Archive for the 'Northernhorse Tips' Category

New “Featured Ads”

We have had repeated requests for ad space on the front of Northernhorse.com and we have decided to give it a try. We are limiting the ads to 5 at a time as we see on the comments on the April Draw that we still have a lot of regular visitors who use a dial-up connection. This reminds me of a good tip for website owners: You should look at your website on dial-up once in awhile just to make sure you aren’t eliminating a big percentage of your potential clients by making it too slow. Continue Reading »

Help Me Sell My Horse

Northernhorse.com news and marketing tips

Today as I was working on the beach… what’s that you say? Sitting on a bench looking out to sea can’t be work?… I decided that when I get home I am going to dig the 3 geldings I want to sell out of the herd and use them as models to post a series on marketing horses on the Northernhorse.com Classifieds. Continue Reading »

Find your password hard to remember?

Our latest project to make using Northernhorse.com even more convenient for our clients is to modify the admin area on the Northernhorse Classifieds so you can change your password to something easier for you to remember than the one it picked for you when you signed up. Continue Reading »

Are you ready to sell faster on the Northernhorse.com Classifieds?

The Northernhorse.com Classifieds can be a sure-fire way to sell horses and other items like trailers, tack, etc… Many of our users have been asking us for a way to feature their classified listings on the front page whenever they wish so they can sell their items faster, and we’ve listened.

Today, we are happy to announce ‘Featured Listings’ for the Northernhorse.com Classifieds. Subscribing to a featured listing will make your listing visible on the front page of the classifieds, giving you maximum exposure to potential buyers. But that’s not all… Your listing will also appear on all main category pages of the classifieds, including search result pages!

Getting your own featured listing is easy! If you have a classified listing already, just log-in to the classifieds and choose to subscribe to a featured listing. If you don’t have a classified listing with us yet, why not register today and post one?

Visit the Northernhorse.com Classifieds

Northernhorse Classifieds Tip

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The Northernhorse.com Classifieds allows sellers to change almost all of the information on their ads at any time. They can even change the photos.

TIP: When someone wants to see a “different view” or “another angle” of your horse, go ahead, zip out to the pen with your camera, get that different view, and post it to the ad in place of the old photo. Continue Reading »

Horse Haulers

istock_000004009711xsmall.jpgPerhaps the reason there are no horse haulers using the Northernhorse.com Classifieds is that they are all so busy they just don’t think they can take on any more work. It can’t be the $30/with a photo that the ad would cost to run for 3 months, renewable at 1/2 price after that. I suppose that explains why no haulers have their website linked on the front of Northernhorse.com either.

Too bad, because we are getting quite a few people emailing & calling us asking about horse haulers and we don’t have a single outfit to recommend for them. There are a lot of horses selling. If you are a horse hauler who is looking for more business you might want to give either our classifieds or a link on Northernhorse.com a try.

Classifieds upgrades now live!

We are continually improving our Northernhorse.com Classifieds to make them a better experience for all of you. This past week has been particularly exciting with a few changes that will change your life… ok well maybe not quite THAT exciting, but they are pretty darn cool.

Here is an overview of what we changed and added:

  1. A better Login system.
  2. Search page improvements to save you time.
  3. New listing summary on the home page.

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Using page content to increase search engine ranking

Trying to achieve a higher search engine rank with your website?

Heres a tip - Search engines love relevant content. This means filling your website up as much as reasonably possible with words, links, news and other items that are directly related to your ranch or business — and update your website often!

Always think of what someone could use as search criteria when looking for something you feature on your website. If you are listing horses on your site, word your horse write ups so that they contain words that someone might use to find that particular kind of horse using a search engine. Continue Reading »

Got a horse for sale?

We are receiving a lot of kudos on how well the classifieds are working.

Just wanted to drop you a note that the horse I listed was sold within hours of it coming on the website.  I also had numerous inquires regarding him and could have sold him several times over.  Thanks for providing a great website to market horses.
Tammy Burns

How are horses selling?

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By the comments we are getting from our Classified clients, horses must be selling as well as they ever have. It isn’t unusual to have over 600 visitors to a classified in the first day.

And, even more important, lots of these visitors seem to be buyers. So if you have a horse standing around, eating hay, who could be better off in someone else’s program, get him cleaned up, take a nice photo and get him on the Northernhorse.com classifieds. I know there are people looking for good mounts for various disciplines. He may be just what someone is looking for.

As a matter of fact “what’s selling” isn’t limited to horses. Most everything on the classifieds seems to be getting a lot of interest lately.

It is is really a lot of fun helping Canadian horse people market their horses on the web. We have a number of excellent breeders and knowledgeable horse people many of whom learned about horses from their parents who learned about horses from their parents who farmed the land with horses not all that long ago. My mother worked in the field with horses and my husband’s family had a chore horse for much of his youth.

Work Horses

One of the things we find fun is to get emails like the following:

Thanks! Just wanted to say thanks, because I sold both the horses I had listed this past weekend.

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