FYDP Roundup 2

A little less exuberant this week, but I still got some things done. I admit, though, that everything on today’s list was completed in the last 40 hours or so. Good thing I have the potential public shame of this roundup to motivate me!

1. Behind the scenes, I improved the SEO of the patterns in my store by giving them meta descriptions (this becomes the excerpt/blurb you see on a search engine results listing). Without a meta description, the part of the page below the photos (where I put the details, but not the overview) is what shows up on the search page. Now someone finding one of my patterns through a search will have better information about what it is they’ve found; the meta description is a version of what appears to the right of the photos on the product page.
2. Less behind the scenes but still online, long ago I had links to pages at Annie’s Attic with brief Quicktime videos of crochet stitches being made. They were linked from my Crochet Reference page and possibly my Learn Crochet series, though probably only before it was expanded from a single page into a set. Annie’s took them down, replacing them with longer YouTube videos, which I found very disappointing. Later on, but still rather a while ago (cough cough), I found the videos still existed at Annie’s online magazine Crochet World, and wrote a note to reinstate the links. Well, that finally happened!
3. An embroidery project I was maybe 1/3 of the way through was not going well. I dismantled it.
4. My boot-style slippers each had a split up the back of the lining, and my heel would slide into the bottom of the split instead of fully into the slipper. I stitched them up.

Totals:

1. Mending: 2
2. Non-mend sewing: 2
3. Elimination: 7
4. Website updates: 2