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Vintage Rag Trader SEO Success
Thesis Theme For WordPress
Vintage Rag Trader is a website built on the WordPress platform using the The Thesis Theme for WordPress. I’m very grateful to the developers of both wonderful pieces of software for the simplicity of usage they offer and deliver. WordPress is very simple to upload and to use and the endless variety of widgets and plugins make it into an extremely powerful tool for virtually any purpose. The Thesis Theme for WordPress has given me design options I may have been able to find in other, free themes, but I am very glad I bought it. Thesis has very powerful SEO properties built in and I have moved Vintage Rag Trader from nowhere in the Alexa world rankings – which means around two hundred millionth (200,000,000th) in the world to under two millionth (2,000,000th) in just two months. We are now around 1,800,000th in the world, around 200,000th in the UK and climbing all the time. I am monetizing with VigLink link advertising, another brilliant WordPress one-click plugin that includes excelent stats.
In 1963 or 1964 a friend of my father’s, a physiologist working on the mathematical formula for transplanting organisms decided to build a computer and asked me if I would be interested. I was and I started going to his house, where he explained the principals of computing and showed me the mass of army surplus electronic equipment he had been hoarding and hoped to turn into a computer.
I suppose, if I’d stuck with it, I could have been one of the first to build a personal computer and gone on to be a PC millionaire, maybe even a Bill Gates, if my dad’s friend hadn’t also wanted to show me photos of naked men. Not dirty pictures – he showed me art – Roman art and paintings by the masters, but the subjects were always naked men. He never touched me, but his interest was clear and I was embarrassed. I decided to forget about building a computer and concentrate on swimming instead.
I never became a swimming champion or a computer geek and hardly touched a computer until I was in my thirties and bought my first green-screen Amstrad. Once I had one though, I never looked back and I’ve been looking for some way to make a living online ever since. Unfortunately I’ve never had the time to concentrate on the web, as I’ve always been busy with other things too. Then, three years ago, I fetched-up at the end of the world – and now I have loads of time.
I like the Internet and I have been using it for a long time, but I’ve never learned any HTML, CSS or any other language that would help me to build websites that anyone would want to visit regularly. But I did have a large collection of vintage and retro fabrics, vintage document swatches, accessories and vintage photography. I knew that, if I could get them online, I could probably sell them. For several years I had been selling the vintage textiles through a couple of agents in the USA. Last year one of them went out of business and I think I’ve probably lost the several thousand documents I gave them to sell on my behalf.
I wanted to be able to put documents online and control the sales myself, interact with my customers and the world of vintage and retro too. Vintage Rag Trader is getting there, old customers are visiting and new visitors are making enquiries. A few sales have been made and I hope there will be many more.
As you may have read, in an earlier post, I deleted Vintage Rag Trader a couple of days ago and I really thought I would have to rebuild it from scratch. The tech guys at Uk2.net seemed to think it was lost too. But, somehow they saved it. It was a salutary lesson and I hope I can avoid doing anything quite so stupid in the future.
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