Members DoubleC Posted March 15, 2014 Members Report Posted March 15, 2014 Jake another thing is you have to add meta tags to your heading so the search engines can find you. I used to have a tutorial on how to do that but have lost it over time but I think you should be able to find plenty some on the net. They have to be coded a certain way but the tags are easy, like for you they would be holsters, belts, leather etc. which makes you site pop up when people look for those things. Never mind I found another one someone gave me LOL. And you can find this info at http://www.htmlgoodies.com this is an example for what one would look like. This goes between the <head> and <head> tags. <head> <meta name="keywords" content="riding gear, tack, horse tack, conchos, made in USA, hand crafted, bridles, reins" /> </head> Sylvia found this for me last year when I was working on mine. and also recommended this..... It's a good idea to put a few misspelled keywords too. A lot of people these days are clueless when it comes to spelling. They may use rains, reigns, raynes, ranes halters, haulters, holters ... etc. In fact that's how I found so many diamonds online way back when. I saw. Dimons,Dymond, Daimond, Diamon, all misspelled. Ebay fixes the mistakes for you now... but back then they didn't Hope this helps because without these tags people can't find you. Cheryl Quote http://www.etsy.com/shop/DoubleCCowgirl
stelmackr Posted March 17, 2014 Report Posted March 17, 2014 I found that without all the tricks, meta words, SEO, etc. that naming the the domain for what you make gets you quite high on the search engines. (And with the tricks, meta words, SEO, etc it even get better results.) An example, would be if you make leather traveling sketchbooks, then the domain might be: leathertravelingsketchbooks.com ....or.... If you make left handed cross draw holsters, then the domain might be: lefthandedcrossdrawholsters.com Since no one (almost no one) types in the URL for the destination, the length of the domain name is mostly irrelevant and most people just click on links from searches. Quote Bob Stelmack Desert Leathercraft LLC Former Editor of the, RawHide Gazette, for the Puget Sound Leather Artisans Co-Op, 25 years of doing it was enough...
Members kwelna Posted March 19, 2014 Members Report Posted March 19, 2014 I am in the beginning of creating my web site as well, Check out host gator and also do a search on You Tube for tutorials on building a web site and using wordpress\worpress themes, it makes life a lot easier. Quote
Members cgleathercraft Posted March 19, 2014 Members Report Posted March 19, 2014 I went with Squarespace and haven't had any major issues. I recommend it to anyone looking to make a website. especially if they have no coding experience. SEO takes time and there are a lot of factors. Google has some good documentation on it. It will take way more time getting the website noticed than building it. 2 biggest suggestions: Patience & Research Quote http://www.cgleathercraft.com Member of the Iron Brigade.
Members corter Posted March 24, 2014 Members Report Posted March 24, 2014 Would you blame a landlord if you rented a retail shop and got no customers? This is essentially what you are doing by dumping Go Daddy. Folks seem to think that since they're making an online business, the details of a regular business do not apply. They think there's a magic button or html code you get and boom... sales. Sure, there are some little tricks to SEO and your website name that may result in a few extra hits to start, but their results will pale in comparison to the results you'll get from actually building your brand. Unfortunately most people have it backwards. The "easy way" to making sales is not using SEO to get on top of Google searches, or meta-tagging things. The easy way is creating a unique product, something that is better/faster/cheaper than anything else or fills a void in a market. The HARD way is using SEO, because we are not SEO experts- we are leather smiths. We want to be making things, we don't want to be internet marketers. You do need to tell people about your product, but it is not the web host's responsibility just as it is not the landlord's responsibility to buy billboards to advertise his/her tenants. My suggestion is to find online communities that may benefit from what you make and integrate yourself via social media- forums and message boards. You can buy advertising space, or you can learn what blogs are most relevant and talk to those bloggers about collaborating through posts and reviews. Quote
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