Jewelry Business Website Tips

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These jewelry business website tips show you how to develop an internet presence, and sell your handmade jewelry online from your own site.

How you'll packaging items for shipping
is an important consideration when selling from
your jewelry business website.

Whether you use your own website, your blog, Etsy, Ruby Lane, or any other type of online storefront, you can learn how to optimize and manage your jewelry business online, get more traffic, and handle customers on the Internet:

Recommended Resources

Jewelry Business Website Resources
My top picks of jewelry business website resources (including web hosts, online credit card processing, other forms of online payments, and traffic building).

What Jewelry Customers Want When They Shop Online
People who buy handcrafted jewelry online responded to my survey on what they want and how jewelry artists can serve them better. Lots of eye-opening information and tips, directly from jewelry customers!

Jewelry Blogging Tips

Jewelry Blogging Tips for Success
An in-depth look at blogging for your jewelry website, and how to use this technique to draw in customers. Also the definition of "blog" and why you might want to start one.

The Birth of a Blogger
A blogger was born when Pamela Vale discovered how much easier it is to maintain a blog than a standard website. Discover how she uses blogging as a way to create an online portfolio of her work.

Starting a Jewelry Blog
Dee Gordon shares her experience with starting a jewelry blog to help launch her upcoming jewelry website.

Blog Parties - The Newest Soiree
How blog parties can help you make new connections and get exposure for your jewelry business. Dee Gordon explains how a blog party works, and how to participate - or even host your own party.

My Jewelry Business Blog

Make Your Jewelry Business Website
Customer Friendly

How to Lose a Customer in Five Seconds
Your jewelry website's home page has four seconds to load before your customer bails out. Will your page make it? Pamela Bruce offers tips to help you speed up your load time and make your site more user friendly.

What Turns Me Away from a Jewelry Website
A poor first impression can result in a jewelry site that has visitors clicking away from it. Guest author Candy Loya offers excellent tips on what NOT to do in your jewelry website.

A Website Redesign Story
A website makeover can make all the difference in the success of your online jewelry business. Linda Grandstaff relates how an honest site critique by a fellow jewelry artist helped her develop a more attractive and user-friendly jewelry website.

Photographing jewelry creatively and enticingly
is an important factor in selling it
from your jewelry business website.

Jewelry Business Website
Tips for Setting Up

Tips for Choosing Jewelry Website Hosting
Good website hosting is the backbone of a great jewelry website. Here are the basics of jewelry business website requirements, and how to choose the best webhost for your jewelry business. Recommended jewelry webhosts.

Tips for Choosing and Registering Your Domain Name
How to come up with a domain name that will help bring traffic to your website, and then register that name.

Developing Your Own Website
After evolving his website through seven major redesigns in four years, guest author Tony Blacker shares tips for getting your jewelry business online by yourself, and finding the resources you need to develop and promote your own website.

Banner Design Tips for Your Online Jewelry Business
Sue Runyon's banner design tips guide you through the steps she took from blah website header to eye-catching promotion piece.

Optimizing Your Jewelry Website
for Targeted Traffic

Tips for Website Optimization to Bring Traffic to Your Site
The basics of using good website optimization to bring your jewelry website a lot of targeted traffic from search engines.

Optimize Your Website for Local Search
Find out how local search can net you a stream of new customers and jewelry sales from people in your area. Includes quick and easy ways to optimize your website for local searches.

Getting More Traffic to
Your Jewelry Business Website

Link Popularity - A Key to Jewelry Website Success
Link popularity is vital for getting traffic to your jewelry website. Here's the in-depth info you need about building and checking your site's incoming links, plus important pitfalls to watch out for.

Using Web 2.0 to Promote Your Jewelry Business
Web 2.0 has become a major force on the Internet. Pamela Bruce defines this massive online trend, lists resources to get you started, and discusses ways to use Web 2.0 to market your jewelry business. This insightful article is a must-read if you promote your jewelry on the Web.

Promoting Your Online Jewelry Business
Once you've got your jewelry website up, it's time to bring customers to it. Mark Sanders discusses easy ways of promoting your online jewelry business.

What Makes a Jewelry Website Good?
What a jewelry website needs in order to be found by customers, and to be interesting enough to make sales - by Christine Gierer.

Building and Marketing Your Website
Sherry Wells describes her journey to discovering her successful jewelry niche, plus methods of selling jewelry online and marketing your website.

Increasing Your Online Jewelry Sales

How to Start Accepting Credit Card Payments on Your Website
Online credit card processing is a must if you really want to sell your jewelry from your website. Here are some tips about accepting credit cards and other forms of payment on your website.

Selling Jewelry Online
Tips and strategies for promoting and selling your jewelry online in all sorts of ways.

The Frugal Jewelry Webmaster

Running Your Online Jewelry Business Frugally
Your online jewelry business can be up and running quite cheaply, if you learn some new skills and do a bit of research to find products and services that help you cut your costs. Ruth Ellen Kostic shares her top five tips for running your online jewelry business frugally.

Creating a Jewelry Website Inexpensively and Easily
Getting your jewelry website started is easy if you follow these simple steps from guest author Alan Reisch.

Getting a Jewelry Business Online
Sheri Stroop shares the sites and resources she's found helpful in getting her jewelry business online.

Turn Your Jewelry Hobby into a Business - for Free
Charlotte Smeed recounts how she set up her jewelry website for free, to test how successful her jewelry business would be before spending any money on it.

If You're Interested in Building an
Information Website

I'd also like to share a website success story of my own - how this Home Jewelry Business Success Tips info website become one of the top 2% of the most visited sites on the Web less than 3 months after I put it online.