Marie E.v.B. Gibbons on wed 2 aug 06
In the infancy of "the web" Linking was more a necessity. If you
visited one site, you would look at their links and find more sites.
We weren't all up to speed on 'googlin' and it was the way we found
each other. As we all learned more and got more comfortable the need
lessened. My first websites had a full page of links to artist
friends, art that I found and wanted to share and had recipricol links
on their sites. I made many friends, contacts and was found through
many link pages 10 years ago. I still am in touch with many of them
today. Linking is a kind of networking.
As far as being 'linked up' helping your status on the google listings
. . . this is very true, BUT, it is the links themselves that are
important, not the number of links.
If you have a piece in the MOMA and your name is listed on their site.
And you have a link to the MOMA on your site, when someone searches
your name the MOMA is going to come up in the top, probably #1 because
of the traffic it receives. Your name will probably come up within the
next couple listings.
If you link because you want to share more good work, suppliers, show a
side of yourself by linking to art you appreciate, galleries you show
with etc I think these are both valid and helpful to those viewing your
site.
marie
I am always doing things I can't do, that is how I get to do them.
--Pablo Picasso
CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
(visit www.mariegibbons.com for exact dates)
APRIL:
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore MD - Studio E Gallery, Palm Beach
Gardens FL
JUNE:
Pirate: a contemporary art oasis, Denver CO
AUGUST:
Loveland Sculpture in the Park, Loveland CO
JANUARY:
The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO
On Aug 2, 2006, at 1:48 AM, Graham Mercer wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Having reciprocal links is good, provided that they are relevant. Not
> only
> do your visitors want to see relevant links, not rubbish, but also
> search
> engines look for the relevance of the sites that you share links with.
> Having hundreds of reciprocal links on a site that have no relevance is
> called link farming, and can lead to your site being downgraded or even
> blocked by search engines for what the consider spamming the site with
> useless links.
>
> I am sure that there are plenty of relevant sites that you could swap
> links
> with that are not direct competitors. Suppliers? Galleries?
> Associations?
> fellow potters? Other art organisations? Artists working in other
> media? etc
> etc
>
> As for direct competitors - what is wrong with working cooperatively
> rather
> than competitively? It is a case of 'swings and roundabouts', you may
> lose a
> potential customer through linking, but you may also gain customers
> through
> the same process.
>
> Other options to consider are links via resources such as webrings,
> link
> directories and clayart (yes, even having your site url in clayart
> messages
> adds to your incoming links). Writing articles for online magazines
> such as
> Ceramics Today all help to develop incoming links as long as you make
> sure
> that your url is contained in the article or as part of the article
> credits.
>
> So, in short, RELEVANT links are worth developing.
>
> Cheers,
> Graham
>
> Graham Mercer
> Potters Online www.pottersonline.com.au
> Skype ID graham.mercer
>
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