We are now in our second year and have decided to develop Arts-Crafts-HobbiesandDIY.com into a fully categorised advertising and information directory for the exclusive use of  the type of customer that you too are aiming your products and content at.

We are not re-developing our site to compete with you, steal your potential customers or direct them away from your pages.
It is my belief that "A site sells on its own merit, and through the hard work, commitment and dedication of its owner."

When first developing Arts-Crafts-HobbiesandDIY in April 2006 as a pixel advertising site we spent untold hours building and developing it to a standard where we were achieving a Google page rank of  4 within the first 3 months and managing to cover our cost. That was without the assistants of SEO companies, paid links, ad words or any other high ranking software or assistants. It was just pure hard work and a growing customer base.

 

Unfortunately like many of you, we fell victim to a less than ethical host who not only took our money and ran but also left us in the dark and with a site that, by the time we had managed to piece it all back together, was no longer recognised by any of the search engines, most of our link partners had removed us from their pages for non reciprocated links and our customer base had all but disappeared as a result of being let down.

Not to be deterred we found a new host reinstated all of our customers adverts and links and started again. This time however despite what we believe were initially genuine intentions on their part, they went out of business as a result of the ever growing demand for free and cheaper hosting, and so again just before Christmas 2007 the site had disappeared.

 

Through our own experience’s we realised just how hard it is maintaining and running a website and how competitive, sometimes unethical and financially unrewarding it can be. So we decided to try to do something with the site that would be of help and use to others.

We have waited a couple of months during which time we have sought out a new host and have been redesigning and developing the site. We are now back online with a new idea and strategy that we know will be of  benefit to the world of Arts & Crafts site owners like ourselves.

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