Saturday, December 19, 2009

Friday, December 18, 2009

Funky with A Touch of Classic

Red, grey, and black can be considered as a classic color combination, but with the right attitude, they can look funky too :D Look at these awesome handmade items. Very cool, right?

Click on the title below the picture to get the complete list of stuffs shown here.



Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Gift Ideas for Her

What a girl wants, what a girl needs? Everything! Right, girls? ;) Spiritually, it's probably an undying love from a significant other. Materially, here are some ideas what to give to her, to a woman on her special day and/or Christmas.

Gift ideas for women.
  • Vegan Blush Beautiful Mineral Blush
  • Mini Pirate Hat
  • Coco Jasper Bracelet
  • Blue Floral Concho Leather Bracelet
  • White butterfly fine art print
  • Hot pink long skirt with Black victorian lace
  • Leather shoulder bag
  • Leather Art Journal
  • Bridal Shoe Accessories



Pick a favorite and leave a comment with link to your Artfire Studio to be included on the next featuring.

All items have been submitted to Vote Handmade and Twitter as well :) Vote please!



Other Handmade Christmas gifts

Gift Ideas for Baby Girls and Teens

Cute items for babies and girls. These are some ideas for newborn baby gifts and for girls.

Pick a favorite and leave a comment with link to your Artfire Studio to be included on next Friday's featuring.

All items have been submitted to Vote Handmade and Twitter as well :) Vote please!

 




Other Handmade Christmas gifts

Friday, December 4, 2009

Gift Ideas for Men

Looking for presents for the men in your life is probably not an easy task. Here's several gift ideas for him that i compiled. These are extra special because they are handmade. I hope you like them!

Pick a favorite and leave a comment with link to your Artfire Studio to be included on next Friday's featuring.

All items have been submitted to Vote Handmade and Twitter as well :) Vote please!



Other Handmade Christmas gifts

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Google Base Disallowed Words

In order to appear in Google Base, our listings must follow Google Base rules or else they will be removed from Google Base sooner or later. To make sure your ArtFire listings are submitted to Google Base, activate it in My Gbase Feed.

WARNING: Attempts to cheat the Google system using misspellings or asterisks or other tricks are considered abuse, and could get the entire Artfire feed blocked!


So what are the forbidden words for Google Base? Here's a sum up from this and this forum threads.

PROMOTIONAL WORDS:
- free (including hyphenated words such as pet-free, smoke-free, hands-free, etc-free)
- sale
- vacation
- travel
- travels

ANYTHING ALCOHOL  / TOBACCO / DRUG RELATED WORDS
- smoke, smoked
- champagne
- whiskey
- beer
- tobacco
- cigar
- cigarette
- rum
- rummo
- wine
- vine (supposedly because vine = wine in another language)
- vineyard
- camel (for it being a cig brand)
- brandy
- gin
- bordeaux 
- burgundy
- ale
- hemp (?)
- absinthe 

ADULT / MATURE / EXPLICIT / NAUGHTY / VIOLENCE RELATED WORDS:
- anime ( however "manga" is allowed)
- strip
- stripper
- adult; including hyphenated words such as adult-size
- sexy
- butt
- sex
- affair
- chick
- sensual
- gun
- offensive language
- knife/knives
- nude

MISCELLANEOUS WORDS: 
- postage (or postage stamp)
- collecting (collectible and collect are okay)
- thorny
- precious metal 
- muse 
- corsage
- Z (as a stand alone letter)
- double @ (i.e: L@@K, B@@BS)
- fireworks
- bank
- FDA


PRICE RESTRICTION: Google Base will not take items under US $1.

Now we know all of this, what to do to get our listings passing through Google Base?
1. By replacing those words with other words; such as:
Free shipping = complimentary shipping, shipping is on me, no price charges on shipping, etc.
** I'm not too positive about this but I vaguely remember that having the word SOLD will make your listing go at the bottom of Google's list. So try to avoid this word. You can replace it with "you will receive a similar item", "made to order", etc. **

2. OR put those forbidden/disallowed words in the Promo Box if you're an ArtFire seller. Promo Box is not gonna get indexed by Google Base.

3. Be creative and open thesaurus! Ha! (but limit only at common words) Need help? Use this Google AdWords: Keyword Tool


CAPITALIZATION KILLS!! (update per  June 16, 2010)

This just in that Google Base now inactivate listings with excessive capitalization. Google requires items to be grammatically correct with proper title capitalization. Read this link below for more details.

Why No One Should Try to "Fool" Google Base.



***** If you know other words that are not on the list, please leave it in the comment section and I'll add them on my list :) *****



* Google and Google Base are two different search engines. Rejected listings in Google Base (Google Product Search/Google Shopping) may still appear in Google.