Keyword Tags-which Ones Are Necessary And Which Ones Wont Matter.

No, we already add most of those so you would be doubling up

the ones that won't matter are everyone I type in....lol...Im thinking of typing in such stuff as....Whale on fire in church.

I don't know if it's pointed out anywhere that FAA adds those words to our keywords afterwards. It's a mistake I made when I first started here until I finally saw that I ended up with keyword phrases like "coyote photograph photograph".

Is this info anywhere on the site, Abbie? If not, may I suggest that it's added somewhere so that anyone new to the site realizes that this is done.

A complete list of ones that don't matter would be very helpful so we can add the ones that do matter. I have to do it by trial and error sometimes.

i add photo and a few others as a standalone. they repeat on faa, but they don't on the artist site, and we don't have the use of separate words on that site. you don't have to to say - rock photograph, beach photograph, that's not needed.


---Mike Savad

It is not added anywhere. I will add that to the new FAQ I am doing but I cannot say it will be elsewhere on the site anywhere I am afraid

Glad I wasnt the only one that didnt know this...you would think I could have deduced it from other info about keyword tagging, but No..i did not,,glad it will be added..And boy do I have a lot of work to do..!

This gets a little scary! Under keywords you put in your descriptive words,(and we are told to put in enough to be found) however I am a bit uncertain how they really work. For example if I put in under key words when I upload my artwork , mary armstrong horses paintings , that then shows as a Tag and if someone clicks on it they will see my horses artwork. But if I put in the key words " horses paintings" that shows up in the Tags as horses paintings and if clicked on ...my art is not seen, a bunch of other horses paintings are seen! So how do we put in the keywords that work for us? Should we leave some out that are general or should we always put our name with that general descriptive word? Really wondering how are we to do this to best benefit us? Anyone know?

Mary just put your name in the keywords once and separate it from other words by a comma. If people enter your name and any other word, then all your work with that word will show up. So enter Mary Armstrong, Horse, word1, word2, word3, ,etc. You might not make it to the top of the search for every word but put them in anyway. The search will combine words to match what the searcher looks for. You will always be in the search when someone enters your name and another word.

Bradford, Mary is talking about the fact that the tags are clickable from the list that appears on a given image's page. So if you have "Bradford Martin pencil drawings" as a tag and someone clicks on that from your tags list, they'll only see your drawings. But if you just have "pencil drawings" in your tags and "Bradford Martin" is a separate tag, someone who clicks on "pencil drawings" will be taken to all pencil drawings on FAA (and yours might not even be in that list, depending on your sales record).

But trying to put "Bradford Martin pencil drawings," "Bradford Martin drawings," "Bradford Martin sketches," "Bradford Martin pencil sketches," and on and on in your tags will quickly eat up your 500 keywords.

It is too bad that you've managed to get someone on one of your image pages and it's so very easy for them to be led away. Good for FAA, of course, but bad for the individual artist. I really, truly wish that Sean would make it easier for us to keep customers once we've managed to catch them in the first place!

That's why on most of my images I put my name first. That makes an easy to see link from the image into my portfolio. If I put my name combined with every keyword, that works to move visitors to my other images, but somehow I think that will not put me in the FAA search for those words.