Category Archives: Website Savvy

Jewelry Websites need to be optimized for traffic generation and search engine spidering and for human visitors too. Learn how to improve your jewelry website with search engine strategies, relationship building strategies, and sales strategies.

50 Free Web Tools and Apps for Website and Blog Owners (Geek or Not)

I just found the best list of free web tools and apps for website and blog owners. You know, it never hurts to be able to tweak a few things on your blog or your website. Maybe you’d like to be able to make a clickable hyperlink in HTML.   Or maybe you want to [...]

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Make Your Images Load Faster

photo credit: Got Sarah One reason people don’t stick around on a website is because the website loads so slowly.   Often you can increase your page load speed dramatically just by making your images load faster. Jewelry websites and blogs are especially image heavy so if you don’t compress and resize your images you [...]

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Free Blogger Backgrounds

Do you have a Blogger blog and want a new look?   Well check out this site I discovered for some great artsy free blogger backgrounds. Beautiful Blogger Blogs? I was just checking out a member’s website and I was struck by how beautiful her blog was.   It was a simple free blospot blog [...]

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Sample of Embedded Youtube Video | Jewelry Website Tips

Free Content is everywhere on the web.   This embedded video example post is so I can show Handmade Results Weekly Members how to embed a video.   The video showing how to embed the video is available here (Handmade Results Weekly premium subscribers only) Looks pretty doesn’t it? Now go embed something onto your [...]

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Design Yerself A Great Jewelry or Craft Website – And Even Sell Something!

Why is No One Buying From My Handmade Jewelry Website? Help! How to design a jewelry website so that people find it, people like what they see, and stay long enough to even figure out if they want to maybe buy something. Your Jewelry Website. Is it Selling? Why or Why Not? Could it be [...]

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Design Yerself A Great Jewelry or Craft Website – And Even Sell Something!

Why is No One Buying From My Handmade Jewelry Website? Help! How to design a jewelry website so that people find it, people like what they see, and stay long enough to even figure out if they want to maybe buy something. Your Jewelry Website. Is it Selling? Why or Why Not? Could it be [...]

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Make a Better Website Case Study: OakHillJewels

Make a Better Website Case Study : Oak Hill Jewels This website case study is a request by reader Deena, who asked me to take a look at her Oak Hill Jewels site via a comment on my article How to Promote Your Jewelry Website, and also by Anita who commented on my comment. The [...]

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SiteBuildit! : Web Hosting (that includes all the training you need to succeed)

SiteBuildIt!: I owe my current online success to taking a chance on SBI! in October 2007. Now, that website, (How-to-Make-Jewelry.com) is in the top 1% of all websites and at time of writing I get 3,000-4,000 unique visitors a day. To hear more about my work at home story and how SBI! helped that dream [...]

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MomWebs : Web Hosting

MomWebs This website is hosted on MomWebs –   I looooove them.   They are super inexpensive but have magnificent customer service.   I’ve had Scott from MomWebs fix things ranging from my own own idiocy to hackers putting malware on me.   I can’t recommend them more.   And at only $5 for 3 [...]

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