Will My Next Project Be Better than SEO ?

As some people may have noticed,  recently we have not been doing much work on the website, normally we add about a shirt, or story a day to it, but for the last two weeks I, the website designer, have been busy working on another website for a while.

“Why” you might ask ?

Well, I had a bit of a scary incident here about two months ago. The website, due to my poor website design, had over 1000 images in one folder. This is a problem, because most of the file systems on the Internet, just cant deal with that many images, so my online folder was unreadable, and Google was no longer able to index my images. Google Images are normally a huge amount of our traffic.  We went from about 14,000 unique visitors for the month, down to about 7000. Yikes! We all thought it was the coming of a business apocalypse. We just cant survive on 7000 people.

Now I love Google, but this event made me realize just how much power Google has over me, and my co workers lives. They could put us out of business in the blink of an eye. It’s not Googles fault they are so big, I mean if I really wanted to not support them I could use Bing, but Google’s search engine is just so good, why would I bother, besides what did Bing ever do for me, I think they send us a couple hundred people a month is all, nothing close to what Google sends us. Generally Bing I think is denying most of the general public from seeing fantastic websites like ours. No idea why they do it, not sure if they are just really snobby, or cant cope with the size of the Internet.

So recently I decided that our business living or dying by the grace of the search engines was not such a good idea, and having our own network of websites, might be a good safety net.

So started working on a Guild Wars 2 Forum and website called GuildWars2Fans.com You see, although I don’t talk about Video Games very much on this website, secretly I am a closet video game addict, and Guild Wars 2 will be my next fix.

Don’t worry faithful followers, it does not mean my strange opinions, and weird stories will stop coming, its just they have been put on hold for the moment while I try and get a forum going that hopefully will soon be talking to one another and having fun. At that point I will be able to spend all my time putting up the funny shirts or blogging again.

Oh here is the Guild Wars 2 teaser trailer if you want to have a look.

Building Your Internet Presence – Important SEO Basics

I have been sitting here feeling the need to write a new post for this Blog for a few weeks now, though I have started nearly twenty new articles. I have yet to finish any of them, so I decided to tell you all why I am pushing out this new, non interesting SEO article.

The initial point of this Blog was to bring more people to the money making parts of the website where we sell a great selection of T-Shirts and other things. One of the most important  free ways  to bring traffic to the website, is to grow it’s size.

Big massive websites are just easier to find than little tiny ones.

Simply by writing this article I create more  text for the search engines to read, as well as more key phrases Google and the other search engines might look for. This causes us to appear more often in the search results, leading to more visitors.

There are lots of other ways to get traffic, but this way is one of the steadiest, and most consistent.

In addition to more search results,  the links at the top of the page which point back to the main part of the website, might send me a little bit of PageRank “link juice”. Which again will help bring visitors to the website.

Well that is enough for now, this will probably get us only a dozen  new visitors per month or something, possibly for the next few years,  but eventually all these small additions add up.

PlanetaryBargains.com  currently reaches over 120 000 people per year and we expect we will be able to double that next year.

I Am Very Disappointed In You

I have been saying for well over a year how great my customers are, I have had some nice e-mails and calls just to say how happy they are. In my many years of dealing with customers I have never such a good group to deal with.

Recently we had a not so good customer though, I know I am not supposed to talk badly about customers, but I want to, so I guess I will.

This guy sent us a e-mail to let us know he had not received his package yet, it was very late, it had been 25 days since we shipped it, and we had paid for the 10 day service.

Since we are aware that United States Postal Service has been really slow at delivering lately, and have also been updating their tracking system on the Internet slowly, I filed in a few forms, made some phone calls, and sent some faxes to find out where this package was. We have never lost a package so we don’t really think it could be completely lost.

Meanwhile this guy keeps e-mailing us, and mentions at one point he does not want to sign for the package when it gets there, he soon starts demanding an immediate refund, and all sorts of other things on almost an hourly basis.

In one of his e-mails he said to me, “I am very disappointed”

I held off on the refund, and waited for the investigation to finish, we are already into this shirt for almost $17 or so with purchasing, packing and shipping.

After a few days I get a phone call that the postal  investigation was finished, and this guy already had his shirt. What a dickhead, not only was he trying to scam us but he bothers to make it personal by saying he is disappointed in us.

So I would just like to say to this loser who tries to steal $20 items on the Internet:

Your the kind of scum we not only don’t want as a customer, but are sad that you even exist on this earth.

We here, are all very disappointed in you!

God’s Busy Can I Help You Shirt

Gods Busy Can I Help You Shirt

Think He Might Help You? - Click Image $17.99 USD

From gulf-daily-news.com:
By ALISTAIR BAPTISTA, Posted on » Friday, May 01, 2009

Rock concert stopped after guitarist arrested

POLICE arrested a guitarist at a rock concert yesterday, bringing it to an abrupt halt and angering scores of fans.

Organisers halted the ‘Rage to the Extreme’ show at the Palace hotel, Adliya, immediately after the arrest.

Sources said the Sri Lankan was apparently arrested because he was wearing a T-shirt bearing a caricature of a ‘devilish’ figure and the slogan “God’s Busy…Can I Help?’

They said the performer with Bahrain-based band The Mushroom Massacre, was taken to a police station where he had his shirt and body piercings photographed.

Police confiscated the shirt and released him after taking his personal details, said the sources.

He left the police station, wearing a new T-shirt, bearing an image of pop star Craig David, but it was not clear who provided it.

Religious leaders, councillors and MPs have complained in the past about rock gatherings, accusing youngsters involved of Satanic activities. Unsigned rock bands from across the Gulf arrived to perform.

It was billed as the first-of-its-kind event to combine a rock show and a battle of the bands, in which guests would vote for the winners.

It was organised by Bahrain-based Dallah Promotions and was scheduled to take place from 4pm until the earlier hours, with bands performing in half-hour slots.

Fans said there was no reason to halt it.

“Someone just came on stage and said the show was over, after that there were two breaks for prayer,” said concert-goer Yasir Shehzad.

“Everyone’s angry, but we don’t know what to do. Someone, we don’t know who he was, got on stage and told people to wear their T-shirts inside out.”

He said the organisers should have warned people against inappropriate clothing.

“I blame them because the sound was terrible and they should have told children that they couldn’t wear certain kinds of clothing.”

Dubai-based Bahraini Ali Ahmed, who had travelled home especially for the event, was shocked and embarrassed.

“I don’t know why they stopped it.

“There was no problem. Children were just relaxing and there were bands from the UAE and Saudi on the list to play.

“This is embarrassing for us because there wasn’t any reason for them to do that, there wasn’t a fight or anything like that.” Dallah Promotions Culture and Information Ministry officials could not be reached last night. Hotel officials refused to comment.

I would be interested in hearing your thoughts about this shirt. We have been putting it up on the website and off for quite a while now.

Personaly this shirt makes me feel a bit uneasy, even though I also find it funny as hell.

Excuse the bad pun.

Planetary Bargains – Bargains this big we call Planetary !

I have noticed when I search the name of our website  Planetary Bargains on most search engines, some people are actualy optimizing their webpages to use our name, and piggy back on our fame, they  come up occasionaly before me, or usualy after me on the search engine results.

By having the title of this post Planetary Bargains and then later saying the words both Bargains and Planetary Again, as we are here. Hopefully we will get some word recognition in the search engines and lead people to our site.

If you came here with the intention of vising PlanetaryBargains.com then you can click on the image below and it will take you to the main website.

Thank you for reading this very dry and uninteresting post.
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