Hello SEASIDESTONES2
I use facebook adds every now and again and it may be chance but there are always sales, you don't know with facebook if it's through the add or by customers searching the web, out of all the add methods out there i find facebook to be the easiest to set up, cheapest by far for the amount of traffic it generates and best value for money, but i would say to most that paying for adds is a waste of time for them, any methods that advertise your stuff for free is always the best way to go for most, and this includes the big companies as well and it is genuine with the traffic reports with potential customers that are actually interested in your products, i must admit my main site which i've had since 2008 is big, and in 2021 i wanted a change of site, i came across square and had the hunger to try something new ( while having my main site carry on making sales ), from starting with the new site i have now become within the top 3 on google search for different categories, and some of the main categories are either top or have pushed my main site off the top 3 spot ( didn't expect that ), i say this because i started out on square like almost everyone else on here, from scratch, but had the experience of knowing how to word things to it's best ability for search engines, i have not paid for google ads, i have only have 3 or 4 outbound links connected to site ( which are all almost payment method links ) and the rest of my links are internal, but it has been put together with minimal fuss, the real big thing between a square site and my main site ( it competes with Amazon, Ebay and Etsay for rankings and is above them on most categories ) is square is modern, clean looking and has a nice simple relaxing look on the eye, with a lot of fresh things you can do with pages and payment options, for behind the scenes hands on experience squares sites are fab, it just takes a little playing around with how you want it to finally look, just remember that the SEO section at the bottom of every category or item page must be filled in and correctly, i see know end of adverts saying rank higher on google etc, if you want to get noticed properly, try this, say you want to buy a specific item ( think like a customer would and think what you would type if you wanted to buy an item you were looking for ) now once you've typed that item in, and google shows you the results, towards the bottom of every google page there are different choices that google picks for you to look at based on your search, take notice of these because these are googles search key phrases, which carry more weight than keywords, look at which of this phrases best suits your category or item and add that into your title ( SEO section ) so say i'm looking for a gold bangle, google gives me options on solid gold bangle, solid gold bangles for sale, 14K gold bangles for Women etc, if i was selling a 14K gold bangle i would put in the SEO section "14K solid Gold Bangle for sale for Women" ( if you were only selling in the USA ) i would put USA at the end of the title as well in the SEO section, from the above title you will get endless keyword and key phrases from it and will be shown on lots of different searches, ( i hope you see where i am coming from as this works with anything being sold, just try it ), this will sure fire rocket you through googles and MSN and every other search engines rankings, be more targeted for potential customers who want to buy, and it's all free to do, just put a little time in with wording, i tell everyone, if you are gonna sell on the web, the sky is the limit if you want it to be, you can be a one person business ( even part time ) but you make it look to the World like you are as big as Amazon, there is no limit on the web, you don't need 1000's of items to get noticed, just structure a site well where everything inside that site links to somewhere else on that site easily, and your SEO section filled in correctly ( only for search engine purposes this is ) and you will get far more out of it than you spend on your site once the groundwork is done, i started my main site in 2008 while i was in full time work at a manufacturers, we knew by 2009 it would be over with the global recession becoming full blown, so i paid for a site, didn't even know how to use a pc back then, but allowed time for it to grow while i was in a job, in January 2009 everyone at the factory lost their job, and it really was a case of now it's sink or swim for me, and the rest as they say is history, i only wish i had done all this sooner, even in quiet times it's far better than working and making someone else money, and that's a thought to everyone
