Hello,
I have been improving my Commerial site and Forum constantly to increase taffic and sales. Traffic is still at a minimum and sales are isolated to people we have already met at shows. We, my husband and I, sell our own line of sunglasses and goggles in motorcycle shows across the nation. The biggest problem with selling something like sunglasses on the internet is our customers can't try the glasses on through the screen. That is something we are working to fix with product
that is internet friendly. But web design, promotion, and relations are for the most part my gig.
I am not the world's best programer, designer, builder, anything-er, especially compared to some of the websites I have seen here. I am a little-gal in a world of giants.
My husband raised some questions about Submitting Articles, for example. Who actually sees these articles? How do they get to the consumer? Does link swapping occur? What else? One site asks for $37 a month for 4 articles... is that a good price? Mick is an excellent writer, but I am not sure if article submission is going to help someone like us who sells sunglasses - a virtually non-internet friendly commodity.
I have submitted to AddMe.com, for example. Is this the way to go, or should we pay for SEO? These are some long time questions... If I do some major work on building - changing meta tag information, eliminating and adding items - Should I RE-submit my website to AddMe or do the search engines pick up the changes? And does it really take 1 day to 2 months for engines to pick up the new info? For this reason, should I rely on the professionals or are they going to do exactly what I am doing right now? Is there a time frame in which I should
always Re-submit?
And will someone please explain to me what the difference is between ROR, RSS, XML, Feeds, Sitemaps, ....? I have an ROR link on the bottom of our Commerical Site -- is it actually doing anything? I mean, come on.... it just sits there... laughing at me
.
I am going to start there, for now. I hope I haven't been too crazy by asking all these really basic questions.
warmly,
Sassafras
