Is There A Way To Do This? Re: Aw

Yes ... post it on your blog ... it also gets found by outside search if you keep up on it.

http://frank-j-casella.artistwebsites.com/myblog.html

Thanks, Frank. I haven't used the blog portion yet...--- I thought it would be like in FAA where the feature is right under the image ... Oh boy - looks like I have a lot of work to do to catch up. HA!

Much appreciated :-)

Make sure you post a live link in the blog post as on the AW side you don't get that button that you have on the Pixels side for 'more informaion'. So, I put the picture link in both a live link and that button and post it from Pixels. I have all the copy in a word doc for each group and admin and copy and paste, I just then need to add the art title when I post.

Glad this is helpful to you, Maggie. Enjoy your day!

It is helpful although it does mean that I will have to check out the Pixels website as I simply thought it was the same as FAA -- guess I have a bit of research to do too.

Thanks Frank. I'm pretty sure I will be able to figure it out. If not, I'll be back with more questions. :-)

Have a great day too.
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Maggie

You can do the same on FAA ... same as Pixels ... I have just made the transition already so I didn't catch that I used Pixels in this conversation.

Also, when you post a new feature that blog post then moves to the top of the list. I then tweet it and post it on my LInkedIn Professional Page and it usually gets good engagement.

Thanks Frank. You have been extremely helpful
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Maggie

My pleasure, Maggie. Thank you for your interest in promoting your group features.

For those of you not interested in posting your features in your blog, you can still simply tweet your groups when you are featured. This works from the FAA sites but not AW.

Here is my thread on how to do this http://pixels.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2048106

Most people prefer to keep their AW pages totally self controlled. Don't give folks a way off your page.

Hi Maggie

The AW is for personal business use and it was clear when everything was linkable and clickable there that people did not want it that way. They wanted the site to be separate. It is now separate (or more so than it was).

I would not want the features on my AW. That is a link OUT of my site and into that FAA pool of thousands and thousands of other artist and no easy way back.

Now if they would post the feature and now link... that would something I would probably go for. But not suggesting it should be very high priority. Maybe number 8,349 on that priority list.

I was offline because my service provider was upgrading some lines so a bit late to a part of this conversation.

I was actually hoping that on the Artist Website, there would be the little icon on the page which showed it was featured

As for the blog, besides showing images that are featured, which I could post without linking here ( could simply link to a small version that I would keep on my personal website ( http://www.maggieterlecki.com ) and then link to my personal webpage for each image, but I may also want to provide other content. I cannot for the life of me find where to write the blog. If I click on the edit button it simply brings me back to the page to edit what the site looks like and doesn't provide a place to write any content in the blog. Surely it's something silly and I just am a bit blind today.

Community -- blogs -- create new blog.

Everyone is different with all kinds of opinions, but I think the blog is the way to go on this. Random customers who find our work almost certainly don't care what groups we are featured.

Oh, I see, it's done here on FAA and not on our Artist Website. Get it now. Saw that page before, thought it was just a list of blogs to read but didn't realize we would actually write the blog there. On my personal website, I created it in Wordpress so I wasn't expecting to find it this way.

Thank you Joseph, for you help and everyone else that pitched in.

Yes, I had to check that out as I never posted a blog article from AW. But what I see is you can edit a created post but not create a new one from AW.

On Pixels / FAA you can hit the blog tab on your profile and you will find a button to create a new blog. Is this what you're saying, Maggie?

When I started posting this on the blogs I would link to the group instead of the artwork, and I may go back to it. What I found out was once my work is featured if I link to the group then when new features are posted the person will not find my artwork at top. I have Pixels and FAA all over my about page on my AW so I, unlike what Joe said, have no issues with sharing off my AW. My thinking to go back to sharing the group is to just bring attention to the admin and the art they curate .... to show the quality of art and photography that share the features exhibit with mine.

I think I should note that I once used my FAA blog to do just that, blog. However, I am transitioning that to LinkedIn Pulse, their blog platform. I see much more response there than I ever had here from my blog as well as WordPress ( where I only post and image and a sentence ). All of my connections on LinkedIn are built in blog followers, plus I can tap in to the 300 million members on the LinkedIn platform. As I mentioned before, I share the feature posts from here on my LinkedIn Professional Page ..... for these same reasons.

Frank,
I have been thinking about it and what I wanted was that if a potential client visited my artist website for them to know an image had been featured. I think I will edit my descriptions and add that beneath so if they read it they will know. I think someone that buys your work feels better about it if they feel others also think it has value. It helps them feel they have made a great choice. A little like if you buy something and you have read great reviews about the product, you feel happy that you have made a good choice. The website seems to use regular html so it would be easy to bold the word 'feature' and the name of the group, I think that may call attention to it.


I may also blog about it to get more pull from Google and to thank the group admins for featuring my images. This may take some time as I've been here less than 2 months but have something like 85-90 features to thank people for. I may have to cut it into several blog posts - perhaps 'my first 10 features' and then others to make them more palatable to someone checking them out. Once I get them up to date, then I could simply post each time one is featured.

As for LinkedIn, I'm on there, but on the free version and have not yet checked out the Pulse blog platform - to be honest; it's the first I've heard about it right now.

I'm so used to just doing the art and keeping up my personal website but all this extra is new and a little scary for me - I'm feeling a little over-whelmed and not sure that I will get any result as I do not believe I have a target audience. :-P But I'm trying.

Thank you again for all your help. It is appreciated more than you can know. :-)

Maggie, I disabled comments on my AW site.There is no "post a comment displayed".

I'm very pleased that features are NOT displayed. I like my AW site to be clean with no distractions. If you have more comments on one image and only one comment on another, what does that tell a customer? I don't know if comments would persuade a person to purchase an image. I think the quality of the product is another matter.

Maggie -- baby steps. Thanks for your follow up and letting us know.

Well, I did my very first post for the FAA Blog. YAY!

Maggie Terlecki's First FAA Blog - Baby Steps

It's not as well done as yours, (d'uh) but I'm pleased to have gotten it up and running, finally! :-)

Again, thank you all so much, especially Frank, for your kind and generous help.
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Maggie

Looks great, Maggie, keep at it. Many baby steps and you'll be running in no time!

Thanks again. :-)

Maggie -- I am trying to use your idea in the blogs of posting the image link instead of just the image. I do this in my email campaigns but didn't think of it for the blogs. One thing I notice is a lot of dead space at the top of the text area, as the text link causes this. I may change it back for this reason ... as on AW you don't get the 'click for more info' button that you do on FAA and Pixels.

Here is an example http://frank-j-casella.artistwebsites.com/blogs/joshua-in-the-forest-featured.html


By the way, if you continue to post your image links on your blog you might want to consider alt tags, if not already

http://pixels.com/showmessages.php?messageid=1431449

and on faa http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=1431449

Frank.
Now that I've done 2 blog posts, when I open the blog, I don't have all that space (not on Firefox anyways :-) ) as I've put a text introduction at the very top and have decided, yesterday, to take a few minutes to say a little something about how each image came about, hoping this may make the reader more inclined to click o the image for more information.
I'm not too worried what the blog looks like on FAA as I am trying my best to send all traffic to the AW site.

I had completely forgotten about the ALT tag. Right now it has the FAA words, ART PRINTS etc., but it really does make sense to add the info about the what the piece is and title etc., needed for SEO. So many things to think about. Little tweaks like this will really help.

Thank you, again, Frank, for all your assistance. It has been the biggest helping hand that I have gotten here so far.