOT follow up with your customer service etc to make it WORTH something!

The logo will be worth something once you branded the company well enough! They used the example of a well-known company that has a picture of an apple with a bite taken out of it! You can imagine how well that logo would be recognized (and worth the price they paid for it) if their computers were not worth turning ON in the first place!

We had a local chamber here that was rather large! They made the decision one year to change their image around, and go for a new look. NOW that isn't a bad idea all the time! The problem with the organization was it didn't need a new LOOK it needed to restructure certain areas of their organization to attract some untapped markets! They were more geared towards BIG BUSINESS, and they were missing the boat on the small businesses in the area. Their goal was to attract them with their new look. They paid $6000 I think it was for this NEW look, but it didn't attract what they were aiming for! Why? Their logo had nothing to do with WHAT they could do for the small businesses in that area! Their attitude and services that they could provide for those small businesses just wasn't there! I'm sure at first they got their memberships, but the true test is renewal which they failed at. Each year they are constantly on the run to make the up difference, and couldn’t figure out WHY retention is so hard! Was their $6000 investment worth it? The logo may have been if they took the time to work on things.

Logo’s don’t bring in loyal customers – service and good product does!

Bone Shaped Namebadge Nametag Engraved



This Bone shaped namebadge nametag is engraved with your information, and has a pin backing. We also individually package each one - See pictures! The bone shaped badge or tag is approx. 1.25 (h) x 3.50 (l)

**Please note LOGO is not included! If you would like your logo there is an extra charge. Contact us via email with your design for quote!

The plastic pictured is not the only color available, and please inquire if you would like other options!

This badge would be great for Orthopaedic Or Pet Related industries!

If you would like to have a magnet or (+2.00) or bulldog tip (+.50) we substitute that for you instead. Pinback is included in the price.

Please see the pictures for the visuals of the back of the badge, additional ways of placing your TEXT on this special shape!

This item can be resold, and our company would be happy to drop ship for you!

Have another special shape you would like? Drop us a note, and we will see how we can make that reality for you!!

Order more than 5 badges, and we will offer you free U.S.P.S. First Class Mail shipping!

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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!



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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!

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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



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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



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!

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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 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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Get Better Traffic with Anchor Text!

I guess some people would ask first, "What the heck is anchor text?" GOOD question, and in a short answer is linked text is usually relevant to the landing page. The objective of search engines is to provide highly relevant search results; this is where anchor text helps, as the tendency is, more often than not, to hyperlink words relevant to the landing page.

For example John Chow likes to use "Make Money Online". Do you see how I linked his tag-line to his site? Make Money On-line is the ANCHOR text, and the landing page? HIS website in this example! John Chow speaks a lot about making money on-line so it is relevant to the anchor text, and it also helps his ranking when others use this to link to his site! Matter of fact he ASKS you to do it that way!

I read a while back CLICK HERE is used a lot in sites that offer their readers the link to Adobe for their program to read their articles in .pdf. In the search engines if you check to see WHO has the highest ranking for the words "CLICK HERE" it would be THEM! Click here has nothing to DO with their software at all, but something tells me they don't mind the ranking they get for using it! On the funny side its a good example of something NOT relevant if you think about it!

Use your keyword tools to come with up a tagline that would be revelant, and something people actually SEARCH for! I was thinking about "build a store online", but it doesn't seem to popular! I will have to brainstorm, and come up with something SOON!

Remember if your sites name is jackflash.com it may not be all that relevant to what your SITE is about! Remember that search engines also don't like those anchor text being to long. Keep it short and simple! "jackflash.com home of the really fast photo developing" is WAY to long for a search engine to even bother with you! SHORT and SWEET!

Keep something else in mind as well! If you are signing up with a directories, webring, etc and they give you the opportunity to give that tag line instead of your website USE IT! That is also Anchor text!

Blog about money online has an excellent article to continue your reading on the subject now that you have the basics!

Now get that anchor text, and drive that TRAFFIC home!

Tommy Hilfiger Womens Jeans Capri Destroyed low rise Size 5



Tommy Hilfiger Womens Jeans Capri Destroyed low rise Size 5

These Tommy Hilfiger jeans are used, but have alot of wear left in them!

Freight based off Flat Priority Mail.

These measurements are taken with Tommy Hilfiger pants laying down!

Waist approx 31"

Hips (from bottom of zipper) 36.5"

Rise (crotch seam to top of pants) 9"

From Zipper to top of pants 6"

Inseam is 22.5"

Bottom of Tommy Hilfiger pants seam to seam 9"

Label reads: Tommy Jeans Size 5

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MSN Product Upload Issues that I see - What about you?

I got an email from MSN recently reminding me that there had not no activity on my account that I had signed up for. To be perfectly honest I was a bit overwhelmed, and had MORE questions than answers when it came to their help section. I also found that Ecrater stores are automatically being taken care of by the admins of that site! PRETTY AWESOME HUH? The problem I ran into was the images! If you do any reading at all it seems to be a pretty good bottleneck for them. Here is a quote I found on their site:

Why aren’t there 100% images in the top results? The reason is largely because many sites, including very reputable merchants like Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, and AceHardwareSuperStore.com, block image crawling bots or seriously throttle them. We will have to work with these sites to address these issues, but the latest improvements in the number of Product Search top results with images are already quite significant.

So according to them everyone's images are NOT capable with their system. You don't have issues other places, but with them you do. I would think MSN would fix things on their end instead of asking others to change their system that seems to work other places.

Anyway, they also mentioned in the email that they are now taking googlebase uploads. I figured I would give them a shot, because of the images being missing on the products that ecrater sent over to them. I have different categories like men, ladies, children, books, trophy, etc so I couldn't place a category in there for them. Category is in the data feed itself, so i wondered WHY they asked for it! Maybe they want us to break it up - I'm not sure. I did submit the googlebase file to them on Friday. Today is Sunday and they are STILL processing it! The screen says 36 hours, but my file is rather small compared to some. I really wonder WHY it would take that long as well.

If they want new files to come to them, and it is going to take 36 hours for them to process it I plan on breaking my list up and giving it to them in sections. Everyday or so I will supply them with a new list. THAT IS if the picture issue is taken care of!

If you have been reading for a while I sent googlebase a question about their google checkout. According to the last email I receive from them if you set up a datafeed (bulk upload), and your items when clicked automatically send people to your store you can't be counted as a company that offers google checkout. Only the items you place on googlebase manually would be allowed that. I know for a fact that isn't TRUE! I questioned them with links to examples, and of course no response. I'm going to send it again!

Back to subject - will MSN take care of the image issue? I sure hope so! I will see if my image issue is taken care of once they are done 'processing' my feed. Bleck! 36 hours is way to long! Another major bottleneck in my eyes!

I found a rather humorous thread last night, and wanted to share! How little rednecks become big rednecks! I still was giggling this morning after reading it again!

Levis Action Mens Jeans 40 x 32 USA Red Tag



Levis Action Mens Jeans 40 x 32 USA Red Tag

These Mens Levi Action Jeans are used, but have alot of wear left in them!

These measurements are taken when the Mens Levi Action Jeans laying down!

Waist approx 39"

Hips (from bottom of zipper) 42"

Rise (crotch seam to top of pants) 13"

From Zipper to top of pants 10"

Inseam is 26"

Bottom of pants seam to seam 9"

Label reads: 50% cotton/50% trevira esp polyester

These Mens Levi Action Jeans are in Excellent condition. There are no stains, holes, fraying. There is some slight fading, and it has the red tag.
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You are writing great articles, but is your topic over this head?

Have you ever been to a website trying to understand a concept, and the writer is writing about it and you are left MORE confused than when you started? I don't mind a word here or there that I can easily look up, but if the article is about a concept......don't go over my head okay? LOL!
At times its hard to realize that maybe POSSIBLY alot of your readers aren't as advantaged on a topic as you are! Could be why they are there! They want to learn! If you are going to chat about some concept - stop to think about the newbies at times!

It just happened again.
I’m reading, but I’m not getting it. Maybe if I continue to read, all will become clear.
Nope.
I feel dumb.
Obviously, there is something I’m missing. It’s my fault. I’ll read it again.
Nope, still not getting it.
The pictures look great, nice web design. Looks like a trustworthy company.
Keep your money, Chris. Maybe somebody can explain it to me later (if I remember).
Sorry friend, you’ve just lost the sale.

Don't let that happen to you!!
Writing copy even Grandma would love! is a good article from Copy Blogger.


Wrangler Rugged Wear Men's Jeans Shorts 48W - Very NICE Shape!

Wrangler Rugged Wear Men's Jeans Shorts 48W - Very NICE Shape!Details:
Up for sale is an authentic pair of mens Wrangler Rugged Wear jean Shorts. There are no holes, stains, fraying. Very Nice!
Condition:
These Wrangler Rugged Wear shorts are gently worn, and very handsome. They have been washed, and are ready to go right out of the box!Very Nice pair of Wrangler Rugged Wear mens jean shorts, but check the measurements below for a good fit!
Waist - Top of Pants 46Hips - Around Bottom of Zipper 54Rise - Crotch Seam to Top of Pants 15Zipper to Top Of Pants 11Inseam - Crotch Seam to Hem of Pants 9.Bottom of Pants - Length folded in half 14
Rips noHoles noStaining noFading noFraying

Make Money Online By Taking someone's PAYCHECK! (legally of course!)

Courtney Tuttle has a very user friendly, and VERY entertaining website! Have you checked it out yet? I mentioned earlier online about his article: Making Money Online is this business for you?

He started this blog fairly recently, and mentioned the amount of money he brought in last month in a post. He is now running a contest! Make Money Online $350 is a link to the rules of the contest! Basically you have to take a gamble as to how much money he will make this month within $1.00 and comply with the rules of Make Money Online $375. You must place a dollar amount as I have for Make Money Online $400. Rules of the contest are here MAKE MONEY ONLINE!

Go have some fun, join the contest and make sure you read the blog of course! You will enjoy it!

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Need Some Keyword Tools? WE GOT THEM!

Keyword tools are very helpful, and at times comparing the difference between a couple of them can really open your eyes!

Keep in mind you don't just have to use these tools for the programing of your meta tags, but you can also use them to find good words to use for articles, advertising, etc. There are a number of ways you can use them! Technorati is another good way one if you are going to their site, and using words to drag traffic to your site!

There are pay versions of these tools of course, but I found some that are free. I'm sure in time I will be upgrading to the paid versions, but for right now these are excellent items to add to your tool section for online!

Make sure you use them for ANYTHING you would wish to use keywords with!

Wordtracker Free Tool

Overture Keyword Tool

SEO books Keyword Tool

Volleyball Female Oval Award Resin Trophy Gift Resin with Gold Accents



Volleyball Female Oval Award Resin Trophy Gift Resin with Gold Accents
54519GS Part Number, 56519GS Smaller Version

Female Volleyball Oval Legend can hang on wall, or use the desk stand – see picture. This trophy, award or gift will be well received by your recipient! They come in specially designed boxes!

THESE COME IN TWO SIZES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These are approx 8.5” x 8”, and we will send you engraved plate
Smaller version is 6.5” x 6.0”, and we will send you an engraved plate. The smaller version is $7.00 each. Just request the smaller version when ordering!

The highly detailed sports figures are handsomely framed in an oval shaped resin and gold plaque. Something new besides the traditional awards we may have received in the past. I always get comments of PRAISE from these types of products!

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.

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Ways to gain some exposure! Just what your website needs...

Networking is what it is called on the offline world, but socializing (is one word for it) I guess is what is it called ONLINE! When you write content for your ads or for your store, etc you have to be business like. You have to make sure this attracts those unknown people that are surfing along, and plugging in those phrases in the search engines. ATTRACT that website attention with all your might!

Forums are a good place to start, learn and contribute! Its also a place you get let your hair down a bit!! Myself, personally I like to have a mix of people when I go to a board to learn and to add my own comments from expereince. Grab some forums and get involved! I know from my chamber experience there are those that join, and then do NOTHING! They expect the business to start just rolling in because they paid their dues. Its funny how you hear how people just don't have time to get involved! Chambers hands you plenty of fun things to help out with, and during that time you again NETWORK! I'm not sure what these people think will be asked of them, but it sure isn't blood for goodness sakes! I have children, home and a business offline and I still find time to make sure things that are important are accomplished! At times YES I'm burning the candle at both ends, but you have to look at what the reward is at the end! I just love those that think if they place an ad, or join a club, and they just sit back and WAIT for the dollars to roll in! Let me tell you something......for the most part it AIN'T going to happen! That is just part of the mix! There is WORK involved, but you can still have FUN! Find some forums, and have FUN with it......and NETWORK!

Make sure you have business cards for your online business! Make you you promote it offline as well as ONLINE! If it is just a blog - NO PROBLEM! You can't tell me others aren't interested in your subject matter right? Business cards are harder to lose than just, "Here let me write down the blog address for you!" Besides that you want a presense right? A small investment in business cards, or business card magnets can really help you out! Alot of my clients love PENS, and yes they do have their place! As a primary promotional tool? I guess that would depend on the type of pen! The cheap ones? They get thrown in drawer with the rest of the pens....GREAT for you advertising dollars huh? Postem notes are good as well! Think about it! Not only is your name in front of people, but when they use those notes - your name travels! If you make your money off the ads, or whatever you still want to get people to the site right? Promoting it can be inexpensive as far as business cards, etc but let me tell you - they do pay OFF!

You ever go to a store and they have those bulletin boards where the local painters, contractors, babysitters post there stuff? With you with your PROMOTIONAL mind you CAN come up with something to build more traffic to your site! How about all those ads "Make Money Online" if that is your gift to show to people! Awesome gift baskets for any occasion! Even mention your expertise about adsense! The traffic isn't JUST on the internet! Let your creative juices FLOW! Pings, submit to search engines, forums, commenting on others sites, etc - those are ALL awesome ideas! Don't forget about your offline world! That is ALL I'm saying!

Here is another article about getting involved, and how it helped!

Can you develop your blog with MyBlogLog? Don't forget you may not fit in all places, but the internet is endless! Find places you do, and get to the networking! It will do you good!

4 Color Business Card Magnets On Special NOW! Qty 500!





Free 4 Color Process
Free Setup
No Artwork Charges
Free Copy Changes

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A LIMITED TIME OFFER UNTIL MAGNETIC STOCK IS TAKEN OFF SALE. WE CAN'T BE SURE WHEN PRICESS WILL CHANGE. WE WILL HONOR ALL ORDERS IN HOUSE AT THE TIME OF THIS CHANGE! SO DO IT NOW!!!!!

20 Mil is the Thickness and the size is 2” x 3.5” Quanity is 500. Cheap price for every shipment, sales order, etc that goes out! Magnets stick around also!

Price includes a 4 color process imprint on a white surface. The process allows you to print as many different colors as you want for one price. All PMS Colors will be converted to the closest process match. A perfect match cannot be guaranteed.

We will help as much as possible with your artwork. We will also send you one FREE proof right before production! This will be supplied online.

We so have some stock backgrounds if you prefer to use that. I have added some examples to the gallery above. Send me a note with your theme, or idea of what you might use to use and I will send back some examples. I will also do general typesetting for you.

Full Bleeds are available and your text should remain within 1 7/8” x 3/8”

Typically after artwork is finally approved and submitted production time is about 5 working days, and we have found that our customers typically get their product within 2 days after shipping.

If you prefer a thicker magnet 30 mil is also available at .22 per magnet instead of .19.

Below is for people that prefer to do their own artwork.

DIGITAL ART
The highest quality art is VECTOR ART. It is resolution independent . This means that it can be enlarged without affecting the quality of your imprint.

RASTER ART (Placed/continuous tone images)
Raster Art is resolution dependent. When you change the size of an imprint, you change the quality. This means that the resolution (dpi or ppi) of your file is critical. Files must be at least 600dpi. Grayscale and Bitmaps must be 1200 dpi at 100% of final size. Do not submit files w/linked images. Please mebed all graphics.

FONTS
Convert your text into "curves" or "outlines" before e-mailing your art.

TYPESETTING
We can add text to your imprint at no additional charge. We have a variety of popular fonts, just pick your favorite from the list on above. Then send a typewritten version of the text, and specify typeface, point sizes and case.

Artwork Standards
In order to give you the highest quality imprint, we have developed some artwork guidelines, which include minimum line weights. All copy should be 6 points or larger. Lines should be no thinner than .5 pt. We will redraw halftones and screens, filling them in or outlining them, and reset copy when necessary. BIC reserves the right to modify your art if it does not meet these quality standards.

We do have templates, and details instructions also…..just ask!

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Items you learn from blogging!

• I'm going to pass on a good article I found on this subject, but I have learned better writing skills for one!


• I also learned that I don't always agree with very STRONG opinionated people on subjects, and I can back myself up (he he most of the of time!).


• I have learned alot about website traffic, how the internet works, and how to play with items to see what draws in the traffic!


• I also learned that the internet can be a very fun and educational place!

I really liked this article! 10 things I learnt from Blogging

The content item at the end of her article I didn't know! I guess we learn from other's blogging also!

Charlotte Russe Beads Women Juniors Hippie Floral Tank



Charlotte Russe Beads Women Juniors Hippie Floral Tank

Type: Casual Size Type: Misses
Sleeve Length: Tank, Sleeveless Size: S
Condition: Gently Used
Charlotte Russe Beaded Floral Hippie Summer Top Size Small
Details and Condition:
73% Polyester, 20% Nylon, 4% Metallic, 3% Spandex - Dry Clean

This Charlotte Russe Summer Top is very PRETTY, and would be an awesome addition for your summer wardrobe! Please see the pictures for closeup of the material design - its classic! You will be the envy of all your friends wearing this one! There are bead strings hanging from the back of this top. Most are in great shape, but a couple are loose. They can be repaired with ease!

Garment Laying down flat - Measurements are approx.

Armpit seam to hem 12"

Bust 26- 27 with some stretch

Bottom 26 with some stretch

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