Word to the wise
Bit of a story.... bear with me.....
So I started with WA quite a long time ago, likely 10 years, maybe less, no matter ... I was diligent and immersed in making sure I followed the lessons and built my first website. SEO etc all the keywords and all the stuff we are told to do....
Life goes on and other things crowd in .. travel with tennis son, helping husband build his business, answering his phone for customers etc... Im a woman.. I can do a multitude of things !
Fast forward to 2024 when I decide my natural skincare business would be better if it was a shopify website. Bit of a kerfuffle here getting it transferred but all sorted out and it was fine.... but.. what didnt I do?
All the blinking stuff I did at the start of my WA journey... forgot about seo, forgot about keywords and the way they should be inserted into my website.. and... and this is the really annoying thing..
I go to see the guy who is dealing with my husbands website seo and adwords, he is tweaking things to make it more productive and he takes a 5 minute break and says 'oh why dont we have a quick look at your site Helen ' ( I had been moaning about the fact I dont want to fairs and festivals but want to get online better and get into wholesale)
Im thinking ooh hes going to be pretty impressed with what I have got. Hahahahah ! Thats when it dawns on me that I did not do any jaaxy or set up seo or anything other than populate the products on the site. My god... all that experience here and I become an airhead!
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Happens to the best of us Helen and it is never too late to go back and correct any errors we have made in the past!
It's all part of the learning process in my opinion my friend!
All the very best moving forward! :-)
Helen,
I love an honest post 🤣👌. I don't think there is a person here who hasn't done similar.
Brings a smile to my face to know I'm not the only one...
Thanks for making my Sunday
Peter
Totally get this, Helen.
It’s so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and forget the foundational stuff.
At least now you know what needs fixing, and with all your experience, you’ll get things back on track in no time.
All the best,
Boris
Yes ! Working on it now, but did feel stupid ! The guy started telling me all about it and I didnt know what to say!
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We all make that mistake or something similar. I've been here at WA a couple of years longer than you. Though I had sporadic success early on, I didn't focus on ONE website. That was my mistake.
It wasn't until I took a step back from WA a couple of years ago and focused on a new niche I wanted to develop. I took the same steps I had done before but stayed with building that ONE niche.
Now I've been seeing great success and can come back to this great community to learn how I can expand and help others along the way. There is sooo much knowledge here and it will benefit anyone who learns from it.