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Tips to Succeed at Online Crafts Fairs
Tips to Succeed at Online Crafts Fairs
Earn more revenue by selling crafts online by making use of low cost ideas. The author of Sell Crafts Online provides numerous tips to be kept in mind, while engaging in crafts fair.
Torreon,
NM,
United States of America
(prbd.net)
04/05/2011
Torreon, NM May 2, 2011 – If you plan to sell crafts you make at home via online crafts fairs, knowing how internet marketing works will speed your success. Though you might feel intimidated at the prospect of marketing online, applying a few basic tactics has allowed many craft artists to quit their day jobs to run their online craft business.
The movement to ‘buy handmade’ is growing. Sales of handmade craft items at Etsy, an online crafts marketplace, grew almost every month during the latest recession, despite plunging sales in many other industries.
How do you get your items to stand out from all the other crafts for sale online? Learning basic search engine optimization tips is a good start. Include keywords or tags on your web pages that searchers use every day to find products like yours. Use these tags throughout your content, like in your page title, your meta tags, heading tags, image names and body text.
“Google offers free webmaster tools at Google.com/webmasters/tools/. These nifty gadgets analyze your pages and tell you about broken links, duplicate content, insufficient meta tags and other information that helps your search rankings,” reports, James Dillehay, craft artist and author of “Sell Your Crafts Online.”
Dillehay also advises, “Use plenty of text on your pages because that is what search engines index. Professional images help sell your items, but search engines cannot read pictures, so have a balance of words and photos.”
He says that getting lots of incoming links from crafts related sites to your web pages will help boost your rankings in search engine results. Links can come from a variety of sources, like social shopping sites, crafts directories, reviews, blogs, podcasts, videos, and social bookmarking sites. His book lists more than 500 ideas for getting links and traffic for your items showing at online crafts fairs.
About CraftMarketer.com
The website offers tips, advice and news on how to sell your crafts through online crafts fairs and other places to sell crafts. The author is the spokesman of the site and his blog posts provide examples and details of the promotion of handmade items through online crafts fairs.
For more details, please see: http://www.craftmarketer.com
About
The website offers tips, advice and news on how to sell your crafts through online crafts fairs and other places to sell crafts. The author is the spokesman of the site and his blog posts provide examples and details of the promotion of handmade items through online crafts fairs. For more details, please see: http://www.craftmarketer.com
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