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garliclady
True Blue Farmgirl

274 Posts


Reidsville NC
274 Posts
Posted - Feb 08 2006 :  10:53:49 AM  Show Profile
I am in the middle of building my own website . Nothing fancy I am just using a "Free web page" offered by my Internet provider. It gives me more space to put out my info but I won't have my own domain name . But I already have lots of traffic on the Local harvest website I mentioned in another post and can link them to each other.
I am still looking for ideas and would love to look at other farm sites and how they have served your farm.

MY site (a work in progress ) is http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=16&ext=1&groupid=140532&ck=
The garlic lady

Cornerstone Garlic Farm http://www.localharvest.org/listing.jsp?id=6792
My Recipes http://recipecircus.com/recipes/garliclady/

Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator

3579 Posts

Anne E.
Elsinore Utah
USA
3579 Posts
Posted - Feb 08 2006 :  11:57:59 AM  Show Profile
My farm doesn't yet have a website - but I think it's SUCH a great thing that you're making a go of it. I can't wait to see it! Are you doing the "building" yourself? How did you learn how to do it? I'm a little intimidated by the website stuff, although I'm real comfortable with computers in general.

"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe
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SmallTownGirl
True Blue Farmgirl

117 Posts

Rose

USA
117 Posts
Posted - Feb 08 2006 :  2:01:00 PM  Show Profile
My fiance builds websites for people, now if I could just get him to get going on one for our farm. I will post it when he does finish it though.
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LadyCrystal
True Blue Farmgirl

593 Posts

Alicia
Rhode Island
USA
593 Posts
Posted - Feb 08 2006 :  4:15:08 PM  Show Profile
We have one, It is nothing fancy but it helps with sales. www.gamebantam.com
Alicia

http://fromcitytocountrygirl.blogspot.com/
follow your dreams
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SmallTownGirl
True Blue Farmgirl

117 Posts

Rose

USA
117 Posts
Posted - Feb 08 2006 :  7:40:29 PM  Show Profile
One of my favorite stores that I like to shop has a really cute site is www.backtothecountrystore.com
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westernhorse51
True Blue Farmgirl

1681 Posts

michele
farmingdale n.j.
USA
1681 Posts
Posted - Feb 09 2006 :  06:13:38 AM  Show Profile
I enjoyed all of your sites and blogs. Great job! Michele

she selects wool and flax and works with eager hands Prov.31:13
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MullersLaneFarm
True Blue Farmgirl

596 Posts


Rock Falls IL
596 Posts
Posted - Feb 09 2006 :  07:01:47 AM  Show Profile
I put up a website for the farm January 2004 using yahoo. We've had almost 138,000 hits on our pages (over a 1,000 on our home page last month.)
We did not submit our website to any of the search engines, but we found that being linked on pages that were on search engines (localharvest, realmilk, eatwild, etc) helped place our page. (Type in Muller Farm (not even Muller's Lane Farm) on any of the search engines)

Having the meta tags for searching helps too! In the <HEAD> section, you'll want:
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX,FOLLOW">
<meta name="rating" content="general">

AND THEN PUT IN YOUR KEYWORDS THAT YOU THINK FOLKS WILL SEARCH ON TO FIND YOUR SITE. OURS HAS IN IT:

<meta name="keywords" Content="Illinois, muller farm, mullers farm, homestead, homesteading, heritage turkeys, heritage turkey, milk soap, soaps, goats milk soap, recipes, raw milk, muller picks, homesteading, heritage poultry, homemade soaps, horse picks, hoof picks, farm tours, century farms, jersey cow, dexter, soap recipes, handcrafted soaps, Illinois, organic, raw milk, rfhs, csa, farmstead, how to, rock falls, carla emery, El Jabón, america's heartland, pbs, america, heartland, education, historical farm, animals, tours, got milk, working farm, vacation farm, Illinois soap, nais, stop national animal id system">

Visited your temporary site. I'd like to make a suggestion. When you click on a link that takes you away from your web site, please have it open a new window so I can stay on your site! Don't open a new window if you're staying within your site, though! If you are going to link to MaryJanesFarm, the code for that is <a href="http://www.maryjanesfarm.org" TARGET="BLANK"> Mary Jane's Farm </a>

Looking good!!! So how can I buy some garlic from you???

Cyndi
Joshua 24:15

Ol 'MacDonald has nothing on us!
http://www.mullerslanefarm.com
Edited by - MullersLaneFarm on Feb 09 2006 07:09:38 AM
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garliclady
True Blue Farmgirl

274 Posts


Reidsville NC
274 Posts
Posted - Feb 09 2006 :  08:07:04 AM  Show Profile
Cyndi Thanks for you input. I have seen your site and it is nice.
Unfortunately I can't add HTML code to the links. It is a simple- type the website in a box and a description in another box. So I can't change it. I can't put in Key words either. But right now if you do a google search for garlic farm our farm comes up on Page one (Our state site) and page 2 (Local Harvest) . This new site will be a link on those site"s Pages plus several more. We get a lot of hits from the state site and local harvest but as you know the info is limited on those sites so the can go to this site for more info.
We have not set up a page to order garlic (we harvest in June and it will be avalible August) . We haven't decided yet how we will take orders (maybe from local harvet store) or from this site . Orders we have taken in the past have been thru email/ mail .
The garlic Lady

Cornerstone Garlic Farm http://www.localharvest.org/listing.jsp?id=6792
My Recipes http://recipecircus.com/recipes/garliclady/
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MullersLaneFarm
True Blue Farmgirl

596 Posts


Rock Falls IL
596 Posts
Posted - Feb 10 2006 :  1:26:02 PM  Show Profile
I googled "garlic lady" .... and came up with this!http://www.garliclady.com/ I wonder if www.thegarliclady.com is free???

I'll be looking for your sales of garlic!!!!

Cyndi
Joshua 24:15

Ol 'MacDonald has nothing on us!
http://www.mullerslanefarm.com
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator

3579 Posts

Anne E.
Elsinore Utah
USA
3579 Posts
Posted - Feb 11 2006 :  11:27:29 AM  Show Profile
GarlicLady, I'm so excited for you and your garlic plan - it's inspiring to see us farmgirls get in there and live the lives we want to, doing something that we love.

"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe
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