Weekly Update ~ Week 7

I have no idea where last week went. It seemed to fly by. I can't believe that I only did one post. I think I wrote a few of them in my head, but never got a chance to post them.

Last week wasn't a terribly exciting week, although I did advertise on a couple new websites. Hopefully I will get lots of traffic from them. I also posted 24 ads on various classified ad sites and message boards. However, so far I haven't received any sales from them. I have periods like that. I then start to feel like I'm wasting my lunch hours posting ads for nothing, but the ads do show up in the search engines and my stats show that my site is getting traffic from them so I keep on posting.

I'm currently adding new fall theme wedding favors to my website and will soon follow with a few winter theme favors in the coming weeks. I'm also starting to think about the beginning of the holiday season so I need to focus on updating my e-Bay store with gifts for the holiday season. My e-Bay store keeps getting put on the back burner. I haven't updated it in forever. I know shame, shame! I just haven't had the time because I've been really focusing on getting a better search engine ranking for my main website, CherishedGiftFavors.com.

I'm going to keep this post kind of short tonight, because I want to add some more products to my website. I checked my rank on Google again and I've slipped to page 2. Yuck!! I noticed 2 new sites ranking ahead of me. I have no idea where they came from. I've never seen them before. One of them doesn't even have any text on their home page! My SEO company and various e-commerce newsletters that I read insist that search engines love a site with lots of words. Hmmmm...my home page is informative, theirs is not, yet they are ranked higher than me. I'll keep watching them in the next few weeks to see how they rank. I've heard of new websites getting high ranking at first them they slip in to never never land. It looks like the websites also sell only Kate Aspen's line. I sell a lot of their products too, but I sell other lines so I can set myself apart from other wedding and party favor sites. However, Kate Aspens favors are my biggest sellers.