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Friday, March 31, 2017

Hibu Website Review - Is It Really Worth The Money?

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Hibu Website Review - Is It Really Worth The Money? daily-golden-nugget-1550-19
It seems like once every year I come across another website using the Hibu service. Their corporate website says they are a leading provider of digital marketing to local businesses across the US, UK, and Spain. They say that they provide one-on-one service to unify digital marketing, website development, and SEO.

It all sounds good to the small business owner who is looking for an all-in-one online solution and doesn't have the time to learn or the money to hire the right people to do it. Hibu has...
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AT: 03/31/2017 12:31:54 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, March 24, 2017

Gold Wolff Jewelers Website Review

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Gold Wolff Jewelers Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1549-82
In this week's website review, I'll show you an example of how Google reads words on your website and how you can see those words for yourself. I'll also show you why you should host your blog within your own website instead of using an outside service, I'll even show you screen shots of how Google views a website when the blog is hosted outside.

It all starts with a Google search for "jewelers flagstaff az." According to these results, there are not many jewelers n Flagstaff:

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AT: 03/24/2017 12:49:22 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, March 10, 2017

Comparison Of Two Bozeman, Montana Jewelers

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Comparison Of Two Bozeman, Montana Jewelers daily-golden-nugget-1547-21
In last week's Golden Nugget, I presented some interesting information showing the comparison of web page visible content to the hidden HTML code in the background. From that post, you could conclude that your website goal should be to fine tune your code to prevent too much hidden code, a problem that is known as "code bloat."

I'm digging a little deeper into this topic again today because of the emails, phone calls, a...
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AT: 03/10/2017 12:59:13 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, March 03, 2017

Bloated Websites vs. Simple Websites

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I'm taking a different approach in this week's website review. Normally, I look for poorly ranked websites and try to find reasons why they are not ranking well. When I started my search this week, I found a bunch of mediocre websites that were outranked by Yelp and YellowPages. All of the websites needed improvement. Oddly enough, the site I thought needed the most improvement, was outranking all of the others.

Today, I'll explore why that might be happening. First, I searched for "jewelers Healdsburg CA" and saw these resul...
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AT: 03/03/2017 01:01:57 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, February 24, 2017

TamRon Jewelry Design Technical Website Review

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TamRon Jewelry Design Technical Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1545-20
For this week's website review, I went searching for "jewelers spokane wa" and had some trouble deciding on which site to review. There are several jewelers in Spokane to choose from with a wide range of websites from very old looking to very modern. The goal of this website review is to give ideas of how to improve a site and increase its ranking or improve its customer usability.

Pounder's Jewelry was the first website I found that could use improvement. The website address was VIEW FULL GOLD NUGGET


AT: 02/24/2017 12:29:10 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, February 17, 2017

Shockey Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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This is the Friday Flop Fix website review. The goal of this review is to examine the mistakes a random website is making and suggest ways to fix it. I do my best every week to take on the role of a typical internet savvy consumer as I search for a review candidate. I also use the Google Chrome browser set to incognito mode so my previous browsing history does not influence the search results I see.

For today's search, I used the phrase "jewelry stores Elgin, IL" and saw these results:

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AT: 02/17/2017 09:59:01 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, February 10, 2017

A Review Of Online Reviews

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Online referrals are starting to make an impact on local businesses, but not in the way we all expected them to. A few years ago, the buzz within the online marketing community was that social networks would become a referral engine for people to ask advice through. Facebook even attempted to create a new type of social search engine to capture that referral service. Google also struggled with the idea that the internet would become a big referral engine, and they tried to capture a piece of it through Google+.

While Facebook and Google were comp...
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AT: 02/10/2017 12:26:28 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, February 03, 2017

McGuire's Jewelers Website Review

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In honor of the jewelry shows in Tucson, Arizona this week, I decided to search for a website review candidate in that area. I began my search with the phrase "jewelry stores tucson az" and saw these results on Google:

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The goal of these weekly reviews is to poi...
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AT: 02/03/2017 12:17:51 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, January 27, 2017

Mike's Custom Jewelry #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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Mikes Custom Jewelry FridayFlopFix Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1541-10
This is the #FridayFlopFix website review. The goal of this review is to learn from someone else's mistake by randomly choosing and dissecting a website that has problems, and explain potential fixes. Hopefully there is something we can all learn from.

Websites with mistakes usually don't rank very high in Google, so when I search for review candidates I usually look lower in the SERPs, and even deep within the forbidden-nowhere-zone on Google... Page 2.

This week, I started my search with the phr...
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AT: 01/27/2017 02:06:12 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, January 20, 2017

Cass Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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For this week's website review, I began my search for a "jewelry store High Point, NC" and got these results from Google:

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I've circled the map in the above screen shot to point out that there wer...
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AT: 01/20/2017 01:24:05 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, January 13, 2017

Bruce G. Weber #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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One of the marketing testing methods I use is to put myself out in the real world, away from my desk, to observe what an ad will look like when encountered out in the wild. Although I do test my digital marketing ads on different devices and browsers when sitting at my desk, it's difficult to get into the same headspace that a consumer would be in then viewing an ad or a website. This is my own interpretation of the proverbial "walk a mile in their shoes."

This is why I like writing my website reviews when I'm trave...
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AT: 01/13/2017 07:52:48 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, January 06, 2017

SERP Review for Sandy Springs, GA

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Time and time again, jewelers tell me they want to come up first in Google search for phrases like "engagement rings" or anything related to bridal jewelry. Those are tough keyword phrases to compete for since large ecommerce jewelry website spend a lot of time, money, and optimization efforts to maintain top ranking. Independent jewelers have a better chance competing in their local markets using the popular phrases that people search for.

Popular local phrases include the words jeweler, jewelry, or jewelry store, followed by either ...
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AT: 01/06/2017 08:20:53 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, December 30, 2016

Why Do So Many Bite Off More Than They Can Chew?

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We each have our own set of specializations and talents. Someone in your family is probably better at cooking than all the others, while someone else is a better writer, carpenter, or a musician. The world would be a very boring place if we all had the same level of skill and proficiency in everything.

The Entrepreneurial Journey


At some point, you probably got the idea that you could make your favorite baubles or provide a service better than others you'd seen, and so you launched a business o...
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AT: 12/30/2016 10:46:07 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, December 23, 2016

Portland Oregon Search Results Review

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Happy Holidays! There are only a few hours left in the 2016 holiday shopping season as I write this. Those still doing their last minute shopping are probably thinking a little outside the normal box in order to find something good for their loved ones.

For this week's website review, I will work through a search scenario in hope to illustrate how your customers use the internet and why it's so important for you to build out your online identity much further than you might imagine. For many businesses, this is the make-or-brea...
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AT: 12/23/2016 10:31:56 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, December 16, 2016

June Birthstone Jewelry Gift SERP and Website Review

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June Birthstone Jewelry Gift SERP and Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1535-80
Has the search ranking on your website plateaued or declined over the last 12 months? It might be because you've fallen behind with adding new content and products to your website. Content is any type of written description, story, PDF document, photo, and even a video. The more you add the better your chances are to help increase your organic search results, which can lead to more traffic.

The depth of the content you have on your website doesn't just help with overall ranking, it becomes really ...
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AT: 12/16/2016 12:05:53 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, December 09, 2016

The Jewelry Source Website Review

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Record breaking ecommerce sales have been in the news this week; in fact, online sales have been higher this year than ever before. One of the headlines from comScore this week was "Eleven Consecutive Billion-Dollar Days of Online Desktop Spending from Thanksgiving through Cyber Week Mark the Longest Streak Ever". It's importan...
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AT: 12/09/2016 12:11:51 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, December 02, 2016

JR Fox Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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JR Fox Jewelers FridayFlopFix Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1533-84
In this issue of the Golden Nugget, I'm on the lookout for a jewelry website that isn't correctly suited to help customers this holiday season. I'll document my first thoughts as I look at the website. The hope is that I can uncover problems and explain solutions so you can learn from the mistakes of others.

In the spirit of the holiday season, I'd like to look for some jewelry gift ideas, perhaps something I could buy locally. For this week I'm pretending to be in South Bend, Indiana, so I searched for "jewelry ...
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AT: 12/02/2016 01:06:43 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, November 25, 2016

Amidon Jewelers Black Friday Email & Website Review

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Amidon Jewelers Black Friday Email & Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1532-98
Over the last 6 years, I've subscribed to more jewelry email lists than I can remember. Whenever I do a website review, I look for the newsletter signup and add myself to their list. Most of the time, I never hear from those retail jewelers because they don't follow through with their email list.

Amidon Jewelers, in New Hampshire, is one of the few independent retail jewelers that I know that has consistently sent me emails since I signed up to their list way back in 2012. Years ago, they were sendi...
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AT: 11/25/2016 12:53:57 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, November 18, 2016

Franzetti Jewelers Website Re-Review

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Franzetti Jewelers Website Re-Review daily-golden-nugget-1531-88
In this week's website review, I'm going back to re-review the first website I ever wrote about way back in April 2013. At the time, I chose Franzetti Jewelers with the website http://www.franzettijewelers.com/. You can read the old review from April 19, 2013 here.

My review process was pretty unsophisticated 3.5 years ago. It took a while for me to realize that I should be ...
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AT: 11/18/2016 01:00:33 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, November 11, 2016

Avalon Park Jewelers Website Re-Review

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For this week's website review, I'm revisiting a jeweler in Orlando that I reviewed in July 2014. Back then, I was searching for jewelers near the town of Christmas, in Orange County, Florida. According to my previous review here I had to use Google Maps to locate a nearby jeweler when searching for the phrase "jewelers in Christmas, Orange, Florida." Google certainly has made some advancement in their Google Local systems since then, ...
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AT: 11/11/2016 10:59:27 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, November 04, 2016

Tharoo and Co Website Re-Review

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Since April 2013, I've reviewed 190 different websites and made a countless number of suggestions for updating each one. Today, and for the next few weeks, I'm going to revisit a few of those old websites to see what's new and if they've made progress.

If they have made progress, it's not because I told them what to do. The disclaimer at the bottom of all my reviews says that I don't write these to solicit business, and the only way they will find out about the review is if they search for their name online. Fewer than 5 in 190 have ever ...
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AT: 11/04/2016 11:38:16 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, October 28, 2016

Weiss Jewelers Website Review

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In this edition of the Golden Nugget, I've written a quick review of a retail jeweler's website to show you how a website might backfire on you without regular updates or simply looking at it.

I found Weiss Jewelers when searching Google for "jewelers Greeley, CO." Their website is:
http://www.weissjewelers.com/

First Impressions


This is what the home page looked like when I visited:

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AT: 10/28/2016 06:13:08 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, October 21, 2016

Matthew's Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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Welcome to this week's edition of the #FridayFlopFix website review. This week's destination is Plantation, FL, which is right next to the Everglades wildlife area in Florida. Here are the Google results when I searched for "jewelers in plantation florida:"

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AT: 10/21/2016 01:20:11 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, October 14, 2016

Jeweler's Choice #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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In honor of the jewelry shows taking place in Miami this weekend, I've chosen a Miami Beach jeweler for this week's website review. It all started with a Google search for "jewelers miami beach, fl" and these search results:

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AT: 10/14/2016 12:16:48 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, September 30, 2016

How Jewelers in Jurupa Valley, CA Compete

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How Jewelers in Jurupa Valley, CA Compete daily-golden-nugget-1524-48
My website reviews every week usually start with the random selection of a town, but this week, I didn't find any jewelers when I selected Jurupa Valley, California. If there are jewelers in Jurupa Valley, then they probably don't have a website or a large enough digital footprint for Google to find them.

With the lack of any real local results, Google returned store listings from surrounding towns and a bunch of directory sites, like Yelp. Here's what Google gave me:

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AT: 09/30/2016 11:46:58 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, September 23, 2016

Garland Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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Garland Jewelers FridayFlopFix Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1523-71
This is the Friday website review where I randomly choose a retail jeweler and scrutinize their website for problems. I look for design mistakes, SEO mistakes, functionality mistakes, content mistakes, and even marketing mistakes.

This week I searched for "jewelers Renton, WA" to find a review candidate. Here are the results I saw in Google:

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AT: 09/23/2016 12:12:17 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, September 09, 2016

Abraxas Jewelers Needs A Lot Of Online Help

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The internet of things (IoT) now connects so much of daily life it's hard to remember what things were like 23 years ago when it was just in its infancy. New internet connected devices are announced every day that will undoubtedly shape our futures of personal life and how we reach customers and conduct business. Although there are plenty of new tech toys announced every week, it's the smartphone which has changed how we manage our daily lives.

With all these changes happening in the world around us, it's hard to im...
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AT: 09/09/2016 12:13:39 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, September 02, 2016

Van Atkins Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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Van Atkins Jewelers FridayFlopFix Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1520-30
Can you learn from someone else's mistakes? That's exactly what I hope you'll get out of this Friday Flop Fix. This week, I'm venturing over to Tupelo, MS in search of a retail jeweler that might be making a mistake with their online presence.

This is the result I saw when searching for "jewelers tupelo ms" in Google:

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AT: 09/02/2016 06:56:26 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, August 26, 2016

Jerry Land Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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Jerry Land Jewelers FridayFlopFix Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1519-43
What's good and what's bad? What works and what doesn't work? This is what I try to reveal every Friday as I work through my Flop Fix website reviews. I always start them with a Google search in a random town around the U.S. in search of an independent retail jeweler that could use a little help while also allowing me to publically explain what can be learned from their mistakes.

This week, I began my search for "jewelers Honesdale, PA" and saw these results:

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AT: 08/26/2016 06:56:29 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, August 05, 2016

Pugh's Diamond Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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It's time for the weekly case study of a website that's pretty old and in desperate need of a makeover. I call these weekly posts my Friday Flop Fix review. During these reviews, I look for websites that are implementing search engine optimization strategies poorly, or have poor website designs and I suggest ways to make them better.

This week, I searched Google for the phrase "jewelers Zanesville, OH" and was shown these results:

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AT: 08/05/2016 09:32:04 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, July 29, 2016

J. Schrecker Jewelry #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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Welcome to my weekly Flop Fix website review. I dedicate my Friday Golden Nugget posts to reviews of randomly chosen jewelry websites. The review candidates are randomly chosen through a Google Chrome incognito search for jewelers.

This week, I searched Google for "jewelers Christian County, KY" and was given these results:

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AT: 07/29/2016 03:20:10 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, July 15, 2016

Marco Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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In this edition of my weekly website review, I searched for "jewelers Stamford, CT" and Google suggested these results:

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I decided to jump right past all the top listings on that page and went down to the eighth,...
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AT: 07/15/2016 06:32:14 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, July 08, 2016

Happy Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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Welcome to my weekly website review. Every Friday, I randomly look for a jewelry store website that has a few problems, that I call flops, and then I suggest ways to fix them. These short website reviews are not meant for the store itself but rather you, the reader. My hope is that you will discover something here that you also need to fix on your own site.

This week I used the phrase "jewelers Newport, RI" to search for my review candidate. Instead of choosing a jewelry store from the first page of the Google res...
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AT: 07/08/2016 11:03:44 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, July 01, 2016

J Mason Custom Jeweler #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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Every Friday, I venture out into the unknown to find a website that needs some help; I call them flops that could use some fixing. My hope is that you, the reader, will be able to learn a thing or two from someone else's mistakes, so that's what I look for.

This week I searched Google for the phrase "jewelers in Chapel Hill NC," and got these results:

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AT: 07/01/2016 10:56:28 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, June 24, 2016

Kaplans Fine Jewelry and Troubling Responsive Designs #FridayFlopFix

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Last week, I went shopping for a water proof iPhone case; something that would be good enough to protect the phone while canoeing on a river. After a bit of searching at the local mall, I found a potentially good case made by THULE. Due to its price, the THULE Atmos X5 case was locked in one of those anti-theft store packages that covered most of the important details. Before buying it, I needed to make sure it was really waterproof rather than just splashproof, and to what dep...
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AT: 06/24/2016 07:56:31 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, June 17, 2016

Hancock Jewelers#FridayFlopFix Website Review

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Reading the latest website optimization and marketing methods online, and putting them into practice on your own website is a daunting task for most business owners. Many question their own actions and simply don't know where to start. For this reason, every Friday I present these mini case study website reviews. My goal is to find a website that has a few obvious (to me) problems, or flops, and then I suggest first steps fixes to get them on the right track again.

Learning from mistakes, yours or some else's, i...
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AT: 06/17/2016 11:31:28 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, June 10, 2016

Murphy's Mountain Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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Murphys Mountain Jewelers FridayFlopFix Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1508-9
In this week's website review, I'm heading over to Laramie, WY in search of a good jewelry store. My hope, like most savvy internet users today, is that I'll find a good jeweler based on the information they have on their website. If the website I find happens to be a total flop, well, then I'll give some suggestions to fix it.

I write these website reviews every Friday to demonstrate how to apply new SEO techniques, online usability, and content building to pre-existing websites that need help. ...
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AT: 06/10/2016 11:15:22 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, June 03, 2016

Precious Metalsmith #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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This is my weekly #FlopFix website review. Each week, I find a random retail jeweler's website and suggest fixes that could make it better. I never know what I'll find when I start these reviews and I do my best to document my first impressions as I look at the site.

This week I'm venturing to Olympia, WA where I'll search Google for "jewelry stores in olympia wa." Here's a screen grab of the returned SERP:

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AT: 06/03/2016 11:31:36 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, May 27, 2016

Island Butterfly Jewelry and Jubilee #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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Welcome to my weekly random website review. In these reviews, I search for website candidates that have problems (aka flops) with their website, and I suggest fixes to make them better. This week, I'm taking a drive down to Accomack County, Virginia in search for a jewelry store. Accomack is near the famous Route 13 Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel that I once had the pleasure, and slight fright, to drive over. There are fewer bus...
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AT: 05/27/2016 06:26:33 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, May 20, 2016

Jewelers in Orange CA - #FridayFlopFix Website Reviews

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Searching for a website candidate for this week's Friday Flop Fix was a little challenging. I began my search, as usual, looking for a random website candidate in a random city in the United States. My randomly chosen city this week was Orange, CA. My specific Google search phrase was "jewelers Orange, CA" for which I was given the search results you see below.

I've included my commentary in the screen capture:

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AT: 05/20/2016 12:30:22 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, May 13, 2016

Walter's Jewelry #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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This is my weekly website review where I search for a retail jeweler at random through Google and pick apart what they are doing online. I try to uncover the flops that are being made so I can suggest the fixes needed to improve what they are doing.

This week, I started my Google search with the phrase "jewelers Brookline, MA" and quickly found myself heading down a rabbit hole after viewing these results:

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AT: 05/13/2016 12:30:51 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, May 06, 2016

Orca Jewels #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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Every week, I review the website of a randomly chosen retail jeweler. This week, I searched for "jewelers Ketchikan, AK" to find a review candidate. This type of search always triggers Google local results format, which includes the top three business listings for that area. Google understands that people are usually looking for local businesses whenever a keyword is included along with a town name in a search query. Google then shows results formatted like this:

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AT: 05/06/2016 02:15:56 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, April 29, 2016

Trimarco Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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Maintain Your Momentum No Matter Where You Are


Your customers and online followers will eventually become familiar with the routine and presentation of your content. Your content, and how you post it online, eventually becomes part of your brand's positioning, which is why planning ahead is so helpful for building that brand identity. The routine is just as important as the visual look because eventually your followers, whether paying customers or just readers, will expect things from you.

In my ca...
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AT: 04/29/2016 09:18:18 AM   0 COMMENTS
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Hellberg's Jewelers Website Review

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Every week, usually on Friday, I write a website review. This week, I'm publishing my review a couple days early because I have something special planned for Friday. The goal of my website reviews is to dissect the online efforts for a random local retail jeweler. I don't bother reviewing the websites for chain stores because I want to illustrate how a local jeweler can improve a similar site like their own.

I find my website candidates by searching Google using the Chrome browser set to incognito mode. Incognito mode is good to use whe...
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Friday, April 15, 2016

Kama'aina Diamond Co. #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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In this week's #FridayFlopFix website review, I'm heading over to Hawai'i in search for a jeweler who could use some website help. Every Friday, I search for a website that's not quite doing the best they could. I want to point out the flops on their website, and suggest some fixes.

I started my review candidate search with the query "jewelers waimea hi." Waimea is a town on the Big Island of Hawai'i. Instead of choosing from the websites that appeared on the first page of Google's results, I looked throu...
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Friday, April 08, 2016

The Gold Market Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Review

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This is the #FridayFlopFix website review where I take a critical look at a jeweler's website to find important mistakes and suggests ways to fix them. To kick off this week, I'm searching the "jewelry stores Longmont, CO" in Google. Here's a snapshot of the returned Google local listings:

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Friday, April 01, 2016

Stonecraft Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Review

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This is the #FridayFlopFix edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Each week, I find a random retail jewelry stores and review their website in hopes that we'll be able to learn something from the process. I call this a "Flop Fix" because I specifically look for websites that are making mistakes, i.e. flops, so I can suggest fixes.

Here's the search results I saw this week when I searched Google for "jewelry stores Elko, NV":

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AT: 04/01/2016 12:38:36 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, March 25, 2016

Fisher Jewelers & Silversmiths #FridayFlopFix Review

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Fisher Jewelers & Silversmiths FridayFlopFix Review daily-golden-nugget-1480-74
This is the #FridayFlopFix edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Each week, I look for candidate websites that are not ranking very well in Google search results and dissect them to figure out why they are ranking poorly.

This week, I searched for "jewelry stores Florence, SC" to find that poorly ranked site. I found an interesting situation with the store Fisher Jewelers & Silversmiths that I'll investigate today. I first noticed the AGS listing for the store shown here:

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AT: 03/25/2016 11:30:56 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, March 18, 2016

HUR Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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This is the #FridayFlopFix website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Every week, I scrutinize the website of a random retail jeweler and make recommendations for how to improve the site. I seek out bad websites for these unsolicited reviews so you, the reader, can learn how to identify and improve upon your own websites.

I'm changing up my approach this week. Normally I choose a review candidate from the first few that appear in the Google search results; this week I'm digging into the second page of the searc...
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AT: 03/18/2016 12:50:11 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, March 11, 2016

Diamonds Fine Jewelry #FridayFlopFix Review

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It's time for the #FridayFlopFix where I review a random website from a local retail jeweler. The goal is to find some obvious mistakes, or flops, and suggest ways to improve upon, or fix, things.

This week, I'm looking for a candidate jeweler in Meridian, Idaho. This is the Google search results page I saw when looking for "jewelers Meridian, ID":

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Friday, March 04, 2016

Imagine Jewelry Studio Website Disaster

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Imagine Jewelry Studio Website Disaster daily-golden-nugget-1465-92
Welcome to a very special #FridayFlopFix website evaluation. I call these weekly posts the "Flop Fix" because I specifically look for website problems, i.e. flops, for which I can offer improvement ideas, i.e. fixes, that everyone can learn from.

Well, this week is a doozy. I have been TRYING to publish this review every week since I ORIGINALLY wrote it back on December 16, 2015! Today is March 3, 2016; that's 11 weeks ago. There's a story behind this that should make you all cringe. Forewarning, I'm about to reveal some...
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Friday, February 26, 2016

Pruett's Jewelry #FridayFlopFix Review

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Pruetts Jewelry FridayFlopFix Review daily-golden-nugget-1460-81Don't want to read? This week you can also watch the video recording of this review here!

Welcome to the weekly #FridayFlopFix website review. Every Friday, I search a random town for an older website that needs help improving, and I suggest fixes for their flops.

This week, I searched Google for "jewelers Odessa, TX" and saw these results:

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Friday, February 19, 2016

Tallmon's Jewelry #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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Tallmons Jewelry FridayFlopFix Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1455-71Don't want to read? This week you can also watch the video recording of this review here!

This is the weekly #FridayFlopFix edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Every Friday, I search for a really bad website in a random town, and provide ideas for how to fix all of its flops.

This week when I searched Google for "jewelers Scottsbluff, NE" I saw these results:

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AT: 02/19/2016 08:48:32 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, February 12, 2016

Dominique's Jewelry #FridayFlopFix Website Review

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Dominiques Jewelry FridayFlopFix Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1450-16Don't want to read? This week you can also watch the video recording of this review here!

This is the #FridayFlopFix website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. This week I've randomly chosen Santa Clarita, CA as the city to search for my review candidate. When I searched Google for the phrase "jewelers Santa Clarita, CA," I saw these three Google business listings:

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Monday, February 08, 2016

Top 10 Daily Golden Nuggets According to Facebook

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Everyone loves a Top 10 list. Last week while summarizing my top 10 Daily Golden Nuggets from 2015 according to Google Analytics, I realized I should go through the list to see what the top Nuggets are according to Facebook.

Tracking the most active social media content might seem silly, but there's real value to this activity. When you first start blogging or otherwise buildi...
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Friday, February 05, 2016

Goldsmith Jewelry Repair & Design #FridayFlopFix Review

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Welcome to the special #FridayFlopFix edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. This week, I'm on the hunt for a jewelry business in Bowling Green, KY that has a bad website. That's right, I'm looking for a flop that needs fixing. A quick search in Google for "jewelers Bowling Green, KY" lead me to a prime candidate for today: Goldsmith Jewelry Repair & Design with their website
http://www.goldsmithjrd.com/

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Friday, January 29, 2016

The First Place #FridayFlopFix Review

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This is the #FridayFlopFix edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Each week I seek out a website that needs some help, and I make improvement suggestions. Most of the time, I simply do a random Google search for a jewelry store, sometimes I come across a store randomly during work, and sometimes one of my friends sends me a website that perplexes them.

Last Friday night, my dear friend Cindy Edelstein sent me an email w...
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Friday, January 15, 2016

Goodman's Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Review

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Goodmans Jewelers FridayFlopFix Review daily-golden-nugget-1430-87
During my internet travels over the last few days, I came across the website for Goodman's Jewelers in Madison, WI. It caught my attention and I immediately decided to use it for today's #FridayFlopFix review. I hope to make a few suggestions that will help them improve how they use their site, and give you a few ideas on what to avoid on your own site. Let's dig in...

The website I'm looking at today is Goodman's Jewelers at:
http://www.goodmansjewelers.com/...
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Friday, January 08, 2016

David Reynolds Jewelry and Coin #FridayFlopFix Review

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This is the #FridayFlopFix edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Each week, I look for a random retail jewelry store website that is using the wrong approach on their website, and I make suggestions for improvements. This week when I searched Google for "jewelers st. petersburg fl," I was given these results:

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AT: 01/08/2016 01:03:13 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, January 01, 2016

R&R Jewelers #FridayFlopFix Review

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R&R Jewelers FridayFlopFix Review daily-golden-nugget-1421-23
Happy New Years and welcome to #FridayFlopFix! FridayFlopFix is what I call my weekly website reviews. The goal of these Friday the Daily Golden Nugget editions is to find a website that is behind on expected website standards, i.e. flops, and provide suggestions for fixing it.

Last night, on New Year's Eve, millions of people watched the ball drop in Time Square, New York City. In honor of this, I've also decided to focus my attention on NYC to locate a retail jeweler. Considering the NYC Diamond District and so many retail jeweler ...
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Friday, December 18, 2015

Highlands Jewelers #FridayFlopFix

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This is my weekly #FridayFlopFix website review where my goal is to find a website that has a few problems and suggest potential fixes. I start this review with a jewelry store search in a random town and then I quickly look through the search results for websites with problems I can talk about in a terse evaluation like this.

I started my hunt for a candidate website this week with a search for "jewelry highland in." Google showed me these results:

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AT: 12/18/2015 01:10:53 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, December 11, 2015

C F Reuchlein Jewelers Flop Fix

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C F Reuchlein Jewelers Flop Fix daily-golden-nugget-1405-45
Welcome to the #FridayFlopFix website review. During this holiday season, I'm shopping for a few websites that have problems: websites whose features could easily turn them into a flop and hurt their business.

I started my search with the query "jewelry gifts in huntington wv" and was given these results from Google:

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Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Joe Kassab Website Flop Fix Review

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Joe Kassab Website Flop Fix Review daily-golden-nugget-1398y-29
Every week, normally on Friday, I write a website review with suggestions on how to make a random site better. I have something special planned for this Friday so I have to move my Flop-Fix review to today.

My purpose here is to find a website that has something wrong, point it out, and give suggestions on how to fix it. My suggestions are entirely my own and based on my past experience, research, or observations. I found my review candidate this week with the query "jewelry stores Happy Valley, OR" and th...
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Friday, November 27, 2015

Kuhn's Jewelers Website Flop Fix

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Kuhns Jewelers Website Flop Fix daily-golden-nugget-1395-3
Welcome to the #FridayFlopFix edition of the Daily Golden Nugget, and it's also Black Friday in the U.S., the largest retail shopping day of the year for U.S. retailers.

The goal of these weekly flop fixes is to identify something on a retail jeweler's website that should be fixed. My suggestions are based on my previous experience and research. In honor of the upcoming Cyber Monday, I decided to specifically look for a retail jeweler with an e-commerce website to find some flops that need fixing. I made my search f...
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AT: 11/27/2015 12:20:42 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, November 20, 2015

Jewelsmith Inc Website Flop Fix

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Jewelsmith Inc Website Flop Fix daily-golden-nugget-1390-11
Welcome to the #FridayFlopFix edition of the Daily Golden Nugget, where I intentionally look for a jewelry website that has problems, and I make suggestions to correct them. This week I'm searching for "jewelers in Durham, NC" for my flop fix candidate. These are the Google results I had to choose from:

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Friday, November 13, 2015

Harbour Pointe Jewelers Website Flop Fix

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Harbour Pointe Jewelers Website Flop Fix daily-golden-nugget-1385-55
This is the #FridayFlopFix of the Daily Golden Nugget. I'm on the hunt for a retail jewelry store with a bad website, or at least with something that's broken so I can suggest a way to fix their flop.

My search this week led me to Mukilteo, WA, specifically the Google search for "jewelers in Mukilteo, WA" and these results:

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Friday, November 06, 2015

Baxter's Fine Jewelry Website Review

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Baxters Fine Jewelry Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1380-16
Hello and welcome to the Friday Flop Fix, or #FridayFlopFix. Every Friday I randomly choose and review a retail jeweler's website. Normally I just choose the first jeweler that appears in the SERP listing for whatever town I look at; sometimes I find good sites, and sometimes I find bad sites. I'm going to change it up and intentionally look for sites that have problems, the website flops as it were, and offer ideas to fix them.

My search this week to me to Warwick, RI, specifically the Google search for "j...
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AT: 11/06/2015 01:04:59 PM   0 COMMENTS
Tuesday, November 03, 2015

When Was The Last Time You Read Your Own Website?

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When was the last time you read your own website? Even though that seems like a simple, even a silly question, can you remember when you last read through your entire website?

If you're like most business owners, you probably haven't read through your website since the last redesign, or worse, since you first launched it several redesigns ago.

No doubt that your business has changed since your website was last launched. Here are some simple examples of things that might have changed in your store that you neglected to change online.

Store Hours
It's sur...
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AT: 11/03/2015 12:21:51 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, October 30, 2015

Jewelry & Timepiece Mechanix Website Review

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Jewelry & Timepiece Mechanix Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1375-48
Welcome to the Friday Website Review. In honor of Halloween, I went searching for a spooky or horror related city name in which to find a candidate jeweler to review. Sadly, populated places like Devil's Peek, Hells Corner, and Pumpkinville are nothing more than tourist traps in the middle of nowhere with nothing more than a general store.

I then tried a search for Haddonfield, Illinois, the city portrayed in the Halloween movie series. But as it turns out Haddonfield, Illinois is a fictiti...
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Friday, October 23, 2015

Bell Family Jewelers Website Review

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Bell Family Jewelers Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1370-60
Welcome to this week's edition of the Friday Website review. I'm journeying to Bayside, NY this week in search of my website review candidate. Using Google Chrome, I searched for the phrase "jewelers near bayside ny" and saw these results:

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Bell Family Jewelers appears first in the...
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AT: 10/23/2015 12:35:14 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, October 16, 2015

Trends Jewelers Case Study

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It's Friday. Every Friday, I start out by saying "This is the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget." I'm sure you guys are tired of reading that. Anyone want to suggest a hashtag that alliterates with Friday? Send your suggestions to me on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or just email them to me.

So it is Friday, and it's review day. The goal is learn something from a random website of a random retail jeweler chosen from a random city somewhere in the U.S. This week that random somewhere is Raynham,...
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Friday, October 09, 2015

Keith Chapman Jeweler Website Review

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Keith Chapman Jeweler Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1360-42
This is the weekly website review where I choose a random retail jeweler and compare their website and online identity to what is commonly known about search engine optimization, online marketing, and customer usefulness.

I started this week's review with the Google search "jewelers athens oh" and saw these results:

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Friday, October 02, 2015

S.E. Needham Jewelers Website Review

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This is the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. The purpose of this website review is to look over a random retail jeweler's website to evaluate if they are correctly applying what we know about the internet, online marketing, and business. We'll see if improvements can be made, or if we can learn something from them.

Each week I start by searching Google in a random town for a typical phrase that a consumer would search for. This week the search phrase is "jewelers logan ut," and he...
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Friday, September 18, 2015

Vincenete Jewelers Website Review

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In this edition of the weekly website review, I'm venturing to Freeport, NY to look for a jeweler. My search begins in Google with the phrase "jewelers freeport new york." Here's a snapshot of the search results I saw:

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Friday, September 11, 2015

Thomas Michaels Designers Website Review

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Thomas Michaels Designers Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1340-40
This is the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. The goal of these weekly reviews is to evaluate a random retail jeweler's website against website design methods, SEO strategies, usability, and technology trends. I use Google Chrome in incognito mode to find every review candidate with a basic local search phrase. I also try to capture my first impressions in these reviews and write them during my initial pass through the website.

The local search phrase I'm using this week is...
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Friday, September 04, 2015

Kuehn Sisters Diamonds Website Review

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In this week's Friday website review, I'm heading to Morgantown, WV to find a candidate jewelry store to review.

When I started my search with the phrase "morgantown wv jewelry stores," I saw these Google results:

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Friday, August 28, 2015

Kevin Main Jewelry Website Review

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This is the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Each week, I dig down into a random retail jewelry store website to discover the good and bad of what they've done with their online identity. The goal is to learn something that you can also apply to your own online identity.

This week I've decided to search San Luis Obispo, CA for my candidate jeweler. I'm starting my search with the phrase "wedding rings San Luis Obispo, CA." This is the Google SERP that was returned:

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Friday, August 21, 2015

Horrible Retail Jeweler Websites Near Grand Fork

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This is the Friday website review where I do a Google search for an independent retail jeweler in a random town, then review their website.

This week, I'm starting my search with the phrase "jewelry stores in grand fork nd." Every week that I do this, I try to give you my first impressions of every website as I work through it. Just looking at the results given below, I have a feeling this week's review is going to be quite... nasty. Hold on to your seats gang and let's jump in...<...
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Friday, August 14, 2015

Jensen Jewelers Website Review

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This is the weekly random website review where I search for a website candidate in a town near you and review how well their website is put together.

I never know what I'm going to find. Sometimes I find great sites and sometimes I find sites with a lot of problems. I do my best to write down my first impressions of the sites in an attempt to illustrate how a consumer might be reacting.

No matter what, there's always something to learn from.

To kick off the review, I'm searching for "engagement rings ho...
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Friday, August 07, 2015

Beaudet Jewelry Design Website Review

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For this week's review, I'm using my iPad to look up a review candidate. Every week, I use the Chrome browser in incognito mode to search for a random jeweler. In case you don't know, the iPad version of Chrome also has an incognito mode.

This week, I'm searching for "jewelry stores Eugene OR." Here's the Google SERP I saw on the iPad:

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Friday, July 31, 2015

Michael Genovese Jewelers Website Review

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This is the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. I'm always on the lookout for a jewelry website we can learn from, both good and bad. In honor of my visit to St. Louis, MO this weekend I'm going to look for one of the retail jewelers in St. Louis to review.

Using Google Chrome in incognito mode, I searched for "jewelry stores st louis mo." This is the SERP that was returned to me:

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Friday, July 24, 2015

Skeie's Jewelers Website Review

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This is the weekly website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Each week, I work through these website reviews to give you real examples to learn from. It doesn't matter if the website is good or bad, there's always something to learn from.

I'm changing it up a little this week. Normally I search for the phrase "jewelry store" and a random town name, but not this week. In honor of this weekend's official kickoff of the Jewelers Equality Alliance<...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

My Jeweler Website Review

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Once a week, usually on Friday, I write a website review for a randomly chosen retail jewelry store. This week the review is being moved to Wednesday.

For this week's review, I'm searching for "jewelers in Sedona, AZ" using Google Chrome in incognito mode. The results I saw during last week's review were formatted for a smartphone. This week the results are formatted for a desktop browser again. Oddities like that are usual...
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Friday, July 10, 2015

Rogers and Co Fine Jewelry Website Review

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This is the weekly website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Each Friday, I work through these reviews to help you understand the good and bad ways a retail jewelry store website works. I look for good and bad website design, content, photography, usability, and search engine optimization in hopes that we can all learn something new.

Each week, I use Google Chrome in incognito mode to search for review candidates. Incognito mode allows me to hide potentially personalized search results ...
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Friday, July 03, 2015

The Blue Diamond Website Review

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While it's customary for people to take long holiday weekends off from work, your website is never closed. The first impression that your website makes is as important as that first greeting when a customer walks into your store.

This is my Friday Website Review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. I write these reviews to demonstrate live examples of both good and bad retail jewelry websites. I never know where these reviews will end up and I try to be as impartial as possible when writing them.

I also try ...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

Barry Peterson Jewelers Website Review

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This is the weekly random retail jewelry store website review. The purpose of these weekly Friday reviews is to find out how to improve your own website by dissecting the techniques of another website.

This week I'm searching for "jewelers in sun valley, Idaho." Here's the SERP for that search query:

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Friday, June 19, 2015

Polly's Fine Jewelry Website Review

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This is the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Today I'm searching for "jewelers in North Charleston, South Carolina" using the Chrome browsers on my iPhone 6. I have Chrome set in incognito mode to avoid personalized search results.

Here are the full results returned on my phone. As you can see, I've indicated that all the organic results are "mobile-friendly":

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Friday, June 12, 2015

J&M Jewelry Mobile Website Review

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Welcome to the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. The goal for today is to find and perform a usability review of a random jewelry store mobile website. I'm performing the review on, and taking screen shots with, my iPhone 6.

The first review for today is to see if a google.com search through the Safari web browser would yield the same results as a search using the Google search app on the iPhone. Here's a side by side comparison of the two methods:

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Friday, June 05, 2015

The Jewelers of Las Vegas Website Re-review

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In honor of the big jewelry shows in Las Vegas that came to a close on Monday this week, I'm searching around Las Vegas again for this week's website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget.

I was still in New Jersey when I wrote last week's review of another Las Vegas jeweler, but this time I'm sitting in my hotel room at The Excalibur writing this weeks.

Last week, I simply searched for...
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Friday, May 29, 2015

Summerlin Jewelers Website Re-Review

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This is the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Usually I choose a random city around the U.S. to find a retail jeweler, and this week, in honor of the Las Vegas jewelry shows, I'll search around Las Vegas, Nevada.

The following is a screen grab when I searched for "jewelers in las vegas." The top listed store is The Jewelers of Las Vegas. They have updated their website since I last re...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

Morning Star Jewelers Website Review

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This is another edition of the Friday Website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Each week, I use Google Chrome in incognito mode to search out a random retail jeweler from around the U.S., and then I review their website.

I never know what I'm going to find when I start these reviews. My hope is that I can illustrate one of my previous Daily Nuggets with a live example.

My search began this week with the phrase "jewelers in Evergreen, CO" and saw this as my search results:

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Friday, May 15, 2015

John Tolle Jewelry Website Review

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This is the Friday website review where I search for a jeweler in a random town around the United States then review their website. By reviewing a live site, I'm usually able to highlight good and bad points that we can all learn from.

For this week, I wanted to find a retail jewelry store in Laguna Beach, California. Here's the SERP when I googled "jewelers in Laguna Beach, California":

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Friday, May 08, 2015

Goldirocks Jewelers Website Review

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Way back on May 3, 2013, I reviewed the website for Alletti Jewelry. In that review, I explained that they were using the GoDaddy WebsiteBuilder and showed why it was a pretty bad content management system (CMS).

Recently. I came across a different retail jeweler's website using the new version of GoDaddy's Online Store CMS. The store is Goldirocks Jewelers and their website is VIEW FULL GOLD NUGGET


AT: 05/08/2015 06:14:51 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, May 01, 2015

Wick and Green Jewelers Website Review

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Welcome to the weekly edition of the Friday jewelry website review. Every week, I randomly choose a candidate website and put it to the test for design, SEO, usability, content, and a wealth of other website and business related issues.

I never know how they will turn out; sometimes good and sometimes bad. I always try to write these reviews in the order in which I browse around the site, providing my first reactions as I discover things.

This week, I'm searching for "Jewelers in Asheville, No...
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Friday, April 24, 2015

McCary's Jewelry Website Review

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In this edition of the Friday website review, I'm traveling to Shreveport, Louisiana in search of my review candidate. Using the Chrome browser in incognito mode, I searched for "jewelers Shreveport, Louisiana" and saw these SERP results:

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Friday, April 17, 2015

Adams Fine Jewelry Website Review

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This is the Friday jewelry website review where I find a random retail jeweler and review their website for design, usability, and SEO. In each one of these reviews, my goal is to show how the information from my other Daily Golden Nuggets can be directly applied to a website.

This week, I'm using the Google Chrome browser in incognito mode to search for "jewelers st joseph mo." Here's a snapshot of the results:

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Friday, April 10, 2015

Klutts Jewelers Website Review

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In this week's edition of the Friday Website Jewelry Website Review, I'm beginning my search in "jewelers morgan city, la" to find a website review candidate. I go through these website reviews every Friday as a way to monitor and show you what's happening in the world of jewelry websites. I never know how the review will turn out, but the hope is that something is learned.

Here's the Google SERP for Morgan City:

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Friday, April 03, 2015

Vierk's Fine Jewelry Website Review

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This is the Friday Website Review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Every week I search for a jewelry store in a random town and review their website. I never know how these are going to turn out, but they are always interesting as I examine website designs, functionality, SEO, and potential customer engagement.

Using Google Chrome in incognito mode to prevent personalized results, I searched for "jewelry appraisals Lafayette, IN." Here's the search results I saw:

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Friday, March 27, 2015

Spinelli Jewelers Website Review

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This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Every week, I randomly choose and dissect a retail jeweler's website to see what makes it tick. I never know what I'm going to find each week; sometimes it's something new to learn or a refresher on topics I've previously written about.

To find this week's review candidate, I searched Google for "jewelry stores in Bridgeton, New Jersey" and was given this SERP:

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Friday, March 20, 2015

Delson Jewelry Website Review

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Last week I wrote my weekly jewelry website review while I was waiting for my flight to France in Newark Liberty Airport, in Newark, NJ. Because I was sitting in the airport, I had the opportunity to present that review from the point of view of an actual mobile user.

As I usually do, I chose the first organic result from t...
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Friday, March 13, 2015

Vinhas Jewelers Mobile Website Review

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Welcome to the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Every week, I randomly search for retail jeweler websites to review as an educational exercise. Over the last two weeks, in the wake of Google recent announcement regarding mobile readiness, I've written several VIEW FULL GOLD NUGGET


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Friday, March 06, 2015

Taylor's Gold-n-Stones Website Review

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The weather in North America has been quite drastic through this winter. Snowfall and low temperature records have been broken all season long, and we're all counting the days until March 21st, which is only two weeks from now. Thankfully temperatures seem to be on the rise.

On the other hand, two weeks ago, the temperatures in New Jersey were lower than in Fairbanks, Alaska!

I'm certainly not a cold weather person, but many people are. In this week's edition of the Friday website review I'm headi...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Holland Jewelers Website Review

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Welcome to the weekly website review. Normally this is published every Friday, but it got pulled up one day to make room for a special Nugget scheduled for tomorrow.

The goal of this weekly website review is to shed light on how many retail jewelers out there are still using old website techniques, old SEO methods, and old designs. I search a random city in the USA every week for a jeweler and usually select from the top of the organic listing.

In my experience, given the choice between an older looking and n...
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AT: 02/26/2015 09:49:21 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, February 20, 2015

Coffin and Trout Fine Jewellers Website Review

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This is the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. The goal of today's review is to take a critical look at a random retail jeweler's website in hopes of finding something we can all learn from.

At the start of each review, I launch a new Google Chrome incognito window. This allows me to search for a jewelry store without any influence from my previous search history or personalized results.

Searching Google for "jewelers Chandler AZ" returns these results:
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Friday, February 13, 2015

Paula's Fine Jewelry Website Review

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If you believe the (mostly North American) superstitions, Friday the 13th (today) is supposed to be an unlucky day. Perhaps it will be unlucky for some couples that breakup before tomorrow, Valentine's Day, arrives. I prefer the optimistic point of view and would rather believe that love is in the air today.

This is the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget, and to honor Valentine's Day I decided to search for a jewelry store in or near a town with "love" in the name. This was not as easy a...
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Friday, February 06, 2015

Ornamentum Jewelry Gallery Website Review

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Welcome to the Friday retail jewelry website review. In this week's review, I'll be searching for a random website candidate to critique in the hopes that we can all learn something useful to implement on our own websites.

To start this week's review I started searching for jewelers in Hudson, NY. Specifically, I used the Google search query "jewelers in Hudson ny."

Here's a screen shot of what the Google SERP looked like:
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Friday, January 30, 2015

Watkins Jewelers Website Review

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This is the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Today, I'm going to perform an incognito Google search for a random jewelry store candidate in Blackstone, Virginia, then review their website.

The goal of this weekly website review is to learn something new, or at least to see an implementation of something good or bad that you never knew.

When I used the search query "jewelry stores in blackstone va" I was given these results:

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AT: 01/30/2015 08:58:12 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, January 23, 2015

Gold City Jewelers Website Review

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Welcome to the Friday jewelry website review where I randomly select and review the website of a retail jeweler. The goal is to dissect their online accounts to see how they might be ranking highly, and what they might be doing right, or wrong, with their online identity.

I use Google's Chrome browser in incognito mode when searching; otherwise the search results will be skewed based on my personalized search results and the top ranked sto...
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Friday, January 16, 2015

C. Aaron Penaloza Jewelers Website Review

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Welcome to the Friday website review. The goal of these weekly website reviews to learn something that can better your own website by analyzing someone else's live website. Every week I simply do a Google search in a random town or city throughout the U.S.

This week I'm looking for a review candidate in Terrell Hills, Texas. Using Google Chrome's incognito mode I searched for "jewelry stores in Terrell Hills, Texas" and was given this SERP:

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Friday, January 09, 2015

Marry Me Jewelry Website Review

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Welcome to the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. The purpose of this review is to examine a live retail jewelry website in search for the good and bad traits. There's always something interesting to learn from in every week's review.

For this week, I started with a search using the Google Chrome browser in incognito mode. I stay incognito while searching for a review candidate so my own browser history will not influence the search results I see. Through your search history, Google has a way of knowing which websi...
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Friday, January 02, 2015

Clinton Jewelers Website Review

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This is the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. The goal for today is to review a random website in order to learn something good, or bad, from someone else's work.

Review Candidate & SERP


To find my review candidate, I normally choose a city at random and search for local jewelers, however, this week I wanted to find a winter themed town name with a nearby jeweler. Using Google Maps I found the unincorporated community of Snow in Clinton County, Kentucky.

Using the "Search Nearby" feature within G...
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Friday, December 19, 2014

Sam's Fine Jewelry Website Review

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Sams Fine Jewelry Website Review daily-golden-nugget-1150-52Today is the Friday Daily Golden Nugget website review. Normally I search a random town name in the United States in search of a website review candidate. But for today, I decided to add a little holiday cheer and look for a town with a holiday related name.

I started with this list of holiday towns, but it turns out that most of those are "populated places" or ghost towns. It seems like many forefathers were willing to name towns after Christmas, but over the dec...
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AT: 12/19/2014 10:18:12 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, December 12, 2014

Jewelry Website Reviews in Malibu, California

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This is the Friday jewelry website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. This week I'm snooping around the interwebs of Malibu, California in search for a great jewelry store.

My hope is that I'll find a store whose website will lure me in and get me to visit them in person. I never know where these reviews will go when I start, but the hope is that we'll all learn something from it.

I start my search using the Google Chrome browser in incognito mode to prevent my own search history from providing pe...
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AT: 12/12/2014 12:10:14 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, December 05, 2014

Mauzie's of Colorado Website Review

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Let's imagine that there's a special gift giving day coming up soon and I need to buy a gift. Assuming that I live in Englewood, Colorado I might do a Google search for "buy jewelry gifts in Englewood Colorado."

Today is the weekly website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. The goal of this review is to randomly search Google for a retail jewelry store and learn something from scrutinizing how they manage their website and online identity. There's always something to learn from these reviews, whether it's learning from someth...
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Friday, November 28, 2014

Mathew Jewelers Website Review

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In honor of Thanksgiving, I decided to look for some town names related to the American holiday. Turkey and cranberries are among the many traditional dishes served at an American Thanksgiving meal. Although I found that there's a Turkey, Texas, it seems like Cranberry, Pennsylvania might have a better chance of locating a review candidate for today's Daily Golden Nugget, Friday Review.

Off to Cranberry I go, with a search for "jewelry stores in cranberry, pa." But the results you see here were not as satisfying as I expected:

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Friday, November 21, 2014

A. Scott Rhodes Jeweler Website Review

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This is the Friday website review where I dissect a random retail jeweler's website to find the good and bad that we can all learn from. Although I write about website design, search engine optimization, and online marketing every day, sometimes all that stuff doesn't make any sense unless you see exactly how it applies to a real website.

That's why I dedicate one day every week to these reviews of randomly selected jewelry stores.

Normally I ask someone on my team to give me a random city name, but this week's review c...
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AT: 11/21/2014 11:04:51 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, November 14, 2014

Coastal Jewelers Website Review

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This is the Friday website review where I take a look at a random retail jewelry store website and dissect it to discover all the good and bad things we can all learn from.

For today's review, I started with a search for "jewelry stores in Kennebunkport, Maine" and was given this Google SERP result:

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Friday, November 07, 2014

After Midnight Jewelers Website Review

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This is the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. For this week's review, I'm heading over to South Burlington, VT in search for my retail jeweler review candidate.

I entered the search phrase "jewelers in south burlington vt" into Google and was given this result:

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Friday, October 31, 2014

TR Jewelers Website Review

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Today is the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget, and it's a special one too! In honor of Halloween, I decided to search for a jeweler that would be in, or nearby any town with a Halloween themed name. Naturally the first part of this adventure was to locate some towns with Halloween related names. I found these...

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Friday, October 17, 2014

Fabri Fine Jewelry Website Review

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Welcome to the Friday website review, where every week I randomly review the website of a local retail jewelry business somewhere in the US. The goal is to find something good, or bad, that we can all learn from and apply to our own business.

For this week's review, I'm heading over to Washington state and searching for "fine jewelry stores bellevue wa." When doing these searches, I always use the Google Chrome browser in incognito mode. This allows me to see non-personalized search results.

In case you don't know, Google trac...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Village Jewelers Website Review

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I'm changing up my usually schedule this week. I have two special Daily Nuggets for Thursday and Friday this week which pushes my weekly review to today.

For today's website review, I'm heading back down to Nashville, Tennessee in search of a jeweler. Here's the Google SERP when I searched for "jeweler Nashville, Tennessee":

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Friday, September 26, 2014

Roth Jewelers & LR Jewelers Website Review

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Welcome to the Friday retail jewelry website review. Every week, I select a random location around the United States in search of a review candidate. The object of this review is to learn something that might be able to help you with your own website.

I always try to write the review with an unbiased point of view, and I especially hope that the jewelers reading this will use these reviews to better their online presence.

For this week, I'm using the search phrase "jewelry stores Waterlo...
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Friday, September 19, 2014

Berning's Fine Jewelry Website Review

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Welcome to the Friday retail jewelry store website review. For this week's review, I'm searching for "jewelers Tempe, Arizona" using Google Chrome in incognito mode.

If this is the first time you're reading my reviews, then let me explain that I review a different random retail store website every Friday. These are sites have no relation to me or the website agency services my company provides. These are just straight forward, cursory reviews of what a website looks like, how it functions, some SEO analys...
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AT: 09/19/2014 11:06:04 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, September 12, 2014

John Ross Jewelers Website Review

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Today is the Friday Review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. The goal of this review is to analyze a website for its good qualities, and bad, and to learn from it. Every week I choose a location in the United States from which to pluck a review candidate from.

This week I'm heading over to Albany, Georgia. What I remember most about my own visits to Georgia is the unstoppable kudzu. But today I'm less concerned with vines that grow 1 foot per day because I'm in need of a quality jewelry store.

So I'm ...
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Friday, September 05, 2014

Jewelry Design Center Website Review

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This is the Friday Retail Jeweler website review. The goal for today is to examine a random jewelry website, pull it apart to see how it functions and evaluate the good and the bad that we can learn from.

Every week my staff gives me a random city in the United States and I use Google Chrome in incognito mode to search for local jewelers there. This week the target city was Spokane, Washington.

My search phrase was "jewelers in Spokane WA"

These are the search results Google returned:
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Friday, August 29, 2014

Review of 3 Hayward Jewelers

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My journey today began with a search for "jewelry stores Hayward CA." You see, I'm pretending to be a real customer searching for a local jeweler in Hayward. My goal is to examine how the local jewelers in that town stack up in Google search, take a look at their websites, and see what can be learned by the experience.

This is my weekly retail jeweler website review, but this week I'm changing up the format a little bit.

Here's a snapshot of the business listing I saw in the Google SERP for that search:
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Friday, August 22, 2014

Cooks Jewelers Website Review

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Welcome to the Friday jewelry website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. The goal for today is to examine a random retail jeweler's website and learn from something they did right or wrong.

I don't plan these reviews out, and I usually write these reviews as I work through the discovery of each site, documenting my first thoughts as well as how different stuff fits together.

This week, I searched for "jewelry stores Kirksville, Missouri" and was given this Google SERP:

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Friday, August 15, 2014

Reviews of Jewelers in Arlington, Virginia

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This is the Friday website review where I randomly look for a jewelry website to dissect so we can all learn something new. This week I'm taking a slightly different approach to locating a review candidate. I'm going to search in a county instead of a specific town.

To start the process, I always open an incognito window with Google Chrome. This step allows me to do searches in Google without any personalized results affecting what I see. Google has several ways to identify your compute...
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Friday, August 01, 2014

Hood River Jewelers Website Review

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This is the Friday edition of the Daily Golden Nugget where I randomly choose a jewelry store's website to review.

This week I found my review candidate by searching for "jewelers in hood river Oregon" and choosing the top listing shown here:

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This is a case where a jew...
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Friday, July 18, 2014

Avalon Park Jewelers Website Review

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Five months from today, you will be launching your last minute Christmas advertising campaigns and counting down the last 7 days before the big holiday. Have you started to prepare your website and holiday ads yet?

The other day, I was walking through one of those stores that sells Christmas items all year long and I couldn't help but remember that now is the time for those "Christmas in July" sales events. However, considering that today is Friday, I immediately started to wonder how many towns were n...
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Friday, July 11, 2014

Alex, Cliff, and Trimarco Jewelers Website Review

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This is the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Every Friday I choose a random city and search for a potential jeweler to use as my review candidate.

This week I'm looking in Maplewood, NJ for a local jeweler. I used the search query "jewelers in maplewood nj" and found the results below. There's a lot of detail in the SERP screen shot, so click it to view larger:

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Friday, June 27, 2014

Tharoo & Co Website Review

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For this week's website review, I'm heading down to sunny Florida in search of a jewelry store in Orlando.

Here's a screen shot of the local results when I searched for "jewelry stores in orlando":

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I'm choosing the top jeweler, Tharoo & Co. Their website is:
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Friday, June 13, 2014

Don Roberto Jewelers Website Review

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For this week's edition of the Friday Website review, I'm searching for "jewelers in Azusa, California" to find my review candidate.

Here's what the top Google organic results look like when using Chrome's incognito mode:

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Friday, June 06, 2014

Rogers Jewelers Website Review

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This is the Friday Website Review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. The goal of today is to pick the website of a random retail jeweler and review it for either search engine optimization, usability, technical errors, or countless numbers of other issues.

This review is not intended to solicit business from the candidate jeweler that I find, but simply so others can learn from the analysis process.

Today I'm using the Chrome browser in incognito mode to search for the phrase "jewelers in evansville India...
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AT: 06/06/2014 09:22:56 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, May 30, 2014

Google Places for Business Store Hours Sometimes Get Stuck

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Today I'm returning back to my Friday website review format after skipping the last two weeks while presenting the series on Google Places for Business.

Each week I choose a random city then search for one of the most common jewelry store related keywords. I like to choose my review candidates purely based on orga...
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Friday, May 09, 2014

Milton's Jewelry & Gifts Website Review...

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Miltons Jewelry & Gifts Website Review... 4346-daily-golden-nugget-990
This is the Friday Website Review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. The goal of this Nugget is to take an unbiased close look at a random jewelry website to see what we can learn from it.

Every week I put my Chrome web browser into incognito mode and search a random town for a local jeweler. This week I chose the city of Uvalde in Texas. Specifically I searched for "jewelers in Uvalde, Texas."

According to this search result there might be 2 jewelers in Uvalde:

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Friday, May 02, 2014

Luecke Jewelers Website Review...

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Luecke Jewelers Website Review... 4557-daily-golden-nugget-985

This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review to help you learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website.

This week I ventured over to Freeport, Illinois in search of a jeweler who sells estate jewelry. Specifically, I used the search query "estate jewelry Freeport, Illinois" and saw these really interesting results:

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Friday, April 25, 2014

SJ Jewelers Website Review

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SJ Jewelers Website Review 1282-daily-golden-nugget-980This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review to help you learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website.

Every week, I set my Google Chrome browser to incognito mode to find a website review candidate. Normally I search for jewelry stores in a specific town name, but this time I took a slightly different approach and searched for "jewelers in Olmsted County, Minnesota."

Google understood how to interpret Olmstead County as the largest city within in Rochester. I find these sear...
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AT: 04/25/2014 04:14:13 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, April 18, 2014

Sullivan's Jewelers Website Review

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Sullivans Jewelers Website Review 2287-daily-golden-nugget-975This is the weekly Friday Website Review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. The goal is to first find, and then evaluate a random jeweler's website to see how they set it up and what they are doing with it. Sometimes I find good things to talk about, sometimes bad, but always educational and unbiased.

Each week I search a random town for a jewelry store. I always set my Google Chrome browser to incognito mode to prevent my previous personal browsing history from tainting my organic search results.

This ...
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Friday, April 11, 2014

Review of Marks Jewelers Virtual Tour

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Review of Marks Jewelers Virtual Tour 9457-daily-golden-nugget-970It's the Friday website review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. The normal goal of these Friday reviews is to look at a website to see what we can learn from it, but this week I found something a little more interesting to review than simply a website.

I took a different approach to finding my review candidate this week. I started with the usually incognito mode of Google Chrome, but I changed my browser search location to Lawrence, KS by clicking the Search Tools button on the option menu and then cli...
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Friday, April 04, 2014

Bennett's Gems and Jewelry Website Review

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Bennetts Gems and Jewelry Website Review 7140-daily-golden-nugget-965I like to sit in the window seat whenever I fly. I enjoy looking at the world from 35,000 feet and wondering about the world passing quickly below. When not watching a movie, I like to watch the in-flight map on the screen in front of me in an attempt to relate window view to the locations on the map.

The only landmarks I've ever recognized from that altitude were the Mississippi River and the Grand Canyon, but those are easy.

I especially like the return flights from Europe as the plane fli...
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Friday, March 28, 2014

SERP Review of Jewelers in Newport, RI

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SERP Review of Jewelers in Newport, RI 3446-daily-golden-nugget-960This is the Friday Website Review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. The goal of this review is not to single out any particular jeweler or store, but to examine a website for educational purposes. Hopefully we can all learn something from the review

This week I'm searching for a review candidate in Newport, RI. I always use the Chrome web browser in incognito mode to search for a review candidate. I do this to help prevent my personal browser history from interfering with search results given by Goo...
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AT: 03/28/2014 09:27:22 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, March 21, 2014

CM Buxton Website Review

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CM Buxton Website Review 808-daily-golden-nugget-955This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review to help you learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website.

I use Google Chrome in incognito mode to search for my review candidate every week. This week I did a search for "antique jewelry Missoula Montana" and saw these results:

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Friday, March 14, 2014

Ciccarelli Jewelers SERP and Website Review

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Ciccarelli Jewelers SERP and Website Review 7888-daily-golden-nugget-950I've been thinking about it for months and I've finally made the decision. I'm going to pick up an engagement ring today and propose to her this weekend! I have to find a jeweler in my home town, Modesto, California, that will help me out. I need a ring in a hurry!

I do a Google search for "engagement rings in Modesto, CA" and I see this as my first choice:

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Friday, March 07, 2014

SERP Review of Tacoma Washington

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SERP Review of Tacoma Washington 8561-daily-golden-nugget-945This is the special Friday Website Review Edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. The goal of this weekly exercise is to find a random retail jeweler's website that can have both its design and search engine optimization dissected so we can learn from it.

I always use Google's Chrome browser in incognito mode to search for a random jeweler. The incognito mode allows me to do a web search without tainting the search results by my personal browsing and search history. By removing my personal search history, I'm able to ...
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Friday, February 28, 2014

Ava Goldworks Website Review

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Ava Goldworks Website Review 3168-daily-golden-nugget-940This is the Friday Website Review edition of the Daily Golden Nugget. Every Friday I randomly select a destination in the USA and search for unsuspecting retail jewelry stores, then I review their website.

This week I started my search with the phrase "jewelers Hannibal, Mo" and found Ava Goldworks to have both the top organic listing and the top Google+ Local listing.

Here's the website: http://www.avagoldworks.com/; you might want to open it up to follow a...
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AT: 02/28/2014 10:18:43 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, February 21, 2014

Shane Co Website Review

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Shane Co Website Review 1774-daily-golden-nugget-935 This is the special Friday edition of the Daily Golden Nugget where I randomly review a retail jewelry store website to see what we can learn from it. Sometimes I uncover good things, and sometimes bad; either way, there's always something interesting to learn.

This week I'm doing this review from my iPad Air. I'm beginning this review with the Google Chrome browser using incognito mode. I started with a search for "jewelry stores in Seattle, Washington" and this search results screen was returned to me.

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AT: 02/21/2014 05:30:31 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, February 14, 2014

Carter's Jewelry Website Review

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Carters Jewelry Website Review 15-daily-golden-nugget-930This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review to help you learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website.

For this week, I'm starting my Google search with the phrase "jewelry appraisers Saint Augustine, FL" to find my review candidate. The top 3 results are listings from the Yellow Pages and Yahoo Local, but after that, I see Carter's Jewelry as the top raking in the Google+ Local list.

Here's the website: http://www.car...
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AT: 02/14/2014 02:54:38 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, February 07, 2014

John Greenan & Sons Jewelers Website Review

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John Greenan & Sons Jewelers Website Review 2354-daily-golden-nugget-925This is the Friday jewelry website review where I take a look at a random retail jewelry store's website to see what they are doing right or wrong, and use them for real world learning

This week I'm heading to Silver Spring, Maryland in search of a jeweler. Using Google's Chrome Incognito Mode I searched for "jewelers Silver Spring Maryland" and saw these search results:

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Friday, January 24, 2014

Review: Jewelers in Lowell Massachusetts are Behind

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Review: Jewelers in Lowell Massachusetts are Behind 6929-daily-golden-nugget-915Are you looking to open a new jewelry store but don't know where to do it? There seems to be a good opportunity along the northern border of Massachusetts in the City of Lowell.

According to Wikipedia, Lowell has a population of 106,519, but according to the search I just did in Google, they only seem to have two jewelry stores. Both stores seem to be long established jewelers, but their websites ...
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AT: 01/24/2014 02:50:45 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, January 17, 2014

Herman Hiss & Company Website Review

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Herman Hiss & Company Website Review 9939-daily-golden-nugget-910This is my Friday Jewelry Website Review where I look at a random retail jewelry store's website in hopes that what I find will help you improve your own website.

Each week I randomly choose a city and do a Google search using the Chrome browser in incognito mode. This is the best way to ensure that the search results I see will be similar to what a random person would see when they search for a jeweler in that same town.

This week's search was "jewelers bay city, Michigan," and these are the top 4 re...
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AT: 01/17/2014 05:14:40 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, January 10, 2014

Victor Hardy Jewelers Website Review

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Victor Hardy Jewelers Website Review 4983-daily-golden-nugget-905In this edition of the Friday Website review I'm stopping off in Bristol, TN. To prevent my Google Personalization results from getting in the way, I used the Google Chrome browser in Incognito Mode. My search string was "jewelers in bristol tn."

Here's a screen grab of the top SERP results I saw...

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AT: 01/10/2014 04:03:39 PM   0 COMMENTS
Thursday, January 02, 2014

Pattons Fine Jewelry Website Review

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Pattons Fine Jewelry Website Review 6859-daily-golden-nugget-899This is a special edition of the weekly retail jeweler website review. It's special because it's on Thursday rather than the normal Friday. The goal of this review is to show you how other retail jewelers are using their website. Sometimes these reviews are good, sometimes really bad. No matter how they work out, the hope is that you'll see something you can use, or fix, on your own website.

To find my review candidate this week I searched for "jewelry stores in baton rouge" using the Google Chrome browser ...
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AT: 01/02/2014 02:51:56 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, December 27, 2013

Ciccotti's Jewel Case Website Review

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Ciccottis Jewel Case Website Review 7156-daily-golden-nugget-895This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review where I look at a random jewelry website to give you ideas on how to improve your own website.

I began my search this week looking for "jewelry stores in scranton pa." The top listing in the both the organic and Google+ Local results were for Boccardo Jewelers and their website boccardojewelers.com. Instead of seeing their website, I actually got the "account suspended" notice from Blue Host.

I actually found this earlier in the week when looking for website ...
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AT: 12/27/2013 05:06:56 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, December 20, 2013

King Jewelers Website Review

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King Jewelers Website Review 3759-daily-golden-nugget-890For this week's Daily Golden Nugget website review, I'm heading down to Nashville, Tennessee in search of a new watch.

When you search Google for any topic, they will reference your previous search history and websites you've visited to create "personalized search results." As a jewelry industry professional I visit dozens of jewelry store websites every day, and my personalized results would interfere with the accuracy of how I find my review candidate websites every week.

In order to perform a non-personalized se...
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AT: 12/20/2013 03:47:38 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, December 13, 2013

Frassanito Jewelers Website Review

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Frassanito Jewelers Website Review 8233-daily-golden-nugget-885It's the holiday season and like most men, I'm going to wait until the last minute to buy my gifts. But I think I'll start looking today. So I open up my web browser and search Google for "jewelry gift for her in Huntington, New York."

The first listing is the Facebook page for "Presents of Mind," but that doesn't seem like a jewelry store to me, so I skip it. I then noticed the SERP listing with 5-starts for Frassanito Jewelers. I check them out...

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AT: 12/13/2013 11:56:30 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, December 06, 2013

Ayres Jewelry Co Website Review

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Ayres Jewelry Co Website Review 1590-daily-golden-nugget-880This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review to help you learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website.

This week I decided to test the latest voice search features in Google's Chrome browser. These features are supposed to allow natural speech requests like what's already available on the Google smartphone apps.

Using the Chrome browser's incognito mode I clicked on the little microphone to the right of the search box and spoke aloud "give me a jeweler in casper wyom...
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AT: 12/06/2013 12:57:34 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, November 22, 2013

Simmons & Clark Jewelers Website Review

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Simmons & Clark Jewelers Website Review 3064-daily-golden-nugget-870The latest Google app for the Android and iPhone is supposed to have a little more understanding of common language queries. Instead of typing out something simple like "jewelers Detroit mi" I should be able to verbally request something more natural.

Turning to my iPhone, I opened the latest Google App (version 3.1.0) and spoke "Okay Google... jewelers with the best Yelp review in Motor City."

The first result was for Motor City Casino, which was obviously wrong, but the second result was from ...
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AT: 11/22/2013 11:39:00 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, November 15, 2013

Website Review: Local Color, Key West, FL

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Website Review: Local Color, Key West, FL 3480-daily-golden-nugget-865I'm traveling all the way down to Key West, Florida today to (virtually) visit a local jewelry designer and store. I started off my trip with a quick Google search for "key west jewelry stores" and found Local Color in the number 1 spot on in the Google+ Local listings.

Here's the website: http://www.localcolorkeywest.com; you might want to open it up to follow along as you read this review.

Having done a little bit of travelin...
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AT: 11/15/2013 06:46:53 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, November 08, 2013

Lee Michaels Website Review

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Lee Michaels Website Review 1272-daily-golden-nugget-860This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review to help you learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website.

I found today's review candidate by searching for "jewelry stores in san antonio tx" in the Chrome browser using incognito mode.

Here's the website: http://www.lmfj.com; you might want to open it up to follow along as you read this review.

Upon landing on the Lee Michaels home page, I was greeted with the typical anim...
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Friday, November 01, 2013

Ray's Jewelry Inc Website Review

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Rays Jewelry Inc Website Review 2122-daily-golden-nugget-855I'm taking a quick trip down to Florida this week for this edition of the Friday Review. Just west of Miami to a city called Hialeah.

As usual, I started off my search for the term "jewelers hialeah fl" using the Chrome browser in incognito mode.

Oddly enough, the first jeweler listed in the results is ABC Jewelry with their Yelp profile and a 4-star rating. But they don't have a website. Moving on...

The Second jeweler in the organic listing is Ray's Jewelry Inc. They also appeared in the #1 spot for...
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AT: 11/01/2013 10:34:05 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, October 25, 2013

LaRog Brothers Website Review

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LaRog Brothers Website Review 6218-daily-golden-nugget-850The typical jewelry store usually displays happy couples, brides, or jewelry photos on their home page. But not this jeweler.... They show a photo of a lumberjack!

It all started with my search for "jewelers portland or" to find a candidate for today's website review. Let's take a look at LaRog Brothers...

Here's the website: http://www.larog.com/; you might want to open it up to follow along as you read this review.

LaRog Brothers is the official jeweler...
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AT: 10/25/2013 10:17:23 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, October 18, 2013

Wixon Jewelers Website Review

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Wixon Jewelers Website Review 8963-daily-golden-nugget-845For this Friday Jewelry Website Review I'm jumping over to Google Chrome's incognito view to search for "jewelry store bloomington mn." The premise of this Daily Golden Nugget is to learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website.

The Google SERP page returned a list of 7 jewelers for me, and I'm choosing the first one: Wixon Jewelers.

Here's the website: http://www.wixonjewelers.com; you might want to open it u...
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AT: 10/18/2013 05:07:33 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, October 11, 2013

Nina Jewelry Website Review

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In honor of the fall season and the bright colored leaves in the region, I'm taking us to Manchester, Vermont in search for good jewelry store. My hope is that I'll find a website that we can learn from.

Using the Chrome browser in incognito mode I searched for "jeweler manchester vt."

I was presented with 2 organic results followed by the typical layout of Google+ Local listings. I chose the first one on the list: Nina Jewelry

Here's the website: http://www.ninajewelry.com/; you might want to open it up to follow along as you read this review.


Usability Issues:

* On the home page I was first drawn to the blue box stating "Shop & Compare - Highest Prices Paid," which, even though I immediately knew it was referring to buying gold, th...
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AT: 10/11/2013 04:21:34 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, October 04, 2013

M. Rahal Jewelers Online Review

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M. Rahal Jewelers Online Review 649-daily-golden-nugget-835As the Holiday Season quickly approaches, I wanted to use today's online jeweler review to demonstrate how a customer could discover a local jeweler when you search for a designer's name, even when that jeweler has the worst website.

For this week's review I used the Chrome browser in incognito mode and searched for "pandora jewelry glens falls ny."

The search results mostly included a mixture of listings from ForLocations.com, StoreLocator.com, JewelryStoresInfo.com, and even Craigslist.org which hinted that there was a store in t...
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AT: 10/04/2013 05:26:16 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, September 27, 2013

Josephs Website Review

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For this week's jewelry website review, I'm venturing over to Des Moines, Iowa. The goal of this website review is to find different things that you can learn from to improve your own jewelry website.

I started my search this week in Google with the phrase "jewelers des moines," witch returned a local list of 7 retail stores. I chose the first one on the list: Josephs Jewelers

Here's the website: http://www.josephsjewelers.com; you might want to open it up to follow along as you read this review.

I felt very conflicted by my initial reaction to the home page and 3 things I found there.

1. The main title of the page starts with "Without Question, Josephs," which turns out to be their slogan. I'd like to say that, without question, the first 2 words...
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Friday, September 20, 2013

Trice Jewelers Website Review

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Trice Jewelers Website Review 7937-daily-golden-nugget-825Today's city stop along the road of website reviews finds us in Denver, Colorado where I did a quick search for "jewelers denver" to see our review candidates.

Every Friday, I take a random look at a jewelry store's website to find the good and the bad that you can learn from and apply to your own website. Here's how this week turned out.

The results for "jewelers denver" returned Trice Jewelers as the #1 organic result showing above the 7 business listings from Google+ Local.

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Friday, September 13, 2013

The Real Mother Goose Website Review

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The Real Mother Goose Website Review 9489-daily-golden-nugget-820I was introduced to a website during the last week that turned out to be a really good candidate for my Friday Website Review. In addition to selling jewelry, they also have a collection of art and furniture from local American artists. My hope is that you will find something in this review that helps you to better your own business.

Here's the website: http://www.therealmothergoose.com; you might want to open it up to follow along as you read this review.
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AT: 09/13/2013 03:26:04 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, September 06, 2013

Martin's Jewelers Website Review

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Martins Jewelers Website Review 7667-daily-golden-nugget-815If you're looking to open a new jewelry store in a city with little competition then take a serious look at Walla Walla, WA! I just did my typical "jewelry stores walla walla, wa" search and found only 2, maybe 3 jewelers in that city. The first 2 jewelers, Martin's and Falkenbergs, have websites, but the 3rd only has a Google+ listing.

Martin's Jewelers website is http://www.martinswallawalla.com/ and Falkenbergs Jewelers website is http://falkenbergs.com/. It looks like Falkenbergs gave up their website in November 2008 and the Ma...
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AT: 09/06/2013 05:15:50 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, August 30, 2013

Butterfield Jewelers Website Review

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Butterfield Jewelers Website Review 8187-daily-golden-nugget-810I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque... Well, actually, like Bugs Bunny, that's where I went this week to find my candidate for the latest website review. The goal of this review is to shed some light on how another jeweler built their website and perhaps learns something from them.

Here's the website: http://www.butterfieldjewelers.com; you might want to open it up to follow along as you read this review.

Usability Issues:

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AT: 08/30/2013 04:57:49 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, August 23, 2013

Palas Jewelers Website Review

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Palas Jewelers Website Review 135-daily-golden-nugget-805 In this edition of the Friday Jewelry Website Review I'm targeting jewelers in Atlanta, GA to find a good example of a website we can all learn the good and bad from. Using Google's Chrome browser in incognito mode I searched for "jewelry stores atlanta ga" and was presented with 7 options for local jewelers. I selected the 3rd jeweler in the list because they were clearly an independent retail jeweler like most of my readers.

Here's the website: http://www.palasjewelers.com; you ...
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AT: 08/23/2013 04:49:43 AM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, August 02, 2013

Dunay Jewelers Website Review

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Dunay Jewelers Website Review 9843-daily-golden-nugget-790This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review. The goal of this review is to show a retail jeweler how they should objectively look at their own website to find needed improvements. Instead of random SEO and design theory, you can see it directly in a live example.

Here's the website being reviewed today: http://www.dunayjewelers.net,
you might want to open it up to follow along as you read this review.

Dunay Jewelers is located in Wilkes Barre, PA. The website only has 8...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Gumer and Co Jewelry Website Review

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Gumer and Co Jewelry Website Review 4910-daily-golden-nugget-785Today I'm peeking into Louisville, KY to find a local jeweler for a website review. The idea is to find someone who's making a few mistakes with their website that you can learn from. Follow along and hopefully you'll find this website review insightful and useful.

Here's the website: http://www.gumerjewelry.com/
you might want to open it up to follow along as you read this review.

What I Didn't Like About the Site:

* First of all I was surpri...
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AT: 07/26/2013 08:55:35 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, July 19, 2013

Amidon Jewelers Website Review

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Amidon Jewelers Website Review 2430-daily-golden-nugget-780This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review to help you learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website.

I receive the Amidon Jewelers email on a regular basis and decided to look at them with an objective eye for today.

Here's the website: http://www.amidonjewelers.com, you might want to open it up to follow along as you read this review.

What I Liked About Their Email Marketing:
They hired an email marketing c...
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AT: 07/19/2013 08:07:18 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, July 12, 2013

Silverado Jewelry Website Review

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Silverado Jewelry Website Review 8215-daily-golden-nugget-775Every once in a while a random question or comment is yelled across the office. Earlier this week I yelled out "I need a random city and state!" The reply I got was "Newton, Iowa!"

So this week's Friday Jewelry Website Review candidate was found by searching for "jewelry stores newton iowa." The goal of this review is to help you learn more about your own website by looking at mistakes made by one of your peers.

The Google results for that search surprised me because it didn't include a list of stores or a map. In fact the...
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AT: 07/12/2013 11:32:04 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, July 05, 2013

Devon Fine Jewelry Website Review

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Devon Fine Jewelry Website Review 8528-daily-golden-nugget-770This is my Friday website review where I dissect parts of a random retail jewelry website to help you understand more of the ins and outs of your own website.

To find this week's review candidate I searched Facebook for "jewelry stores" and found more than 48 local listings. I randomly chose the first jeweler on page 3 of the Facebook search results then clicked on their About Us information to find their website.

Here's the website: http://www.devonfinejewelry.com<...
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AT: 07/05/2013 11:05:17 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, June 28, 2013

Adam's Jewelry Website Review

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Adams Jewelry Website Review 3819-daily-golden-nugget-765This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review. By looking at the mistakes other jewelers make, you can learn some great things about your own website.

For this week's review I searched "jewelry stores near me" on my Android phone while spending time in Stroudsburg, PA. The Google Places results included Kay Jewelers, Piercing Pagoda, and 4 local jewelry stores. I chose the first local jeweler in the Places list: Adam's Jewelry.

The web address shown in Google's results is h...
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AT: 06/28/2013 09:46:19 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, June 21, 2013

Bailey Banks & Biddle Website Review

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Bailey Banks & Biddle Website Review 5945-daily-golden-nugget-760WOW! There certainly are a lot of jewelry stores in Houston, Texas! I Googled "jewelry store Houston" and the map shown in the search results page was littered with red dots. Although there were 7 jewelry stores in the list of Places, I decided to select the first organically listed store below that for this week's website review.

The goal of this Friday Jewelry Website Review to help you learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website.

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AT: 06/21/2013 10:42:44 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, June 14, 2013

Readers Fine Jewelers Website Review

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 5242-daily-golden-nugget-755This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review to help you learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website.

To find the candidate for this week's website review I searched Google for the phrase "jewelry store santa monica" using the Chrome web browser in incognito mode. The top 3 organic results were Yelp and a KABC news story about a local robbery on April 15, 2013. I chose the first listing of the 7 local jewelry stores Google showed in their Places list.

Here's the website: http://www.re...
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AT: 06/14/2013 11:35:38 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, June 07, 2013

Summerlin Jewelers Website Review

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Summerlin Jewelers Website Review 1185-daily-golden-nugget-750This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review to help you learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website. This is the second week that I've chosen a jeweler from the Las Vegas are in honor of the JCK Show: Summerlin Jewelers

I did a quick Google search for "site:summerlinjewelers.com" to see how many pages were indexed by Google and found 2,410 results. That's a fairly good start for a jewelry website with a product catalog... as long as their SEO is also set up well.

I was a littl...
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AT: 06/07/2013 11:34:34 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, May 31, 2013

The Jewelers of Las Vegas Website Review

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The Jewelers of Las Vegas Website Review 3656-daily-golden-nugget-745This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review to help you learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website.

In honor of the JCK Show in Las Vegas I decided to search for "jewelry stores las vegas" to see who was in the area. The first jewelry store in the Google+ Local list was MJ Christensen Diamonds. I was a little wowed when I look at their site because they are doing everything right. Not much to learn from their mistakes so I had to move on to the next jeweler in the +Lo...
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AT: 05/31/2013 07:52:19 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, May 24, 2013

Richter & Phillips Co Website Review

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Richter & Phillips Co Website Review 4239-daily-golden-nugget-740This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review to help you learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website.

For this week's review I randomly chose to search for a jewelry store in Cincinnati, Ohio. Specifically I searched for "jewelry stores cincinnati area" and found 7 potential stores to review. I chose the first one shown in the Google Local results.

Here's the website: http://www.richterphillips.com, you might w...
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AT: 05/24/2013 09:28:31 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, May 17, 2013

Elegance Jewelers Website Review

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 8284-daily-golden-nugget-735This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review to help you learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website.

Here's the website: http://www.elegancejewelers.com, you might want to open it up to follow along as you read this review.

At first glance this website looks very nice. There are 4 images across the top of the page, a clean looking menu, large phone number, and even the store hours. There's even a nice "Welcome" banner in the middle of the page.

Overall, it has a nice "firs...
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AT: 05/17/2013 02:08:14 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, May 10, 2013

Sergio's Jewelry Website Review

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Sergios Jewelry Website Review 5027-daily-golden-nugget-730This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review to help you learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website.

To find my review candidate this week I used Yelp to search for jewelry stores in Dallas, Texas. The first 2 pages of Yelp results I saw were filled with either large chain stores or jewelry designers. Then the first two jewelry stores on page 3 had dead websites. In the #3 position on Page 3 was Sergio's Jewelry LLC, located at 9440 Garland Rd in Dallas, TX.

The Sergio's Jewelry li...
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AT: 05/10/2013 12:57:44 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, May 03, 2013

Alletti Jewelry Website Review

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Alletti Jewelry Website Review 604-daily-golden-nugget-725This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review to help you learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website.

I have an interesting story to tell about how I chose the website for this review. Last weekend while enjoying a leisurely walk through Bordeaux, France, I looked on my smartphone to find a review candidate.

Google results from a smartphone are usually very highly localized when searchi...
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AT: 05/03/2013 03:22:40 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, April 26, 2013

Bailey's Website Review

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Baileys Website Review 452-daily-golden-nugget-720This is the Friday Jewelry Website Review to help you learn more about your own website by looking at a review from another jeweler's real website.

The website I've chosen for today is Bailey's Fine Jewelers which has 5 locations throughout North Carolina.

Here's the website: http://www.baileybox.com, you might want to open it up and follow along as you read this review.

First, I'd like to mention how I found this website. I searched Google for the phrase "jewelry store" to see what wou...
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AT: 04/26/2013 01:26:38 PM   0 COMMENTS
Friday, April 19, 2013

Random Jewelry Website Review

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Random Jewelry Website Review 3626-daily-golden-nugget-715I'm going to try something new today, something I've wanted to do for quite a while but just never started... a random review of a jeweler's website.

The goal of this review is to point out things that will improve usability, identify things that will negatively impact search engine optimization, and point out things that I felt were done well.

FTC Notice: I'm randomly choosing a website and I won't be telling the independent retailer that I'm doing a review. Unless someone else tells them, they will only find out about this revie...
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AT: 04/19/2013 04:42:34 AM   0 COMMENTS
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Implementing Your Own QR Code Jeweler Reviews

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In yesterday's Daily Golden Nugget we gave you results from a QR code micro test we conducted over the last 7 months. We found that QR codes could be successfully used inside your store as a way to lead consumers to a review website.

When customers have to wait anywhere from 1 minute to 5 minutes, they will take the time to scan a QR code hung in the waiting area, then either read or leave a review.

We think it's important to note that the QR codes in our test were hung on a wall close to the customer rather than on the wall behind the counter. It is our opinion that physical proximity matters. One just does not expect to be allowed to take their phone and take a photo of something behind a salesperson.

Here are the steps to making this work in your own jewelry store:


1. Choose a review site.

This...
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AT: 03/29/2012 11:18:47 PM   0 COMMENTS
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

QR Code Test Results: Jeweler Reviews

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We're at the point in time where modern technology can influence consumer buying decisions within seconds through the use of mobile devices. We're not talking about mobile websites or intentional mobile marketing but rather online reviews and testimonials.

Through various blog posts Google continues to affirm that 1 out of 5 searches are related to a customer's location. Those location searches trigger the organic results to include Google Places listings and online review websites. Most of the time each of these results is accompanied by a set of star ratings.

Google tweaks the SERP layouts continuously. As of this writing, the review stars appear in the AdWords ads, Citysearch.com listings, and Yelp listings. Note that Google specifically includes the stars next to the AdWords ads instead of the Places listings in the...
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AT: 03/28/2012 10:02:07 PM   0 COMMENTS
Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Holiday 2011 Run-Up: Importance of Product Reviews

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Review websites are popping up everywhere. Not too long ago, the only review sites we worried about were Google Places, CitySearch, Yelp, InsiderPages, MerchantCircle, and a few others. In the Spring of 2010, Google was so hungry for reviews they created new HTML tags to tell Google when a review was showing on a page.

Since then, reviews online have exploded because digital marketing agencies realized the power behind the tool. Does your marketing agency get it yet?

The review services mentioned above are typically out of your control, or you may have to jump through a few hoops to manage the reviews. Other online reviews can appear on your Facebook Business Page or on your website, and these are easier to control.

Your first ACTION ITEM for today is to contact your web programmer and tell them you want a review...
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AT: 10/05/2011 11:40:21 AM   0 COMMENTS
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