Tip 1 - Best Products
Craftori is a showcase site, upload only your very best items to attract people to your store. Ensure that your images are great qualtiy.
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Tip 2 - Best Results from Paid Sections
If you're thinking of paying for a front page spot, or have paid, ensure you have several items in the free categories. Your username will be shown on the front page and shoppers can click on this to go to your author page which will show all of your items.
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Tip 3 - Promotion
Use your author page for promotion and sharing online. You'll look less like a spammer if you promote your items from different venues and people are more likely to check it out as it will appear to be something new. StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest give us the most traffic so try those if you haven't yet.
To find your author page, hover your mouse over the login link and go to your profile. There you will find 'my posts'. This will take you to your author page showing all of your items. Make sure it looks really pretty.
Alternatively, you can also promote your individual posts.
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Tip 4 - Shopping/Browsing
When shoppers need to find specific items following a theme or color, they can either use the tag cloud at the bottom of the page and click on one of the tags or use the search function, also at the bottom of the page.
Ensure therefore that your tags are relative to the item. Do not add tags about etsy or teams as this serves no purpose on the site.
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Tip 5 - Titles
Ensure that your titles are around 70 characters and that they contain the main keywords relating to your products. Also ensure that they are not over-punctuated. Google marketplace does not like very long titles or titles that look like tags. The search function on Craftori.com searches from the titles and is why this is important.
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Tip 6 - Deleting
If you have made an error in your upload, you can delete it and start again. To delete an item, go to your author page which will take you to the individual item, click on the item image to be deleted and at the bottom you'll see X delete. Click here and your item will be deleted. You can then re-upload.
The reason we do not have an edit function on Craftori.com is because we need to keep control of the site and ensure that it looks the best it can. Good looking sites that do not look spammy is what attracts the most traffic.
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Tip 7 - Our Badge
Use our badge on your websites or blog pages. This is good for SEO and shows inward bound links to your blog.
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Tip 8 - Favoriting
If you're shopping or browsing, be sure to use the favoriting function. You can then go back and visit them later. You can find your favorites by hovering your mouse over the login/logout link and going to 'my profile'.
The 5 most favorited items will show when anyone views an individual item.
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Tip 9 - Why Pay?
Why pay on Craftori.com? The paid sections are more exclusive, ie there are less items which means that your items will be more visible. The front page is the most visited page on the site.
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Tip 10 - Randomize
All the pages on Craftori.com are totally randomized giving everyone a chance of being visible. This means that you do not have to worry about posting several similar items as they will never appear in a block.
If you have uploaded and do not immediately see your item when you go to the category, then refresh the page as this will randomize all of the items again. All pages currently show 60 items.
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Tip 11 - Tutorials
If you have a free tutorial, you can post one image and a link going to the tutorial in our Tutorials Section. Free tutorials attract the most amount of traffic and this is why it is a good idea to post them to the site.
Also ensure that if you have items for sale that you add them to the free categories so that if anyone clicks on your username when viewing your tutorial, they will arrive on your author page and see all of your items.
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Tip 12 - Supplies
Uploading to the supplies section is a great way to be seen by our users. Because this is a paid section of the site, it is exclusive and you will not therefore be buried as you may be on your selling venue.
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Tip 13 - FREE Front Page Features
Occasionally we use seasonal and topical items to go on the front page. If your items are well presented and fit in with current trends, they may be chosen to get a free front page spot for a few days.
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Tip 14 - Descriptions
Description characters are kept to 300 so that you can use wording to quickly hook people in. Keep it short as people do not read the same way online and large paragraphs are often skipped. Make it interesting and catchy to ensure that people will click on the item. The first few words are the most important.
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Tip 15 - Categories
Placing your items in the correct categories is very important. When people shop around the site and click on a category, they do not wish to see items that do not fit and this could be irritating.
It is not going to benefit you to place your items in lots of different categories and your items could in fact be missed altogether. Someone who is looking for a specific item, will go to that category so please ensure that you add your item to the category that best describes your product.
Remember too that the free categories are not gift guides. Your item must be in the category that best describes your product, not who it could be given to or for what occasion.
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If I can think of any more tips, I will add them later. In the meantime, I hope you find these useful.
