Today I reported to GoDaddy the 1300+ errors on our website www.arkladecor.com.  These errors were found by the search engine optimization  (SEO) tool that I paid $40+/yr to check the site.  The SEO indicated we had 400+ pages of errors with invalid characters in the title tag.  There is a colon ( in the title tag added by GoDaddy, this is something I can not control.

GoDaddy just changed SEO software and it is horribly slow.  It took 10 minutes just to load the main page to see the results.

The GoDaddy help team requests an ID of some type before they will even look at the submitted question (even though I had a GODaddy generated trouble ticket ID).  This is an old IT trick, where they ask the customer to make an additional effort and perhaps they will forget their problem and the help ticket can be disregarded.  Kind of like a mail-in rebate the company's hope customers will never follow up.

We are getting some good hits on Google, so perhaps the errors are not preventing search engines from finding us.

Goodness the site analysis indicated we had 1378 errors on the website.  Some missing tags for the images we uploaded.  It is confusing because some of the errors generated were from "canned" pages on the template we used, errors that we can't get to inorder to correct them.

I added tags on the pictures and reduced the number of keywords.

I purchased an ad on Facebook for 30 days, if you have gardening or art in your activities you are likely to see the ad.  It should get to over 2M subscribers.

Today I  gathered some smaller items to put in my booth (59) in  Deanne's Hitchin Post, Antique Mall & Flea Market, Magnolia, Arkansas.  When I arrived I was asked if I received a call yesterday about my XL Pelican.  Apparently a lady returned to the Mall looking to make a purchase.  Unfortunately,  I had removed all of the items to add an additional coat of varnish.  She never called.

I am taking the items back to the booth tomorrow, perhaps she will return.

Deanne and I are going to try to link both of our websites so we can get some better ranking with the search engines.

Today I am finishing the mermaid.  I have placed a blue heron and two flamingos in the yard, I hope they don't cause a big traffic jam of on-lookers.  LOL.

Deanne tells me the Mall has been really busy.  Drop by if you are in the area and visit all the booths. 

Make sure you stop by booth 59 mid week and check out the 800 thread count sheet sets for $22.50, queen and king; full size coming soon. 

Hello,

Come to the website www.arkladecor.com, I have added new items. I am working getting the products to display alphabetically but so far I can't figure out why the alligator is last.

I am working toward labeling the items for the booth. 

If you live in the Ark-LA-Tex area come see the items listed on the website in person.  If you make a purchase you can save some shipping.  The items are located in booth 59 at Deanne's Hitchin Post, Magnolia, AR.  This Antique Mall and Flea Market has over 100 booths so make sure set aside plenty of time for your visit.

What an ordeal!  I have uploaded new photos and new products on www.arkladecor.com.  i have increased the sizes of the images and I think the site looks better.  If you have trouble seeing all the photos side by side, you could be using Internet Explorer 6 or older.  The older versions will cause the images to display REALLY HUGE on your monitor. You need to upgrade to at least version 7 and IE8 is already available.


I need a method to speckle paint, I am using a toothbrush but that is getting old. I have tried household cleanser spray bottles and every spray bottle around the house and they just mist or produce globs.  Any ideas?  Send me a comment.

Hello everyone follow me on Twitter and Facebook and visit our website at www.arkladecor.com.  Check out the new logo of the two sisters in the upper left corner on the website. It goes with the slogan two sisters - two states.  We are adding the logo to our business cards and brochures.

Hopefully we will have new photos posted on the website tonight.  We are getting some great Google hits try searching Mexican Metal and Pelican or Flamingo, alligator and see what you get.  Now all we need are customers and other websites wanting to link to us.

It is hot in southern Arkansas and I am afraid my inflatable pool has an air leak, I was eager to teach the dogs to jump in to cool off.  However Benji would never jump in he is afraid of his shadow.

Julie and I are working hard to get new inventory painted and added to the website, visit www.arkladecor.com to see new additions.  Most items are available locally, if you live in the Ark-La-Tex area, visit booth 59 in Deanne's Hitchin Post, Magnolia, Arkansas. Open Tuesday through Saturday 10 am to 5 pm.   

Goodness this is hard work.  I finally broke down and purchased a service to look at our website.  It appears we have an internal broken link that Google's spiders will avoid.  This link appears on Julie's Large Pelican; I had to delete to see if that fixed the problem and I will add it back as soon as possible.  I deleted the blog link on the webpage thinking that was the broken link.  I will add it back if it appears to be okay to keep it there.
 

Today I am designing a new brochure for ad copy and for a hand out at local businesses.  I am working hard on keywords on the website www.arkladecor.com.  Send an invite to your e-mail list to follow the site development.

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