Comments on: About pages in 1st or 3rd person: A compromise

By: Alyson Stanfield

Alyson Stanfield — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:19:36 +0000

Mary: I just talked with a client about this today. The artist’s full name wasn’t anywhere on the site. BIG mistake.

By: Mary G.

Mary G. — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:31:15 +0000

Alyson, thank you for this post. It was quite shocking when I checked my name on google and then checked for my name on my website pages. My name appeared on only one page! And that page is the one that showed up in google. My name is on every page now. THANK YOU SO MUCH! You are the greatest.

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Don’t let your text become outdated — Art Biz Blog — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:55:02 +0000

[...] About page and all other pages and posts on your blog or website should include text that is as [...]

By: SGuyot

SGuyot — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:40:02 +0000

But Google does matter..a lot ! Stick with the third person.

By: PaMdora

PaMdora — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:06:35 +0000

If it’s a blog, what about tagging certain posts with the artist name? This should be done on group blogs.

By: Alyson Stanfield

Alyson Stanfield — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:07:11 +0000

Kirsty: That’s great to bring up here! Artists really should be putting their names under each photo. Re blog posts, wouldn’t their name show up in “Posted by” ? I guess this has to be enabled.

By: Kirsty Hall

Kirsty Hall — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:35:18 +0000

If people are blogging on their site (as you and I both firmly believe they should, Alyson!) another solution might be to put a small copyright notice at the bottom of each post so that their name is being read by Google that way.

By: Kirsty Hall

Kirsty Hall — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:33:51 +0000

My site always come top in Google and reading this I couldn’t work out why then I realised, I put my name under ALL of my photos when I use them in my blog and I use a lot of my own images. As discussed in a recent post of yours, not having my name on the image itself leaves the photos slightly under-protected but apparently my current system helps shove me up Google. So it’s swings and roundabouts, I guess!

By: Kathleen Krucoff

Kathleen Krucoff — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:17:21 +0000

Very helpful. I’m going to double check my websites to make sure my name is out there. Thanks!