Robots

Please revisit the countless threads that have been passed around on this topic....All three you cite are well known Bots. Enjoy them!

bots are bees for search engines. you need them if you want to be seen. don't look at views, they won't help you to sell and will only drive you crazy.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

You need to market your stuff so people can find you. You've been here for five years and have 10.600+ views, some of which are bots. Do your part, too! Get your work seen! There are many great threads on Marketing on this forum. One place to look is the "Help" tab on the main discussion page. I like to think of bots as little "Mr. Robotos" from Styx.

A robot is a mechanical or virtual artificial agent, usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by a computer program or electronic circuitry.

An Internet bot, also known as web robot, WWW robot or simply bot, is a software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet.

Thankyou for all your comments. I guess they are good to have but I don't see them making any difference as to sales!

What are you doing to help your sales?

Just to clarify something that is seldom mentioned, there are good bots and bad bots.

Good bots perform all sorts of functions like the ones we're talking about here. They enhance everyone's Internet experience.

Bad bots are ones ran by mostly east European criminals that are harvesting data to sell on the Darknet. Your PC can become part of one of these botnets if it get's infected with Malware.

The bad bots look like Dennis DeYoung

I read a few of the same problems on the discussion page and it seems like this is very common. But to ask you Chuck - how do you know if it's a good bot or bad bot? Adn Mike I read your marketing 101 and a lot of it makes sense. I guess I don't market enough, (to answer your question Joseph), I just expect it to be out there and someone may find it.

whether its good or bad. it doesn't matter, there isn't anything you can do about it.

chances are people won't just stumble across it, even if you were the only artists in the world online. but there are billions of other artists and your one of them. they won't stumble across you unless you lay traps.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Bad bots don't index your photos. In fact, they couldn't care less. So the bots you see indexing on FAA are all good bots. Bad bots want your credit card number, SS number, and anything else they can steal and sell to the highest bidder.

the really bad bots invade your home, destroy your town, and have lasers for eyes.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

They date your girlfriend and eat everything in your fridge too.

This is what they will look like in the future:

These aren't the best example of major points of internet traffic, but hopefully it helps.

http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography/atlas/more_isp_maps.html

Some Internet providers don't specify location. So you can get a hit from NY, but it's not going to tell you from which borough. I guess there isn't any way to tell which is bot and which is human unless the ip is registered.

close enough.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

I do not believe in this imaginary "robots" are something(like aliens) that we actually need.

Also and the idea that you have to be marketing in some secret formula that only a few of the FAA members are in the know about.. The work is here and that should be enough to be available for anyone interested. Those members who tout great knowledge of successful marketing are really car sales people I am beginning to determine.

Promoting art is something a publicist and a marketing manager is hired to do. These people are not artists but expert sales people.

Otherwise the system appears to be stacked against the average FAA artist member who simply presents their work online for the world to see. To have to be on social marketing forums and other social systems is nothing but time consuming subtractions from the time needed to be working on one's art projects in my opinion.

It all seems so secret a computer language to me. This secret computer/social lingo is not the job of the fine artist who needs ambiance and mental space to create...not social and marketing cluttering activity on the computer.

Yep.

Sooo much whining

Vanessa! So that is what those pesty bots look like! Cool!

lol. I always thought they were more like gnats, Floyd.

Thanks all! I think I'm done with wondering what to do about them. I wish there were others out there looking at my work but if those bots are the major visitors so be it.

Actually a lot of these are also real visitors. Beverly Hills and New York are main routers and so you will have a lot of mobile users show up under those locations.

@Joesph Kudos on the Styx reference. I'd have gone with Robert Patrick.