If you’re new to Twitter, or have never quite caught on, now you can get some great training!
I’ve touted 
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While you’re there, check out any number of other training videos. It’s $25 a month and WAY worth it for the information you can access.
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Have you used Lynda.com yourself? What was YOUR experience? What did you learn?
ArtBusinessNews.com has a recent article that tells you three simple ways to get more traffic to your web site. While the tips might take a little upfront work, the simple part is that when they’re done, they’ll work for you.
In a nutshell, they all have to do with getting noticed by the search engines. I’ll list them here, but be sure to read the article for the full scoop on why these tips work.
1. Build a sitemap. A sitemap is exactly what it sounds like…a map of your site that says what every page is and where it is. This is the page that the internet search engine bots ‘crawl’ to find content for their searches. (I know how to do this with a wordpress plugin but I’ll look deeper into it and come back and tel you how to do it for your own web site in an upcoming post).
2. Make sure your links have keywords. I’ve written about that before and it’s self-explanatory. Once you start to think in key word terms your site traffic will improve. If your site is mainly a shopping cart system there is not much place for links. Consider adding some content in addition to your products to draw traffic.
3. Choose your keywords carefully. These are the the words that are in the headers of your web site. Meta tags. It also helps to ‘tag’ your images and links. There should be a field in your html editor (or shopping cart if you are hosted with Pappashop) that calls for key words or meta title. Type in descriptive keywords that you think searchers will use…for every item and every image.
If you found this information useful and want to know more about the business of art, why not leave a comment with your question or drop me an email?
I received a blog comment asking if the tutorials I wrote for automating your digital image editing can be done with Photoshop Elements. Since I haven’t been into Elements since versions 2 I had to google. What I found was both disappointing, encouraging and exciting for you Elements users!
Disappointing because no, you cannot create actions in Photoshop Elements. Encouraging because you can use pre-made Photoshop actions. EXCITING because there is a huge amount of free, pre-made actions! Read the great blog post on Digital Photography for Moms about actions and find out where you can find them free for Elements.
That should get you pointed in the right direction for using actions in Elements…if it doesn’t take off on a total different track with all of the possibilities available.
Thank you for the question and keep them coming!
