Not So Sure About This - High Five, Santa. 04-01-19
Ordinary lives, ordinary things - the stuff of life - the cycles, the interconectedness of life on this planet, is the philosophy behind what I try to recreate in my artwork; be they drawings, paintings or other works. Enjoy
I just got the best advice from Artist Photographer, Thomas Ryan about blogging. I had done everything, I thought possible with my blog. For the past 6 or more years I put images on there of my work, for the most part every few weeks, sometimes more. I write a few words about the artwork and every now and then I change the look of the layout. Not one response in all that time. It was obviously not enough!
Seeing links on the WWW: Apparently images don't work so well when people want to find you on the WWW, Thomas Ryan explained to me (he possibly tried years ago, but I didn't get it or I didn't know there was even a question to ask about what I was doing wrong!). I'd made my blog and made it public, what else could I do? This is what Thomas Ryan taught me: It seems, one of the contributing factors as to how someone notices your blog, is phrases and words and sentences, especially repeated ones, that come up in people's searches. From there, someone potentially notices something they are interested in. I am guessing that the frequency of how often you post 'words' may also be a factor in whether people see your blog - as well as the repetition. Now it all makes more sense.
I know to most all this may be obvious when it comes to blogging, but if you don't know what you are doing wrong, or that there is something wrong with what you are doing, you don't know what to ask, or that there is a question to ask in the first place! It also makes sense to me now why when you search for info and find a link, there are words and sentences from the link/ blog underneath and why we use those to guide us to what we are looking for on the net. I really thought it was the blog title and that's all, people would have to look for, and well, it must be just good luck that people find you.
Consistency and Content: Another important factor of blogging is 'consistency and content' to quote Mark E Shellshear, artist, gallery owner and successful blogger. Consistency - a type of repetition as I see it, and Content - the quality of what you do in the blog - make people want to come back for more if what they see holds their interest.
Obviously understanding and applying this knowledge, doesn't mean I'll suddenly get more responses to my blog, but at least I've increased the chances that my blog is more obvious to people out there on the big WWW!
Now lets see if I can also apply the consistency and content model from here on in!
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