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• “Cool Mouse Pads” http://bit.ly/HXBru time to get a new pad, old one getting dirty #
• “1970s AMC GREMLIN MOUSEPAD Mouse Pad Mat” http://bit.ly/ofRb0 HaHa, I had an old Gremlin in the 80s. Blue though. #

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I keep losing the links to these various topic pages, so I guess I’ll just list them here so I can find them.

Art Nouveau Mucha Gift Ideas
Classic Car Gifts
Cool Mouse Pads
Cool Trombone Shirts
Gift Ideas For Girlfriend
Historical and Personality Watches
Historical Tractor Watches
Metal Business Card Cases
Metal Cigarette Cases
Thank You Gift Ideas

Since CafePress has announced the wholesale rape of its designers I’ve decided that it’s about time to open some shops with the other print-on-demand outfits.

First up is a new Marching Band Shirts store on e-shirt.com. There’s a lot of minor things to dislike about e-shirt. And one big thing to like…the fact that they farm-out their merch to Amazon. I really like the idea of getting my designs onto Amazon and as far as I know e-shirt is the only POD besides CafePress that does it.
So I’ve transferred a lot of my trombone, tuba, and trumpet designs and have whipped up some new ones. Just a couple days in and some are already appearing on Amazon and one sale already. Here’s my Trombone Lounge Shirt over on the big river. A little SEO and publicity work and it just might work.

• Reading Cool Night Vision Goggles Demonstration http://www.teeblr.com/?p=107 #

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• Reading Twitter Tweets About The Bluetooth Headset http://www.teeblr.com/?p=76 #

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• Reading Sidekick LX For Sale http://www.teeblr.com/?p=20 #

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I’m pulling the plug on Teeblr. This is a website I built about nine months ago as a showcase for my t-shirts. In that time it has generated some page views but very little in the way of actual sales of shirts. Plus the Pliggs CMS has turned out to be a real spamfest of a platform and I’m tired of screwing with that aspect of the site.
So the old teeblr is gone, replaced by a wordpress blog for experimenting with some eBay affiliate projects. The posts will run the gamut from unlocked iphones for sale to all about the Margaritaville blender to an informational piece on where to buy gold coins.
I probably should set a tighter target and probably will as I develop the site. We’ll just have to see.

I created some simple informational pdf files the other day for my California Pottery Index site. These were simple one-sheet bio’s and profiles of the different Californian potters of the 1940s, 50, and 60s. Each profile contains a link back to the corresponding page at CPI.
The PDF’s were then uploaded to document hosting sites scribd.com, docuter.com and docstoc.com. To scribd (which is the YouTube of docs) I uploaded pages individually, while the other two I uploaded the sheets compiled into an e-book.
Almost immediately, a couple of hours, the individual pages hosted on scribd were indexed into Google. The majority of pages were ranking in the top-10. for example, the profile on “William Manker Pottery” ranks number 2 on Google for the search for “William Manker Pottery.” This is obviously not the most competitive keyword combination out there, but number two is nothing to sneeze at, and the quickness of the indexing is a definite plus.
The object of the exercise though is the backlink creation. Quality anchor-text backlinks from a site Google respects. Woot!
I haven’t been able to notice the same sort of fast indexing on the docuster and docstoc uploads. Perhaps that’s because I was lazy and didn’t upload the pages individually. Always remember, small bites make a great meal.
PDF files are pretty easy to compile (I use Open Office) and it doesn’t take much of an excuse to make one. Here’s one I just uploaded to scribd that will link to my Big Bear Cabins For Rent site. Just a simple map of the Big Bear Lake area.

Big Bear Lake Map

• Uploading pdf files in support of California Pottery Index http://bit.ly/12DW37 #
• a craigslist search widget http://bit.ly/yaGv #

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