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Sharon Molinaro

9 Years Ago

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Does anyone know why I can't find any of my paintings by searching words? Ex. I have a painting of a pheasant and I search for pheasant paintings on fineartamerica, I get 10 or more pages of pheasant paintings but mine is not included. ( I do have it in the tag lines and description and I do have it listed as a painting) Am I doing something wrong?

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Donna Proctor

9 Years Ago

Hi Sharon,

You have such beautiful artwork/paintings! It's a shame they aren't being seen as often as they might.

I just did a quick search on one of your paintings that caught my attention... Large Mouth Bass:

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I used "large mouth bass" as the keyword phrase and only 5 pages came up. Your painting wasn't included. I suspect it's because you don't have it in your keywords/tags. It's the title of your painting and I think it should be included in keywords. I did a search under paintings for "bass" which includes music, guitars, etc... so you can't rely on that one word in searches.

I did another search under paintings and title and there you were on the 1st page. But... you can't expect that someone will automatically know the title to your beautiful large mouth bass painting. I looked at your lion painting - gorgeous!!! Your keywords are severely lacking though.

I'd suggest you take a look at your keywords and add more... if only the title. Get a little creative and used "large mouth" "large mouth bass" etc, to get your images in more searches.

Hope this helps... beautiful paintings, Sharon! :)

--Donna Proctor
donnaproctorart.com

 

Sharon Molinaro

9 Years Ago

Thank you Donna for the great comments! I will make sure I go through and adjust all of my key word tagging. And thanks for checking out my work!
Have a great day!
Sharon

 

Joseph C Hinson

9 Years Ago

How many pheasant do you have? I search specifically on your page and only two out of your 72 images came up.

 

Sharon Molinaro

9 Years Ago

Hi Joseph,
I just have one pheasant. I just used that as an example. This morning I just decided to test to see if I did a search how far down on the list I would be. And I tried a couple of subjects and I didn't get any of my paintings to come up. So, I just was wondering if I was doing something wrong. I am going to try adding more key words to my tagging. Hopefully that will help.

 

Abbie Shores

9 Years Ago

The search did not update over the weekend....this is on an urgent ticket already and should be rectified any hour now

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

beyond that, the sellers are listed the highest first. you should add more words as well. it also takes 24 hours of soak time even when the search does work.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Sharon Molinaro

9 Years Ago

Thank you everyone for your great comments. I will work on better tagging and wait for 24 hours and hope things show up better.
Have a great day!
Sharon

 

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