About us

(2010)

Well it took nearly four years but we are now again a PR4 site with a page 1 presence in most major search engines under numerous subject related keyword search's, and most of our other pages can be found within the first five pages of all the major search engines.

Like last year we will continue to provide you the visitor with a reliable source of links and a cheaper alternative to advertise your sites and products with our easy to use grid as well as the introduction of our new feature adverts option. Our feature adverts option will enable you to advertise and promote your web site on any of our pages by choosing from a selection of Ad formats that will enable you to do so. Each ad format has a fixed price no matter were you choose to advertise within the site and no matter what page rank a particular page has, so if you would like your advert to feature at the top of a high page rank page then you will need to grab that spot before someone else does as once it is taken it's gone. Find out more

If you are just looking for a standard reciprocal link we now also have a free easy to use Free Link Exchange.

If you would like to place one of the above link options on our site please note that we will only except subject related websites. We are not selling page rank. We only provide links and sell advertising to relevant subject related websites.

(To reiterate from 2008: We are totally committed to you the customer, and want you to use our services to promote your site. We are cheap, we are are fully hosted and paid up and we have no intentions to disappear overnight. 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 also decided to pursue other angles by producing tutorials of our own and have now started a section on How to make money online by using the space on your website to generate the income you need for your site to run itself. This section is based purely on the things that we have done to keep arts-crafts-hobbiesanddiy running itself and includes a step by step guide to making your website pay for itself. It is not a Get rich quick guide.

(2009) Our Promise.
We are now entering our third year and will continue to provide you the visitor with a reliable source of links and a cheaper alternative to advertise your site and products with our easy to use grid. You may notice while visiting our pages that we try to keep things simple. Bells and whistles may work for some sites but we prefer a more nuts and bolts approach. This is Arts-Crafts-HobbiesandDIY, this is what we do, We are totally committed to you the customer and want you to use our grid to promote your site. We are cheap, we are are fully hosted and paid up and we have no intentions to disappear overnight.
To advertise with us please visit http://www.arts-crafts-hobbiesanddiy.com/index.php and click the Buy Adverts button. If you are unsure how to place an Advert on our grid then first see our Pixels Tutorial, http://www.arts-crafts-hobbiesanddiy.com/HowToPlaceYourAdvert.htm

We wish you every success for 2009 and hope that you choose Arts-Crafts-HobbiesandDIY to advertise your site.

(2008) A New Start

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.

Jay.