Take a look at your online portfolio or art website. If it contains a splash page, it's a whole lot harder for visitors to find your site through search engines - which doesn't help your chances of making a sale.
SEO for Artists: Tips to Help your Art Rank Higher in Search Engine Results
Posted August 11th, 2008.
Posted May 20th, 2008.
Today I won't be explaining a normal search engine optimization technique for artists, or for that matter, an SEO tip at all. Instead, this article is about the proper mindset an SEO-savvy artist should have if they truly want to ...
Posted May 13th, 2008.
If you really want to get someone's attention online, a simple link might do the job faster than sending an email or using a contact form. Why? Because it's human nature to be curious - for instance, every time I ...
Posted March 25th, 2008.
If you want to sell your art online, you need to help people find it. In this article I'll be comparing the two most popular methods for getting people to visit your website - search engine optimization (SEO) and paid ...
Posted February 19th, 2008.
There are three main types of artist websites you'll find online: HTML, JavaScript or Flash websites. What you WANT is a plain HTML site, but keep reading because I’m going to quickly explain each type of artist website and why ...
Posted December 17th, 2007.
Unlike some of my past SEO tips, today I’m going to share a free online tool that you can use to find out where Google is ranking your art website for various keywords and search terms. It’s called SEOdigger, and ...
Posted October 21st, 2007.
Here are some tips for choosing a domain name and creating good page URLs for your art website or art blog. Search engines pay special attention to domain names and URLs, so picking a good domain name is pretty important.
Posted October 15th, 2007.
In the next few paragraphs I’ll explain two methods for immediately drawing attention to your blog posts: the first is pinging and the second is simply smart social networking.
Posted October 9th, 2007.
As I mentioned on Sunday, today's article contains a very easy tip for artists looking to boost their rankings in the search engines. All it takes is the ability to highlight keywords in a text editor or blogging program and ...
Posted October 2nd, 2007.
Today's article is on optimizing the anchor text of each link within your art blog or website. When done right, anchor text optimization helps a lot with search engine rankings—in fact, I'd say it's one of the most important things ...
Posted September 18th, 2007.
By now we know there's more to having your art found online than just putting up a blog or website. Here's another SEO tip for artists that may help: write unique "meta descriptions" for every article or artwork you publish ...
