BTW, Do you have a paint splat for your Avatar? Do you have coming soon in your bio?

Fix that. Especially if your date of joining FAA is more than a month old. You do want to be taken seriously...right?

For your bio: don't be too wordy and list every award you've ever won or all your degrees. Make it short and sweet. Viewers have a short attention span.

For your avatar: Pick a photo of you that shows who you are or use a photo of one of your paintings. Don't interchange it with other images very often or ever as you want to be recognized. This, of course, is just my opinion, but an educated one.

Good luck to you all! Your hard work will pay off. :-)

Great advice, thank you for posting!!!!
Now I must think of some good words.......

Great topic and ideas here, Jani, thanks :)
and perhaps I might add ...

do not use keywords if they do not describe your work.

I've seen many listed as graphite in the FAA search engine, when they are clearly paintings, and vice versa.

I would think most of the search engine attached keyword folders do need to be as large as they are.

It is frustrating for me to try out mykeywords, and find many works that donot belong in the section,
and thereby I can just imagine how frustrating it must be for potential clients and buyers.

just my opinion.
thanks again Jani, and all members, wonderful group :)
~ nana

You're welcome, Kathy. :-)

I agree with you, Nana. I have noticed the same issue.

I understand that FAA eventually removes the spamming keywords especially when it is reported, but it takes a while. And, yes, it is keyword spamming when it isn't related to your image.