Recent Actions

Still staying on topic

• Continuing with the social networking - I need a picture to post
• Will go thru my site to simplify the message www.hollyhill.biz
  
• Need to add a visit Va page to my web
• Need to put a what is it video on UTUBE
  
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Increasing Web Traffic - Idea 1

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090113/od_afp/lifestyleaustraliatourismoffbeat_20090113032028

I volunteer for this position – especially in January.

This article mentioned the importance in thinking out of the box to attract tourism. How about a YouTube video with lots of pictures with pointers to the regional and area websites? All the web site optimization information I have read recently stresses the importance of a feeder video to attract visitors to your website and it doesn’t seem that hard to do. “Remember – you need to be talking to your “customer” before you can sell them something.”

Note 1: Online Social Networking – an important “New” Marketing technique we should all read more about.

Holly Hill Antiques

www.hollyhill.biz

Recent Actions

I have been busy.

• Nearly Complete on conversion of my frontpage web to kompozer://www.hollyhill.biz/
• Contracted with Yellowpages.com for a web ad campaign to improve site visitation. There is more to do here but this was a start.
• Watch several videos on Web 2.0
• And started to add some affiliate banners to my blogs and websites. Below is my first one.

Improve sales - Idea1

If you have a retail sales business like mine it may be helpful to find out what is selling on EBay.  Using Ebay Pulse this is easy.   I sell Primitive and luck for me this was a major category.   I then looked at the most popular categories under Primitives and I realized I need to make sure I have those items in my actual store and in my online store.  

Ongoing work this week to improve my position

Still a google rank of 3.

OScommerce

• This is what I want to get my site too http://online.bearweb.co.za/product_info.php?cPath=21_26&products_id=32
• Add more pictures to my OSCommerce site - currently only allows one using ultra pics. Support URL
• Want to add the WYSIWYG Editor to OSCommerce so that my text looks better on entry. TinyMCE
• I have been watching this guy's videos on setting up OScommerce on UTUBE. Very direct.
• My OSommerce Site today not active on 12/15/08 should be by 2009.

Web

• Would like to add the look and feel of this free CSS Template to my web.

Link Building

There are two ways to build traffic to your web. This guy does many videos and he believes that Content and adding links. will build traffic to your website. Last evening I looked at the statistics for my web and guess what. The pages with the most hits were the ones with the content. I must redesign those pages so that I can market the items I have for sale. Attached is a Hay Saw - which has search engine result rank of 1. This is my window to potential customers and I need to do my job better. This is the type of content that will drive traffic to my web.

Marketing Plan

This is the start of my Plan to market and improve my web.

Simplify my Web http://www.hollyhill.biz/

Use Tools to Plan and Market

• Google Web Tools to improve SEO
• Google Adwords to select products and set search words and terms
• The SEO Book
• GraigsList Secrets, Adwords Made Easy, Camtasia 3.0 (Screen capture)
• Google Tools Portal

Market My Web

• Alexa an internet ranking site - Get their tool bar - I use VISTA and currently not working
• Link Building Add more links
• Add more Content
• Learn how to make video

Submit to seach engins

• ONET, DMOZ

Social Net Promotion

• Digg
• Technorati
• Reddit