http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com eBay store design, seo, marketing, website design, blogs, forums, branding, professional work, affordable fees Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:46:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I kept seeing this "Squid Cast" thing on my Squidoo dashboard and finally my curiosity got the better of me. I found out that a Squid Cast is a pretty neat tool. It's basically the RSS feed for your lens, as well as a way to keep the people who ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/07/03/publishing-a-squid-cast-why-you-should/ You have a website that you have invested much time, money, effort, sweat, a few sleepless nights and much hope into. Getting yourself listed in online business directories, which are mostly for free, is a very good idea for more exposure throughout the search engines for your business. However, what to do ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/06/23/getting-listed-in-online-business-directories/ I've been designing websites for 8 years ~ eBay stores for 3, forums and blogs for something in between those two. Learned HTML from the ground up, comfortable with Java scripting, CGI, PHP, and debugging. In the middle of 2007, I really began to notice the strong shift away from hand ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/06/18/how-changes-in-web-design-changed-my-life/ The majority of the people I know, including moi, use Feedburner to burn our feeds and get them distributed and "out there". But one thing has been bugging me for the longest time............ where to get that little MSN button? Feedburner doesn't have it. Anyone who is in the "know" ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/06/12/expanding-your-rss-reach/ I've been away from all of my blogs for a very long time, a little over a week I think! That's because I've been heavily involved with my Squidoo lenses ~ freshening them up, creating two new ones, remodeling the others. Here's my two cents on Squidoo and it's benefits towards ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/06/07/promoting-your-website-through-squidoo-gets-my-vote/ Are you doing everything you can, as much as you can, for your online business that you could be? Are you promoting, marketing, and cross-promoting as much as possible? Are you blogging daily and cross referencing your website products or services within your blog posts? Have you got your pingbacks setup in your ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/05/31/whats-holding-you-back/ We are ALL guilty of this one ~ abandoning shopping carts ~ and as online shop owners, we are ALL affected by this. As a shopper you don't think much on it and many times you don't abandon a cart for any lethal reason ~ after all, if the website was ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/05/23/abandoned-shopping-carts-what-to-do/ If you use your blog mainly to market your online business you may be interested in the following simple ideas, easy to implement, no technical genius needed. They've worked tremendously well for me. If your blog utilizes widgets, such as Blogger or the latest and greatest version of Word Press ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/05/21/creating-a-more-effective-blog/ It's amazing to me at least at how a good number of people exercise tunnel vision when it comes to the subject of working at home. For example: Friend: "I stopped by before and didn't see your car. You were out shopping, right?" Me: "Uh no. I had to (go take orders to the Post ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/05/15/because-youre-home-all-day/ As a small business owner, when things go wrong with software we've purchased for our websites or our websites go on the fritz, it's very easy to freak out and envision the end of the business as we know it. It's also easy to stamp our feet and demand, either from ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/05/14/evolving-to-become-a-confidant-online-business-owner/ As previously discussed in another post, inbound and outbound links do have their merits as far as page rank goes because the algorithms the search engines use are partially dependent on the relevancy and quantity of links. However, that being said, the links themselves have very little or no relevancy as ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/05/08/add-quality-links-to-your-website-without-stress/ For a long time there has been an over emphasis on the supposed "must have" of page rank. And supposed "expectations" of achieving phenomenal page rank ~ "next month, I can feel it." Sorry to be bummer girl here, but The Force won't help you with page rank either. ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/05/05/dont-agonize-over-page-rank/ Whether you have an e-commerce website, a service provider website, or an information service website, there will always be times when business dries up or slows down. Part of the problem at the current time is the recession we as a country are facing due to a long drawn out war ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/05/01/a-little-extra-quality-for-your-website-and-the-money-wouldnt-hurt-either/ I'm going to be reviewing various (and quite a few, actually) social networking venues and social shopping venues for the following: 1 ~ ease of use for setup 2 ~ whether or not they allow you to promote your own goods / services 3 ~ and finally for results in terms of website ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/04/30/social-networking-shopping-site-reviews-coming-up/ SEO is a specialization technique that cannot be learned or fully understood overnight or in a year or two, however, there are some simple techniques you can learn and implement fairly quickly and painlessly. As a website designer who also performs SEO and marketing for my clients, I encourage them to ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/04/29/3-simple-seo-techniques-you-can-implement-yourself/ Are you considering having a website designed for you, or, if you have one website already, are you considering having a second one? Most people who are looking to have a website designed for them do not know too much of the technical "stuff" that goes on behind the scenes, and ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/04/23/choosing-the-right-website-design-designer-for-you/ Are you a small business, an entrepreneur, or a small company? If you are, you may need a virtual assistant. What is a virtual assistant you ask? And why on earth would I need one? A virtual assistant is an individual, or sometimes a group of individuals or a small company, who ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/04/18/what-is-a-virtual-assistant-and-why-you-might-need-one/ I get asked this question all the time since the jewelry market is so flooded and has become extremely competitive. It's a good question and makes perfect sense to want to know how best to do this for the health and well being of your jewelry business. Read on................ Did you know that ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/04/05/intuitive-ways-to-market-your-jewelry-website-business/ There never seems to be enough ways to promote your jewelry website, being as the market is SO glutted. It's a shame because there are many talented jewelry crafters and artisans who could really benefit from the visibility. As a jewelry artist myself, I've come up with a relatively painless way ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/04/04/calling-all-jewelry-websites-free-marketing-and-promotion/ I've had a few people contact me over the years asking if I would "do SEO" on their site ~ a one shot deal and then, and I quote "the site should be ok". They couldn't be more wrong. And no, I didn't do the one shot deal either because in ... http://www.jewelry-collectibles-design.com/2008/04/02/why-seo-is-not-a-one-shot-deal/