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Art, Artists and the Web: Part 4--What to Do After a Website is Designed
   
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Website Design Firm
Website design firms come in all shapes and sizes.
When choosing which firm you would like to build your website, there are .....
What to do if you are an artist after you finish your website.Website design firms come in all shapes and sizes.
When choosing which firm you would like to build your website, there are .....
Unfortunately, just because youve created a website, does
not mean that anyone will visit it. The first thing to do is visit
a website called "Words In A Row", www.
wordsinarow.com. This is one of the best websites that
explains how to have your website show up on search
engines. This is called "search engine optimization" or
SEO.
There are a number of things that you want to make sure
you want to do and know.
1) Make sure your artists website has a title.
The name of your website should probably be "Your Name
Artist" or "Your Name Art." There are so many web sites out
there that are titled, "Enter", "Untitled", "Welcome". You as
an artist do not want to make this mistake on the Web.
Soliciting Search Engines
As your guide operator through the web, search engines are invaluable when used effectively.
You dont have to be able to create a search engine to use it, and their interface is designed with that in mind.
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2) Make sure you have a description.As your guide operator through the web, search engines are invaluable when used effectively.
You dont have to be able to create a search engine to use it, and their interface is designed with that in mind.
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It is now recommended that your description be 20 to 25
words long. It should be full of "key words". Key words are
words that are the most relevant to your artists website and
that will make it easy for Web visitors to find it. For an artist
key words could be your name, your medium and words like
art and artist.
3) Make sure you have key words.
Key words exist separately from the title. Some people feel
they are important to search engines, some people do not.
Best to make sure and have them. It is now recommended
that you have 20 key words. Try and come up with the ones
for your artists website that are the most relevant.
Blogging Policies, Does Your Business Need One?
Weblogs or Blogs as they are more commonly referred to, have become extremely popular in the last several .....
How much money should you pay to have your website Weblogs or Blogs as they are more commonly referred to, have become extremely popular in the last several .....
show up on search engines?
You can spend a wide range of money or you can do it for
free. Either way, you need to make sure that you educate
yourself about the Web; you will need information, patience
and knowledge.
Search engine optimization is not a science. No one knows
for sure how to make a website appear on the Internet. Stay
away from anyone who makes promises and guarantees.
Also stay away from quick schemes and shortcuts to make
your website show up on the Web. These can get you
banned from Search Engines permanently.
The "rules" of the Web are constantly changing as the Web
adapts to the huge transitions that are consistently taking
place.
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engines change about every six months to a year. One day
your website appears on a major search engine and the
next day it disappears. Billions of other websites are
experiencing the same problem. It takes about a month to
six weeks for the "pros" to figure out what may have
happened. So far search engines do not share this
information. Then there are a series of informative articles
on the Web spreading the news on what appears to be what
search engines now require.
This can be very frustrating, because websites are not like a
painting or a sculpture that when it is finished you can then
leave it alone. As an artist it is a good idea to think of your
website as a constant work in progress. If you look at it this
way, it can be really fun. How many artists would love to go
back and constantly keep working on their work of art; with a
website you will need to do that, so accept that fact and
enjoy it.
Mary Baker 2005
You can visit Mary at her website, Mary Baker Art, at http://www.marybakerart.com, see her beautiful paintings and read her articles
on a variety of subjects including, Art, Artists and Vocation,
Tips on Breaking the Creative Block , Art,Women and
Creativity and the four part series on Art, Artists and the Web.
A list of articles can be found on her Site Map and Mary's
paintings can be seen on every page of Mary Baker Art.