Daily SEO Tip Thread

[#1]

This is a publically viewable thread.

Each day, I or a guest poster will aim to post one teeny tip you can do to improve your SEO or Page Rank. I'm hoping this will become a great resource for new members to the team :-)

[Former_Member]

I'm so glad I found this group! You're all giving me great tips here to improve my shop and SEO. Loving the daily tips thank you!

[Former_Member]

Hey just wanted to say thank you for these tips again, I just checked my Google analytics after implementing your advice and my bounce rate has shrunk by 20 percent!

[CoquetteBath]

I haven't ever added my link to my treasury comments.

I wonder, though, if that would be seen as extremely spammy.

Yeah, probably shouldn't care about that, but I kinda do.

I'm only 1/5 of the way into adding my front page url to my listings! Takes a LONG time!

[Former_Member]

This thread is fantastic!! Thank you so much to 4Akira for posting it on facebook for me to find. I just posted shop links in all our items and updated our shop title. I also threw in some researched keyword phrases all over. Thank you so much for the amazing advice! You've made SEO so much more clear to me!

[Former_Member]

Great and easy tip, thank you.

[Former_Member]

So glad that I joined this group. Great information and I am beginning to understand. Lot's of catching up to do though. Many THANKS to you all!!

[fernfiddlehead]

Thanks for all the tips!! I've learned so much already.

[justByou]

Just came back to this thread to read more tips. Wow. I've got lots to do!

[Former_Member]

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DAILY TIPS???!?? They were so helpful!

[Former_Member]

I need to find time to read this entire thread...it looks awesome :)

[PookieandJack]

Hi all, a question, why the recommendation to link our shop in the description when on the right side of the listing it shows other items from this shop and it connects back to the shop..why have both??

[GaleazGlass]

Hi, I've been reading through and have made several changes to my shop. I googled my shop name yesterday and found I was on the bottom of page 3--out of I don't recall how many, but a lot. So much improved but still need to do some tweaks. Thank you for all this information!

[Former_Member]

Question: I have done the daily tips (and I would love to see more because a little thing each day is easier). I read this coment in one of the posts here

"Title tags are seen by many as the most important on site SEO reason, Your title must describe the content and don’t use stop words (is, are, and, most, best etc) in the title."

Why is "and" a stop word? How can I describe all the colors of my yoyos without using "and'? Is "&" a stop character? Should I use that instead?

[CNJceramics]

You mention using the keyword tool for Shop Title and Section title, where is this tool hiding?

[Former_Member]

https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer?__u=1000000000&__c=1000000000&ideaRequestType=KEYWOR...

Try this for keywords that are big for google adwords.

[justByou]

pookie - This was the reasoning in the tip....
"Link your main shop page in every single item description. This will give you a relevant backlink for every item you have, boosting you up the search results!"
Hope that helps you. =)

[Former_Member]

This thread has been so helpful, going to start making all these changes tonite! This is probably one of the most important things to do with your etsy shop because it doesn't matter how many beautiful items you have if no one sees them.

I am going to start this Social Media Blitz 5-Day course I've read some great reviews about it!
http://www.handmadeology.com/social-media-blitz-free-5-day-ecourse/

Good luck to everyone!!

[Former_Member]

The Social Media Blitz has been helpful to me - at least I have reserved my shops name in the different sites - even if I don't use them all the time. I really like stumbleupon.

[Former_Member]

Here is my tip for the day:

See if your tags are getting the views that will help the most.

Check out tagtastic at http://craftweasel.com/

It shows graphs of which tags are getting the most views versus the price of the item. Really cool.

[Former_Member]

Here is my question for the day:
Any of you use the twitter app on facebook to post your "tweets" to your facebook page for your business? Can't seem to get my facebook page to pick up the twitter feed. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carlas-Inspirations/128804257192683

[Former_Member]

Carla,
thanks for the tip on the http://craftweasel.com/
site.

very informative

[Former_Member]

Here is a blog about inbound links for SEO. Check it out. It is from another team I am on.

http://etsywestmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/04/simple-seo-in-bound-links.html

[Former_Member]

My team captain posted this in etsy West Michigan: Thought it would be useful stuff for us to think about:

Spring cleaning. It's not just for your house anymore!

Perhaps it's time to give your shop a spring cleaning. Here are a few suggestions to get you started.

* SHOP BANNER: Do you use one? Do you still like it or is it time to change it?

* SHOP PROFILE: check your profile to make sure it isn't outdated. Read it. Read it out loud. Does it flow? Do you mention something like, oh, Christmas shipping that no longer belongs in there? A vacation that's long over? Do you have a new product? Talk about it.

* SHOP SECTIONS: are you using shop sections? Do your section make sense to your shoppers? Can you easily read the sections? Are any empty? Is everything is a section and in the correct section?

* SHOP POLICIES: Etsy give us a lot of areas here - it's a good idea to use them. Have you filled out all the sections? If someone comes to your shop, and wonders about your shipping policy, can they find the answer?
- Welcome message - tell a bit about yourself and/or the purpose of your shop
- Payment - what kind of payments do you take? check? paypal? money order? other?
- Shipping - do you ship international? how long does it take you to ship something?
- Refunds & exchanges - do you accept returns/exchanges? do they need prior approval?
- Additional policies and FAQ - what else do you want your customer to know? do you do custom orders? down payment needed on those?

* HOW IS YOUR SHOP'S APPEARANCE?: Did you know you can rearrange your shop? You can put things together by type of item, by color or whatever blows your hair back. (Oops, did I just date myself with that phrase?)

* DO YOU HAVE LOTS OF LINKS TO YOUR SHOP WITHIN YOUR SHOP?: This was a great hint by SaraLynn on our team blog recently. See the article here: http://etsywestmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/04/simple-seo-in-bound-links.html go on...go add a dozen to start!

* MESSAGE TO BUYERS: do you have this filled out? It's a great way to automatically thank your buyer and to remind them of your shipping policies.

I'll stop now as this is more than enough, right? Ok, your turn - what else would you do to spring clean YOUR shop

[monkeyandfriends]

Carla - great reminder! I'm going to reread my policies etc... and read the blog post on links.

[CGPGemBeads]

Thank you Carla,,,the site you linked here is really helpfullllllll~~~

Am new to the SEO,,
Here I have a question,,
when I have some focal words written on title,do I need to repeat on tags?
as am thinking if I have that word on title,,,
I want to save a tag for other words...
does this influence the google search/ranking?