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Why not have one of those be a subdomain? Make the shopify store http://shop.thelongthread.com/

Then it is seen as “the same site”, mostly.

I’m a fabric shop in Canada, but we still get bolts of panels and sell by the panel.

Co-incidentally, I’m still looking for the government resource that says we’re required to sell goods by the metre, not yards, as some shops do sell by the yard.

(Backstory: I bought out the inventory of a quilt shop in my town that closed. Since it was all…[Read more]

You may wish to look into managed WordPress hosts. They have experience with this.

Bluehost was bought out by a larger company and their support has been… well, less that stellar is being generous. I’ve seen them be outright incorrect on basic WordPress questions.

Shopify would only host your shop. That’s all they do, they don’t host the rest…[Read more]

Ah, Google – slow to update. 🙂 I would say wait two weeks and try again, and if it’s STILL stuck, resubmit the sitemap. And yes, the same slug with edits amy cause Google to not notice those changes.

You really don’t have to keep resubmitting the sitemap unless you have major changes (or edits to existing pages) and want to call back The Big G…[Read more]

Aha! I know this one! At my day job we had a product similar to the Yoast content analysis. (We still use it internally and with other products, we no longer sell it standalone.)

Go look at the stats for those old posts first – do you get any hits on those at all? I would focus on long tail keywords for old content and be as super specific as…[Read more]

@sewingdirectory keep going! I wound up in this career by accident. I started as a mommy blogger, grew bigger, kept tinkering (I’m really good at breaking stuff!) made two different successful sites and wound up showing my knowledge so well it lead to a full time job. I skimmed over a lot in there, but… if anyone can do it I can.

And yes – I…[Read more]

If you are new to WordPress itself and are not comfortable with things like editing css or copy-pasting php code snippets, then yes a page builder type of them would probably be best.

Disclaimer: I really do not mention where I work much, but…. the umbrella company I work for is Studiopress and I do support for their themes (and other products)…[Read more]

Here’s one of the better tutes:

How to Switch from Blogger to WordPress without Losing Google Rankings

With Export tools, all posts are moved at once, which helps. 🙂

wpbeginner.com is one place.

The WP for Dummies book is great.(I may have co-authored the WP All In One for Dummies first edition… ;D )

The problem is there’s SO MUCH you can do it’s hard to go “do this then that” because it’s different for almost any site.

For example, Bloglovin’ is basically a feed reader. If you’re not using the Posts…[Read more]

😉 And that is indeed excellent advice.

The company I work for has their own syndication of a network of podcasts. 😀

http://rainmaker.fm/

I do have some knowledge of the technical side of it. (what’s possible, how it’s done etc…)

Thanks to you both – this was extremely helpful! Exactly what I was looking for.

(and revising my expectations…. writing a pattern? 2 hours… nah, gonna be longer I think.)

Thanks to you both – this was extremely helpful!

@kim even though I work full time now, I am not new to self employment in general. 🙂 Just this niche.

Yes, keep trying. It took me two tries for them to approve me (in a different field).

I don’t do much video but have them monetized as well as ads on a couple of neglected blogs/sites. The one bog i get the best return from is tech-based, so it gets long tail searches.

It’s been around a year and I might meet the payment threshold soon, if that…[Read more]

From my day job, some reading on sales funnels here:

http://www.copyblogger.com/?s=sales+funnel

I would be interested.

I would highly recommend Abby’s ebook!

The Insider’s Guide to Starting an Online Sewing Pattern Business – Ebook