Archive for August 12th, 2007
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The Child Experiments – H.o.p. as Salesman
Not a promo shot. And no it’s not an apron, it’s a tote bag.
The recent haul of vanity H.o.p. loot from Cafepress arrived a several days ago and it looks great. We got a couple of the tote bags, which seem more than a fair price in comparison to others, and I was surprised with how great they look. We’ll probably order several more to keep in the car for grocery store trips. I’ve no idea how well they’re going to wear but we’ll be finding out.
If I have one complaint about the totes, it’s that the printing is not true center. Looks like for it to be true center you need to have an image that is sized 8 inches in width. They state the image is “centered” but in truth they “center” by beginning printing under at the left handle. It is 8 inches from the outside of the left handle to the outside of the right handle. If your image is less than 8 inches in width there is no adjustment made for a true centering. So I will have to do a special tote bag sizing.
Anyway, the totes are proving to be really convenient and much preferred to any grocery tote bags or other tote bags we’ve previously had. They’re nicer. And are fun. H.o.p. loves his (that’s him in his new shirt with his new tote bag). Marty’s enjoying his. I want one! That’s right, I don’t have one yet! Why not? So unfair.
P.S.: Yes, the bags are for our personal enjoyment. But being homeschoolers I look on the continuing Cafepress endeavor as a sort of lesson for H.o.p. in learning to be comfortable with the idea of self promotion etc.
Site Search Tags: cafepress, h.o.p.+art
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This is a screen grab of my search query report for not just my blog but my entire web site. Which is the usual.
Back early in 2004, I did one blog post in which I mentioned monster trucks in which I linked to a couple other websites that were monster truck websites. The post wasn’t even on monster trucks. I was just proving a point.
And week after week after week, this is what I get coming to my blog and web site. They want monster trucks. And big trucks. Monster trucks and big trucks. Out of all the topics I’ve posted on, this is what I get, search queries directed always to that one particular page with the two links to monster truck websites (in other words, I needn’t worry about this post, I don’t think, as I’ve commented on this phenomena before and the search engines aren’t interested).
A couple of weeks ago I removed the links to those monster truck websites, hoping that will do something about this. And when it does finally work its magic? Well, I’ve also a couple days ago disallowed Google searching for images. And when those two actions finally get through to Google, the slim little bit of Google traffic I get will dwindle from a drop drop drop of the faucet to the last faint ghost of moisture on the tongue of this blog sitting smack in the middle of a desert run on this vast information super highway.
Just a touch of non-poetic justice to it all. That on the so-called information super highway the searchers I get want monster trucks, and they will go anywhere, even all the way out to my blog, in order to find all the monster trucks they can.
P.S.: Isn’t it annoying I’m complaining about this? Especially if you’ve landed at this website looking for monster trucks?
Site Search Tags: google, webstats
