Hello,
I have an additional url, It is a drop ship site and I am not getting very good traffic to either site. Can someone help be confirm the root cause of this issue, I really need these sites to make some money otherwise this is a complete time suck and waste of resources
I have sywoodworking.com and lambright-chimes.com
Thank you in advance
The root cause is no one knows your website or even you exist.
Add your website to search engines like Google Search Console, promote your website via forums, social media, etc, pay for ads.
Just because you created a store/website it doesnt mean people will automatically know you exist.
You can’t get traffic without a road or path, right? So where is your road coming from? A summer cabin in the mountains isn’t going to get customers if no one knows about it.
Also, why is it going to myshopify domain? Fix your primary domain.
Also, that wall bar isn’t yours. Why would a “woodworking” shop be dropshipping? Any why would you put the original price at 700 dollars marked down to 320? What sale is this? I don’t know of any sale going on right now… maybe a little more honesty and respect for the customer would take you and your business further..
@sywoodworking.com Low traffic on a newer store is usually just a matter of no channels driving people there yet — Shopify doesn’t send organic visitors automatically. Quick checks: make sure your primary domain is set correctly under Settings > Domains (traffic landing on the .myshopify.com URL hurts SEO/trust), confirm your pages are indexed in Google Search Console, and pick 1-2 channels to be consistent with — Pinterest/Instagram tend to work really well for woodworking products, plus a small Meta ads test. I’d also double check your compare-at pricing is accurate, since inflated “was” prices can hurt conversion once people do land. Good luck, the products look solid!
I appreciate the candor, even if it’s layered with a few condescending jabs.
But since we’re being candid, allow me to return the favor.
You put “woodworking” in quotation marks as though you know anything about my business or what we manufacture. Implying that we aren’t an actual woodworking shop because you found a product on the website that we don’t manufacture ourselves is an assumption—not an observation.
Southern Yankee Woodworking is, in fact, a woodworking and manufacturing business. We build our own furniture and products, and we’ve spent years developing those designs, manufacturing processes, and customer relationships. We also sell complementary products that we don’t manufacture ourselves. That isn’t particularly unusual in retail, and it certainly doesn’t somehow invalidate the products we do manufacture.
As for the pricing, you’re welcome to question the strategy. That’s actually the kind of feedback I came here looking for. If something about the pricing presentation creates distrust for a customer, that’s useful information and something I’m willing to evaluate.
The domain issue is also useful feedback, and I appreciate you pointing it out.
What isn’t particularly useful is turning a request for advice about traffic into assumptions about my honesty, my respect for customers, or whether I actually operate a woodworking business.
I asked the community because I’m trying to identify weaknesses in my online strategy—not because I believe I already have everything figured out. Constructive criticism is exactly what I was looking for.
There’s just a considerable difference between “Here are some things I think are hurting your store” and “Maybe a little more honesty and respect for the customer would take you further.”
I’m perfectly comfortable with the first.
And since you value candor, I assume you’ll be equally comfortable receiving the second.
One quick thing i noticed is that on your homepage on sywoodworking.com still has a leftover placeholder “Example product” listed at $19.99 which is worth removing, since it can make the store look unfinished to visitors and search engines.
One thing I’d look at beyond the technical SEO and traffic setup is what people are actually searching for before they find these products.
For both stores check Google Search Console and Keyword Planner to see whether the products have real search demand and whether the site is targeting those searches with dedicated collection/category pages.
For example instead of relying mainly on product pages build pages around specific use cases and buying intent such as “custom wooden [product]”, “handmade wooden furniture” or specific types of chimes. Then link the relevant products from those pages.
If Search Console shows almost no impressions after the site has been indexed for a reasonable period, I’d investigate the keyword/product demand and site positioning before spending money on ads.
Getting traffic is one problem but getting the right traffic is the part solve first.
I would separate this into three questions before changing the theme or adding more apps:
Also check whether the two domains are competing for the same audience. If they sell similar things, it is usually better to give each domain a distinct purpose or consolidate authority rather than split the content and backlinks between both.
If be interested in taking this thru and seeing what solutions you might provide.
I’d be interested in this discussion to learn how or potentially hire someone to do these tasks
As far as I can tell sywoodworking.com redirects to sywoodworking.myshopify.com.
So your domain isn’t your site, it just forwards to a different one. Everything Google indexes gets filed under the myshopify address, your own domain builds up nothing over time, and anyone landing there sees a myshopify.com URL in the address bar, which for a real workshop is a bad first impression.
Go to Settings, then Domains, set sywoodworking.com as primary. Lambright is already configured properly, so that’s a useful side-by-side if you want to see the difference.
You’ve also got company profiles, wholesale accounts and your own delivery fleet, so it seems there’s already a business here. Building consumer traffic to a website is a different job from the one currently paying you and it takes time to get going.
If these sites need to earn sooner than that, I’d aim them at the wholesale side first, ordering pages for existing accounts and that sort of thing, and treat D2C traffic as the longer project.
Thank you sir. I genuinely appreciate that. I have specifically asked several “freelance developers” about that .shopify and they all said that’s a shopify feature, you can’t change that.
I would be interested in doing an audit with you an see of I can improve anything, if your interested.
I made the correction and it was super easy, thank you.
I scheduled a demo of your service for tomorrow at 1330hrs.
I also did have something i noticed while addressing the domain.
I own 3 domains, 2 were spoke about, I have another which is a DTP concept that has not launched yet. angry-yank.com is also a site that is redirecting to my sywoodworking.com, it’s very strange to me but I added a screengrab to show what i see in the settings
Is there something else needed on this? It is suppose to be a separate website that is a completely different product.
thank you for your contribution
Looking forward to meeting tomorrow!
In the meantime, you should be able to hit the Action button below angry-yank.com and then disconnect it.
If it’s genuinely a separate brand with its own catalog, it needs its own Shopify store, which means a second subscription. Until that exists I’d disconnect it from this one.
rshrivastava63’s point about building pages around what people actually search for is the right one, and the good part is you already did it. There are 23 collections on sywoodworking, Bed Swings, Porch Rockers, Adirondack Chairs, Garden Beds, and you wrote a real description for every single one.
Two things are keeping that work from counting. I looked at all 23 and I can’t find the description rendered anywhere on the collection page itself, it only shows up in the page’s structured data, so a shopper never reads it. And none of them has a Search engine listing set, so Google builds the snippet by chopping that description at 320 characters, mid word. Bed Swings currently ends “Perfect for lazy aftern”. Adirondack Chairs ends “these chairs d”. Lambright has the same thing, and there the wind chimes collection, which holds 38 of your 45 products, has no description at all.
The other one is the sywoodworking homepage. The title tag is just the company name, and the description is “Discover our expertly curated collection and transform your space with timeless pieces that reflect the true essence of luxury living.” It never says swing, cedar, porch or rocker. Nothing on that page tells Google what you make.
Thank you for the insight, Once I complete the shipping strategy I will be addressing this, Cheers!
Hi there @sywoodworking.com
Poor traffic is typically a matter of visibility, not the actual domain. I’d open up Shopify Analytics then Search & Discovery to get a sense of where you’re getting visitors from and which products are getting impressions. Then look at your product titles and descriptions, collections and SEO settings for search intent clarity. Ensure that each domain has different content, and isn’t competing each other. If you’re after organic traffic, concentrate on a handful of products and create helpful content targeting the searches your customers actually make.
noted and that’s the approach I started. Thank you
I’ll research this a little deeper. I understand the premise but not the execution, thank you
