Yay! You have a URL and website. Boo! You only have one. But . . . Yay! You’re a savvy businessperson and willing to listen to why you should care about buying more URLs. Here are four reasons you want additional domain names (URLs).
Why You Might Need Additional Domain Names for Your Art Read
We started talking about what it means to curate art and then looked at guidelines for you to do the job yourself. Today I want to give you some ideas to help freshen up your art – not just for others, but for you. You will learn things about your art when you challenge yourself to look at it in new ways. Because we’re meeting in a virtual space, we’ll look at how this might be done on a website, but everything I share here could be applied to a live venue.
Remix Images of Your Art for a Fresh Look Read
It’s fun to pin! It’s fun to post images of your art to Facebook and get instant likes and comments. But, STOP! Before you post your images anywhere else, they should be on your website or blog. I’m not talking about “in progress” images. Those are fine to go ahead and share on social media.
Delay Your Satisfaction For Social Media Rewards Read
Artist Ruth de Vos gave me permission to share this with you to help you plan your blog posts: I made up a little form for my blog post planning. It includes the post title, notes for the post content, a list of my categories, a list of link ups I try to participate in, space for jotting down external and internal links that relate to the post, as well as a call to action.
How To Plan Your Blog Posts Read
If your blog is very separate from your website, you might want to model what I just did on the new ArtBizCoach.com and ArtBizBlog.com sites. It was a last-minute decision, but a big Duh moment. . . . We used the same navigation menu for each site. The only difference is the logo. Otherwise, visitors feel like they’re on the same site. This is a game changer for me. It’s a solution for something that’s been bugging me for years.
If Your Blog And Website Are Separate Read
At some point along the way I decided that I would post to this blog on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. My reasoning was this: – I don’t need to post every day. Period. That’s too much stress. – Mondays are pretty good traffic days. Everyone is getting back to work.
Why Am I Blogging On A Tuesday? Read
I saved my all time favorite plugin for the final installation of my top choices for WordPress plugins: NextGEN Gallery. There is so much that you can do with NextGEN Gallery, the least of which is managing and organizing your work into separate distinct galleries.
Essential WordPress Plugins for Artists: Showing Off Your Art Read
Our websites are often the first place that people experience our work. We don’t want to be apologizing for them! And we want to make sure that people have a meaningful experience when they drop in. Below is my timeline for whipping Art Biz Coach back into shape, with suggestions for doing it for your site.
Whip Your Website Into Submission Read
SEO: Search Engine Optimization. Guest blogger Kim Bruce shares that there are only two things you need to remember when writing good content and making it SEO friendly: 1) your focus keyword and 2) your meta description.
Essential WordPress Plugins for Artists: Search Engine Optimization Read
Hackers are finding the open doors in WordPress and unless you know how to close these doors and batten down the hatches your site is vulnerable to attack. It is just a matter of time until you’re hacked. Artist Frances Clements Fawcett shares in this blog post how it happened to her and how stressful was.
Essential WordPress Plugins for Artists: Security Read
