We're Still Here

It's been a while since my last post.

Time has been very busy over here at KML's Corner.

Lots of stuff has been going up on Ebay at lower prices - we are working to clear out some inventory.

And there has been some behind the scenes work going on with the website.

For too long my feeds into the Google marketplace have not been working.

Much was changed with that feature last fall, and I am now getting it fixed on the site.

What a job it is.

So much inputting and trying to find the necessary fields that are needed to process the feed.

Much of my inventory doesn't have it, and without it, it creates errors and the feed gets rejected.

Yikes - time to move some out of the store and over to Ebay.

It's a job that is going to take a big chunk of time.

We are still here and still posting - just more behind the scenes.

Let us know if we can help you with anything, and thanks for stopping by!

Lowering Prices

We have begun to lower the prices in our ebay store.

 

The beginning prices on many of our auction are also going through some changes.

 

We are lowering many of the starting prices to $9.99.

 

The holiday season is coming,and we really want to move much of our merchandise.

 

What better way then to offer our customers some really good deals.

 

We will also be listing some different kinds of items in our store with in the next few weeks.

 

We have some hard to find vehicle parts from some older, long-gone cars that some people will be happy to see.

 

So keep your eyes open on our store - we might have just what you need!

Check Outgoing Links

I posted on one of my other blogs a couple of weeks ago about checking the outgoing links on a website.

 Well, I had taken care of all of my blogs, and the KML store website was next on the list.

Before I got to it, I was sent an email from a program I have monitoring the site for any suspicious behavior.

And wouldn't you know, there was malware.

Fearing my site had been attacked, panic set in.

Upon further investigation, I found it was an outgoing link to website I had on my link exchange page.

This link had been on my page for years, I certainly didn't expect that.

Someone hacked that site, and it was showing up bad on mine.

Well, we can't have that, so off it came,

Along with a few others that let their domains and websites expire.

It's a shorter list now, but it's clean.

And that is the important thing!

Readying for the Holiday Season

It seems a bit early to be thinking about the upcoming holiday season, after all, it is only August.

But when it comes to being online and selling merchandise, the earlier one begins to think about it, the better.

It takes time to get the items ready, photo them, and then actually get them on the website.

It takes time for the search engines to crawl the new listings.

So, by the end of summer, I usually have dived into the "season".

Not sure how things will be this year with the economy as it is, but good deals are always in demand.

And we offer quite a few of those!

Google Feed

We have always used the google feed for inserting our items in the froogle marketplace.

There haven't been any problems until lately when google informed me that there was an error with our URL.

After updating, verifying, and claiming the URL again, all is looking and working fine.

Hopefully it stays that way.

Now, on to the next step - figuring out how to get a sitemap of all the products and sending that along to google too.

These are steps that are recommended to webmasters by google to help with getting exposure for your site.

And they are free to use - can't go wrong with that!

Login-in Loop Fixed

There was a slight glitch with the log-in for customers over the past couple of days.

A customer was kind enough to drop me a note, and I was finally able to get it figured out.

It had to do with the site security and the wrong code being used.

Just one little thing can make things so difficult.

And finding the answer was time consuming, but we finally found the info we needed to fix it.

Doing our best to keep us and our customers safe.

Thanks for your patience and to our customer for the heads up!

Starting Anew

There have been a few changes going on over here at KML's Corner.

You won't notice any cosmetic changes with the website itself, but the blog is a different story.

We are changing our platform and style and will be working on a new look for the blog.

We are excited about these changes we will be making over the next few days.

As always, we welcome your thoughts and thank you for your patience as we go forward to ensure a safe, secure shopping experience for our customers.