Driving Traffic to My Online Coin Store

I'm sure! And I thank you for suggesting them, and at the risk of sounding redundant, I asked probably should of knowing better. Hopefully, traffic can be solved by me searching some of those past threads, but signing up forum members is my real challenge. Maybe I can get help with that here! Thanks

What about facebook traffic? Maybe start a Coin collectors group or something like that. Are there any forums in that niche market?

Yeah just so you know, I shoulda said this but, I am still working on the site right now as we speak. but let me read the rest of this, seems good. thanks

Thanks for the suggestions, I edited the site with a few in mind. Instead of the articles page, I started the landing page as my store page. What do you think? It gets the customer straight to where they want to go.

Thanks, i initiated most of those tips, the logos coming soon. Rare Coins is our keyword. I just updated it. See if that looks better.

Actually I Just did one on its way for upload as I type..
There are a few educational videos up on our youtube now.

Hey Randall, first off, I would like to thank you for taking the time out to help me in this challenging but fun process! I agree with the frugal approach much like you do. Free marketing does work, and if we can spend as less as we can on making the most efficient use of our time and resources come from spending so little, than we hit a home run! Right now, as for marketing, we have two guys doing SEO out in the other side of the world. They work hard, they are considered "Cheap" SEO, though, however, they have brought us real results. Search engine ranking placement is up in Google, Bing, and Yahoo, and new users are discovering us by our keywords more than ever.

The other marketing avenue is ad running. We plan on marketing with the PCGS Coin forum (the largest coin certification company in the business) and for $300 a month (6 month contract), I personally think it's a heck of a value since that's where the money's at. All the high end big time collectors go there to talk like it's an old fraternity.

So I think that kind of ties into your last question, the answer being, yes. Paid advertising is a viable way to go. This is one of many businesses I run , but this one in particular (coins) for me being only 27, has turned out to be a cash cow, so I stick to what I'm good at. I see so many new ways of marketing, facebook apps, affiliate marketing, new website concepts & startups (My buddy is the owner and operator of Bored.com) and I always joke that if he can do it (2 years younger than me) and so many young entrepreneurs are making over six figures a year out in California, that there always new ways out there still to make money.. but right now, for me personally, I am sticking to what I'm real good at and that is coins so we'll see in the coming months how this paid advertising works out.

Hi, no I haven't asked that and that sounds like a pretty profound concept. Would I target businesses that deal in coins only? Or expand a little and go with Pawn shops, jewelry stores, and the like and see if they have websites willing to link back to us? (Just to satisfy my curiosity, what is the benefit of doing link backs these days? Better search engine placement?)

To answer your second point, you'd be surprised at how many young folks are getting into coins and spending up for some too! But overall, you're right, most old folks are still doing it more so. The problem I see with Yellow pages is a "nickel and dimer" type mentality coming from it. A lot of older people who use that resource still seem to not have a lot of money at their disposal to purchase some of the coins we sell, and they may even balk at our prices more times than not, not because we overcharge, but because we sell unique one a kind quality that is very hard to replicate. I think in this day and age with the internet and social media, online is the way to go with the unique type of coins we sell.

As for your suggestion on facebook marketing, I tried facebook marketing once and maybe it was how I set up the advertisement but it turned out to be a net loser for us. We hardly got any new viewers out of it and I'd imagine there are not a whole ton of coin collectors on facebook. We started a group over a year ago and only has around 20 likes. Nothing spectacular, but I found it hard to market on facebook, per se.