Promoting Your Crafts
Anchor Text and Your Crafts Site
Picking back up after a long hiatus, we're going to continue on with our series on Getting Your Crafts Site Noticed by Search Engines with today's entry about anchor text. More importantly, what it is, what you do with it and what not to do with it. Anchor text are the words that "anchor" a hyperlink to a page on… 
Advertise on Glue Gun Crafts
It's 2011 and Glue Gun Crafts is finally getting it together when it comes to advertising space on the site and guest blogging! Check out our nifty advertising page for rates and banner sizes to see if we can be of help to you. We do reserve the right to select what we feel is right for the GGC audience…
Craft Content Hubs
Back in May, I talked about writing posts and articles to support your crafts and promised that eventually I would write about creating content hubs around these posts and articles to further your crafty site's visibility in the search engine results. What is a content hub? It's a bunch of "content" (posts, articles, pages) that are about a similar subject…
Writing Posts and Articles to Support Your Crafts
Continuing our series on How to Get Your Crafts Site Noticed by Search Engines (yes, I realize I am very remiss on posting on this topic) today we'll look at the structure of how you write your blog posts and instructions, including some technical tidbits, to get search engines to love and your craftiness both with a glue gun and…
Analytics and Your Crafts Website
How do you know after all who's visiting your crafts site? Are they staying long? Looking at multiple projects? Do you have a newsletter or RSS feed you want them to sign up for? What if you're selling your crafts? Ever notice in Etsy under Shop Set Up-Analytics that you can link a Google Analytics account with your Etsy store?…
Naming Your Craft Images for Search Engines
Let's face it, no actual person really looks into what the file name of your images are on your craft tutorial pages right? Nope, they don't. Which is why you've never cared that the finished picture of your adorable bunny craft is called IMG_01254.jpg right? Well, search engines care. They care a lot. Search engines can only read text, they…
Achieve Your Traffic and Sales Goals with Crafts
As promised we're going to follow different paths today in reaching goals set by you for your craft site. Whether your craft site is just for people to come visit and comment, a crafts site that wants visits and is also doing a little affiliate marketing on the side, or is a crafts site that is looking to turn a…
Choosing and Setting Goals with your Crafts Site
Ok, we all know the goal of your crafts site to share your crafts and get people to read it right? That's everyone! But now we need to really break it down: what really are your goals for your craft site? And if you haven't gone beyond "to get more comments," you need to read this post! First off, are…
Picking Keywords For Your Crafts Site
If you've never considered or picked out what your keywords or niche might be, do it now! Better late than never! What are "your keywords"? They are the words or phrases that you will be targeting your site with. If you pick something very generic like "crafts" or "crafting" you'll be hard pressed to crack into any search results unless…
How to Get Your Crafts Site Noticed by Search Engines
We're starting a new section here at Glue Gun Crafts and it's not dedicated to crafts specifically but more towards getting all those crafts that are made, posted and meant to be shared out there to the masses! Ever wonder why no one can find you? Want more people to read your articles or make your crafts? Just want to…
