You may be familiar with Rita Juhlin of Private Stock Jewelry because of all the great tips and responses she shares on my Home Jewelry Business Success Tips site.
When Rita talks, it’s a good idea to listen.
She’s a self-made success story – and her advice is always practical and useful.
Rita recently wrote in to share two excellent resources for any jewelry artist with a blog, website, or other form of online jewelry business.
She says:
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I’ve been reading and participating at “Home Based Jewelry Business Success Tips” for some time now.
My kudos to Rena for all her own success and longevity on this website. If I owned a hat I’d take it off for you!
I ran across a couple things that I think many of the readers might find helpful.
The first one is a free directory.
Links are always important for getting the search engines to find you; I’ve started a Home Based Jewelers Directory at http://homebasedjewelers.gotop100.com and I hope everyone will take advantage of it – and you may want to start your own directory too!
Rena, I hope you will be the first to list, your website is important to home jewelers.
I thought it would be great fun to have everybody’s link in one place.
I listed myself to see how it would work and make sure there wasn’t any funny business going on and it works great.
The rank will change every 30 days; no fair clicking on your own link!
The other thing I found was a widget for blogs called LinkWithin. It’s a great little gizmo that searches your blog and brings up three links under your post which relate to that post.
In other words, if I post an Onyx pendant, there could be three pictures (thumbnails) under the post relating to Onyx.
It’s really cool. I’d like to find the program for my website, but it works great for my unorthodox blog.
The widget is free and exceptionally easy to install and use. You can find it at http://www.linkwithin.com .
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Note from Rena:
I’ve added my Jewelry Business Blog to Rita’s Home Based Jewelers Directory – and I hope you’ll head right on over there to add your jewelry blog / website too!
Also, I’ve installed the LinkWithin widget here on this blog; you can see how it works by looking at the bottom of this post, where it says “You might like these stories”. You should see three links leading to other posts that exist within this blog.
LinkWithin was easy to set up, and I love the way it brings up additional content for my readers to check out at the end of each post.
Thanks so much to Rita of Private Stock Jewelry for sharing these two great resources for our online jewelry businesses.
You rock, Rita! :)
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Thanks for the LinkWithin tip – I love it!
I started using linkwithin a month ago and I love it. I’ve noticed that folks are sticking around longer when coming to my blog site. I’m headed over now to check out the directory..thanks for the great information!
Oh thank you! I will go list my site, and also use linkwithin. I used to see this “you might like these stories” in other people’s blogs but didn’t know how they did it. Now I know
. Thank you Rita and Rena!
The directory has had some great activity!! Thanks everyone, it’s been fun.
I noticed that some of the banners are scrunched up, that happens if you don’t change the size on your log in page. The default is 50×50. You will need to change it up to 480 x 100.
Any problems, just give me a shout!
I’ve seen some really outstanding websites and jewelry, woohoo!!
Thanks for sharing that great link. I think my customers will definitely stick around longer to read my previous blog posts!
Thanks so much for the information on these links!
I love this site & all the valuable information included. Rita has the best jewelry site on the web!