Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 at
10:15 pm

Halp! I'm drownin' in domain names.
I registered the domain name for my mom’s shop the other day (www.aseakea.com) just getting prepared to get her blog ready.
When I was doing this I had a BRIGHT IDEA.
It occured to me that Etsy sellers who don’t have any time or desire to blog can still take advantage of domain names.
How?
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 at
4:56 pm
On first impression, what does your shop say about you?
Does it give the right message, or maybe no message at all?
Are you unintentionally killing your shops image by not even having an image?
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009 at
12:52 pm
Over the last few months I’ve been trolling the Etsy forums and paying a lot of attention to the sellers with blogs.
I like blogs… a lot.
I have 16 different “niche” blogs covering topics ranging from anti-aging to fashion.
Sure, a blog for an Etsy seller is going to be a little different than a niche blog promoting affiliate marketing offers and/or making money with Adsense.
However, the basic principles for grabbing free traffic from Google and maintaining reader interest are the same.
Here’s 3 of the biggest mistakes the vast majority of Etsy sellers are making with their posts.
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Friday, May 15th, 2009 at
7:52 pm
Wouldn’t it be nice to know just how many people are searching for what tags on Etsy?
Too bad they don’t have this kind of feature!
What I consider to be the next best thing is Overture keyword research.
Warning: This is probably too advanced for some…But since keyword research is one of the very first things I do before I start a blog, I’m going to share it.
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