Google Webmaster Tools and Sleep Train

One of the really fun things about having your own website, is you can play around with Google Webmaster Tools. This is a site where if you authenticate yourself as a webmaster (basically put a 'meta' tag in some html on your website), then you can view all kinds of fun information about how people use Google on your site. This includes search queries where they served links to your page, links that were actually clicked through, and page rank of various pages on your site. Because I am a page rank whore, I find this very interesting.

One of the cool stats they give you is the number of people who RSS subscribe to your blog. Much to my surprise, that number was 4, twice the number I expected. That means there are a couple of mystery subscribers out there that also use Google tools to read this blog! It also showed that some people actually clicked through to my blog for various topics I've discussed (like changing 220V plugs on my dryer).

I now own a new bed and I got it for less than half of the 'Sleep Train guaranteed to be the best price' price. It all has to do with price matching Costco's price. As I learned from a bunch of other mattress websites, they sell the same mattress at Costco and Sleep Train, but they call it different things, so you can't price compare them. Sleep Train had a nice Sealy mattress for about 1500 bucks that was named 'Park Meadows' which is the same as Costco's 'Sedona Springs' mattress which goes for about $650. I went into the store when they weren't busy, presented my research, got a price match, and have my mattress delivered the next day. I got the service and showroom of Sleep Train and the price of Costco. Very niiiice.