How Linkedin Will Save You On Google Search

By the way, while you're on LInkedIn take a moment to join or comment on the 'Artists and Photographers of Pixels' group!

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Artists-Photographers-Pixels-8141980/about

Unfortunately my name is so common that Googling it is of no use, even if you add "artist" to the search, add "Utah" also and finally I show up.

Interesting you say that, David. One thing about LinkedIn is that it is its own search engine. It will read your profile headline when someone does a search for "artist" as you suggest.
Also, when a person does a search just for David King the option below is the forth on the page on Yahoo! which opens to LinkedIn an a list of all the David King profiles on the platform. From there you have fields to fill in with advanced search options.


David King profiles | LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/David/KingCached

View the profiles of professionals named David King on LinkedIn. There are 25 professionals named David King, who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and ...

Forgive me for being a little dense with this stuff, I had to read your post several times before I began to understand it. I did the yahoo search, clicked on the linkedin link and got the list of David King profiles but didn't see any options to narrow the search. That linkedin link doesn't come up on a Google search for David King. I'm hesitant to open up a LinkedIn account at all let alone as an artist. I'm not a full time artist, it seems more likely I'll need a LinkedIn account to help me find a new mechanical designer job some day.

joined

Tim -- Welcome. Saw you in the group and accepted you to post comment and such. Thanks!

David K. you are not dense ... you ask some important questions. First I'm very surprised it doesn't come up on the first page of Google of all places. The article indicated 85% do, and I thought that was being conservative ... so you proved that point. However you do come up on Yahoo and Bing and DuckDuckGo on page one.

With that said the advance search in LinkedIn on the left column ... their is a search field for industry ... the person looking for you would put in that box 'art'. You can post multiple occupations on your profile header, I do, and I encourage it because online the more transparent you are the more trust you convey to developing relationships.

I think you should join LinkedIn because ( other that Google it seems ) it will help bring your name, your brand, to the front page of search ... indirectly.

Thanks Frank, I'll look into doing that eventually, I'm adding social networking stuff bit by bit but being a part timer with the art there's only so much I have the time to do, and I'm really not doing a very good job with the sites I'm on apparently.

Thanks again for your questions, David, as I'm sure others may have the same ... yes, do one thing at a time and do it well, then move to the next.

What's the big deal with Linked In? I tried it and was not impressed.

JL,

I am not sleeping well tonight....burning the wee hour oils.....

Linkedin is what you make of it. Primarily you can find folks who might be in different publishing positions in NYC or Chicago etc.....
You can create a network with all sorts of folks in the art world or marketing world.

It is exposure. That is always good. Is it sales? Not right away. Is it business? YES!!

I do not lean on Linkedin heavily. I have a small but respectable presence there. That for now is good enough.

I actually just last week got back to LInkedin and updated my bio and put in an artists statement as my summary.
I made my profile far more professional.

Life is what you make of it. Social media needs shaping.

Dave

Hello Frank,

Is there a link where I can find out the differences between FAA and Pixels?

J L -- Did you read the article at the link in my op? It's filled with what the big deal is.

Geordie -- I answered your question in my thread in the admins group ... did you see it?

David B. -- as long as you have your profile complete that is the basic for the benefits of what this article describes. Make sure your summary has keywords.

Frank,

If I were looking for a professional JOB Linkedin is the best service of them all in a job search.
None today match it at all. I get job postings.

By changing my profile to my bio and making my artists statement my summary, I might actually be
changing the job postings I get sent biweekly. I might not quite get the results/email I had been.

That said, I make a statement that matters more. I state I am my own boss. And considering the effort
I put in I am that in spades. I do not need nor want job postings. I want the contacts I will need one day in my career.

Dave

Also for all the David Kings of the world, you might want to add a middle initial to your name - like David Q. King (if your own isn't up to scratch)

5 reasons why publishing on LinkedIn is mightier than the Conference

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-reasons-why-publishing-linkedin-mightier-than-steve-blakeman

I'm doing some house cleaning and closing this and merging this thread with the other about the Pixels group on LinkedIn

http://pixels.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2017595 on faa http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2017595