Well it's been two months now since I opened my shop Wearing Rainbows
I've struggled getting to grips with the site, put it off line twice not knowing what does what, luckily for me I have a good support team who put it back together after I broke it....DOH!
I've only had two "stranger off the street" customers in the two months, and wondered if people had trouble finding things as I have over 10,000 items listed, so I've spent today learning how to write links, sorting football gifts into team categories and linking to teams.
so if you wanted say, Liverpool Gifts. Instead of trawling through all the site looking, there is a link Liverpool Gifts which takes you straight to all of them, a major event in my code writing.
I've done the same for all the teams I sell products for in the Football and Rugby Supporters Gifts section
Man United Gifts
Liverpool Gifts
Arsenal Gifts
Chelsea Gifts
Tottenham Gifts
West Ham Gifts
Newcastle Gifts
Everton Gifts
Birmingham Gifts
Leeds Gifts
Man City
Rangers Gifts
Sunderland Gifts
Juventus Gifts
Celtic Gifts
I just hope my friends don't start complaining their team isn't listed :-/
the other news is I spent hours getting my Ipod and Phone Accessories listed on Google Base only to have them all banned as I hadn't noticed I had two items which are against their rules listed....ARGH!!
I have to say I'm feeling a little disillusioned at the mo
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Saturday, 23 January 2010
In at the deep end
Well here I am, in at the deep end and splashing about like a drowning man, at the age of 46 I find myself with an online shop, a whole new direction in life after working as an Electrician, struggling to get by from week to week.
So this blog will follow how it goes...or how long it goes for, success and failures...will it be Barbados? or Bust?
I'd never thought about why results pop up when you "google" something before, I thought it was only because people visited that site, the most visited were at the top...not so it seems, Now I find I'm having crash courses in SEO...what? I've never heard of it, Search Engine Optimization. Then there's Meta tags, back links and hundreds of other things...Eek!
So, I have a site...which I bought, now that saves loads of time, except you don't know how it works. HTML...what's that? there's so much to learn adding my own products, finding them from reliable sources, dealing with people....probably the hardest task of all.
I think the main thing is not to get impatient, I find myself poking about trying to get everything right today when in reality I have NO idea what I'm doing yet, think long term....don't expect 1000 visitors the first week.
So. What do I do next? my best thinking is done while walking the dog...so that's the next move, off to the hills of Wales for some air.
Well a few hours later I've returned muddy and with more questions than answers, which is to be expected, like do people actually make money on the internet or is it just existing shops subsidising their real shop with online sales? I decided the question..."do people make money on the internet?" doesn't matter, the question should be "can I make money on the internet?"
and the only answer I'm allowed to give is "Yes"
One Week later:
Well I've been struggling with submitting my site to Google, something that's actually really, really easy to do when you know how, all you do is insert a bit of code into your site and ask Google to read it...simple when you know how to do it but as I have no idea it's taken me days of trying it in different places, finally I placed it right and google have Verified my site.
Next is to submit a site map of my site to google, again something that's simple when you know how, it took me two days to research how to do it and finally submit a map of 11,015 URLs, Google have indexed only 39. I have no idea why yet.
The next plan is to submit my products to Google's product directory, this again should be easy as my site produces a file ready to upload to Google...only it doesn't work correctly, what a nightmare.
So this blog will follow how it goes...or how long it goes for, success and failures...will it be Barbados? or Bust?
I'd never thought about why results pop up when you "google" something before, I thought it was only because people visited that site, the most visited were at the top...not so it seems, Now I find I'm having crash courses in SEO...what? I've never heard of it, Search Engine Optimization. Then there's Meta tags, back links and hundreds of other things...Eek!
So, I have a site...which I bought, now that saves loads of time, except you don't know how it works. HTML...what's that? there's so much to learn adding my own products, finding them from reliable sources, dealing with people....probably the hardest task of all.
I think the main thing is not to get impatient, I find myself poking about trying to get everything right today when in reality I have NO idea what I'm doing yet, think long term....don't expect 1000 visitors the first week.
So. What do I do next? my best thinking is done while walking the dog...so that's the next move, off to the hills of Wales for some air.
Well a few hours later I've returned muddy and with more questions than answers, which is to be expected, like do people actually make money on the internet or is it just existing shops subsidising their real shop with online sales? I decided the question..."do people make money on the internet?" doesn't matter, the question should be "can I make money on the internet?"
and the only answer I'm allowed to give is "Yes"
One Week later:
Well I've been struggling with submitting my site to Google, something that's actually really, really easy to do when you know how, all you do is insert a bit of code into your site and ask Google to read it...simple when you know how to do it but as I have no idea it's taken me days of trying it in different places, finally I placed it right and google have Verified my site.
Next is to submit a site map of my site to google, again something that's simple when you know how, it took me two days to research how to do it and finally submit a map of 11,015 URLs, Google have indexed only 39. I have no idea why yet.
The next plan is to submit my products to Google's product directory, this again should be easy as my site produces a file ready to upload to Google...only it doesn't work correctly, what a nightmare.
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