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coolstuffbyjulie
Joined: 11 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject: Not so new site that is stagnant... |
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I have had this website up for a few years now and haven't sold hardly anything from it. I suppose that advertising (or lack thereof) could be to blame, but perhaps there are some suggestions that I could use from you guys to give me an idea on what might help me to attract more buyers.
Thank you in advance.
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EleganzaJewels
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:47 am Post subject: Re: Not so new site that is stagnant... |
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Nice clean looking site, Julie! I personally think less is more, people get tired of looking at tons of flitting butterflies, etc. Just my 2 pennies here to may be help you out 8)
1. Not much in the meta tag area - keywords, specifically - so probably hard for the search engines to pick you up.
2. The things you're selling look like they might do better at auction than from a website, as far as piece by piece sales. Perhaps you should run auctions of these individually, and focus your website on wholesale? A sale is a sale is a sale, ya know? lol
3. Focus more on your homepage on the fact that your goods are designed by hand?
4. Wouldn't hurt to add buttons and pages for shipping policies, payment policies, etc. People in this day and age want all the info they can get on who the seller is, etc.
5. Submit your site religiously once a week, every week, to Submit Express (after you've reworked the site a little) at:
Submit Express
Make sure you set up a dummy yahoo email account before you do to catch all the falling spam! There are tons of places to submit out there, but this one pretty much hits the major ones, which is good enough. Some great tools and interesting reading at the following site, this boy knows what he is doing as far as SEO! There's a great graphic of how the search engines are inter-related, very helpful:
Bruce Clay Inc
G'luck!
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EleganzaJewels
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:53 am Post subject: |
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| Ohh, one more thing, it's also a good idea to change something on your site frequently - even if it's just changing a sentence or two. The spiders like fresh, relevant content. If they don't see change, they will decide coming back to re-index that particular site is not a real priority, not good! |
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princessmirandajo
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:13 am Post subject: |
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| Because I love design, I would suggest maybe dressing it up a little bit.. |
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nopaypal
Joined: 23 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:22 pm Post subject: Re: Not so new site that is stagnant... |
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Quote: › docWrite("quote")The spiders like fresh, relevant content. If they don't see change, they will decide coming back to re-index that particular site is not a real priority
this is a good point, & i like to do that to my sites now & then. just changing a picture or a line of text will do it. the ones i permanently parked have a notation as such on em...
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coolstuffbyjulie
Joined: 11 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:46 pm Post subject: Re: Not so new site that is stagnant... |
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You guys are the greatest! Thank you! I will take all of these suggestions into consideration. I had actually thought about ditching the site and only selling in auction as you stated. I'm still not over the thought. Thank you all so much for your help!
Julie
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