My wife has been selling hair bows on ebay for a while now and we are making some decent money. We decided to finally get a website. We are planning to start it around Jan. What i was thinking, i can have it hosted now and start working on the advertising. I would put a logo on the site saying that our site is coming soon. I figure i can start working on my tags and put the site on a a few affiliate networks to up my ranking. Maybe make a few bucks from people clicking on the links to cover some of the hosting charges in the meantime and start creating some traffic Is this a bad idea, or is this what most people do?
I think its a good idea. Lot of people put "Coming Soon" page. Age of site is a factor as per page ranking on Google. You can also do your research on Keywords on the niche, and think about how you will do SEO for the site. If you need help let me know, I can give you a hand on that for free.
So older sites have higher priority or newer? My goal is just to get some traffic comming in so that way we might make a few sales right off the bat. More than likely i will need to use some of the click income and put it right back into making my advertisements and paying people to click on my links right? I appreciate the help offer. I might take you up on it
One of the best ways to turn off possible leads are pages that display 'site under construction' or the likes. Don't get so excited, . There are lots of things to plan about while waiting for the site to get finished. You could start writing great content, Research on feasible Internet Marketing techniques, Plan on your strategies, You could even build links... You might be thinking I'm crazy, no I'm not. As what we are doing here at DP, we are posting on forums. Our posts would not be deleted, so you would already have a lot of live links, by the time you have your site and edit your signature links, which would reflect at every posts. Good luck. ***I've seen a lot of hair bows sold at eBay and they're really neat, you could create an eBook on Hair Bows to and sell it, individually or packaged with your products.
ok so what you are saying is that if i do this.. i might be making people become non returning customers... they see that there is technically no content, just a bunch of links,,, and they will never come back again when i see the link. So until the site is ready,, dont focus on traffic, focus on planning? I figured i could get traffic while planning yea the hairbows cost approx .75-$1.50 to make and sell for $4-$15 a piece. ehe woman go crazy over how cute they are and have to buy them. Thats why my wife likes selling, because she used to go crazy when she saw cute ones and had to buy them.
Sorry to jump your thread jseber1982... webcosmo -- If you buy an aged domain name from a reseller, and transfer it to another registar, does it keep it's value?? Cheers.
You could start on that now... I honestly love those cute little thingies too. With pictures of colorful bows and ribbons, I bet the eBook would sell. An eBook about that would really be fun to have. I would want one . Good luck!
Yeah, I worked on my site for a couple months before I went live with it, but I didn't work on any links until it was ready. I hate under construction sites, if it's not ready don't let people find it. Just my two cents, Matt
right now my wife has over 200 bows made that she takes to craft shows. The good thing about having them on a site is that you dont have to put in the time to make the inventory ahead of time. As long as you have pics of bows made in the past,, and as long as you have materials to make them, You dont need to make them unless people buy them. Can have 1000 different bows on the site and not have 1 bow made unless somebody buys them. Makes for almost no lost profits........ at least thats how i see it I just dont know much about taxes and advertising. Dont want to pay the money to have the site hosted and get no traffic
Don't put your www public while it's under construction. I can say this from experience. Better finish it and then just promote and do the other thinks to make money from the site. Just my 2cents.
Age of website is one of many factors counted for SERP ranking. I don't know if transferred domain will do the same. But a under construction page with some content will do the work I believe
Why don't you consider a Landing/squeeze page.......And start pre-selling your offer through articles....Offer a report about bow making or some other valuable content, and start a followup email campaign,,,,
I would definitely wait and dont bother with the "under construction" page as suggested here. ebook and landing pages for now sound like the best ideas!