Doing website SEO is a bitch.

I spent five hours yesterday and six more today and I’m still not done. And that’s just the meta tags. Hopefully all this work will actually bring in more business.

Google pissed me off. Without warning they’ve changed the attributes for the Google Base feeds, so I have to redo my feed. Some of the attributes have been renamed, while others have been depreciated. “Category”, which stated under which category the item was in my store, was one of the latter. It has more or less been replaced by “Label” which requires I come up with up to ten keywords. It’s not too bad, as I’m already doing that. It’s just going to be a bitch cutting and pasting everything from the website to the feed. There are also a few new attributes that are considered mandatory. I don’t use any of them, but according to Google I have to leave a space for them, anyway. I should be thankful I received their email about all this as they sent it to my old email address. Why, I don’t know, because all of my contact info was updated as soon as I got the new address.

Took a bunch of photos of the jewelry I made for the craft fair only to discover the USB cord to connect the cammera to the computer is missing. Just my luck the Canon G2 predates the universal USB cord, so I had to cough up $22 to replace the fucker. Which is why I’m spending my time doing the SEO thing. If I don’t get the new cord by the time I’m done with that and the feed, I’ll dust off my Guerrilla Marketing book and develop some more unique ways to market the business.

Ah, the joys of being a proprietor.