Big Oops?

I realize now that I might have made a mistake on my showcase blog. "Handmade Pendants" is a widely searched phrase. That was all I looked at. I went to see how many pages I'm competing with to get a spot on the front page. Guess how many.

If you guessed millions, you are right.

How can I hope to compete?

I really don't want to start over, even though I have no followers and only a few posts, so I should really be married to the site, but I've put the links out there and I would have to change them. I'm not sure how that will affect the crawling Google spiders. (The only spiders I like BTW.)

I know just starting out you will make a lot of mistakes, but I'm not sure how/if I should fix it. Maybe I can get my Handmade Pendants and Crafts blog to the front of the search. Millions isn't that large of a number, right?

Am I wasting my time?

I'm not feeling good about my work right now. That's not true, I'm feeling great about my work, I'm not feeling good about selling it. Every time I post a new one I think I'm not going to sell it anyway. I feel like I'm lost in the internet. I know that I have to do something to get myself found. I'm not doing the SEO like I should and I'm not even sure that will be enough to get me noticed. My plan is to post a new pendant everyday, but I'm not being as consistent as I should.

I did post a new one today and you can see it on my Handmade Pendants and Crafts blog. I'm highlighting a fun butterfly pendent. I need to post more for sale, but I don't enjoy taking the pictures, editing the pictures, labeling the pictures, organizing the pictures, and anything else to do with the pictures. My camera isn't the best. I need to buy a new one, but I'm not sure which one does the best Macro pictures.

Posting Spree

I know its not recommended to post a ton of items at once, but I haven't been good at uploading one a day. Instead I have been posting about four a day. I'm almost done posting all I have. I'm starting to describe them on Homemade Pendants and Crafts. I'm working on talking about the pendants in a more dynamic way. I'm still learning how to sell these things.

But anyway my Halloween pendants are available for sale on DamikDesigns. I'm still trying to decide if I'm going to leave them in my store after Halloween ends.

I'm mixing things up in my SEO campaign. I'm posting articles with links back on Squidoo and Hubpages. I don't know if I'm going to see results from that, but I'm having a fun time with it. You know I'm just going to crow the first time I see money from one of these endeavors.

Crap, I just realized I've forgotten to use tags on my posts. I'm still getting used to this.I'm sorry about the picture layout, I can't figure out how to make them integrated into the posts.

A great find!

I'm trying hard to drive traffic to my etsy. I found a really great site walton.communications. I've been enjoying it as a resource. He has put out a really great ebook that is easy to read and full of good information and he has an awesome forum where he answers questions.

I was flattered to see that he used one of my questions for his blog.

So I'm going to make some Halloween pendants in hopes to sell for the season. The thing is I'm out of bails to glue on them. I used all of mine for the pendants I donated to a friend's garage sell. He was trying to raise money for his son's surgery. I hope he sells a lot, but I digress.

I went to the Hobby Lobby to buy some and I stumbled onto a wondrous sight; fuseworks! Glass ready to fuse and inexpensive enough for me to mess it up a few time. I am totally going to come back when I have money. I have to wait because my husband wouldn't let me hook for it.

Working this SEO thing

So I've started to work the SEO campaign and I have to admit it is very overwhelming. I don't think I'll have the results in two weeks, I don't think I'll have it fully up and running in the two weeks. But I'm giving it the ol' college try.

I've started a new blog on wordpress to highlight my work. That doesn't mean I won't highlight my work here to, but the wordpress site is more like my booth babe. It is tarted up to lure people in to see my wares. Or it will be when I get done with it. Right now it is basic and boring.

I'm still excited to start working on my fused glass. I need to buy glass and kiln liner paper to start. I'm selling my car, and if I get what I'm asking for it, I should be able to buy a metric assload of supplies.

I also asked at a farmers marked how I would get a booth for next year. That didn't go well. I think they are sort of like a private club. The people I asked seemed to give me the runaround and the person who finally had answers for me seemed like he was actively trying to discourage me from applying. I don't know, now I think I want to apply out of spite.