Plumdrop is touted as a place to meet up, chat, and socialize with other sellers.
Some of the things I like best about Plumdrop:
- You can list all of your online selling venues on it
- It provides a blog with dofollow links
- You can give people extra information about you, your enterprise, and the things you sell
- You can join a variety of groups and meet like-minded sellers
For the purposes of driving traffic to your store traffic site, Plumdrop gives you an extra platform to notify people about the various things you sell…while allowing you to create backlinks to your own site however you want.
Creating a Plumdrop account
- Go to Plumdrop.com
- Select "Sign up in under 5 minutes"
- This will take you to the signup page
- Fill out the signup form:
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- Your email address
- verify your email
- A password
- Verify your password
- A nickname (to display publicly
- Your zip code (to find people locally)
- Business title (the name of your enterprise)
- Descrption (yeah, it’s spelled wrong)
- Business Tags
- The best category for what you offer
- A photo ( if you want, can change it later )
- Agree to the terms of service
- Choose to signup to the newsletter or not
- Select "Complete Signup"
- Confirm your account creation
Once you have your account created, I’d recommend taking a look around and then doing some initial profile setup.
Plumdrop Profile Setup
When logged in, select "My Account" to see a variety of available options. The below are those I recommend filling in to start with:
- "My Profile"
- You filled this in when you created your account.
- Used to update your store title, store description, store tags, main store category, and profile picture.
- "My Groups"
- I recommend joining groups for both your selling venue and the types of products you sell
- You can leave posts in groups
- "My Deals"
- If you setup any coupons for your store, you can use My Deals to add coupons for fellow Plumdrop users
- "My Venues"
- Add your online stores here with names, titles, and urls.
Adding a blog entry to your Plumdrop Page
Once you have things setup, I recommend creating at least one blog entry with information about your store traffic site and/or online store.
- Log into Plumdrop, if you are not logged in
- Select "My Plumdrop Page"
- This will display your plumdrop page
- Select "View Blog" from the right menu
- This will display your Plumdrop blog
- Select "Post new blog entry" from the left side
- This will open the blog entry creation page
- Create your blog entry
- This is like creating a new post in wordpress.
- Enter a title for your blog entry
- Enter the contents of your post (in design or html view).
- I recommend an introduction, a link to your store traffic site, and a link to your online store for your first post.
- Be sure to create good backlinks! Use keywords as links!
- Note whether or not you want to allow comments
- Select "Post New Blog Entry!"
- Your entry will be posted.
- You now have another quality backlink using your search keywords
Putting Plumdrop to Use
Going forward, I recommend at least creating occasional posts to your Plumdrop blog, especially when you create new product showcases, new category showcases, or new special offers.
Remember to avoid circular links and to create quality backlinks!
My Plumdrop Page
You can find me on Plumdrop under LibertyUnchained.