About More Craft Ideas

More Craft Ideas indexes original craft ideas and tutorials published on a selection of crafts blogs. Recipes are classified by tags corresponding to names of ingredients and dishes, origins of craft ideas and tutorials, types of cuisine etc.

A site designed for its users

Compared to many blog posts agregators, More Craft Ideas has been design first and foremost for its users. Our goal is to enable users to easily find craft ideas and tutorials and to discover new craft ideas and tutorials, with a simple navigation and nice looking pictures of dishes.

All craft ideas and tutorials are just one click away. Food lovers can directly access the original and complete craft idea or tutorial on its author's blog, with the full instructions, all the images and comments. There are no intermediate pages with copies of the craft ideas and tutorials.

A site that highlights culinary bloggers

There's nothing as bland as a huge database of craft ideas and tutorials without soul and personality: it's missing salt and spices! On More Craft Ideas, all the listed craft ideas and tutorials are original craft ideas and tutorials imagined and cooked by passionate bloggers, photographed like top models, written with passion and humor, and proudly shared online. A craft blog is made from a lot of love of cooking, but it also requires a lot of work!

The idea behing More Craft Ideas is simple: attract a large number of readers through search engines, make them come back with a useful and easy-to-use site that puts the spotlight on crafts blogs, and distribute as quickly as possible the biggest number of visitors to blogs.

It sounds simple, and indeed it is simple! Here are some points that make all the difference:

Images, images and images!

Why spend so much time and effort to take beautiful pictures if craft ideas and tutorials are indexed without a picture, or with a tiny thumbnail half the size of a postage stamp? On creative blogs such as crafts blogs, pictures are hugely important. More Craft Ideas only indexes craft ideas and tutorials with pitures, and images are big enough to show the berries on your pies! Users who like to choose with their eyes can even choose to see even larger images.

Direct links to your craft ideas and tutorials on your blog

Some craft ideas and tutorials site make it very annoying to users to get to the original craft idea or tutorial on the blog of its author, requiring 3 or 4 clicks on non-obvious links. On More Craft Ideas, all the craft ideas and tutorials titles and pictures are direct links to the craft ideas and tutorials on your blog. There are no intermediate pages, no copies of your content, and no redirection scripts and links.

This has several effects:

• More visitors come to your site. There is no risk that they lose their way, it's straight and without stops!
• Your craft idea or tutorial content is not copied. Many agregators create a new page on their site for everyone of your posts, with a full or truncated copy of your craft idea or tutorial. This duplicated content is bad for search engine ranking, and sometime the copy ranks higher than the original!
• You craft ideas and tutorials are better ranked on search engines thanks to the direct links ("hard links" as SEO experts say). Most agregators use redirected links that are less valued by search engines.

Visitors that come back to your blog

When a reader clicks a link on your blog going to More Craft Ideas, he or she will automatically go to your craft idea or tutorial page. The reader can thus easily discover your other craft ideas and tutorials and come back on your blog.

Do you have comments, questions or suggestions?

Whether you are a reader, a blogger, or both, please send me your comments and suggestions by e-mail: stephane@morecraftideas.com