Free Promotion Links

I been spending A LOT of time on the forums on Etsy in the last week or so. (I know I should be working, but.) ;0) I have found some great information out there. I wanted to let you know a few things that I've seen and have found very helpful. For self promotion I have found a few new (and free) sites that I thought were interesting.

1) www.craftgawker.com

you submit a photo,description, and link and they review it

and then post it to their website. I showed over several hits off of 1 picture!

2)http://tr.im/HandmadeDirectory

you can link your etsy site, blog, twitter, etc. sites

to it so that your page rank in search engines can increase

3) www.myshoppingconnection.com/indiespotting

this one you can submit up to 2 items per month.

I also found a few articles that I thought were VERY helpful.

1)www.lilacpop.blogspot.com

Lilacs Tuesday post was about making your shop successful

It is a font of infomation! How to help your shop be seen better by search

enginges thru meta tags etc. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Here's the link

http://lilacpop.blogspot.com/2009/04/really-useful-information-to-make-your.html

2) www.the6oclockstitch.blogspot.com

"Promote Your Etsy Shop: part 1"

I found this informational and it has a lot of links to help.

Here's the link

http://the6oclockstitch.blogspot.com/2009/03/promote-your-etsy-shop-part-1.html

Here's the link to part 2

http://the6oclockstitch.blogspot.com/2009/03/promote-your-etsy-shop-part-2.html

These are just a few of my finds. As I sift thru them I will be blogging about more. If you have any finds that you would like to share, please let me know!