I see that Google has been updating the pagerank over the last few days.

The homepage of KML’s Corner website has gone up one point to a page rank of 2.

I have also noticed that Google has been digging deeper into the website.

Several of my sub pages now have a page rank where none of them did before.

This blog still remains unranked though.

Hopefully the next time the updating comes around, I will see some action here.

I will have to be more active in promoting both the storefront and the blog.

From what I have read, that seems to be one of the ways to get noticed more by Google.

Will have to check it out.

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I just performed an experiment on Google.

I did a blog post on 9/5 that featured a set of Mikasa Bear and Bull Bottle stoppers.

This item has been listed in my store for many months as we have quite a few of them in our inventory.

I submit a feed to Google Base that includes all my store items, on the average of every 2-3 days.

Doing a search for these bottle stoppers pulls up my blog post from 9/5 on the first page.  Very impressive since it is a recent post.

What bothered me though, even when I put the title of the item and included my store name in the search - nothing at all came up for my website store.

All I can think of is that I must have something wrong somewhere with the keywords or titles or ?????

I have recently had my website redesigned, but that should not affect any of the items coming up in searches - the database has not changed.

I would think that Google having my items in their Froogle base would have some effect on the searches.

I guess not.

I will do some research to see what I can come up with.

If anyone has any ideas I would love to hear them!

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This blog joined Entrecard last Tuesday, and I have worked up to dropping about 75-100 cards a day.

My main blog drops the 300 limit, and my second blog drops about 100 each day.

I will be increasing my drops from this blog slowly over the next week, until I get to about 200 drops.

It has been a time consuming thing, but it has also brought some great exposure and new-found friends - not to mention some great tips and articles for blogging.

I also consider it sweat-equity.  Instead of paying someone, I will invest the time and effort to see where it goes for now.

I am trying a new way of Entrecard advertising with this blog.  I have set a limit to what I will spend for each ad.

On my main blog I have spent many credits for some ads and got very little in return for click-throughs.  I have also found that some of the cheaper ones have brought great returns.

I will post my results as time goes on - it should be an interesting experiment.

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I just added the CommentLuv plug-in to spread the link love when a comment is left on this blog.

The install was simple and all seems to be working well with it.

Let me know if you have a problem with it.

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I finally was able to get all the code correct to set up the SSL on the website. Even though we use paypal as our payment gateway, and they provide secure sign ins for the payment, I wanted my customers to feel secure when they register with us. You can never be too careful these days!

I am also quite pleased that the add-on for the URL SEO went smoothly. I used an older version, and perhaps if when I feel more comfortable with the code, I may try installing the rewrite version. It is supposed to be better, but I am happy for now with what has been accomplished.

I also updated the spiders text, and must remember to keep that updated every few months.

I only have a couple more issues to deal with before I have everything as I want it. Hopefully I can get them taken care of within the next week.

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