Discuss the fun task of marketing a t-shirt shop. Where to advertise, local marketing tips, word of mouth, press releases, search engine marketing, keyword advertising, magazines, etc.
I had my site up at the end of April. I am doing all the marketing work on my own.
What I did:
1) I did a bit of SEO (adding meta tag, meta words etc) and I submitted my site to ODP, Google, Yahoo and MSN.
2) I search out Tshirt blog and send invitation for them to visit my site.
3) I tell all my friends about my site and ask them to forward it out for me.
4) I open an account at myspace and del.icio.us but didn't do much with it yet.
Result so far:
1)ODP submition has been a month but my site is still not up(I heard the general waiting time is 3-6 weeks?) I just send an email to invite the editor to check out my site but haven't heard from her.
2)when I typed my site URL at Yahoo and MSN, just my site come up but no description under the url. In Google, my main page doesn't always come up, sometimes, FAQ page come up.
3)There are around 30 hit per day and P/V average around 4.7
4)Only few sales has been made
What can I do to improve the situation? I don't know if I m freaking out too fast and too early. But I know most of the traffic came from direct source and I know that after the first wave of friends, there will be nothing left.
Can any of you give me some advices in terms of attracting more hit and making real sales?
Most of the people like my site and design but they don't buy....Am I missing something important?
Thanks a ton for reading such a long post and if you can give me some suggestion, I will be even happier
many times at least with google.. they have a thing called the sandbox.. when sites are new.. it is quite common for them to be in googles sand box.. and not rank well when searched for terms etc for a period of a couple months etc..
Here is a link with an explaination...
The site that this is from is www.forums.seochat.com
and has alot of useful info on seo, how to do it.. and what it does for you.. so is good reading for anyone trying to get their web sites opitmized..
Yea, it's still early in the game. You have only been up for a little over a month. The key is not giving up, and continuing to put yourself out there. If you dont have any business cards, get some made up ASAP. Get a clever design that people will remember, and hand them out to everyone you come in contact with as well. You may also want design a simple, yet captivating flyer/ad that you can just photocopy off a ton of... and hit up college campuses, rec centers, any place that you can post them...
liza, may I know what browser are you using?
supermokh, thx for your support
fred, I ask some company to set up the whole site for me, I am not sure they used ZenCart or not.
sue, thanks for your info. Do you know why there is no description under my site at Yahoo and MSN?
tim, yea, I will try to sale more at the local market first. It will ease a bit of pressure off the internet site slow response. Thanks
liza, may I know what browser are you using?
supermokh, thx for your support
fred, I ask some company to set up the whole site for me, I am not sure they used ZenCart or not.
sue, thanks for your info. Do you know why there is no description under my site at Yahoo and MSN?
tim, yea, I will try to sale more at the local market first. It will ease a bit of pressure off the internet site slow response. Thanks
It takes a little time. The hits you're getting right now are probably just the SEO bots scanning your site for content so they know where to put you. They will do it more and more and more..... and eventually you'll start showing up, with more information etc. It won't happen over night.
I am logged in on AOL 9.0VR. I had another look to see if it the problem was still there and exactly the same thing happenend.
MESSAGE (a runtime error has occurred, line 78. Error could not get the display property. Invalid argument.)
As soon as I clicked on any of the pics or links, this happened, and just kept saying the same thing for as long as I was on the site! I couldn't do anything then! Perhaps it is my computer?
Good luck with it all anyway.
Liza
Last edited by Solmu; May 11th, 2007 at 02:12 AM.
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Did you try another browser? FireFox shows almost every mistake that is made in the source.
Ok, I checked the site out in firefox, and inernet explorer 7, and I had no problems viewing them there, so the problem is only when I am logged in on AOL!
Do you guys know where can I get AOL or info abt it? I don't have high hopes for my programmer to fix the problem for me since he doesn't even know wht's AOL...
When can I get the flow into my site? 
