You can't pay for rankings themselves. You can pay an SEO expert to try and get you to the top, but the results are not instant, nor are they guaranteed and the cost is usually substantial. You can try adwords to try and get exposure for the keywords you are trying to target, but they aren't genuine rankings, just advertising.

Good luck
Andy

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Originally posted by creative_nut:
I am a self employed artist and I turned into a Premium Shop Keeper some time ago but still have yet to sell anything. I am sure my art works are good enough for those who are into arty t-shirts, but I just did not know how to promiote myself! Amanda

Here's a friendly suggestion, Amanda. Your text on your CP site is the canned CP text. On your setup page you can type text of your own. Borrow from the text on your non-CP site but put it in the third person - - - or copy from your bio onto your front page. Either way, the object is to get search engine keywords at the beginning of your shop.

I am clueless to the internet. do you have any tips for me?
Cathy
www.cafepress.com/cathys_cafe

Just an update. I have started a blog that will have the purpose of helping out new and old shopkeepers. I am hoping to use it as a way to motivate me to learn more about what it takes to run a successful store. I invite anyone to visit whenever they want and submit their pearls of wisdom to me which I may post. I hope to become a better (read, more successful) shopkeeper from this venture, and hopefully I can impart some worthy knowledge along the way to my readers too.

The address:
http://thecafepressblog.blogspot.com/

THE absolute best explaination of "relevant" titles and descriptions. There is plenty of talk about making things relevant, but even when there are examples, no one ever points out how and why they work.

Fantastic. Bravo. Hooray for the Zapmeister

I think you have just added a whole chapter to my "to do" book.

Great Job.
I did learn a lot. Especially since I too have been around just over a year and am finally making some sales.

Thanks!
http://www.cafepress.com/expresswares

Great tips ~ thanks for sharing, ZapGraphix.

Happy selling & good luck to all you guyz !

SimpleLeaf - makes your life simple

Great info. Can't figure out where to install
statcounter code in premium shop set-up. Can u help. Thanks

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Originally posted by studio54:
Great info. Can't figure out where to install
statcounter code in premium shop set-up. Can u help. Thanks

Do you have the code from statcounter? If you do put it somewhere like the header, sidebar or footer so each time a page is loaded it can record it.

matt

Thanks for a great tut. That is very comprehensive although I am not a newbie I took a lot from it myself

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Can you only use a stat counter if you own a premium site? If not where would i enter scripts?

cheers

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Statcounter only will work on a premium shop, a basic shop is not set up so that you can modify it by adding a counter.

Right I've just upgraded to a premium site for me shop below (sound advice) I've used the 'pet toon' template. Please can you advise me where in the customise screen do I add the code from stat counter?

Thanks guys for the info.Statcounter up and running.

Thank you so much for the info! EXTREMELY helpful! www.cafepress.com/seekhimfirst