Help with Jig website

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Placeholder Page

Crappie Crippler

When you post the URL substitute Crappie Killer for Placeholder page. Do it in the preview page, can do it in the edit page I believe.

[CrappieKillerJigs]

you gotta pay to be in the top search engines...i use to pay $99.99 a year but now i dont even worry about iti just tell people and people tell more people

[AtticaFish]

you gotta pay to be in the top search engines...i use to pay $99.99 a year but now i dont even worry about iti just tell people and people tell more people

It is hard to get included into search engines in any way if you use a free domain and hosting service... has to do with being redirected to their dedicated server instead of one setup for your domain. You can spend around $100.00/year for a domain/hosting service and you will show up on a search that includes your keywords and meta tags.

You can spend more $$ (much or little as you want) to be at the top of the list or on the side when your keywords are searched. Cost goes by number of times you want to show up on the top a day and per click to your site

PM me if anyone else needs some info, my job is in graphic design and I make websites on the side. - AtticaFish

[1aB]

"tntjigman" can't view your website - do you have it published on a 24/7 hosting computer?

Like "AtticaFish" says, $100 or less a year should get you domain registration, a basic site building tool, and hosting. It took my site about half a year to show on search engines back in 2005. One trick for (free)search engine recognition is to maximize the use of your desired key words & phrases in your title and site text. For example if you want your site to be shown in a Google for "crappie jigs" use that phrase as much as possible. "SiteStudio" provided by "Stepping Stone Hosting" allowed me to build & maintain a functioning website that gets (free)top ranking on a Google search. Works for me but I can't compare with other hosting services. Our public library was a good source of reference material for getting started.

Edit: ditto "AtticaFish" - avoid "free" hosting services.

[AtticaFish]

One more tip I forgot about... may be a help to you guys with lots of picts of jigs to get ranked better on a search. Make sure to name your pictures with a name relative to your site, not the number sequence your camera gives it. Search engines also rank by number of times a keyword or phrase is written on page, this includes names of picts. Maybe name your picts... "crappie jig 01" or "feather jig 01" or "hair jig 01" This way any time these words are searched, your site will have the words alot of places!!

There are other tricks, but I won't get into all of them. Some do work, but some are not looked upon well by the engines, so you can possibly get blacked balled by them for a while.

[skiptomylu]

You get what you pay for even with web sites, feathers, etc. Makes no difference in what you want, but what you pay makes a huge difference.

I pay for my web site and don't allow any advertising on it from anyone. I don't want my customers seeing pop up ads, search spots, banners, etc. I think it just being cheap to sell out for someone else to pay for your web site. I want my customers to feel good about looking at my site Ad free so nothing to bother them.

I pay more than $100 per year for sure, but I take no ad money from anyone and I don't depend on any money from outside sources. I think my web site cost me a little under $40 per quarter ($30 something), but I am not totally sure since my wife pays the bills I don't see it after making the deal.

Just to make a point I just got some quotes from a feather company and it went something like this...
Loose Marabou 1"-4" per pound is $17.
Blood Quills 3"-6" (I think) or so was close to $43.
Strung Neck Hackle 3"-4" was like $40 something per pound and 4"-6" was $87 per pound.

So no matter if it feathers, web site, or what ever you get what you pay for and to go on the cheap side will cost you in the long run IMHO!

Skip

[tntjigman]

Thanks for all of the input gentlemen. I appreciate the tips and tricks and your time spent trying to walk me through this! The infomation is confusing at times, but with a little patience maybe I will get this figured out. Thanks to all of you!

[Fatman]

Came right up when I tried it

Fatman

[1aB]

OK, was able to access the site. Good start, I've used a Paypal cart for years with no problems. Pics seem to load unusually slow tho on my XP IE7 system.

[CrappieKillerJigs]

skip is right...you get what you pay for.... i think im up to paying $380 a year for my new website and let me tell you before i knocked some stuff off of it....it was around $520 a year...paypal is okay but there is much better stuff where you dont have to pay as many fee's