Getting Traffic For Your Craft Site
The other day I was emailing one of the users of this site and we were talking about different ways to get traffic to your site. I’m working with her to help her get more people to see her products. I thought I should share some of those ideas since there may be others that would like to know the same thing.
While you can pay for ads and bring people in to your site that way, I’ll be focusing on things you can do to get noticed by search engines such as Google. I may address paid advertising in some future posts, but in this series, I’m going to stick with the search engines.
I’ll start by listing some of the things you can do to get traffic. Then, in future posts, give details as to how you can go about each item.
Here are some things to consider:
- Write articles and post them in article engines
- Answer questions on forums
- Start a blog
- Post regular content to your site related to your products
- Get other sites to link to you
These are just a few of the things that you can do in order to get yourself noticed by the search engines. I’ve been able to get my site listed on Google under a number of different search terms. When I say listed, I mean that I’m in the top ten results.
The first item on the list, and the last two are what I was using most when I really started to see results. I’m employing the other two items as I continue working on getting traffic.
Starting a blog is fine, but which blog should we use. Some people online, are using Twitter to generate business but I read some disturbing news about slamming on Twitter that is making me rethink the whole thing. I was wondering if a poll could be taken about which blog service we all should use. About the current poll, I just want to say that due to the economy, there are very few people making money in any industry. Besides my craft business, I have a natural supplement business that has steadily lost business since 2001. Let’s all pray that it will change in the next 12 months as some advisors are predicting. Hang in there & stay cut free (which is really hard for me). Happy Crafting. Batty
It’s possible that we could take a poll to see what people are using once the current poll is complete. I’d like to leave it up for a few more days.
If you could, can you post a link to the info about Twitter that concerns you? That would really help.
One blog I used temporarily was www.blogspot.com. My wife and I used this for personal use, and it worked really well.
If you’re really concerned about using a free service, let me know and I can set something up for you very inexpensively. I can probably set it up for just a few dollars a month.