As we close another year, I want to take a minute to thank my readers and customers who have purchased from us over the past year.

Buying online has become the normal now for most families, but there are still doubts about many of the small business owners online.

Our customers can rest assured they they are receiving quality merchandise and in a timely manner.

We respect their info and do not spam or promote spam in any way.

We are honest sellers and treat our customers as we want to be treated.

So here’s to 2010 and another great year of supplying our customers with quality service and goods.

Happy 2010!!

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For the past few days, we have been rearranging and cleaning up the categories in the store.

We are trying to make it easier to find certain items - some by product name, and others by the brand name.

We are also spending time on refining the keywords and meta descriptions on each item - and we have over 600 at this time.

If you have any questions regarding any of our products, please drop us an email - the contact us link is in the left sidebar on the store homepage.

Have a great day!

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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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