Antique Fireplaces - New Category Added

We've just added a new category to Sellingantiques.co.uk - though its called Antique Fireplaces it covers all antiques related to fires eg surrounds, fire guards, ornaments etc. A big thanks to Michael Holt Antiques for really boosting this category!

Antique details pages

We have updated the scrolling summary text found on all antique detail pages...all makes for a smoother read.

Antiques Listings - on Sellingantiques.co.uk

We have now added information on each listing which gives the web visitor a better indication of when items have been added to system...we hope you agree that it gives a much fresher feel to the site..comments welcome as always to contact@sellingantiques.co.uk

The Emporium Hungerford - join Sellingantiques.co.uk

We're delighted to let you know that The Emporium at Hungerford have just signed up as members of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome to the team at The Emporium. If you're in the area (Newbury etc) then why not exit the dual carriageway and pop in to visit - you'll find a wonderful 17th Century building and a wonderful range of antiques....

"Antiques" on Google.

Well...we're now at position 4 for keyword "antiques" or keyword "antique". This means that Google sees Sellingantiques.co.uk as an authority site for antiques. You can try it for yourself - just go to Google and type in "antiques" or "antique".

Tom Franklin - signed up as new member

A huge welcome to Tom Franklin to Sellingantiques.co.uk - we're sure you're going to be delighted about the stock that will be uploaded - prepare yourselves!

Sellingantiques.co.uk - a bit technical

Our upgrade to the new state-of-the-art web server is now complete. The hosting company that Sellingantiques.co.uk uses is Rackspace. Rackspace are one of the most respected hosting companies on the planet. The upgrade was completed on 25 Feb 2009.

We are most proud to use Rackspace to provide the Sellingantiques.co.uk server.

Rackspace provide 100% uptime, which means that antiques are always available for sale on the website.

The new server is fitted with Cisco PIX security firewall which means that unwanted viruses don't get a look in.

The server is also fitted with a dual core processer which means that Sellingantiques.co.uk now works even faster (difficult to beleive I know!)

Now and Then - joined Sellingantiques.co.uk

A big welcome to Now and Then who have just signed up to Sellingantiques.co.uk - thanks and prepare yourselves for the wave of sales coming your way!

Primitive Clocks - welcome to Sellingantiques.co.uk

Primitive Clocks are our latest member of Sellingantiques.co.uk - a real specialist in exquisite clocks. Welcome!

Children Once - reuqest website from Sellingantiques.co.uk

Children Once have asked Sellingantiques.co.uk to manage their website for them. A big thanks to them!

Arcadia Antiques - welcome

Arcadia Antiques have just signed up as members of Sellingantiques.co.uk - prepare yourselves Arcadia - for a huge dose of sales!

Cross Antiques comes aboard

A huge welcome to Cross Antiques who today signed up for membership of Sellingantiques.co.uk

Sellingantiques.co.uk Trials in 11 Other Countries

We have now launched a Sellingantiques.co.uk advertising campaign to 11 other countries of Europe.

This is a 3 month trial (ends March 09) - so we will be contacting selected dealers to see if this expansion of our marketing reach is having the desired effect on sales.

Countries where we are spending our marketing budget include:

. Austria
. Belgium
. Denmark
. Finland
. France
. Germany
. Ireland
. Netherlands
. Norway
. Sweden
. Switzerland
. United Kingdom

With our search engine optimisation techniques, Sellingantiques.co.uk is also known throughout the world

Peter Chapman Antiques Joins Sellingantiques.co.uk

Welcome to Peter Chapman Antiques who have just signed up as a new member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. We wish them every selling success!

Circa 1900 Joins Sellingantiques.co.uk

Welcome to Circa 1900 who have just signed up as a new member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. We wish them every selling success!

Reindeer Antiques Ltd

Welcome to Reindeer Antiques Ltd who have just signed up as a new member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. We wish them every selling success!

Castleforge Antiques Ltd Joins Sellingantiques.co.uk

Welcome to Castleforge Antiques Ltd who have just signed up as a new member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. We wish them every selling success!

Farrelly Antiques Joins Sellingantiques.co.uk

Welcome to Farrelly Antiques who have just signed up as a new member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. We wish them every selling success!

Phil Masters Antiques joins Sellingantiques.co.uk

Welcome to Phil Masters Antiques who has signed up as a member of Sellingantiques.co.uk.

SW Antiques joins Sellingantiques.co.uk

We welcome SQ Antiques as a member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. As with all our dealers we are sure to be successful in boosting antiques sales.

Mikes Antique Clocks joins Sellingantiques.co.uk

We delighted to welcome Mikes Antique Clocks as a member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. Mike is a specliast clock restorer and also offers antique clocks for sale.

Annterior is welcomed to Sellingantiques.co.uk

A big welcome to Annterior who we are delighted to say are our second antique dealer to join for 2009. We are looking forward to driving antique sales and leads to Anne and her team at Annterior.

Parnell Antiques joins Sellingantiques.co.uk

Today we welcomed Parnell Antiques to Sellingantiques.co.uk - our first new member for 2009. We know that we will be hearing some great success stories from Chris at Parnell Antiques. Chris also asked Sellingantiques.co.uk to create a website for the company - after registering the domain, the website was up and running within the day. You can visit the website at www.parnellantiques.com.

Twyford Antiques joins Sellingantiques.co.uk

Just in time to start the new year, Twyford Antiques have signed up for Sellingantiques.co.uk. On behalf of all the members of Sellingantiques.co.uk we welcome them on board and await their stories of selling success. Sellingantiques.co.uk also had the priviledge to provide Twyford Antiques with a website package. You can visit Twyford Antiques at www.twyfordantiques.com.

Michael Holt has chosen Sellingantiques.co.uk

The new antiques website for Michael Holt has just been launched at www.michaelholtandirons.co.uk - Sellingantiques.co.uk are the proud provider of this website. Michael is a specialist in fireplace accessories...so if your roasting chestnuts this Christmas, get on over to Michaels site!

Speed of page loads - work complete

With a vast amount of antiques within the Sellingantiques.co.uk website we noticed that pages were becoming a little slow to load.

Well....without delay we started work to speed things up.

Using the latest web techniques we have managed to increase page load by over 300% - at the same time as displaying, not 8, but 40 antiques per page.

So all in all - great news for everyone.

Hickmet Fine Arts joins Sellingantiques.co.uk

We're delighted to say that Hickmet Fine Arts have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You can view their stock page here.

Webberley Antiques joins Sellingantiques.co.uk

We're delighted to say that Webberley Antiques have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You can view their stock page here.

Matthew Pack Fine Mirrors joins Sellingantiques.co.uk

We're delighted to say that Matthew Pack Fine Mirrors have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You can view their stock page here.

Webberly Antiques

We're delighted to be given the chance to offer Webberley Antiques a 30 Day Free Trial Membership of Sellingantiques.co.uk. We wish them every success!

Sellingantiques.co.uk - Postion 3 on Google for "antiques"

The financial investment in Search Engine Optimisation is now bearing fruit for Sellingantiques.co.uk.

The keyword "antiques" generates huge amounts of website footfall. Well...

Sellingantiques.co.uk is now ranked No. 3 for keyword "antiques"

You can check out the link on Google here

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=antiques&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B5GGGL_enES296ES296

WEADA have chosen Sellingantiques.co.uk

Its with great pleasure to announce that WEADA, West of England Antique Dealers Association, have chosen Sellingantiques.co.uk to design and power their new website.

The new WEADA website has now been launched and you can view it at www.weada.co.uk

WEADA is the antiques association for Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall and has a membership of almost 100 antique dealers.

So a big thanks to everyone and wishing WEADA every success!

The New "Print-Receipt" Accounts System

Finally the new accounts system is up and running.

This means you will be able to print off your receipts for payments you have made to Sellingantiques.co.uk. You will no longer receive an email copy of your receipt.

Simply click on the new blue "payments button" at the bottom of your list of blue buttons in your control panel.

"The Antique Book" - Write a Chapter

Here are some key reasons to write a chapter for "The Antique Book" by Sellingantiques.co.uk

1. As there is a link to your listings on every chapter you write, you'll increase sales and enquiries
2. Increased visibilty and publicity to the 1000's of daily visitors to Sellingantiques.co.uk
3. We'll refund your Sellingantiques.co.uk monthly payment if you write a chapter
4. Improved SEO as there is a link to your listings and website (if you have one)

So... let your antique knowledge rip and write a chapter about anything antique!

Read all about The Antique Book.

Congratulations to Richard Hoppé - Featured in BBC Homes and Antiques Dec 2008

Richard Hoppé, one of Sellingantiques.co.uk longstanding members, is featured in the upcoming December 2008 issue of "BBC Homes and Antiques". There's a huge article about collecting scent bottles (you'll see from Richards webiste that he really is a huge expert in this area). Well done to Richard. You can visit the Richard Hoppé website here

Welcome to Cottage Antiques

We're delighted to say that Cottage Antiques have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You can view their stock page here.

Members List on all Sellingantiques.co.uk Pages

The list of Sellingantiques.co.uk members shown on the right of every page has been updated.

The list is getting so long that we are now unable to show the telephone number. So we've cut back a bit and will now only be showing the business name of the antique dealer

This should mean pages load alot quicker and should avoid the need for visitors to do too much scrolling.

Antiquedesks.net Write First Chaper for Sellingantiques.co.uk "The Antique Book"

A big thankyou to Antiquedesks.net for submitting the first chapter of "The Antique Book" (The Antique Book is going to be a huge collection of chapters about antiques written by Sellingantiques.co.uk members). They have written a great chapter about caring for antique furniture. It will be added to "The Antique Book" as more chapters are received.

Sellingantiques.co.uk Created New Website for Nystday Homes Antiques

Sellingantiques.co.uk are delighted to announce that they have provided the new website for Nystday Home Antiques. Sellingantiques.co.uk registered the new domain and set up all technical aspects to the website within 48 hours! You can view the new website at www.nystdayhomesantiques.co.uk

The Antique Book - Updated

As you probably know we are creating a huge "Antique Book" created by members of Sellingantiques.co.uk.

Well....we are very keen to get going with this book and want to make an offer to you.

IF YOU WRITE A CHAPTER FOR THE ANTIQUE BOOK THEN WE WILL REFUND YOUR MEMBERSHIP PAYMENT FOR THAT MONTH. WE HOPE THIS GIVES YOU THE ENCOURAGEMENT TO WRITE ABOUT YOUR GREAT WEALTH OF ANTIQUES KNOWLEDGE.

OUTLINE OF HOW TO WRITE A CHAPTER FOR "THE ANTIQUE BOOK" :

1. You can write about any area of antiques (areas that interest you will make a good read)
2. Your chapter should be a minimum of 1000 words (no upper limit)
3. You can inlcude photos if you wish

Basically anything goes! (as long as its about antiques)

FULL DETAILS OF HOW TO WRITE A CHAPTER ARE SHOWN BELOW.

We wanted to make this offer to you instead of the £250 Amazon voucher previously mentioned.

We hope this might offer an incentive for you to get that wealth of antiques knowledge into The Antique Book.

Here are the details about The Antique Book (in case you missed the last email)

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We at Sellingantiques.co.uk are constantly amazed by the quality of knowledge of our antique dealer members.

We'll for weeks we have been thinking hard about how to bring all of this knowledge together into one place.

Thus, "The Antique Book" was born.

The Antique Book will take the form of a free eBook viewable at Sellingantiques.co.uk. It will have unlimited chapters and will be updated each time we receive a new chapter from an antique dealer member.

We estimate that 1000's of visitors will view the ebook each day.

We want you to write a chapter for our new FREE antiques eBook that will be shown on Sellingantiques.co.uk.

You can send us as many chapters as you wish (remember that each chapter needs to be a minimum of 1000 words). You can send us chapters as often as you wish.

We want you to feel free to write about anything antiques related but also wanted to give you a few guidelines.

1. Create a title for your chapter
2. Write about any area related to antiques or the antiques trade.
3. Chapters should be a minimum of 1000 words (about 2 pages) - though it can be as long as you wish - no upper limit!
4. Your name should appear at the bottom of the chapter.
5. The content must be your work (we don't want to get into copyright trouble)
6. The chapter should be ready to paste into the ebook (we don't want to be editing it!)
7. You allow Sellingantiques.co.uk to place all content you write into the eBook.
8. Each chapter will be automatically copyrighted to the author.

Completed chapters should be emailed to contact@sellingantiques.co.uk (simply reply to this email with your completed chapter).

IF YOU WRITE A CHAPTER WE WILL REFUND YOUR MEMBERSHIP PAYMENT FOR THAT MONTH.

Some ideas about chapters to write:

- You could write about areas you specialise in
- You could write about how to value antique art
- You could write about how to value antique furniture
- You could write about how to value antique bookcases
- You could write about how to value antique silver
- You could write about behind the scenes of the antiques trade
- You could write about how to source antiques
- You could write about how to value antiques.
- You could write about how to clean antiques (any tips you have)
- You could write about the history of antiques
- How to start an antiques business
- You could write about your experiences with the antiques trade
- You could write about the ups and downs of the antiques trade
- You could write about successes of selling online
- Etc Etc..........

You can probably tell these are our ideas - please do feel free to write about absolutely anything related to antiques and the antiques trade.

Welcome to A & M Antiques

We're delighted to say that A & M Antiques have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You can visit their stock page here.

Sellingantiques.co.uk is on the first page of Google for "antiques"

Our search engine marketing is working a treat! We've just checked Google.co.uk by entering the word "antiques" and Sellingantiques.co.uk is on page 1. "Antiques" is in the top 100 search terms that people search for. You can view our position on Google by going to google.co.uk and entering the keyword antiques.

The Antiques Book

See update above - for 31 Oct 2008.

Sellingantiques.co.uk Create New Website for Fortwilliam Antiques

Sellingantiques.co.uk have provided the new website for Fortwilliam Antiques. Sellingantiques.co.uk registered the new domain and set up all technical aspects to the website within 22 hours! Our fastest website setup yet! You can view the new website at www.fortwilliamantiques.com

Welcome Ici-et-Maintenant

We're delighted to say that Ici-et-Maintenant have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You can view their stock page here

Welcome Affordable Old Furniture

We're delighted to say that Affordable Old Furniture have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You can view their stock page here

Sellingantiques.co.uk Stats - Busy?

Yea, we're busy alright. You can check out the historical data about how many thumbnail photo hits on the site over the past years. Because of our great search engine marketing you'll see where getting hits galore! View sellingantiques.co.uk historical hits here.

Welcome Melvin Restoration

We're delighted to say that Melvin Restoration have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You can view their stock on this page.

Sellingantiques.co.uk Create New Website for Market Cross Antiques

Sellingantiques.co.uk have provided the new website for Market Cross Antiques of Somerton, Devon. Market Cross Antiques is situated right in the middle of the historic town of Somerton. Somerton is just 20 minutes drive from Junction 25 (Taunton) of the M5 and 5 minutes drive from the Podimore junction of the A303. You can visit the new website at http://www.antiquesinsomerton.co.uk

Welcome Midlands Antique Centre

We're delighted to say that Midlands Antique Centre have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You can view their stock on this page.

Welcome Optimum Finds

We're delighted to say that Optimum Finds have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You will see some beautifully taken antique photos on their stock page by clicking here.

Chairs4u2.co.uk - Sponsoring Homepage

We're delighted to say that our Sellingantiques.co.uk member, Chairs4u2.co.uk is sponsoring the Sellingantiques.co.uk homepage until 6 October 2008.

University launches UK's first antiques auctioneer course

A university today launched Britain’s first ever course in auctioneering and valuation.

School leavers hoping to become the next David Dickinson will be taught the secrets of spotting an antique in the two-year foundation degree.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1061098/University-launches-UKs-auctioneer-course-students-learn-spot-antiques-like-TVs-David-Dickinson.html

WEADA Members’ Antiques Fair - The First One!

As many of the members of Sellingantiques.co.uk are WEADA members, we wanted to give the new WEADA Members’ Antiques Fair a mention...

Details are....

This first WEADA Members’ Antiques Fair is now confirmed.

This very special event will be called

The West of England Antique Dealers’ Fair at Taunton

The Fair will run from 24 - 26 October 2008 with a Preview Evening on Thursday 23 October

The venue will beTaunton School Sports Hall, Taunton, Somerset

To be organised by Cooper Events Limited on behalf of WEADA

For all enquiries please contact Cooper Events Limited,PO Box 15
Burnham-on-Sea
Somerset
TA8 2BY
Tel: (01278) 784912
Fax: (01278) 792687
info@cooperevents.com
www.cooperevents.com

Welcome Artware Fineart

We're delighted to say that Artware Fineart have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You can visit the Artware and Fineart website at www.artwarefineart.com and you can view their stock here.

Welcome Stratford Antiques and Interiors

We're delighted to say that Stratford Antiques and Interiors have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You can view their stock on this page

Antique Dealer Control Panel - "Captions" Explained

Every now and again we get an email asking what "Captions" do. Well..here we go for an explanation...

If you click on the "Tel Email About Us" blue button at the bottom of your control panel you will open your "update contact details" page. This enables you to change your tel number or address etc.

Well...at the bottom of this page you will see "Captions - to be shown underneath your listings".

So what are captions?

Here's the scenario: You want to add a sentence or two to the description of all of your listings. Rather than to copy and paste the same piece of text into each of your descriptions, you simply add the text as a Caption. This means that this caption is automatically added to every listing.

Examples of a caption....

"We're open every day from 10am - 6pm. You can find us off M4 Junction 6. We do offer a delivery service - email us for details"

"Every antique displayed is covered by our 100% money back guarantee. If you're not happy, we'll give you a full refund"

So why are captions so cool?

Lets say you have 100 antiques being displayed on Sellingantiques.co.uk. Using a caption allows you to add generic text to each of the listings. If at any time you want to change the text you only have to update your "caption" and all your listings are automatically updated.

Sellingantiques.co.uk Visitor Stats Explained

This post refers to the visitor statistics shown in the antique dealer control panel.
A common question dealers ask is: What is the difference between the thumbnail views and the detail page views.

Thumbnail (a thumbnail is the small photo) Views:
This figure will be substantially higher than the detail page views. A thumbnail view is registered whenever a category page is loaded or a keyword search is performed. Each of the items on the page shown registers 1 thumbnail view. Normally there are 8 items shown per page so each of the items registers 1 thumbnail view.

Detail Page Views:
This figure will be about 2-5% of your thumbnail views. A detail page view is registered when a user clicks on your thumbnail photo to be taken through to view the detail of the item. Once a visitor clicks through to read the detail then 1 detail page view is registered. Clicking through to the detail page shows some interest on behalf of the visitor.

Hope that helps!

Control Panel Listings

Within the antique dealers control panel we have added the "move to next page" at the bottom of your listings as well as it appearing at the top. Thanks for the anonymous feedback for this suggestion!

Control Panel Update: Comments Box

Within the Sellingantiques.co.uk control panel we have added an anonymous comments box at the bottom of every page. Now antique dealers can send anonymous suggestions, ideas (even complaints, hopefully not too many of those!) quickly and easily.

Visitor Statistics - back up and running

The Sellingantiques.co.uk simple visitor stats have now be re-activated. The stats show you how many times your antique thumbnail photos have been seen, and also how many click thrus to the detail page. If we have provided you with a website, you will need to upgrade to the latest version in order to use these stats. All stats have been reset to zero as on 17 Sept 2008.

"Washstands" and "Lowboys" - New Categories

You'll notice that we've added a new "Washstands" and "Lowboys" category on the list of categories on the left of each page. These are listed under furniture. You can view the new Washstands here and the new Lowboys here.

Welcome to Mill Court Antiques

We're delighted to say that Mill Court Antiques have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You can view their stock page here.

Google Position for "Antiques"

Following our continued efforts with getting Sellingantiques.co.uk to the No 1 position for the keyword antiques. We are now at position 12 on Google.co.uk. This means that we are at the top of page 2. Lets see how long it takes before we are on page 1. You can see our position on Google here

Yahoo Position "Antiques"

We've got a great position on Yahoo UK. if you type in "Antiques" were on page 1. This is bringing in some great traffic volumes. You can view the Yahoo listings for antiques, here

Donegal Antiques - New Website Design

Sellingantiques.co.uk have provided an upgraded website design for Donegal Antiques. You can see the new version of the website at http://www.donegalantiques.com/

Bill Huey Antiques - New Website

Sellingantiques.co.uk have provided the new website for Bill Huey Antiques. Bill Huey Antiques are based in Northern Ireland. You can see the new website at www.billhueyantiques.co.uk.

Visitor Statistics

Visitor statistics are currently not available to antique dealers in their control panels. Due to security enhancements, the statistics system is being re-built and should be finished sometime towards the end of Sept 2008.

Welcome to Deftfield Ceramics

We're delighted to say that Deftfield Ceramics have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You can view their stock page here.

Welcome to Avilon Antiques

We're delighted to say that Avilon Antiques have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You can view their stock page here

Welcome to Period and Decorative Interiors

We're delighted to say that Period and Decorative Interiors have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You can view their stock here

New Search Facility

To enable visitors to easily locate specific antiques, we have added a new search feature to allow visitors to refine the listings shown. This will make it easy for visitors to find exactly what they are looking for. We were finding that the categories were getting rather full (don't forget that Sellingantiques.co.uk lists over 12,000 items), so we've added this new feature to make it easy to refine searches.

Welcome to Knights Antiques

We're delighted to say that Knights Antiques have signed up as a full member of Sellingantiques.co.uk. A big welcome! You can view their stock here.

New £399 Antiques Website is Launched

We supply antique websites to a huge range of antique dealers in the UK - and all websites are supplied at a fixed price. The new "off-the-shelf" website has been launched and a sample can be seen at www.thorntonantiques.co.uk. The design is fixed and you get the chance to choose your own colour scheme (http://www.thorntonantiques.co.uk/colours.asp). Full information about this website can be found at http://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/website399.asp

Hacking Attack - Update

Due to the robust back-up system at Sellingantiques.co.uk the website was unavailble for about 15 miunutes while all databases were restored. To further prevent future attacks we have now put in place a two stage login process for antique dealers. This has further re-inforced our security measures.

Hacking Attack

Sellingantiques.co.uk has been experiencing a sustained hacking attack. Many websites are currently experiencing the SQL Injection attack. This attack seeks to corrupt very large databases. Such attacks are aimed at websites with global prominence.

Google Adverts on Sellingantiques.co.uk

Over the past few weeks you'll probably have noticed small Google text adverts dotted around the pages of Sellingantiques.co.uk. These are known as Google Adsense. They are targetted adverts based upon the theme of the page being viewed. All income generated from displaying these adverts is 100% re-invested in online promotion of Sellingantiques.co.uk. So, by displaying these adverts, our dealers will sell more antiques!