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Tom_133317

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Spellcheck your keywords
Feb 27^th, 2008, 6:04am

Today I looked at my keyword list and noticed a few typos. To correct this, I did a cut-paste of this keyword list into Microsoft WORD, which underlines all the misspellings and, geez, I had a bunch!

So now the trick was to find all the cards that had these typos. By going to MANAGE CARDS you can enter the misspelled word into the keyword search box and hit GO. It may find several cards where this same misspelled keyword exists. By repeating this process you can do a good Spring-cleaning.

At the end, I went back into the store and pulled up the new keyword list and repeated the cut-paste into WORD to double-check my work.

While I was at the manage cards page, I did a scrolling scan to find cards that were in only one category, and took the opportunity to find a second category to represent them. Feels good to sweep up before the store opens today.

Feel free to stop in to check out the new cards, and perhaps even send one to a freind or relative to lift their day. I ordered a fellow GCU artist's card yesterday, and sent it to a special friend, and it really felt great!

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Donna_131383

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Re: Spellcheck your keywords
Reply #1 - Feb 27^th, 2008, 7:01am

Hi Tom!

Great gallery you have going...and great advice

Sometimes my fingers do the flying and I'm filled with typos and I go back in and fix them.

One thing as a side note... sometimes it's good to leave a typical typo since sometimes, people searching believe that their keyword IS spelled a certain way, even though there might be another way to spell it.

A similar example I ran across is the word "Tranquility/Tranquillity." I've always spelled it with one "L"... but it's also spelled with 2. I think the "variant" of TranquiLLity is TranquiLity... so I left them both in on one of my products since people searching either word would find that product.

BTW, I love your old photos and you are just too funny!

Best,
Donna

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Wendy_132744

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Reply #2 - Feb 27^th, 2008, 7:07am

You're quite right Tom; it's quite easy to misspell a word or two.

The other problem is that because GCU sells to many different countries around the world; quite often spelling differ from country to country
I always enter the keyword HUMOUR with the second spelling of HUMOR for the US spelling.
Also terms and words are different:-
I have an Easter card with two chicks on a see saw made from an egg.
I also use the keyword TEETER-TOTTER as well as SEE-SAW so I cover my bases.
I try to do this as often as possible

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Sue_132963 Gold Member artist Posts: 1224	Re: Spellcheck your keywords Reply #3 - Feb 27^th, 2008, 7:54am And I realize this is REALLY dreaming....But I hope that somewhere down the road we can have a spell check for other languages. I design many of my cards for my French family and friends. Would be a great security blanket to be able to spell check my verse en Francois! SueB
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Tom_133317

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Re: Spellcheck your keywords
Reply #4 - Feb 27^th, 2008, 7:58am

Wow ... great points. The word that caught me was "marraige." As we all know "marraige" spells "trouble." (yuk yuk) so I did fix that, as well as others.

It must take the database 24 hours to fix the search as "marraige" still finds 3 of my cards even though the keywords have been fixed.

By the way WENDY - it finds 3 of yours too!! (Different Wendy though)

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Mindy

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Re: Spellcheck your keywords
Reply #5 - Feb 28^th, 2008, 4:57pm

Quote from Tom_133317 on Feb 27^th, 2008, 7:58am:

Wow ... great points. The word that caught me was "marraige." As we all know "marraige" spells "trouble." (yuk yuk) so I did fix that, as well as others.

It must take the database 24 hours to fix the search as "marraige" still finds 3 of my cards even though the keywords have been fixed.

By the way WENDY - it finds 3 of yours too!! (Different Wendy though)

Yep, changes take up to 24 hours to be reflected in our onsite search. We've got a keyword spell checker on our to do list.

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El_131850 Full Member artist Posts: 119	Re: Spellcheck your keywords Reply #6 - Feb 28^th, 2008, 10:20pm For all you fantastic artists out there, and to most of you that CAN spell... A LOT is 2 words...not 1. (not alot)..... Sorry, I just had to add that... ahhh, I feel better now...don't shoot me, I'm just the spelling messenger....haha - EL
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Mindy GCU Administrator Community Manager Posts: 6537 Gender:	Re: Spellcheck your keywords Reply #7 - Mar 13^th, 2008, 3:08pm Keyword spell check has been added. You'll notice in the lower right corner of the keyword box a small ABC graphic with a check mark.
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