Note from Rena: The Home Based Jeweler’s Directory that Jewelry artist Rita Juhlin set up has been such a success that she’s upgraded it to a blog – where you can showcase your jewelry business for free!
This is a fantastic opportunity to get valuable links to your online jewelry business, and to get your jewelry seen online.
Here’s Rita, letting you know how to list your jewelry business in the new Home Based Jeweler’s Showcase:
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Good News! The Home Based Jeweler’s Directory has now been upgraded to a blog.
I used all the information provided on the original directory, which will remain intact, and applied the information to a blog.
The new blog is less restrictive in that it is not limited to 100 entries and it won’t limit verbiage, two links and three listings for each jeweler; one of the link lists is alphabetized.
The only requirement for listing your jewelry business in the new blog is that your listing has to refer to Home Based and Handcrafted Jewelry. There are thousands of commercial based jewelry sites and those of us who struggle to get traffic need “our” space.
I believe that the handcrafted jewelry our list represents is high quality, unique and a very personal art form.
Those impressions came from the sites I viewed with amazing jewelry, great websites and photography.
It is obvious that everyone works very hard to produce and create something very special.
Thank you for the back links and the conversations I’ve had with some of you. What you need to do now is go to the site and give me a little help.
The site name is ‘Home Based Jeweler’s Showcase’; it is a sponsored site with adwords.
The URL: www.homebasedjewelers.blogspot.com
1. Check the spelling and accuracy of your listing;
2. Check the link to make sure it lands on the page of your site where you want it to land.
3. E-mail any changes or corrections to homebasedjewelers @ gmail dot com:
A. provide your site name
B. provide the change or addition.
4. Click on “Comments” and add your very own description and also include another link to your site. Be sure to use a spell checker. I have also allowed back links. You should be able to add a picture or two (keep the picture size small) to your description. Give it your best descriptive shot, cover your major selling points, describe what you specialize in; get the visitor to click on the link to your site.
If you haven’t provided a banner on the original site I hope you will get one uploaded, if you look at the outbound links on the original directory you will see what a difference it makes.
The listings without banners aren’t getting noticed. There are sites available to make a banner for you at no charge. The size should be up to 480 x 100.
A word about backlinks; I’ve posted an article about How Many Backlinks Do You Need? by Nick Stamoulis describing the importance of backlinks in online marketing. The article is posted on my other sponsored site, Web Sites Work; a work in progress for the technically challenged.
The new Home Based Jeweler’s Showcase blog I put together for us is for the purpose of exposure for your site and getting the search engines to find us.
Every techie column or newsletter I read is referring to backlinks. Granted, backlinks are only one part of a good marketing strategy and our blog will help with that.
I hope you will join the new Home Based Jeweler’s Showcase if you haven’t already.
In closing, I’d like to mention that this all transpired because of Rena and the inspiration she provides us all. Thank you again Rena.
My personal smiles to all the Home Based Jewelers!
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This is great, I’m already on the band wagon!
I have posted a back link so you can see what it looks like after you post your descriptive comment. You do this through “create a link”
Thanks so much, Rita. I’ve already gotten quite a few hits on my website from your directory–especially the other day when my website was the “site of the moment.”
I’ll be adding the link to the new showcase blog to my website.
Sue
This is a great idea! Thanks for setting it up, Rena. I’m having a wonderful time clicking through to all these great sites and reading the new descriptions.
I’m not sure I understand how to add my link to the list. Do I need to be an approved member of the blog?
Hey Kristina – get listed! you can put up a banner on the “original directory” then I’ll post your banner on the Jeweler’s Showcase Blog. Once that is done I’ll send you an email with additoinal instructions.
Post Pages give each of your posts their own unique web page, in addition to appearing on your blog’s front page.
There seems to be more questions about backlinks so I thought it would be easier to post here. The location for creating a back link is under “Your Banner” It says: Posted by: and a date, comments, and then “Create a Link” Click on that and put your link in.
Awesome Blog! My father handed over the business to me and now im trying to make it better. We are a home based jewelry company thats going through a tough time right now, but we will make it! Thanks for posting this and allowing us to link from it!
As of yesterday July 17th, we have had almost 4000 page views, and 1000 unique visitors.
38 Followers
and 91 Jewelers Listed.
It is working!