tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post8121704849763157806..comments2023-12-14T18:17:52.957-08:00Comments on The Train Wreck Love Life: turning tricks with absent guile, reeling in your crooked smileEmilly Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-33856546125799593742010-01-21T05:22:13.382-08:002010-01-21T05:22:13.382-08:00The trick to the Search I've learned is trying...The trick to the Search I've learned is trying to anticipate what keywords (and phrases) your potential customers will use. Then you tweak your parcel or classified listing to reflect that. I've been doing that since autumn and have seen traffic increase. I have no way of proving there's a correlation -- it's pretty well anecdotal.<br /><br />However, I don't think this strategy works for designers and builders in "general" categories -- there's just way too much competition. You have a much better chance of making Search work for you if you are a specialty merchant. At least this has been my experience -- there are certain niche products I sell that are often the top ranked return, or at least on the first page of results. <br /><br />I find it interesting that when I do an "all" search using a certain set of general keywords that apply to my business, it's my profile, not my parcel and/or classified listings, that get the top ranking. <br /><br />So I'm not sure what to think of the insistence the Lindens have that the "all" tab is the most utilized search function. There are people who are conceivably finding my shops via my profile, but I have no way of tracking whether that's directly through the search function, or by checking out my profile via my avatar inworld and clicking through to my picks. <br /><br />Unless I'm missing something, which is always a possibility...Astolat Dufauxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07471853946601881203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-36952868874024464602010-01-20T21:50:18.554-08:002010-01-20T21:50:18.554-08:00This is the odd thing. When Search was being expla...This is the odd thing. When Search was being explained to me, I generally used Classified only. Friend of mine used Places only, we talked, and from then on we used both. Neither of us used All, nor did anyone we know.<br /><br />So who <i>uses</i> All search? Because I can't imagine, unless I deliberately have no clue what I'm searching for, and only have a partial name, or an avatar first name, or a description to go by--and even then, I don't expect accuracy.Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-52377492782542115562010-01-20T21:46:35.068-08:002010-01-20T21:46:35.068-08:00I am laughing heartily at the suggestion the "...I am laughing heartily at the suggestion the "all" tab in search works for anything. I use search to find avatars these days, nothing else. Results I get on anything else is total crap. If I need to find something, I have more luck asking in a chat group. And forget finding anything unique or esoteric. I formerly used XStreet for my searches, but they have run so many merchants off from there it is fairly useless as well. Frustrating.Aunt Foggyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09822854807566491775noreply@blogger.com