Crafters Blogs – A detailed look into crafting and crafters blogs

Crafters Blogs and how they are set up make a big difference to if they will be a success or not.

Crafters all love to show of the items that they produce and sooner or later grow from a hobby to a small business.

I am here to try to show crafters that are looking at growing their crafting business some things to do and some to avoid.

Firstly I am assuming that if you are reading this post you are either already doing a craft or considering starting up one.

Now – Crafting is very often just a hobby and anyone who fits into that category does not need to own a blog/website of their own and can happily carry on doing a blog that is one of the free blogs without needing to have a website that is done for business purposes.

Now I need to point out something – If you are a crafter and are serious about selling your products or training online then you do not have a choice but to go and get a carefully chosen domain name and have your own self hosted blog or website – or both.

Having a free blog on Blogger, IBlog, WordPress or blog.com are not only great but are also good for exposure. BUT you need to remember that you do not own that blog, you are simply an invited guest, and your blog can be removed with an explanation. Now imagine if you had a blog that was growing in popularity over the years, and now have 2000 people following your posts and stories. Whenever you announce something you get a surge ion inquiries and have built a nice business. Then one day you hear that if you “coded” your keywords like this…. then you will double your rankings in the serps… So you try it, and 24 hours later you are banned and your website is gone.

Do you see the risk here.

I do suggest that you have a free blog on Blogger and a free blog on Blog.com and  free blog at word press.com and a free blog at posterous… Do you see? All these free blogs would actually be part of your marketing and all will be built using a targeted keyword and designed to enhance the marketability and visibility of your main money website.

Best blog only option?

This one is easy. If you are planning to only do a blog and not ever have a real website ( so what I am saying here is that you are just doing hobby stuff – and this is for fun – not business) than you can do only a blogger blog and do it properly.

Blogger is very powerful, and once you have been indexed, you can rank very well in the search engines if you understand how to do proper keyword research and how to do correct social marketing and how to get back-links. All those points are what you need to do daily and over time your blog will slowly become better ranked in the search engines and you will build up a fan base or readership list. The biggest amount of crafter blogs by far are on blogger.

In fact of you go into blogger you will find that they have an internal search facility and you will find thousands of crafter blogs.

In my opinion crafter blogs are really just a tool to help promote my main money website. The idea is to have you biggest self hosted website be the focal point to your marketing efforts,and then any crafter blogs after that are really just carefully chosen and crafted keyword orientated sources of visitors.

You are on my main website right now, and if you look at this blogger blog or mine – flea market ideas – you will see that it is designed to give me back-links and to bring in secondary visitor traffic to this main website.

So to end off my comments on this page about crafter blogs I want to just recap.

If you are just a hobby crafter – then a free blog is fine. It will cost you no money and will be fun to do. You do even stand a chance of possibly getting some sales.

While a crafter can put their products online in the big crafting websites like Etsy, you will get up to 100 times more business if you went about setting up your crafting website with military precision.

I have written a cheap but high quality how-to-start-up a-crafty-business report and you Can get the free report to start with from the top right hand side of this website.

I suggest that if you are serious about making your business work that you follow those instructions.

Crafter blogs are great as a supplement to your real business.