Pinterest and Your Website
Want to see what people are pinning from your website to Pinterest? Put this URL into your internet address bar (but substitute the name of your website where it says “yourdomain”) and remove the space after the “h” at the start… I have those there so this won’t become a hyperlink.
h ttp://pinterest.com/source/yourdomain.com
I don’t think it works with Etsy shops, though… or at least I couldn’t get it to work with mine. I used my…
What is a duplicate content filter?
A duplicate content filter is a way for search engines to weed out sites that have content that's exactly the same. After all, if you search on "torch enameling", you probably want a a variety of choices rather than the first ten to be exactly the same site.
So Google and other search engines compare words on pages and if a large portion of them are identical, the search engine figures it's just a copy and paste from one site or one page…
Sound crazy? Turns out there’s actually some good reasoning for do this. I’ll let my good friend Tammy Adamsexplain in her blog post: Etsy Quick Tip: faux breadcrumbs
With social media marketing being both important and time-consuming, I wanted to share with you a tip that you may or may not feel like enlisting.
I don’t always have time to hit up each social media site on a daily basis so I do cross-post a lot and I use whatever technology I can for that.
There is a feature on Pinterest so that each time you pin something to a board, the post will also become a post on your Facebook timeline.
The good thing is that…
I was working on a piece of jewelry yesterday and noticed that the metal curved a bit. My intention was for it to be straight. We’re talking about a curve of maybe ½ a millimeter. But do you know where my brain went immediately?
“Okay, here’s one for the garbage pile.”
Then I stopped myself and realized I was going against everything I believe in…. and I’d been GOING there for awhile now.
Here’s what I tell OTHER jewelry artists, “It’s not SUPPOSED to be…
The other day, we were discussing something in the SRAJD forum. Someone casually mentioned they were looking to purchase the kind of finding that goes on the end of those necklaces like those multistrand Native American chokers.
I cut a circle(ish) from a piece of scrap leather that I already had in my workshop. I use pieces of scrap leather and suede between things like my…