SEO Marketing 101: How Great SEO Helps You Sell

by Handmade Spark on 6/08/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

Search Engine Optimization is arguably the online world’s most dreaded acronym. If you are like most individuals venturing into the world of online business, you eventually found yourself asking the question, “So what exactly is SE…”, only to pass cold, exhausted by the sheer volume of impenatrable commentary on the …

Get Found: Our Traffic Is Your Traffic

by Handmade Spark on 6/07/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

Handmade Spark is a site whose sole focus is to provide marketing services to Etsy sellers so that they will be discovered by their dream customers and increase their sales. We tackled this project by creating a site whose infrastructure is designed to drive traffic to Handmade Spark member Mini-sites. …

May 2011: Another Record Month of Traffic

by Handmade Spark on 6/02/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

The results are in and they are beautiful! Handmade Spark’s numbers continue to climb, topping April’s “Best Month Ever” record with a whopping sixty percent of traffic coming directly from search in May 2011.
May’s pageviews just nosed past April’s count with almost two hundred views last month, continuing our upward …

498 Things People Searched For In May

by Handmade Spark on 5/23/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

If this month’s most searched keywords is any indication, a bouquet of sparkling cupcake necklaces would be a top seller on Handmade Spark. Or maybe some sweetly crocheted flower toppers – that would give a whole new meaning to “gilding the lily!”

Chocolate sprinkle vanilla cupcake stud earrings …

Fall In Love with May’s Handmade Spark Traffic

by Handmade Spark on 5/22/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

May is the month of new love, this May has been a great month for finding new Handmade Spark adoration! While you’ve been busily dancing around the Maypole and washing your face in the morning dew, the crew at Handmade Spark has been working hard to …

Handmade Spark – We Can Help You Grow Your Etsy Business (Updated)

by Handmade Spark on 5/09/11 | Comments Off Comment(s)

Want to be successful at selling your handmade goods online? You’ve got to get the business side working. Designing and creating handmade items is one thing, but listing, selling and marketing them is another thing altogether. Some people enjoy this business side of things, others just don’t.
And that’s where Handmade …

499 Things People Searched for in April

by Handmade Spark on 5/03/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

Search traffic on Handmade Spark is at an all time high. What does that mean? Our SEO Marketing Service gets exposure for our members and they are showing up in searches more than ever before.

“It’s a small world” Passport cover by Monique Rhuggenaath

Here is a sampling of things people searched for on …

April – A Record Breaking Traffic Month for Handmade Spark

by Handmade Spark on 5/01/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

Handmade Spark’s traffic is at an all time high. April was our best month yet, with close to one hundred and ten thousand visitors.
We had a record breaking search traffic month, with over fifty-two thousand searches coming mostly from Google. Most of our visitors find what they are looking for …