How to Increase Traffic to Your Handmade Jewelry Website
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Handmade jewelry internet marketing is like any other kind of marketing. You are trying to reach a niche market so you must plan accordingly. You have to start by identifying your target market and the keywords they use to find your products. You have to learn what your customers are looking for in order to develop content that your target niche will respond to and take action.
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In order to identify your target market start with what you already know about your customers. Some people talk about geo-targeting, demographics and value proposition. What these big words boil down to is know who buys your products, where they buy your products, when they buy your products and why they buy your products.
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How you want to be perceived by your target market will define your approach. Identify what your customers want and write your website content to fill that need.
There are important principles of traffic generation you need to understand in order to be successful at bringing visitors into your website. Those visitors need to be targeted to your niche and the search engine organic searches are generally your best source of targeted visitors.
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Each page of your website should have its own target keywords. Optimize your homepage for the general keywords and narrow your focus on individual pages to long-tailed keywords. More keywords give you more chances of coming up in the search engine ranking pages.
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Search engine optimization is the best strategy to rank higher in the search engines organic searches. Your website needs content that appeals to your customers while at the same time gives the search engines information about your website. Essentially you are trading your time for traffic. Creating good content, links and backlinks are great SEO and can generate traffic directly through visitor clicks. These methods take a lot of time and effort but are well worth your time.
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Make sure to have great content and start asking related sites for links. A good way to get reciprocal links is to contact the webmaster of related sites. A friendly email saying that you think their website would be beneficial to your website visitors and perhaps their visitors would find your website information useful.
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Backlinks are generated by submitting your sites to relevant directories, being involved in social networking, submitting articles, participating in forums and leaving comments at relevant websites. The more links pointing back to you are like votes for your website.
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Google webmaster tools are great for analyzing your target keywords but you are the one who knows your products and customers the best. When selling
handmade earrings participating at craft shows is one of the best ways to reach that niche market. When marketing online finding handmade craft sites would then be the natural choice as they cater to the same niche market.
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Let them know that you will leave their link even if they don’t link back to you is a nice gesture that might get your link request more attention. These links will increase your traffic as well as getting the search engines to visit your site more often with the added benefit of ranking higher in the organic searches for
dangle handmade earrings.
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Most of all do not get discouraged when you do not get results overnight. There is no magic spell just hard work. Whether you make
handmade wholesale jewelry or offer a service you will need to optimize your website for your niche market in order to get targeted traffic.
This is an original article by Jennifer Hisir of Handmade Jewelry by Copper Reflections.
