@JC,
the thing is, I think my customer is the same kind of person that I am. the art that I do is what I like to put on my walls.
So how do I find images I like to put on my walls? I look at images and go.. oh - I like that, let's see it up close, and then I fall in love. I would never go," oh, I want a photo of a still life with peaches and a vase or I'm looking for a specific barn or lighthouse". Maybe some people do that, but certainly not my customer. So they would have to find me through those featured images.
Now I understand that I've not paid my dues and have enough images here for the featured pages but I did think that eventually with enough tweeting, and pinning and google+ing and keywording etc.,etc., etc., I might eventually find some of my work there. But now I see, it will be impossible to achieve this.
Some people have a series of images, like Mike Savad that speaks to certain professions (barbers, for instance). That is not my work. Mine speaks to people that just see something I do and like it. I know of what I speak. I live in a small town and the variety of people that buy my works is far and wide - from doctors, to lawyers, to teachers and banks and even the cultural center. Not one of those images have anything to do with their profession. It's just they found something they fell in love with.
So why am I here? Because I live in a small town, 400 miles from the closest city and the internet is a way to try and get my work sold further out so I can actually not have to worry where my next meal is coming from. Now, I am feeling pretty defeated as I have no targeted audience and my efforts seem to be in vain.