ChooseYourPlant
A worldwide community for houseplants lovers
Recently, I made it possible for businesses to add their plant links to our plant guides by a fixed amount of money per month.
The idea is to have many links to buy a plant on each plant guide, where each link indicates where does that shop ships packages and the size of the plant.
I added structured data for better SEO in the plant page (only visible if you check the source code).
Structured data allows google to understand better the content you're showing to the user. This is important because the better structured is the page, the more chance to appear in featured widgets and so on.
I just improved 1% the #SEO 📈 trend of chooseyourplant.com
by adding a hreflang link to the website 👨💻.
🧑🏫 hreflang tells Google the lang you are using, so the search engine can serve that page to users searching in that language.
💬 In my honest opinion, even though the hreflang doesn't improve the ranking directly, it can improve the conversion and reduce the bounce rate, which affects the ranking 🔝.
✅ So, be mindful and add this quick win to your website
#MondayPlantStory 🌱🤓.
Every Monday people who love #houseplants share their story behind how they started growing them. I like to ask about what motivated them to start growing #plants what problems they had, and more 🎙️!
New story 👇:
https://chooseyourplant.com/stories/plant-and-cat-lover-from-poland
Karolina and she is from Poland, and like most of us, she can't keep a fern alive because of the humidity problems 💨 😂.
She has a couple of cats 😺, and loves to spend the weekends with them and her plants 🌱! Her nickname ‘kociokwiatki’ is a combination of these two words - ‘cats’ and ‘plants’
Karolina’s is been interested in plants for 3 years 🗓️. Like everyone, she started with 2 of them (because we’re usually scared). She saw the plants were doing fine, so she started buying more, and more, and more 🛒… And now she has 75 plants already 😱!
Her favorite plant is #AlocasiaBlackVelvet also known as Alocasia Reginula Black Velvet. Alocasias usually require high humidity but this one does fine in average room humidity.
When it comes to a morning routine, she says:
“I start with watering 💦 and fertilizing 👩🔬 if the season requires it. I also try to thoroughly clean the leaves of dust. With so many plants, it really takes a lot of time but it's very relaxing for me. 💆♀️"
“I also check the leaves then - looking for any signs of disease or parasites 🐛. If there aren’t any I breathe a sigh of relief and if there are... then the fight begins! Unfortunately, I am currently facing a scourge of thrips and spider mites, it's very frustrating when you look at dying plants, but you can't give up 💪!”
If you want to read more stories visit chooseyourplant.com/stories 🤓.
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Love this Victor! I've actually created some stories myself for Nutriso and after seeing yours, I'm going to have to get back to reaching out to more community members for THEIR story. Great job :)
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Sure! It takes lots of time, I wish I could do it more, but tbh I have to keep working on the tech product per se, but it gives you a lot of benefits!
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Ficus Lyrata 🌱
☠️ It is toxic. Be careful if you have pets or children!
🌞 Recommended to have it in bright light to improve its healthy growth
🌫️ Does well in average room humidity
🍀 It has big monocolored leaves with a funny shape
📏 It can grow super tall! (up to 787.4 inches approx if given good environment)
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Know a little about this gorgeous ficus that has giant leaves
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Ficus Lyrata commonly known as Fiddle Leaf Fig is a ficus that has become very popular in recent years thanks to how elegant and beautiful it is, the large size of its leaves, and how easy it is to take care of it.
The Ficus Lyrata is a tree native to West Africa that grows in the rain forest and, like all plants, will increase in size as we give it more room to grow, reaching up to 10 meters. Its leaves are a uniform green color, soft, and can measure up to 8 inches.
If you have pets or small children be careful because it is toxic when ingested. That does not mean that you cannot have it, but it does mean that you must exercise extreme caution or attention.
MondayPlantStory 🌱🤓.
Every Monday people who love #plants share their story behind how they started growing #houseplants. I like to ask about what motivated them to start growing #plants what problems they had, and more 🎙️!
New story 👇:
https://chooseyourplant.com/stories/pilea-lover-from-toronto
@potted_joys 's name is Maria (IG account). She always liked #nature and now she has tons of plants at home 🏡.
Her first #plant was a #pileapeperomioides 🍀 and it grew like hell! It had tons of babies which made her so happy ☺️!
She shares it with us that it's impossible for her to keep a #maidenhairfern alive. She has tried everything!
She learned that a lot from @crazyplantguy (IG account). She says 💬: "I find his material to be very informative but also silly and entertaining at the same time".
If you want to share your story with all of us DM me 📨.
I hope you like this episode 🍀.
Yesterday was #MondayPlantStory 🌱🤓.
Every Monday people who love #plants 🌱 share their story behind how they start growing #houseplants ⛰️. I like to ask about what problems they had, what was the motivation, and more 🎙️!
New story 👇:
https://www.chooseyourplant.com/stories/environmental-scientist-who-love-pothos
Rita has always loved how she felt in nature 🌳. That's why she became an environmental scientist 👩🔬.
Surprisingly with 134 plants, she doesn't have any kind of special routine. Every morning she checks every plant she has because each one needs something different 😊.
She wishes someone told her that plants are not something easy 😂😝.
If you want to know more about her feel free to read the 4 minutes interview at https://chooseyourplant.com/stories/environmental-scientist-who-love-pothos
Commonly know as Neon Pothos 🌱
😀 Easy to take care
👃 Air purifier plant
🎋 You can have it as a hanging plant
🧗 You can let it climb totems and other surfaces
☠️ It is toxic. Be careful if you have pets or children!
🌤️ Survives in low light conditions
🌞 Recommended to have it in bright light
🌫️ Does well in average room humidity
🍀 It has small monocolored leaves
📏 It can grow up to 1 meter approx
🏡 Recommended for bathroom, bedroom, office
Join the FREE worldwide community for houseplant lovers ❤️.
👨🎓 Learn how to take care of plants
📸 See how the plant grows with many images
📺 Watch tutorials
🌱 Discover plants similar plants
Epipremnum Aureum Neon is a variety of pothos well known for its distinctive lime color. It is an easy plant recommended for beginners because it thrives in low light conditions and does not require much maintenance, although its growth is slowed down.
All pothos are purifying plants so they are especially recommended for offices, bathrooms, and bedrooms.
Learn more 👇
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@csallen spam here. Is there a way to report this?
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Do you want to discover trusty places to buy plants 🏪 on the West Coast of the United States 🇺🇸? Visit https://chooseyourplant.com/shops
I've collected a total of 166 plant shops and nurseries that sell indoor houseplants 🌱. All the information, as usual, has been collected manually by me.
I talked to hundreds of people that like indoor houseplants and they have recommended some shops.
The list of 166 shops is the result. I'll keep adding plants for the United States 💪.
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Love the website. Looks very professional and well designed. Wishing you the best of luck on it!
How do you plan to monetize the website?
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I still have to figure it out. I have many ideas, but there's a big rejection from the B2B part. I thought about a few features users might pay for.
I see you will do a plant related project as well. If you want to share your insights, I could give you some opinions!
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Yes, I'm working on a plant website as well. I'm more focused on landscape design tooling and outdoor plants though.
One idea I had for monetizing my own site is simply by displaying ads and offering this as a free service.
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Yes... but ads don't pay well. Unless you have a few dozens of thousands of visits. Then, it gives you good money.
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True, but I don't see people paying to use a plant website.. especially since this is a hobby and not a necessity. (which is why I thought of ads)
What features do you imagine people would be willing to pay for?
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I agree that plants are a hobby, but even in the worse moments, people do have hobbies. On the other side, the plant industry has grown a lot last year, and this one specifically because of COVID.
I was planning on building an app where people can introduce their plants, keep track of them, log stuff, create notifications for watering and fertilizing them, indicate when a plant is sick, keep track of the propagations and stuff.
I don't really know if people would pay for that, to be honest. I know a few people that pay nowadays $10 for that (a simple tracking app that does nothing in special)
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This makes sense. I too have read that this hobby has been picking up steam and not surprised that COVID is adding to that pick up.
The app sounds interesting. Are you building chooseyourplant.com to build a community around this first? Wishing you the best of luck!
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I'm trying, yes! I see there's a lot of competition in e-commerces and shops that sell plant accessories. What I'm trying to build is a community.
I added some plant info so I get traffic and now I'm building features for the community. Sign up, I'll do a forum I think, meet people around and stuff like this
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loved the idea! it's a beautiful platform. How is your SEO doing? Let me know if you need any help, I would love to join your company :) Good Luck!
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Thank you so much for the kind words! Right now I'm doing it alone, as a solo founder. I do the programming, social media, marketing, I do some cold emails (not much, only to the shops I added), and I do market and product research as well as the designs and everything.
My SEO is doing fine I think. It could be way better, but for now, It's great! around 8-9k visits/month and growing slower than at first. The project has only been live for 5 month-ish
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that's really great! Haven't seen any founder with so many skills. 8-9k visits are more than a satisfactory number if the platform is only 5 months old. You can also plan to scale your platform to make a community around plant lovers. what do you think?
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yes, I tried it with slack, but as I guessed... Not all plant lovers are techie. this means that slack increases bounce ratio. I'll have to code my own community in the website.
Well, related to the skills... haha I like to learn all the roles so I can be independent
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great! you can just create a community section on your website where people would come to exchange their experience/knowledge/photos of plants, basically, you can try to be a social media for plant lover.
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Do you want to discover trusty places to buy plants 🏪 on the West Coast of the United States 🇺🇸? Visit https://chooseyourplant.com/shops
I've collected a total of 166 plant shops and nurseries that sell indoor houseplants 🌱. All the information, as usual, has been collected manually by me.
I talked to hundreds of people that like indoor houseplants and they have recommended some shops.
The list of 166 shops is the result. I'll keep adding plants for the United States 💪.
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