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clothingbrand1 · 4 years ago

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Guidelines for Anybody Who would like to Start out a Clothes Brand name

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how to start a clothing brand

In this article are a few strategies to any person all set to or considering about launching their own individual clothes line.

Idea # 1. Don't Rush

What I signify by that is choose your time when it comes to the start of your respective line. There may be a great deal of levels of competition to choose from these days, establishing some social media marketing web pages using a t-shirt coming shortly is not really likely to cut it. Have you ever ever received excited about a Fb site with twelve likes and "a clean new apparel brand coming soon"in the about me part? Me neither.

Tip # two. If you cannot style and design, then shell out someone that can.

A lot of street don start-ups launch their model with just their title inside a script font, screen printed over a black t-shirt. Now I am all for supporting a manufacturer, however, you want to no less than put some thought and creativity into your apparel, usually individuals will see that you'll be much like the rest of the clothing brands that have started off and failed. If you can't draw or style and design, pay someone who can. You happen to be gonna want stable types if you prefer to stand out and it will not have to be expensive. An awesome web-site for style and design do the job is called Designcrowd. This website makes it possible for you to put up your style and design brief, set your spending plan, then wait around for designers from everywhere in the entire world to write-up their entry and also you can opt for the best one particular.

Tip # 3 Really don't rip-off other folks!

Just about every brand wishes to be as productive as Obey, Stussy and Hype, but blatantly copying their strategies, style and ripping off their designs will not be planning to get you there. In reality, It really is much more likely to have a negative result simply because these models are very well known, highly regarded as well as their hundreds of fans will know that your outfits models usually are not primary.

Suggestion # four Imagine outside the box.

You've got most likely heard this stating right before and although it is much easier stated then done, a great method to start off will be to do a good bit of exploration to collect your own personal ideas. Check with you which kind of clothes do I would like to create? What are my favorite brand names? What do I appreciate in life? When you finally know the solutions to these thoughts then you can start to study brand names, jot down tips, choose photographs and doodle to actually make an image with the style of street don things you would like your brand to be manufacturing. But make sure you never dismiss idea selection 3 whilst doing your investigation!

Idea # five Analysis your product or service.

Given that you have got a handful of layouts or concepts that you would love to see printed on the t-shirt, it can be time for you to look into what organization you may use to supply your blanks. There are many companies which make blank outfits ready for printing so this component might be a little bit overwhelming, but choosing your funds and who your focus on industry is will seriously assist to slender down the choice.

Gildan and Fruit on the loom are at the most affordable end of the scale however they are likely to possess a boxier in shape and you're not likely to seek out a lot of reputable apparel brand names printing on them.

Tultex and Anvil print a great high quality tee for a fair selling price if you prefer a high-quality come to feel but your spending plan will never extend to high-priced blanks.

And on the greater finish are American Attire and Alternate Attire. Although these might be highly-priced, the quality is phenomenal and so they also have a range of colours and items which will make your model stand out through the rest.

Tip # 6 Don't lower corners.

If you want being taken severely being a brand name, creation will be the 1 position you need to do not need to rush or slice corners. Firstly, choose a good printing business. It'll cost you a great deal extra time, cash and energy inside the prolonged run should you commit to print having a man in his bedroom who prints your layouts wonky and gets chocolate stains on the t-shirts when he's printing them.

You will find numerous respected firms by typing in "Screen printers" in Google, and don't forget to shop all over. Octomuffin and Woven Inc are rated highly during the United kingdom.

Secondly, think about your brand name graphic. Would you like to generally be thought of being a experienced brand? In the event you do, then your going to want custom neck labels, swing tags and some neat packaging. This doesn't ought to be high-priced, but little touches like that will possess a long lasting impact on the client.

Lastly, don't print a lot of. Any time you initially release a structure, you'll have no clue how it will provide, so it truly is most effective to purchase a lesser quantity at the beginning to test the h2o. Really don't fret about promoting out swiftly, it's going to make your manufacturer appear common when you do so you can constantly just re-order far more.

Idea # seven Website, and pics.

You don't require a massive finances for making a good looking and practical web-site, there are so many e-commerce platforms readily available now which supply fantastic looking web sites for any minimal regular monthly price tag. Significant cartel, retail store envy, volusion and shopify are only the tip of your iceberg in terms of these.

As soon as you have selected your world wide web platform, get a domain. Domains are so affordable in recent times apparel manufacturers haven't any justification to not buy one particular, and it helps make you glimpse much a lot more professional whenever you arrive to start.

Now you are ready to upload your items and pictures. It's important to help make absolutely sure you can get some specialist searching pictures taken of your respective items and not types which look like they may have been taken on a three mega pixel mobile phone digital camera. Your shots tend to be the only way your consumers can connect with your merchandise over the web, should the pics are little, blurry or don't demonstrate adequate of the items depth, you happen to be possible not to receive a sale.

Idea # eight And now we wait.

After you to start with launch, the joy might be a bit as well a lot and you happen to be likely being expecting huge things inside of within a shorter duration of time. Try to remain grounded, things take time, a lot of time, so don't get disheartened if you have not offered out inside your initial thirty day period and just retain likely. It truly is also an excellent idea to test and acquire feed-back from family and friends to view should the merchandise are literally nearly as good when you think they may be.

And that's it, I really hope your observed this article appealing and hopefully a little practical, as I discussed before I'm not an expert while in the avenue have on market, but individuals are just a few of the points I've learnt along just how.

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sonipanda · 5 years ago

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Welcome to the blog Tramps Hosiery! I recently came across this brand, and I have to say they are certainly unique! Not only are they about compression hosiery, but those colours and styles they offer are certainly to crush over! I managed to get my hands on 2 pairs; both in the same model but in 2 bold colours!

About Tramps Hosiery

“TRAMPS is a high-quality fashion compression line designed by Tomas Reyes, a New York-based fashion designer, and his sister, Alex Reyes, a long-time hairstylist and salon owner in Austin, Texas. After working on her feet for many years, Alex’s doctor prescribed compression hose to help relieve the pressure in her legs and help with the varicose vein she started to develop. In her search, she grew frustrated by the lack of color and fashion in existing brands of compression hosiery, and she collaborated with Tomas to design the perfect line.

Together, Alex and Tomas created a line of beautiful and comfortable compression-wear that merges fashion and function. Created with customers in mind, TRAMPS offers superior comfort and style while providing compression for better circulation. The clean designs, creative patterns, and signature open-toed style are essential to every wardrobe and are a copyright exclusive to TRAMPS.”

– taken from their website

The Spec

Colour: Tramps Blue

Size: S/M

Denier: Approx 60-80

Compression: 25-30 mmHg

Materials:

Price: $58.00

Website: Tramps Hosiery -Bryannna High Waisted Style Tights

My Outfit

Now it took me a good while to pair these up with an outfit, but I managed with monochrome as a starting point! I thought you cannot go wrong with black and white and then add a good pop of colour into the mix!

My Deets

Cami Top: New Look

Skirt: H&M

Tights: Tramps Hosiery

Shoes: New Look

The Review

From The Website: This high-waist style Large style in the TRAMPS Fashion Compression Hosiery line is designed with 25-30 mmHg graduated compression to give you waist smoothing and body shaping support along with open toe freedom.

Sizing Info:

TRAMPS Fashion Compression Hosiery is designed to be flexible to most sizes with a uniquely knitted fabric that conforms to your body. Our Small/Medium fits comfortably from size 4-10 and Medium/Large style fits comfortably from sizes 6-14.

PLEASE CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE YOU WEAR COMPRESSION GARMENTS.

The Packaging: I really do love their whole look. Not only does it come in their own plastic outer packaging (as shown below) but they come individually tissue wrapped in opposite colours and it’s pretty simple. I love the whole concept!

When you get in, you will find that it comes with a slim piece of card that states how to get them on. I will show you how I attempted to do so further down the blog!

Getting Them On: okay so below is me attempting by reading the card given (see above)… And well I will let the video do the talking for me.

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Later that day… When I decided to take that break and let my legs just cool down… I discovered that they have a tutorial video on their website, which you can view here: https://www.trampshosiery.com/pages/how-to-put-on-compression-stockings

On The Legs: I did manage to finally get them on let me add, and when it did they were great!

The denier is pretty high so you will get a lovely block colour, however this will depend on how much the hosiery is stretched out on the legs. It will still remain quite solid. but you may see parts (on me it’s always the thighs) where it slightly becomes a little sheerer than the rest of the leg. It’s fine and actually gives it a lovely ombre effect too!

The quality is spot on! For what you pay, it is certainly worthwhile! I couldn’t damage these even if I tried as they are so fitted to your legs and the denier is pretty high, it would be a mission to snag these! Plus a lot of the material is stretchy so good luck with trying to destroy these!

The fit of them are amazing; they are super tight to begin with (if you’re not used to compression hosiery that is) but you get used to that after you start moving in them. My legs have felt great all day in them, especially as I have been on the move a fair bit. I didn’t feel restricted in any way, which may seem unusual considering the struggle it was to get them on!

The feel of them are so soft and super comfortable to be in; yes these might be a little too thick for summer, but actually works so well for those slightly cooler days. I didn’t feel my legs perspire in these at all and they certainly gave them a great shape too!

The colour I have to say is just divine! That blue is so gorgeous and super bold, I fell in love as soon as I saw it paired together with the outfit.

It’s deep and rich in colour, it looks luxe and it’s my favourite compression pair by miles!

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The Toes & Ankle: now some of you are gonna find this super weird, but I think it’s super awesome! The toes – are toeless which means bring on the open toe sandals and shoes. At first I thought it was really unusual, but when I got them on, I thought it was pretty inventive. Not only does it mean you can wear thicker deniers with peep and open toe shoes, but it doesn’t add any pressure around the toes. I can only imagine how cramped the toes would feel being in compression hosiery all day; heck I have done it before and it isn’t pleasant at times – so to me this is great! I wore closed toe shoes with my outfit, but my next outfit in the pink I will make sure I wear open toe so you can see!

Otherwise I don’t have much to say here – no reinforcements (apart from the heel section) and an all over smooth finish from foot to waistband!

The Waistband: now the waistband is something new. I have done high waisted before but not in a thick pair of hosiery though which was an experience! It came up so high it sat right under my bra! This is why I found it so hard to wear something with it at first as it threw me off completely, but then it was fine once I got used to it.

Now the band can I just say is super comfortable and doesn’t roll down at all. It stays how it shows in the pic below (on the left) all day long. These also have have a boxer brief but it isn’t visible (it ends where the photo ends) so that whole section you feel secure. One thing I noticed was that smooth bum bit at the back (see right image below) where it smooths out compared to the rest of the surrounding section.

Anyways back to the band – this is super nice and so snug to be in. This would certainly work well for winter, but not so great for summer months where you would end up feeling too hot! It’s nicely ribbed and doesn’t dig in at any point either. The compression stop just underneath, so for a good few inches you just get pure comfort.

My Thoughts?

Well I have to say I am super impressed with this pair for sure. Not only do I love the colour, but these have been so great to me. I have no real need to wear compression hosiery unless I’m on a plane (I don’t get up and walk around you see), so it worked if you’re on the move a lot and get tired legs easily – these will certainly keep you going for that little while longer!

I cannot wait to try the pink pair out now!

Tramps Bryannna High Waisted Tights (Blue) Welcome to the blog Tramps Hosiery! I recently came across this brand, and I have to say they are certainly unique!

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crossedbeams · 8 years ago

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ROSE REVIEWS… THE X-FILES - S1.E8: ICE

<< 1.6 The Ghost in the Machine ————————— 1.9 Space >>

What a week it has been! What a month in fact (because that’s how long ago I started this recap). Ice is one of my favourite early episodes which explains why this is longer than the combined beards of ZZ Top. Someone teach me self control? Please?

Go under the cut at your own peril, here there be worms.

The Plot

Some dudes playing with ice have gone radio silent and left a creepy message, Mulder and Scully get sent up to investigate with a ragtag team of socially inept scientists and then cut off by bad weather with some seriously suspect wormlike organisms, and more sexual tension than you can shake an oversized drillbit at.

My Stream of Semi-Consciousness

YAY! ICE!

I’m glad they start out with the dog just nommin on something spilled instead of one of the dead people. It makes it easier to root for him later which is good coz it’s a cute dog. Apparently it’s also Blue’s dad!

Then there’s what appears to be a disembodied limb in a box. Why I have no idea. but I am soon distracted by the entry of this dude who appears to have been scorched, stripped and then attacked in an incredibly symmetrical fashion by a pair of clawed ketchup bottles.

Like c'mon prop monkeys! Blood is NOT that colour and when did you last see someone with matching pectoral wounds (given it’s not sex related… probably). Also now I’ve been looking at it for too long and I feel like he has one nipple that is significantly bigger than the other and I’m having trouble moving past it.

And WHY is he shirtless. At what point in the whole fighting to the death in the ARCTIC was he like… wait mate… I need to take off this shirt off because #aesthetic.

Though to be fair I probably would.

Aaaaanyway

His radio makes more noises than the tardis.

We’re not who we are. Okay. We get it. But on a serious note do they ever actually discuss why he says this. Because I feel like grammatically it’s questionable and the space worms seem more into murdering each other than making dramatic speeches.

His assailant looks very heeeeere’s jack" and is wearing a shirt. I’m rooting for him until they get into the worst duel ever. Don’t put your guns so close. This whole bit tbh. The worms seem to have very complicated motivations and choreography, Maybe they’re abstract prehistoric space worms. Am I making sense. I don’t think I’m making sense.

It’s okay though I can compose myself during the CREDITS.

This video from the dead science dudes is the dorkiest thing I have ever seen. There are quilted body warmers, pasted on smiles and overenthusiastic high fives. You can see why these guys are extras and not the series stars. But at least they were all having fun before they brutally killed one another.

Mulder and Scully are watching this video in a room with both a blackboard and a window. Where are they? Is the basement being cleaned? Is this Scully’s office? If so why does she have so many damn tables!

Why do people insist on digging into old ice/trenches/under the sea. It always ends badly. EVERY DAMN TIME. Cthulu is down there people. Or godzilla or some shit. Just leave it alone and make nachos. Much better.

Not to be pedantic (okay who am I kidding) but pretty sure the background here doesn’t match what was behind him in the scene.

It’s only 1993 goddamn and Gillian Anderson is already learning how to ruin us all with her exquisite face. We were all screwed from the first time someone pointed a camera at her. All her tiny facial nuances remind me of the queens of old Hollywood and the things they could do with a quirk of the lip.

Then Mulder squats down and grins at her and though he’s basically implying they’re being sent as sacrificial lambs he doesn’t seem too sad about the concept of being trapped in an igloo full of corpses with his partner. He goes from amused to gleeful when he tells his teeny partner to bring her mittens and I’m thinking Scully seems excessively perturbed at this stage… is she having a moment of forboding? Or does she just really hate Alaska? I mean this is pre Palin so there’s no good reason to be quite so down on it…

And heeeeere’s Denny

Not content with really loving rocks (geologist) and being called Denny he also likes to do this in public places.

Denny is not getting any.

I do miss cassettes though.

Enter small winterwear troll AKA Dana Scully in a jacket so big she may be wider than she is tall. Mulder in contrast appears to be wearing jammies, jeans and a jacket, which are - incidentally - my three style essentials. Well those three and a resting bitch face.

Mulder makes awkward chat about San Diego while Scully pulls a face like she didn’t used to live there and then the other scientists arrive and they engage in a charade worth of the Chuckle Brothers with IDs, “It’s me! It’s You!” Mulder even checks Scully in case, one assumes, somebody else was hiding in her coat and has leaped out to replace her since he introduced her to Denny less than 30 seconds ago. Possibly he just uses it as an opportunity to sniff her. He’s only human and I would… I also feel like at this point the writers were overly concerned with linking back to “we’re not who we are” from earlier. Every single combination of the words “we”, “who” and “are” is well and truly thrust in. And we’re only at 7.12.

Also hello Felicity Huffman.

“Two federal agents, a geologist, a medical doctor and a toxicologist” sounds like the beginning of the worst walked into a bar joke ever. It would have some incredibly scientific punchline probably involving the word ampule. I’d try and write it but… we I can’t be bothered!

Everyone is so weird and cagey. The script must have been full of side-eye instructions. A word to the wise - if you’re ever asked to go on a business trip where people are behaving like this, don’t go. It’s the start of a horror film and you will die.

Especially if someone else there is called Bear.

Bear could be Steven Tyler’s brother. Or maybe they just have the same surgeon. His car is the only car in the universe dirtier than mine.

And after Scully standing weirdly close to Huffman (I forget her character name) for way too long (like seriously? SO strange), Mulder trying to reassert his Scully monopoly with some unnecessary touching (DRINK!) we see some stock footage which can only mean we’re up, up and away.

Icy Point and the power’s off. Of course. Do they ever investigate why the second they arrive anywhere the lights stop working? That’s a damn X-File.

For guys who blew their on brains out these dudes are artfully arranged. And pretty sure one of them is tensing. You’re dead man. Nobody cares about your abs anymore.

Scully says ‘flashing’. She means the camera. Epileptics on set can thank her but I can’t help being disappointed. Imagine if she meant her boobs…

Mulder comforts Felicity Huffman with his intimate knowledge of arctic research generator noises. Who knew Oxford university offered so many eclectic courses. Unfortunately they didn’t offer one in dog combat because Mulder goes down. Pretty sure Huffman falls over too but only out of shock or being knocked off balance by her coat.

Poor Bear is bleeding ketchup so we know he’s fucked. It’s fine though, Scully is a medical doctor and she finds some super gross disease beans in the doggo’s armpit which means she will also save the day. Standard.

Worm under skin, WORM UNDER SKIN! Ths grosses me out every time so drink every time we see unnecessary subdermal wriggling. *drinks*

Scully has completed five autopsies before anyone else has done more than get their coat off and get infected with a space worm, but ruins the effect by brandishing a used and uncovered needle with gusto whilst doing her jargon spiel. She may just be trying work out how to rescue her hair from it’s current anti-gravity state, her fringe is levitating at a sweet 120 degrees from her forehead which has got to be upsetting when you’re as put together as Scully is. Regardless,

Mulder seems unperturbed but may just be distracted by Bear wigging out about his own personal armpit beans.

There are some high quality knitwear/ winter neutrals going on in this episode. Maybe they were sponsored by fruits of the loom or some shit.

Mulder and Denny get all excited about satellite pics, apparently Mulder’s interpreting skills around some sort of bizarre geological scanning are rusty. TRY NON-EXISTENT MULDER. YOU DON’T KNOW SCHIST ABOUT GEOLOGY! Sorry. For the pun and the yelling. But seriously. If I made a list of all the things Mulder and Scully know that they shouldn’t…

DINOSPERM! Dinosperm. Does whatever a dinosperm does.

The second Mr Bodywarmer (I can never remember anyone’s names so tis is what I’m calling him) disses Scully’s autopsy skills you know that Mulder’s gonna disagree with him. Contagion be damned, suggesting Sculy has missed something is a no no - even in Season 1 - and especially when she’s pouting like this.

Oh no! Mulder says they have to stay (my favourite trope), Scully pulls the doctor card to seal the deal and now there is no way they’re not having arctic sex right? Everyone gets some… well except Denny who kills the mood by opening up way too easily about his bowel movements. Poor Denny. High school can’t have been easy for you.

But it’s fine because Bear flips his shit, or more specifically flips out about a shit, and everyone has other things to worry about. After some arctic democracy which really draws a solid line between Mulder/Scully and Huffman/MrBodywarmer (in case you’d missed all the other clues) and emphasises the disposability of poor Denny, they pull a gun and shit gets real.

Down goes Mulder!

Down goes Scully!

Turns out big man Bear is no match for Macho Moose and Flying Squirrel. The others prove once again to be utterly useless, standing about and watching. Honestly, given how much Mulds and Sculls know about other science they should absolutely not know, the the rest of the cast seem kinda superfluous other than as human coathangers for knitted beige monstrosities.

WORM UNDER FLESH, DRINK.

Impromptu surgery always makes me squeamish so lets not talk about this. Suffice to say its gory and ends poorly for Bear. RIP buddy, you were kinda a douche and your hat was stupid but nobody likes a neck worm.

Just keep drinking till it’s over.

The woman on the radio is semi-peppy given she’s just told them they’re stuck. Maybe she’s drinking whatever Sarah Palin is on.

Sculy’s OCD hand washing is adorable and I want to pet her. And the others are all still just standing there though now with a corpse centrepiece. React people! Do something!

Top quality CGI right here! Wormeo is looking fine and definitely three dimensional.

The worm theory is all very plausible, except that the last bit makes no sense. The worm doesn’t want to kill it’s host, just the hosts with its pals in… so what is the worm’s end game? Last worm standing? Any thoughts?

I am all about the aesthetic of this next scene The half light the corrugated metal with shadows and the height difference all in silhouette. It’s even added to by Mulder’s signature monotone rant. But the problem is, I’m so MSR thirsty that when this happens…

I just want them to throw down and get it on on the floor. KISS! NOW! Corpses be damned. See, This is what this show has done to me. I used to have standards.

Denny is not down with all the tension so he retreats to baseball while Huffman and Bodywarmer, who bicker like Mulder and Scully but lack ANY sort of chemistry (this is the show we might have gotten if the Gillian/David alchemy hadn’t happened) conspire like a pair of whiner babies. Bodywarmer is as paranoid as Muder, but he’s also an assclown.

Then Mulder and Scully take their coats off in a dramatic way and once again my mind is in the gutter. Which is actually appropriate as it’s naked spot check time and things are about to get a little homoerotic. Pretty sure Mulder lost some sort of bet when Scully was the one to suggest a naked group activity. Also pretty sure he was disappointed that it was just another spot check and that he wasn’t invited.

Leaving this here for science.

There are multiple documentations of the exceptionally sapphic encounter between Scully and Huffman, whoever decided to light them in red while the dudes got to strip off in a normally lit room was certainly only aided by the fact that Scully's jabby doctor hands from later series have not yet developed.

My main takeaway other than this being basically the only scene in which Huffman doesn't irritate me (and I think I quite liked her in DH though I can't remember a damn thing that happened on that show), is that Gillian Anderson has more chemistry in a fraction of her lower lip than most people have in their whole body. I mean seriously: authority, vulnerability, comfort and a little sex all in one move. This little thing?

She would probably have chemistry with a rock if she needed to. How is it so effective? How does one scene that lasts less than a minute have more relationship in it than all of Huffman and Bodywarmer's interactions combined? How is the entire world not worshipping at her tiny feet?

And the award for least comforting bedtime sendoff goes to Mulder, for both bringing up bugs biting (as if they're not already freaking over dinosperms getting all up in their spines) and then shooting down Scully's attempt to normalise things. "The spots on the dog went away". Really? She's lingering outside her room, and instead of being nice, or comforting, or taking her mind off things with some vigorous shagging you give her puppy eyes and a shortcut to nightmare town?

Go to bed and think about what you've done Mulder. Leave Scully alone with your comforting words, ominous lighting and a dead man's half naked lady posters.

Cue montage of nobody coping in different ways with Mark Snow blinky-blonkiness to up the tension.

As a an unapologetic Scully fangirl I do sometimes forget that at this stage, Duchovny was very much the star and focus. Scenes like this remind me, where we watch him get dressed (I am fine with lots of shirtless Mulder), wander about, do reacting, hang out a little with this cabinet that definitely looks like it has a face and could just have eaten Denny on it's own...

Anyway my point was that as much as Gillybean is growing as an actor and making herself felt in the episodes, studio intentions be damned, this is all DD, prowling about with drama and he does it well. Also you can see his nipples through his shirt. Clearly my priorities are straight. Well... mostly.

That said. Mulder is an idiot. When a cabinet is bleeding, what sensible person opens it while squatting in front of the spot where clearly a corpse is going to fall out. He didn't learn that brand of idiocy at the VCU.

Speaking of Scully asserting herself, Bodywarmer (I think his name is Hodge?) and Mulder get in to a sweaty macho shout off and teeny Sculls gets in the midde. Huffman just kinda floats about.

And we have a series first! Mulder and Scully hold each other at gunpoint! Loud noises! Angst! Betrayal! Delivery of the episodes motto which STILL makes no sense."You may not be who you are?"" Well no he is him, he just might have a worm in his brain But points for consistency. Shame it doesn't apply to the series overall plot arc!

Anyway, in the end it's fine because Mulder relents when it becomes exceptionally clear that for all that she's smol and mostly calm, Scully will shoot his ass, though she'll feel a bit bad about it. At this realisation Mulder goes full puppy and lets his owner put him in a pen. But he doesn't get shot. Yet. Little he knows...

So Mulder gets shut away. It's totes emosh. Like Celine Dion backing track emosh. Mark Snow step aside because this bish has spare time and windows moviemaker...

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Moving on...

Pretty sure that fluffy!Scully striding in a plaid shirt with a gun is my spirit animal.

It's super convenient that both members of team non-MSR are sleeping in ridiculously uncomfortable positions, despite the recent excitement, so Scully can be forced to surrender her weapon. But hey - we only have 10 mins left and the plot must go on.

Bodywarmer decides the time has come for him to be alpha male but unfortunately, everyone still hates him, Scully doesn't want in on his shitty duet, especially when it's clear that he'd toss his partner in a second. Huffman finally grows enough balls to suggest Scully might have a point about not turning on each other and looking for treatment but his ego is out of control.

I really wish Bodywarmer had gotten eaten instead of Denny, Denny and Huffman could have been useless fuzzballs together and the only thing I ship Bodywarmer with is my booted foot making hard contact with his testicles after his misogynistic asshole moves in the lab. I'm starting to understand why Huffman has no personality. Scully starts to realise she got preeeety lucky that Mulder's just an alien obsessed puppy and not an utter fuckboy, before snapping back in to science mode for wormageddon.

I'm gonna take a moment here to shout out Lila (@startwreck for the following graphic). Theses two animated worms even have more tension than Bodywarmer and Huffman. So when we did the group rewatch we may have turned it into a fix that the worms were in love...

Me and the space worms have one thing in common. We do not like company.

WORM IN DOGGY EAR! DRINK!

Not sure how a stethoscope would prove the worms inside the dog were dead but I'm not a medical doctor. Either way, Mr Woofty is okay and lets be honest, aside from Mulder and Scully he's the only one I care about at this stage.

Tfw bae may have a brain worm but you wanna be sure and one of your companions is an asshole and the other one is actually the neck worm's host.

Poor Mulder isn't even allowed to accustom his poor little molerat eyes to the light before having to defend himself. Which got me thinking... the light switch is inside the room. We saw him turn it on earlier. So he's sitting in the dark of his own choice, just to make himself more tragic. Precious baby.

This face could have been avoided.

This scene though, this could not, There is now a section in the FBI handbook called, "Protocol for the investigation of possible parasitic space worms", this inspection is the example of how not to do it. Ably assisted by D'Angelo and my amazing video skills once again I give you - "this would be sexual harassment if they weren't both so into it - so don't try this in the workplace kids"

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Scully comes out with Mulder in tow like the kid who came home from school with a friend who wasn't invited. "Mom I know you said no but look at him". After a quick round of, my partner is less infected than your partner, they get ambushed, Scully makes the squeakiest squeak of a no that is still audible to the human ear and finds herself in the sex cupboard.

Commence a struggle scene worthy of You've Been Framed, drink for Huffman's neck worms and also for this face.

In her struggle to escape a worming, Huffman pauses long enough to through some vials off a freezer shelf, that she has to open. Before she goes for the gun. Logical. And then they all have sex on the floor. I mean seriously.

But it's all good coz she gets to gnaw on Mulder's pec while the worms do battle royale in her pituitary gland and everyone makes it. Well except Bear and Denny. Huzzah! Scully gives Huffman (whose name I have just discovered is Silver or Da Silva which I'm sure I knew when I started this but honestly that was weeks ago so...) a celebratory belly rub.

I'd take it.

They finally escape, and Mulder of course wants another round trip to hell but hell has been torched. Scully does a good job of looking sympathetic in front of Bodywarmer, but as soon as they're alone she tells Mulder how she really feels. To paraphrase, no, she doesn't want to play with ice worms of death any more and yes she would rather be in Aruba. But she does wait for him. Maybe so they can finish what they started in the sex cupboard in the SUV.

I hope,

And so it ends..

Quick Score (Full Deets in the top pic)

Story: Original, bold and pacy - 9/10

Mulder: Broody, ballsy, sexy - 8/10

Scully: Smart, sceptic foil to the crazy - 8/10

UST: The first suspense episode, creepy original goodness 5/5

Other Cast: Solid ensemble of misfits delivers - 8/10

Bonus Points: Hot damn sexy moments, extra gazing, partner doubting, memorable, my fave 5/5

TOTAL - 42/50 - Grade A and new topspot sitter!

Join us next time for more ridiculously overthought brain farts

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yeskhanzadame11 · 5 years ago

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Search Engine Optimization Tips and Tricks

Everyone knows that so is the game to play nowadays. After all, it appears as though it's the simplest thing that everyone talks about anymore. But how do you pass about properly optimizing your internet site? Do you really want to spend a package deal of money for unique tools and experts?

The answer isn't any - as long as you have a little little bit of time and willingness to analyze. In this article, we're going to check some easy steps you could take that have been verified to greatly enhance the ranking of websites within search engine outcomes.

But first, I'll define so, consistent with Dictionary.Com, so that we begin at the equal page: [search engine optimization is] the technique of choosing targeted key phrases and keyword terms associated with a Web site so the website online will rank excessive when those terms are part of a Web search; abbr. SO. A right fundamental definition - you'll see in a moment, but, that search engine optimization does go above and past mere keywords.

So allow's get commenced from the floor up.

Website Structure

We'll begin on the very basis - your internet site's structure. This relates to the manner your web site is prepare, and each other component of SO builds upon this. I'll begin with the simple website/net page elements you do not want to have, and I'll additionally give an explanation for why:

>Re-directs - Re-directs refer to pages which might be blank and simply point to another web page. Many search engines run into trouble while they are trying to add re-direct pages to their databases, so this is some thing you need to live far from. Many re-direct pages aren't indexed, and in case you are using a re-direct in your homepage, there goes any chance you may have had of any part of your internet site landing in search results.

> Frames - Frames include basically two separate internet pages being displayed as one. Frames are usually used in order that, for instance, a consistent navigation menu can be displayed in a panel on the left aspect of the display, while the relaxation of the screen changes every time a hyperlink in the navigation panel is clicked. This could make a internet site appearance snazzy, however engines like google just cannot technique frames, and you'll become with the equal issues as if you attempted to apply re-directs. It is satisfactory to live faraway from frames. The precise news is that you can emulate the function of frames pretty easily, through using simple HTML - the most effective difference is that you will ought to consist of the navigation menu code on each web page, however it's far well worth doing this to have your website listed.

> Image maps - Image maps are pics that have had separate links added to them. To illustrate, suppose you have got created an photo with three areas of text on it: 'Home' 'Help' and 'Links'. By "mapping" that picture, you could create 3 separate links round each area of text, while not having to break the photo into 3 smaller photos. Image maps are commonly used for navigation menus, but here is where the problem comes in: seeps can't comply with the links in a navigation menu. (Aren't you beginning to get bored with all of the troubles those navigation menus purpose?) There is an easy paintings-around, even though, if you really want to use photograph maps - just include the hyperlinks as textual content hyperlinks someplace else on every web page that has an picture map. Search engines can be capable of follow those textual content hyperlinks and index the rest of your web page.

> Macromedia Flash - You both have a love or hate courting with Flash, but the backside line is it chokes up search engines too. If you don't must use it, please, don't. (Not handiest in your sake, but for the sake people who've gotten only a little bit uninterested in those cheesy Flash headers on every website now!)

> CGI, PP, and all that stuff - CGI, PP, and different web programming and scripting languages are very powerful and might make contributions a high-quality deal to a website's capability. But dynamic internet pages are simply one extra factor that search engines like google and yahoo can't digest. Oftentimes, there may be no getting round using scripting in a internet site, but use it sparingly, and if you're using it for the only motive of searching brilliant when HTML might do the task just nice, via all approach, transfer to HTML!

So now you have a primary information of the technology and areas to keep away from while building - or re-designing - your website. A well based internet site helps the easier "crawling" of "spiders" thru it in order that it receives a higher search engine outcomes ranking.

We'll now circulate directly to the content material of your website, an regularly-omitted component of search engine optimization.

Website Content

The content your website incorporates may be very essential. All the search engine crawling within the international won't do you any properly if the search engine "spiders" don't locate any useful content material on your web site. Oftentimes, you may not see search engine optimization packages cover your internet site's content, however that is a completely important point that I suppose ought to no longer be omitted.

Your website should include an excellent amount of relevant, explanatory content, containing your keywords (which we'll talk about in some moments) and numerous correct helping pix (we will get to the ones in a 2 as nicely).

Upon listening to that extra textual content is better, many webmasters make the mistake of adding UN-decipherable gibberish to their websites. This is also something we're going to discuss below the Keywords & META Tags phase, however for now I will say that this is a big no-no. Search engines can inform when you're seeking to fool them, and in the event that they recall your web site to have devoted a big offense, they will even completely blacklist your area from their outcomes database. So it's miles extremely critical that the content material on your internet site makes sense.

One proper concept is to encompass articles to your website. Search engines substantially choose content material that adjustments regularly, and what better way to have converting content material than to continuously put up articles in your website online. Not handiest will you be perceived as an professional to your area, you may additionally make the search engines like google and yahoo happy.

I suppose this is as some distance as I'll go together with content - a whole lot of what is going to be discussed within the subsequent segment applies right here as well, so preserve studying!

Keywords & META Tags

Keywords are yet another imperative part of your search engine optimization campaign. For starters, you need to sit down with a sheet of paper (and keep in mind your appropriate antique wondering cap!) and think about key phrases that pertain in your enterprise. (For the record, keywords may be each single phrases and phrases - just make sure they're not too lengthy!) Think of what your internet site does, and increase key phrases which you might use to explain your website and its content material. It does now not remember how many keywords you come up with, even though it is satisfactory to haven't any much less than 5 (and the much less you've got, the more focused your seek engine advertising can be).

After you've got evolved your list of key phrases, there are some things you're going to need to do with them. First, sprinkle them inside the pages of your web page. Anywhere you have got text in your internet site, consist of those key phrases. It is excellent to have as a minimum three according to page (of each one), as the search engines probably will not take note of them in any other case. Keep those recommendations in mind when putting your keywords:

> Do now not repeat a key-word time and again.

> Do not repeat a keyword again and again (or maybe just once) and make it the same color as your website's heritage.

> Do no longer consist of your keywords all together as gibberish that no ordinary human can apprehend.

The 2 element you're going to need to do is to consist of these key phrases inside the descriptive sentences you may use inside the ALT tags for the photos you have in your web site. Again, observe the guidelines in ambitious above that can be carried out to ALT tags.

Third, upload those keywords on your META tags. There are 3 elements to the META tags that you may be using: Title, Description, and Keywords. For the Title and Description META tags, observe the policies in the formidable text above - and make certain to encompass your corporation name in those tags, if it isn't always already one in every of your keywords. For the Keywords META tag, you can go to town including your keywords, one right after the other! Separate them with a comma, and do not consist of the same keyword greater than as soon as! Doing so (in addition to violating any of the boded 'Do no longer' factors above) also can get your area name completely blacklisted.

Inbound Links

Another amazing so method that is often left out is incoming hyperlinks. Every hyperlink you've got coming into your website increases the "recognition" of your site inside the seek engine's minds. If the links come from web sites with excessive Google Page Rank rankings, that is even better (in Google's eyes, anyway - this doesn't practice to MAN, Yahoo!, and many others.).

How do you go about getting links in your website? One of the perfect approaches is to add your site to as many enterprise-related on line directories as you can find. A couple of different short and easy methods include posting advertisements at Craigslist and other free classifieds sites, and swapping your hyperlinks with comparable (competing or now not - that is as much as you!) websites.

Remember, the more inbound links you have, the better your Google Page Rank, as well as your position in the search results of Google, MAN, and the others.

Outbound Links

Did you know that outbound hyperlinks are just as critical as inbound links? Perhaps the search engines don't take care of site visitors hogs, however anything their motive, websites containing links leaving their websites consistently rank better in search engine effects than the ones that don't.

So who do you hyperlink to? Remember that you may switch hyperlinks with other associated websites and you may both gain. You also can hyperlink to complementary websites that traffic to yours may be interested in (but that do not in any way compete with you). The fundamental idea for getting each inbound and outbound links is to be aggressive, as well as innovative for your approach.

Conclusion

This is in no way an exhaustive guide. But I can not keep rambling on and on both. You need time to move carry out the obligations we've discussed here nowadays, in order that your website can be on its manner to the pinnacle of the search engine consequences.

So live tuned for in addition so articles here at [ https://searchenginemagic.org/ ] . I'll be posting greater search engine optimization techniques very soon!

Daniel J. Brie re is the CEO of Entrepreneur Host [ https://searchenginemagic.org/ ], a Web website hosting and area registration organization for Webmasters and Internet entrepreneurs.

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anthonykrierion · 6 years ago

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Amazon SEO in 2019: The Beginner’s Guide to Increased Sales

Let’s face it, modern retail lives online. That’s not to say that the concept of a brick a mortar location is outdated or going away anytime soon.

Far from it.

But to ignore the effect of online retail in 2019 is to not only shoot yourself in the foot but burn your entire company down in the process.

It’s no secret that online retail is popular and effective in appealing to a modern audience. And there is no more popular online retail platform than Amazon.

But with thousands of businesses competing on Amazon, how can you make sure that your company is able to stand out among the crowd.

The answer is simple.

Amazon SEO.

But what is Amazon SEO? How does it work? And how can you optimize your listings to ensure maximum conversions?

Read on to find out!

What is Amazon SEO?

As the name implies, Amazon SEO allows you to optimize your Amazon retail listing. This is done in a manner similar to regular search engine optimization, wherein Google or another search engine (like Bing) will rank your website based on an algorithm that crawls over your content and takes note of what you do before making a judgment on where you should go.

A typical SEO campaign involves complicated issues like keyword placement, backlink generation, and title tag optimization, among a plethora of other backend website enhancements.

Amazon SEO works in a lot of the same ways. As you’ve likely guessed by now, Amazon SEO determines where your product will fall on Amazon’s retail listings.

To give a real-world example, someone who is shopping for a new chair for their office might type “computer chair” into Amazon. If you are an optimized office furniture retailer, your Amazon SEO score will determine where that user will find your company’s listing.

Amazon products are displayed in two ways.

List views show 15-16 products per page, whereas gallery views have 24 to 25 products per results page.

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The ultimate goal of an Amazon listing is to receive more clicks. More clicks equal more successful conversions. The more conversions you get, the more you can increase your product’s overall visibility.

Once you’ve managed to score well for one of your products, it will inevitably draw shoppers to the rest of your wares, starting you down the road to brand loyalty.

But how important is Amazon SEO?

Pretty darn important.

Take a look at these figures.

First page Amazon products receive 80% of all clicks

The first three products receive 60% of those clicks

60% of Amazon shoppers never go past page one

(Image Source)

If you’re the office furniture retailer we spoke about before, let’s say you’re listed on page two of Amazon’s search results for computer chairs.

That means you’re missing out on 80% of all the traffic coming through looking for the specific item that you’re selling.

Then, let’s say that you manage to work hard on your Amazon SEO and that takes you up to rank 17. This makes you visible to gallery customers, but not those who are looking at their results via a list.

If you reach rank five, then you’re visible on both platforms but you’re still missing out on 60% of the clicks that come through every day, which never get past the third listing.

That’s why it’s so important to make sure that you’re number one.

How Amazon’s A9 Search Algorithm Works

The Amazon SEO process is driven by a system known as A9.

A9 is Amazon’s proprietary algorithm for determining what order it lists items. While Google tends to take a lot of different matters into consideration, A9 is a lot more focused.

A9 is driven by conversions, not keyword density. That’s not the only thing that this algorithm cares about, but it is very conversion-centric, placing a value on a product’s ability to sell above all else.

There are several Amazon SEO parameters which also determine your product’s ranking. For instance, product reviews come into play. They want to not only see a large amount of reviews, but they want to see that they are mostly positive.

Two other issues that help raise your rank are Amazon Prime eligibility and Amazon Choice badges.

Conversions, however, rule all. When a product converts for specific keywords, it is then ranked higher for those searches.

That’s because the A9 is designed specifically with customers in mind. It wants to reward its customers by helping them find the best and most relevant products, according to their wants and needs.

On top of that, Amazon wants to push quality products, and typically higher converting products with positive reviews are going to keep customers coming back for more.

Understanding Amazon’s Ranking Factors

As we briefly mentioned in the last section, Amazon’s A9 algorithm is driven by a number of different factors. These factors are determined by a set of criteria which we will go into more detail on here.

Sales performance history is the biggie, and that is valued first and foremost over all else. Amazon wants to ensure that you have the ability to produce a high number of conversions.

But you also have to be relevant to the search. You won’t be beat out by an unrelated item just because it converts at a higher level than you.

Google lives and dies with keywords, and while they’re not as important in the world of Amazon SEO, keywords and search queries have to be relevant to the product in question.

This is determined through a text match system which involves both your product descriptions and title optimization.

Price is also a factor when determining SEO rankings. A product needs to be priced fairly in order to convert. If you’re charging an arm and a leg and greatly exceeding industry norms, the system will ding you for it.

Availability is also a huge issue when it comes to SEO scoring on Amazon. The company wants to make sure that you have enough stock to meet demand should you hit a large surge in conversions.

There are also a number of indirect factors, which contribute to your overall score.

They include:

Fulfillment method

Reviews

Product images

Advertising

What Promotions you’re running

So why does Amazon care so much about conversions? That’s not something Google cares about, so why does it matter to Amazon? It’s because Amazon gets a cut of every sale made on its platform.

As such, they want to ensure that the product they’re listing will sell and increase profits for years to come. When Amazon lists a product on their site in the number one position, it is giving that product the Amazon seal of approval. Amazon is one of the largest and most respected companies on the planet, so their reputation is tied up in the products that they list.

Hence, they want to make sure that you’re not placing wrapping paper around a rock and calling it candy.

Google is not concerned with conversions because more clicks on organic search results don’t equal money for Google.

Amazon, however, lives and dies off of its top sellers, and sees the connection between seller and platform as a profitable partnership that will work to the benefit of all.

Strategies to Increase Visibility and Ratings

Now that you understand how Amazon SEO works, it’s time to start talking about what you can do to make the A9 algorithm work for you. Remember, you could have the best product in the world, but the only way your visibility and Amazon SEO rating will increase is through careful optimization of your listings

Understanding what the A9 algorithm wants from you will help you appeal to it better. For starters, think like a shopper when optimizing your listing. What is the first thing that you see when you’re browsing through products. Likely, it’s the title, and that’s the first place where you should start optimizing.

Titles

People search for specific products when shopping on Amazon. A great example of this would be someone shopping for a black jacket by typing “black jacket” into the search bar.

According to Amazon, significant increases to your ranking are possible by adding one additional search term to your title, provided it is both compelling and relevant.

Your titles should be always concise and unique in nature. That will help it stand out and appeal to the ever-evolving A9.

Typical Amazon title format calls for different bits of information to be listed. Some of these include:

Brand

Features

Material

Key Ingredient

Product Type

Model Number

Size

Package Count

Color

Flavor

Obviously, not all of these items are going to be relevant for every product. It’s important to include as much information as possible while also remembering to insert specific relevant keywords in the title.

Remember, your title is your first and best search field.

Depending on what category you’re listing under, your title can be restricted to anywhere between 50 and 100 characters, so use them wisely.

Product Details/Description

The details section is where you list a number of informational points about your product. It is another opportunity where you can appeal to the A9 algorithm.

The details should have at least five, if not six different bullet points that are informative and feature defining keywords.

The descriptions of your products should also be accurate and provide details on all of the major features that you want to highlight. Make sure you’re also including some of your primary search terms.

When writing out your descriptions you can select to enter either regular product descriptions or enhanced brand content. Make sure that for the purposes of Amazon SEO, you’re using regular product descriptions for your keywords.

That’s because A9 does not index EBC. That doesn’t mean you should include nothing in the EBC field. While Amazon does not index this information, Google does. So use some keywords in there to help out your Google ranking as well. It couldn’t hurt!

Images

After the title, the next thing you’re likely to notice about a listing will be images of the product.

Images should always be included. Notice I said “images,” plural. These visual aids provide a clear picture as to what the actual product looks like from many different angles.

When you’re compiling your list of Amazon images, make sure that you’re using a mix of posed product images and actual images and videos of people using the product. It also helps to include some diagrams that show the product’s dimensions.

Search Terms

When optimizing search terms, you can include up to 250 characters, including spaces. Try to use as much of that space as you can.

This is where you should include all of the terms that were not used in your title.

One important point to remember when creating search terms, don’t repeat keywords you’ve already used. Variation expands the potential audience, and repeating yourself is a waste of valuable online real estate.

You should also include your top three search terms in the product features section. If at all possible, try to keep it to one term per feature.

It’s also important to keep optimizing your listings constantly. Much like regular SEO, Amazon SEO is an ongoing process that must be constantly maintained.

In Conclusion

If you’re hoping to make a splash in the online retail world, you should be listing on Amazon. And if you want your listings to get traffic (who doesn’t?) you need to optimize your content.

Appeal to the A9 algorithm and stay on top of updates that it might undergo. Doing so will give you the chance to remain competitive and increase your conversions, making both you and Amazon happy in the process.

Amazon SEO in 2019: The Beginner’s Guide to Increased Sales was originally posted by Video And Blog Marketing

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samuelpboswell · 6 years ago

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Amazon SEO in 2019: The Beginner’s Guide to Increased Sales

Let’s face it, modern retail lives online. That’s not to say that the concept of a brick a mortar location is outdated or going away anytime soon.

Far from it.

But to ignore the effect of online retail in 2019 is to not only shoot yourself in the foot but burn your entire company down in the process.

It’s no secret that online retail is popular and effective in appealing to a modern audience. And there is no more popular online retail platform than Amazon.

But with thousands of businesses competing on Amazon, how can you make sure that your company is able to stand out among the crowd.

The answer is simple.

Amazon SEO.

But what is Amazon SEO? How does it work? And how can you optimize your listings to ensure maximum conversions?

Read on to find out!

What is Amazon SEO?

A typical SEO campaign involves complicated issues like keyword placement, backlink generation, and title tag optimization, among a plethora of other backend website enhancements.

Amazon SEO works in a lot of the same ways. As you’ve likely guessed by now, Amazon SEO determines where your product will fall on Amazon’s retail listings.

Amazon products are displayed in two ways.

List views show 15-16 products per page, whereas gallery views have 24 to 25 products per results page.

(Image Source)

Once you’ve managed to score well for one of your products, it will inevitably draw shoppers to the rest of your wares, starting you down the road to brand loyalty.

But how important is Amazon SEO?

Pretty darn important.

Take a look at these figures.

First page Amazon products receive 80% of all clicks

The first three products receive 60% of those clicks

60% of Amazon shoppers never go past page one

(Image Source)

If you’re the office furniture retailer we spoke about before, let’s say you’re listed on page two of Amazon’s search results for computer chairs.

That means you’re missing out on 80% of all the traffic coming through looking for the specific item that you’re selling.

If you reach rank five, then you’re visible on both platforms but you’re still missing out on 60% of the clicks that come through every day, which never get past the third listing.

That’s why it’s so important to make sure that you’re number one.

How Amazon’s A9 Search Algorithm Works

The Amazon SEO process is driven by a system known as A9.

A9 is Amazon’s proprietary algorithm for determining what order it lists items. While Google tends to take a lot of different matters into consideration, A9 is a lot more focused.

Two other issues that help raise your rank are Amazon Prime eligibility and Amazon Choice badges.

Conversions, however, rule all. When a product converts for specific keywords, it is then ranked higher for those searches.

That’s because the A9 is designed specifically with customers in mind. It wants to reward its customers by helping them find the best and most relevant products, according to their wants and needs.

On top of that, Amazon wants to push quality products, and typically higher converting products with positive reviews are going to keep customers coming back for more.

Understanding Amazon’s Ranking Factors

Sales performance history is the biggie, and that is valued first and foremost over all else. Amazon wants to ensure that you have the ability to produce a high number of conversions.

But you also have to be relevant to the search. You won’t be beat out by an unrelated item just because it converts at a higher level than you.

Google lives and dies with keywords, and while they’re not as important in the world of Amazon SEO, keywords and search queries have to be relevant to the product in question.

This is determined through a text match system which involves both your product descriptions and title optimization.

Availability is also a huge issue when it comes to SEO scoring on Amazon. The company wants to make sure that you have enough stock to meet demand should you hit a large surge in conversions.

There are also a number of indirect factors, which contribute to your overall score.

They include:

Fulfillment method

Reviews

Product images

Advertising

What Promotions you’re running

So why does Amazon care so much about conversions? That’s not something Google cares about, so why does it matter to Amazon? It’s because Amazon gets a cut of every sale made on its platform.

Hence, they want to make sure that you’re not placing wrapping paper around a rock and calling it candy.

Google is not concerned with conversions because more clicks on organic search results don’t equal money for Google.

Amazon, however, lives and dies off of its top sellers, and sees the connection between seller and platform as a profitable partnership that will work to the benefit of all.

Strategies to Increase Visibility and Ratings

Titles

People search for specific products when shopping on Amazon. A great example of this would be someone shopping for a black jacket by typing “black jacket” into the search bar.

According to Amazon, significant increases to your ranking are possible by adding one additional search term to your title, provided it is both compelling and relevant.

Your titles should be always concise and unique in nature. That will help it stand out and appeal to the ever-evolving A9.

Typical Amazon title format calls for different bits of information to be listed. Some of these include:

Brand

Features

Material

Key Ingredient

Product Type

Model Number

Size

Package Count

Color

Flavor

Remember, your title is your first and best search field.

Depending on what category you’re listing under, your title can be restricted to anywhere between 50 and 100 characters, so use them wisely.

Product Details/Description

The details section is where you list a number of informational points about your product. It is another opportunity where you can appeal to the A9 algorithm.

The details should have at least five, if not six different bullet points that are informative and feature defining keywords.

Images

After the title, the next thing you’re likely to notice about a listing will be images of the product.

Images should always be included. Notice I said “images,” plural. These visual aids provide a clear picture as to what the actual product looks like from many different angles.

Search Terms

When optimizing search terms, you can include up to 250 characters, including spaces. Try to use as much of that space as you can.

This is where you should include all of the terms that were not used in your title.

You should also include your top three search terms in the product features section. If at all possible, try to keep it to one term per feature.

It’s also important to keep optimizing your listings constantly. Much like regular SEO, Amazon SEO is an ongoing process that must be constantly maintained.

In Conclusion

If you’re hoping to make a splash in the online retail world, you should be listing on Amazon. And if you want your listings to get traffic (who doesn’t?) you need to optimize your content.

The post Amazon SEO in 2019: The Beginner’s Guide to Increased Sales appeared first on HigherVisibility.

from The SEO Advantages https://www.highervisibility.com/blog/amazon-seo/

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rememberthattime · 6 years ago

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Chapter 34. Jeff & Liv’s Wedding

I am exhausted. I’m writing this post on our 17 hour flight from Dallas to Sydney, which means it’s been two full days since the wedding. How am I still so physically tired? Will I ever recover? Did anyone get pictures of me doing The Wobble?

These are bleak questions, but they’re questions you’d only ask yourself after a truly phenomenal wedding. For Jeff and Liv’s big day, I wouldn’t have expected anything less.

Before I start, I have to say that I really debated whether I should write about this trip... This was Jeff’s wedding, so is it really my place to blog about it?

The past ten days have been an absolute blur though. I’m worried that if I don’t write about them, I’ll forget all the wonderful, hilarious, and fun times we had, which just isn’t acceptable.

I’ve written about this many times, including in my own wedding post: my dream is to read this blog 20 years from now, and immediately transport back into my 28 year old self. I’ll be 48 with a bum knee and receding hairline, but I’ll have this personal time machine to bring me back to 2018. My writing typically isn’t intended for anyone else, but for this particular post, I’m expanding my audience: someday, I want my kids to read about the day Uncle Jeff and Auntie Olivia got married.

The story of Jeff and Liv’s wedding week begins in Oklahoma... which means there’s nowhere the week could’ve gone but up.

Jokes! I’d booked a lake house in Kingston, OK for Jeff’s bachelor party, and this place was perfect: just 90 minutes from Dallas with all the fixin’s our groom could ask for. See, like me, Jeff is not one for “da clubs”. He isn’t “bout dat life” or even “blinging” any hotlines. In fact, despite being three years younger, Jeff is actually a much older person than me (e.g. asleep by 8 PM, glasses since he was 10, etc).

Anyway, I knew a Vegas trip wasn’t “fleek”, but a lake house off Texoma would be more the groom’s speed. We had to organize it for a time I was in town though, so Jeff and his eight groomsmen (including Matt and I) made the short 60 mile trek to Oklahoma the weekend before the wedding.

Now, what happens in Oklahoma stays in Oklahoma, but I will note a few memories:

Our inaugural bachelor party Olympics, which included billiards, pop-a-shot, air hockey, cornhole, and a number of drinking games Jeff and his friends perfected in college (Stack Em was a problem from me)

A legendary grilled dinner, including steak, chicken, taters, and asparagus, followed by a 3 AM cinnamon roll dessert

Quality time with my brothers and their friends, who reminded me a lot of my group in Seattle

Onions.

Through some miracle, MOST of us woke up the next day feeling okay considering the circumstances... which, again, will stay in Oklahoma. We somehow managed a round of golf at a luxury Oklahoma course (aka a cow pasture with 18 flags sprinkled about). We played like crap, which was entirely predictable given the state we were in. Pun?

After golf, we made the tougher return journey to Dallas, stopping only for a few panicked requests to “PULL OVER!”

The next few days were really about resting up for wedding. We fit in plenty of family fun (Pictionary, Jackbox games, Skip-bo, Feedstore, Mi Cocina, i Fratelli), but for the most part, Monday through Wednesday were all about rest and recovery.

Things really heated up on Thursday, when Jeff and I delivered decorations to the wedding venue. I should note here: Liv and her mom had been working on this wedding for months, so Jeff and I moving a few boxes was absolutely nothing. That said, it still took a couple hours to load, and we actually filled a 16-foot U-Haul.

Olivia’s dad drove the truck to the venue, while Jeff and I followed in the Mazda. On our way though, Jeff’s tire pressure light came on. We didn’t think much of it... until we started hearing a hollow, rubbery, rotating thud. Th-th-th-th-th-th-th. Shittttt. We had a trunk full of guests’ welcome gift bags and were only 3 minutes from the venue!

Jeff pulled to the side of the highway and we assessed the situation. His rear driver-side tire was completely deflated, but thank god he had a spare in the trunk. To pull out the spare, we carefully hid the guests’ welcome bags behind the car so the tissue wouldn’t fly away. Then, only four feet off the side of the highway, Jeff jacked the car up, we threw on the spare, and were back on the road again in less than 10 minutes. Those are pit crew numbers!

This flat tire could’ve derailed our entire day, or been a bad omen for the wedding just a few days later... Instead, with a calm attitude and headsy demeanor, Jeff and I overcame our biggest wedding week challenge.

Side note: I think the universe throws these extra hurdles in the week before a wedding as a test. Right before our wedding, Chelsay had to overcome a chest infection... This week, Jeff overcame a flat tire, my dad overcame a cold, and I overcame getting a bocce ball dropped on my head. No matter the challenge, we cleared every hurdle and somehow managed to arrive safely at Friday’s Welcome Dinner.

Just like Chelsay and I’s wedding, the Welcome Dinner made everything real. For months (and in our case years), we thought about friends and family coming together to celebrate our marriage. All of that planning builds a track for how the wedding will play out, and the Welcome Dinner is the point where the train leaves the station. A few highlights from Jeff & Liv’s:

Seeing Liv for the first time that week. She’d obviously been busy planning and hosting her family, so the Welcome Dinner was Chels and I’s first chance to catch up with our soon-to-be-sis.

Reconnecting with family, who came in from Washington, Illinois, Michigan, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

Watching the various groups intermingle: Jeff’s Seattle high school friends comparing stories with his Southlake high school friends, Liv’s parents chatting with my aunts and uncles, ...Matt and Chandler finally meeting in the most hilarious way possible.

My dad’s toast, where he had the 60 person room in tears while telling a story about an important family heirloom he was passing down to Jeff & Liv... My brothers and I were looking at each other trying to figure out what it could be. A watch? A family seal? Maybe something from the Kern’s homeland in Germany? Nope, it turned out to be even more valuable: a fresh new Cub’s hat. Welcome to the Kern family, Liv.

The next day was 4/28. The date Jeff and Liv had been waiting, excited, and probably a little anxious for since their engagement in December 2016. This day was more than just 16 months of planning though. It was 10 years in the making! Jeff and Liv are high school sweethearts, and on 4/28, their Wedding Day had finally arrived. To quote Harry Potter: After all this time? Always.

Their ceremony wasn’t until 5:30, but don’t be fooled... There is still a full day of activities beforehand. For Matt and I, the co-best men, it started by picking up the wine & beer. This was a 150 person wedding, so we filled Matt’s Xterra to the brim with $1000 worth of reds, whites, Shiner, Michelob, and my brother’s favorite, Dos Equis. After seeing how Jeff’s groomsman drank at bachelor party, we decided to add an extra $500.

From there, we met up with Chandler and Liv’s dad at the venue to unload the U-Haul. Since we were already at the venue, Matt & I also stopped by the bridesmaids’ room to say good luck. We found out Liv had gotten them masseuses and Chick-fil-a! I guess the groomsmen’s room had NBA 2K and Dr Pepper, but Chick-fil-a!? ...I stole a couple nuggets for our alcohol delivery efforts.

Once everything was out of the U-Haul, I was worried we didn’t have much time to change... Jeff only took about 10 minutes to get ready though, so we ended up having plenty of time to relax in the groomsmen room. During this break, we also voted on stylistic features for the groomsmen, where Jeff got outvoted on sock choice at his own wedding.

It was soon time for pictures, and we got some gems. Father & son getting ready, a mother-son boutonniere shot, the obligatory casually-walking-pic, and updates to our family photo, now including Olivia, our newest Kern. We also managed a Hawaii throwback picture, and it’s safe to say that will be the best photo of the weekend.

With the bride and groom ready and pictures taken, all that was left was to get these two kids married. Early arriving guests were already demanding the wedding: “When I say Jeff, you say Liv! Jeff! Liv! Jeff! Liv!”

Once the wedding party was hidden, guests began to take their seats with the beautiful chords of the chapel’s violinist playing. Jeff walked my mom down the aisle to her seat (I’m sure there were tears), and the wedding party followed.

Liv and her dad then appeared at the end of the long aisle. From the front, I could see guests crying tears of joy as Nelson walked Liv to the altar, the violinist’s “Hallelujah” hanging in the background.

Those weren’t the only tears of the ceremony though. It was such a happy, beautiful service given by Liv’s Great Uncle Willy. Liv got choked up during her vows, and Jeff shed a tear when he and his bride held hands at the altar. It was a touching moment, one where your throat gets tight and you take a big gulp. It was my brother’s touching moment though, so I’ll leave the rest of the ceremony out of this blog.

After the I Do’s, Jeff and Liv escaped to a private dinner, while the guests cracked into $1,500 worth of Dos Equis.

The private dinner was actually one of many cutting-edge coordination tactics Jeff and Liv used. Let me ask a question: does any married couple remember their meal from the wedding? No. That’s because they didn’t eat! You’re too busy talking with guests and enjoying your night, and you totally forget to eat the meal you spent so long picking out. Jeff and Liv avoided this issue, and gave themselves a private moment together, by setting up this post-ceremony meal. A couple other clever ideas:

Sunset photos: the concept is self explanatory, but Jeff and Liv’s sunset photos will be second only to the Hawaii throwback.

A post-wedding private dance: it’s brilliant. It serves to get guests out of the venue, but also gives the bride and groom one last private moment to soak in their wedding. With all the guests gathering outside to send them off, Jeff and Liv shared a dance in the empty reception hall.

The last dance is jumping ahead though. After their private meal, Jeff and Liv entered the reception hall and were introduced as Mr and Mrs Kern for the first time. They shared a first dance, before a touching father-daughter and mother-son dance. My dad looked on proudly. Chelsay was in tears. Matt was in tears. And I’m not going to lie, I had that dry throat, big gulp feeling again too.

Dinner was soon served, and while guests enjoyed phenomenal barbecue brisket and mac & cheese, Jeff and Liv made the rounds to each adoring guest table.

After dinner, it was time for cake cutting and toasts. Liv’s Dad and her maid of honor both had very kind, heart-warming well wishes, while my toast hit a lighter tone. Like, lots of jokes about Jeff being an old man and Liv being short. I also turned a story about Jeff kicking me in the face into a positive personality trait, and brought up Liv’s Puppy-Lovah past.

By this point though, people were itching to dance. Jeff and Liv had an 10-piece band, and these guys were ready to go!

The party that ensued was a sweat fest for the ages. It had everything: Kern family ballads, Matt’s running man, Chels and Liv’s Whitney Houston duet, Jeff’s pancake maker dance, Chelsay mistakenly joining the Texas Tech-only fight song, and all of the bride’s trademark moves (the downward fist pump, arm roll, finger guns, and The Snake). Chelsay also refused to leave the dance floor, which meant I was stuck out there for group dances like Cupid Shuffle and The Wobble. I don’t know how to do either of these, so I found a safe spot in the back to learn as we go... What I didn’t realize was these dances have a Macarena-like rotation built in, so everyone has their turn up front. I spent the entire song continuously dancing to the back of the pack.

The highlight of the party, and possibly the wedding, was the last group song of the night: Don’t Stop Believing. One of the best memories from Chels & I’s Wedding is being encircled by friends and family as we belted Piano Man. It’s a rock star moment that every bride and groom deserve, and Jeff and Liv absolutely owned their moment. With every one of their 150 guests surrounding them in a circle, Jeff and Liv shredded their air guitars before being mobbed by their wedding party. It was a perfect way to end a perfect day.

Chelsay and I’s flight back to Sydney was supposed to be the next day, but THANK GOD it was canceled. We were able to get a replacement the following day, but absolutely needed the extra day to recover.

More importantly, it have us a chance to reflect together at my parents’ house in Trophy Club. My aunts and uncles, my parents’ friends, and the bride and groom all came over to laugh at all the memorable moments from the wedding week.

At one point, my Mom and Dad pulled out their own wedding album. I’d obviously seen it before, but this time was unique. We were looking at it with my parents’ wedding guests, the same attendees that were there on that 100 degree day in September 1985.

As my aunts and uncles looked through the album, everyone laughed and told stories from my parents’ ceremony. From getting ready at my mom’s house, to my dad’s excessive hairspray, to one of the groomsman’s quirky smiles, to the traditional baby apron the maid of honor made for my mom.

30 years had past and so much had happened: people had moved, children were raised, careers completed. None of that changed these lifelong memories they all shared together though.

And that’s when it sunk in: one day, my family will look back on this wedding day in the same way. Someday, we’ll reminisce about Jeff and Liv’s beautiful ceremony and about Don’t Stop Believing to end the night. We’ll laugh about the Oklahoma bachelor party and about Jeff’s flat tire on the way to the venue. We’ll remember my dad’s phenomenal Welcome Dinner toast and my mom and brother’s tear-jerking mother-son dance.

Just as my parents and their guests reminisced about 9/7/85, someday we’ll look back at the wonderful, fun, happy, joyous, beautiful day we all shared together on 4/28/18.

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Guidelines for Anybody Who would like to Start out a Clothes Brand name

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In this article are a few strategies to any person all set to or considering about launching their own individual clothes line.

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Tip # 3 Really don’t rip-off other folks!

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Tultex and Anvil print a great high quality tee for a fair selling price if you prefer a high-quality come to feel but your spending plan will never extend to high-priced blanks.

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Idea # eight And now we wait.

After you to start with launch, the joy might be a bit as well a lot and you happen to be likely being expecting huge things inside of within a shorter duration of time. Try to remain grounded, things take time, a lot of time, so don’t get disheartened if you have not offered out inside your initial thirty day period and just retain likely. It truly is also an excellent idea to test and acquire feed-back from family and friends to view should the merchandise are literally nearly as good when you think they may be.

And that’s it, I really hope your observed this article appealing and hopefully a little practical, as I discussed before I’m not an expert while in the avenue have on market, but individuals are just a few of the points I’ve learnt along just how.

References Clothing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing

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