Tips on How to Use Craftori.com

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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.

[EurekaGuides]

@Kathy, the site generally has a good speed but there can be variations for a number of reasons. There is no issue this end.

[Former_Member]

Will do! :-)

[AsNiceAsMice]

Thank-you for the tips :)

[CathySavelsArt]

This is just a reminder that you are required to register on the Craftori site in order to be a member of this team. Many, many of you have not done so. Please note that we are removing inactive members and sellers that have not registered on the website.

[MooMooHandmadeCards]

Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong?? When I initally set up my profile and listed my first card, I thought if I clicked on my name Moomoohandmadecards that it went to my Etsy site. Now that I have posted more cards today, I can't see that any are linked to the Etsy site. I even went in to the Profile to change it more than once.
Help...

[MooMooHandmadeCards]

By the way, I have registered for your team.

[MooMooHandmadeCards]

Ok never mind. I was going to contact Craftori on their site like you recommended to someone I was just reading. However, I just figured it out. My web address was slightly wrong! I corrected it so all is well.

[EurekaGuides]

@MooMooHandmadeCards, If you make a mistake, please delete the items so that we do not irritate our shoppers. :-)

[ToppyToppyKnits]

How can I delete an item that was sold?

[CathySavelsArt]

@Coral, Go to your profile, 'my profile', then 'my posts'. Click on the title of the item you wish to delete, then scroll down to x delete. You can find out this and more from the faqs page here http://craftori.com/faqs.

[FrenchChiffonDesigns]

Thank you for this good page with lots of tips. I've just joined up and posted my first article but as i've made a mistake in the title i would like to change it. Problem is, when i go to my profile then to my posts, it's empty! Does it take time fo the posts to appear or maybe i'm doing something wrong?
Thanks
Jeannie

[EurekaGuides]

@Jeannie, we are working on the site at the moment so it was a temporary glitch that you did not see your posts.

Having said this, it is not possible edit items on the site as otherwise we would not be able to keep spam out. Items are only checked as they are posted, not again each and every day. What you can do is click on the title of the item, then scroll down to x delete and then resubmit the item.

[MooMooHandmadeCards]

I am having a problem uploading an image since last night. I thought it was a glitch, so I started up Craftori again this morning and the same thing happened. Nothing happens when I hit choose file.

Also, can you tell me what url/website I can post? I thought I just copied mine from my Etsy listed manager for that particular card I wanted since it doesn't say MooMooHandmadeCards, but that isn't being accepted. It's been awhile since I've been on Craftori, but I plan to be updating/deleting frequently now. I apologize for not keeping it up. We had a death in the family and the holidays added to it.
Thanks, Cathy

[EurekaGuides]

@Cathy, sorry for your loss. Try clearing your cookies and cache. Also try a different browser as a test to see if this is the problem. Sometimes closing your browser can also solve this kind of issue.

Be sure when you enter the url that you are not entering http:// twice. You should copy and paste the url for your listing in your shop's public view, not from your listings manager. That won't stop the site accepting it though, but people won't be able to see the item.

If you're getting an error message, please tell us what that is and send via the contact form on the site. You will get a quicker response there.

[MooMooHandmadeCards]

Thank you so much. The only thing that corrected the problem was using a different browser for some reason. I was surprised that a completely different loading button came up (for loading image) with the different browser so that corrected the problem. So I was able to get everything posted for tonight.
Thanks for your help!
Cathy

[ViViCreative]

Thank You !!

[dstefanTreasures]

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.

Sorry for being ignorant, but what is your badge? Is it the team avatar? Thanks.

[CathySavelsArt]

@Diane, If you go to the website http://craftori.com, scroll down to the bottom and you'll see the badge there that says 'I love Craftori'.

[Former_Member]

Very helpful!. this is the first time I read this guideline.
I will look into my shop.
Don't hesitate to comment my shop to improve it
thank you

[dstefanTreasures]

Thank you Cathy. I'll try to use it whenever I can.

[LuxeWreaths]

I have a question. Do we use single tags on the craftori website or more like we do on etsy?

[CathySavelsArt]

@Hollie, generally online it is good practice to mix up singular tags with 2 word tags. With multiple words, you have to be lucky enough for a search engine to pick up that exact string but that can work well if you choose your keywords carefully and know what your customers search for. Singular words can come up in any connotation but there will be more competition.

[LuxeWreaths]

Thank you Cathy!

[Former_Member]

Thanks - very helpful. Just now had the time to start listing and it was so much easier than I thought it would be!

[Former_Member]

Oooops! Just went back and visited site and see that I listed everything in the wrong category. Thanks for making changes!