How Writing Articles Will Help You Market Your Arts and Crafts Business in 2009

[Diane Stafford]

As a member of Art Hobby Craft, you already have a valuable tool available to you that will help you market, promote and potentially sell your arts and crafts wares.

If you take a peek at the home page, you will see that any visitor to the site can immediately see several areas of the membership site, which is great of course.

However, what you may not realise is that the search engines can also 'read' the code behind the home page....

... and these search engine spiders will happily 'read' (crawl) your blog article - IF, you have one on the home page, and ...

IF you have added a short author bio and included an 'anchor text link' leading to you own blog site or website, then they are highly likely to follow that too.

How does that help you?

It helps in several ways.

It means that people who visit Art Hobby Craft will see your blog article, they may pop over to read it, find it useful information that entices them or interests them enough to visit your arts & crafts profile or your other craft blog articles or even go straight to your craft website to buy or at least find out more about you and your work.

Content is king (an old saying I know, but it still holds true as we enter 2009). That is why writing articles is one of the most popular marketing media on the internet today. Internet surfers just can't get enough information on various arts and crafts topics.

Providing information through your art hobby craft blog articles is a sure way to drive interested visitors and prospective buyers to your own blog or website.

Here are the benefits that writing blog articles on art hobby craft can give your arts & crafts business.

1. It's absolutely free.

All you need are your creative thoughts, your computer, and your hands. If you have those, nothing can stop you from typing to write and complete that blog. On which aspect of that process did you really shell out any cents? Ok, you have to spend some time to create your blog articles, type them in etc, but it doesn't cost you money!

2. Your website will be noticed in a shorter period of time.

Submit that article of yours to art hobby craft to get more web visitors and in no time your own blog or website will be crawled. That is if you don't forget to include your resource box or byline, as mentioned above.

3. Obtain quick back links.

When you submit your blog articles to art hobby crafts, with your authors bio and link, your site is automatically linked to from art hobby craft. Also you can add copyright terms for your blog articles, giving permission for others to use your blog article, if you choose to, provided they keep it intact and they use your author bio and your website link. By allowing them to use your article they will also be promoting your website and providing you with links back to your website.

4. Don't underestimate The Power of Improving Your Reputation.

Conversion happens when your visitors convert to sales of your arts and crafts goods. You have to show that you are knowledgeable in your field. And what better way to show that than by writing articles that will demonstrate your individual expertise and knowledge?

Just get your creative juices flowing and jot down the key ideas quickly to jump start your article writing momentum.

With those benefits listed above, why not start planning to commit yourself to posting at least one blog per week throughout 2009 and start getting your knowledge, expertise and your arts & crafts wares noticed!

Visitors to art hobby craft are increasing month on month, are you missing out on thousands of potential customers per month?

Finally and most importantly, visitors to art hobby crafts are:

* other arts and craft creators - that's an opportunity to learn from each other, collaborate and maybe create joint ventures

* hobbyists who want to learn more about a particular art or craft - can they learn more from you? Do you provide courses in their craft of interest?

* discerning art and craft buyers looking for that handcrafted, something special for their own home, or for a very special and unique gift

Are you going to let these opportunities pass you by in 2009?

I hope not - plan your blog articles - start writing :-)

Diane

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Fine Art Prints by Diane of Chester

[Diane Stafford]

Hi Eddy, great to see you :) Oh I think I'd die without the internet for 5 days never mind 5 months. Glad you are now back online.

Yes a bio is a short description, about you (without being an 'advert' per se) - check out the art hobby craft video on how to create an anchor text link - Yes, you use that little link icon when you highlight the link text. The video also explains how to use the "target" tag, so it opens up in a new window (ie: your website/blog) and adding title tag to your link as well.

(its an unedited video so excuse my moaning about firefox being slow.. and I go on a bit - totally not like me lol cough!) :-) However, I hope it helps .

cheers Di

[eddy]

Guess I'd better get busy!

By adding a short bio, do you mean just on the first blog post or each and every one? And what do you mean exactly...like, Hi, I'm eddy from girleddycreations and today I'm blah, blah, blah...??

I also don't know how to do a anchor text link. I know how to make a link on blogger, just highloght it and click the link thing on the toolbar. Is it the same here?

I have so much to catch up on. I didn't have access to the internet for 4 or 5 months other than going to the library. It's hard to get much done that way.

Thanks for the help, you're awesome!

-eddy