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craigj1303
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Anything more I can do? - 1/2/2008 10:09:41
Hi All
My site has been up and running for around 6 months. In that time I haven't sold a single print! I have statistics that show people are visiting the site but I am not sure if I have maximised the SEO? In the last 3 weeks my stats tell me that only 10 visits to the site were referred by search engines where people used keywords (9 Google, 1 Yahoo). The other sessions where largely Google Image searches.
I even reduced the prices of the prints significantly 4 weeks ago as an experiment to see if that would have an effect but to no avail.
Here is the link to the site:
http://www.sjohnsonart.co.uk
Any ideas folks?
Thanks & Rgs
Craig
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BobbyDouglas
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RE: Anything more I can do? - 1/2/2008 13:33:13
On top of everything Jaybee said...
I have to click 3 buttons before I can even buy something. People may be having trouble locating the stuff for sale.
I would at least put a featured artwork, or a random one on the homepage.
The questions & comments on the homepage should be replaced with some of your artwork (including prices). If people want to contact you, they can click Contact Us. If there is room, you have a one liner above or below whatever image/artwork you have displayed.
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Tailslide
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RE: Anything more I can do? - 1/2/2008 15:15:56
You might want to do a little research with your existing clients and ask them what they'd type into Google to find you - maybe have a look at client enquiry emails ( searching for something like - "do you sell X") you might find it's something completely different, like Cornish Watercolours or Watercolour Landscapes or something hopefully that doesn't have quite as much competition!
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treetopsranch
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RE: Anything more I can do? - 1/2/2008 19:14:51
Nice stuff but I had a heck of a time to find out the prices. If you don't have a price list posted (I couldn't find it) then you will loose most people. You know art goes for from 50 cents US to Millions of dollars per painting. So what is it?
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jaybee
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RE: Anything more I can do? - 1/2/2008 21:11:31
Hmmm, thinks, find out about car boot sales in the areas you are doing paintings. Go to them with examples, nicely framed. Set up an uncluttered table, with a nice cloth. Although it's a boot sale think professional show, you'll stand out. Take business cards and some small flyers with painting thumbnails and web address, phone etc. You may sell a few paintings, you might also find you get local contacts who will stock them.
Get in touch with the local libraries.
Places like Clovelly there are loads of souvenir shops who may well be prepared to stock them for you. Put your prices back up, they're nice, don't undervalue them.
Offer framed and unframed, some people just can't be bothered to get them done properly.
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craigj1303
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RE: Anything more I can do? - 1/3/2008 4:53:18
Very useful advice, thankyou to all. I will certainly look in to making a few changes as suggested and see what happens.
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Paydex
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RE: Anything more I can do? - 1/6/2008 3:15:29
watermark your images with your URL.
when someone accesses your site for the image only- decide how you wnat to deal with that... do you want them to be able to access the image without loading the page?
add more images to the site which will be picked up by google images which have the URL displayed all over the place- basicaly SEO through images on google image search...
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