About a month ago, I had decided to get back into updating my site after not doing so for quite awhile, and to begin, I checked my stats program that tells me a bunch of information about who visits my site, at what time they visit and so forth.
One piece of information that it also told me was who had linked their site to mine.
In this case, the Chronicles of Sonny Wilkins did.
Sonny Wilkins had used an image of Arlana Green's "Red Trumpet" painting, a painter I work with.
So, I took a look at Sonny's website and found it to be quite the amazing blog.
I was impressed with the articles that he had posted in regards to jazz, music, and other good stuff.
What I was most amazed with was how Arlana's "Red Trumpet" was used as the main avatar image on all of his pages.
Wow! For someone to put up a piece of art as the main art piece is a huge complement to the artist.
So, now I had to tell Arlana about this.
I told her about how Sonny Wilkins site was full of "jazz" and how she could get some crazy marketing buzz around it.
Afterwards, I contacted Sonny Wilkins and asked if he wouldn't mind putting up a link to Arlana's site on my site.
Guess what he did? He not only put up a back link to my site but also put a link to Arlana's personal site AND posted a 413 word essay on the Sonny Wilkins home page.
I mentioned the 413 words because I had recently taken a workshop on increasing traffic to a person's website and one of the neat pieces of information was that a blog, post, or page should contain a minimum of 400 words, and the reason for that is because Google would send its Google Bots and read all the text on my site, counting the number of words and such.
The more words, the more serious it would take my site and thus, higher ranking on Google.
So, after seeing that Sonny Wilkins had written a 413 word essay on Arlana, I was even more thrilled because that told me that Sonny knows what Sonny's doing.
In the article that he wrote, he explains how an artist had become upset at him for using his image, so, he took the image down.
What that artist didn't realize was that Sonny Wilkins had and still has a growing blog with a growing reader's base.
So, the more people visiting the site, the more exposure that artist would have received.
You can't go wrong, especially with all the competition in this art world.
Anyways, the point of this post is that the more marketing via online or off is GOOD, especially, when the goal of promoting the arts is the same.
I recommend visiting the Chronicles of Sonny Wilkins as it has some pretty interesting blog rants.
Copyright 2010 Capulet Art
One piece of information that it also told me was who had linked their site to mine.
In this case, the Chronicles of Sonny Wilkins did.
Sonny Wilkins had used an image of Arlana Green's "Red Trumpet" painting, a painter I work with.
So, I took a look at Sonny's website and found it to be quite the amazing blog.
I was impressed with the articles that he had posted in regards to jazz, music, and other good stuff.
What I was most amazed with was how Arlana's "Red Trumpet" was used as the main avatar image on all of his pages.
Wow! For someone to put up a piece of art as the main art piece is a huge complement to the artist.
So, now I had to tell Arlana about this.
I told her about how Sonny Wilkins site was full of "jazz" and how she could get some crazy marketing buzz around it.
Afterwards, I contacted Sonny Wilkins and asked if he wouldn't mind putting up a link to Arlana's site on my site.
Guess what he did? He not only put up a back link to my site but also put a link to Arlana's personal site AND posted a 413 word essay on the Sonny Wilkins home page.
I mentioned the 413 words because I had recently taken a workshop on increasing traffic to a person's website and one of the neat pieces of information was that a blog, post, or page should contain a minimum of 400 words, and the reason for that is because Google would send its Google Bots and read all the text on my site, counting the number of words and such.
The more words, the more serious it would take my site and thus, higher ranking on Google.
So, after seeing that Sonny Wilkins had written a 413 word essay on Arlana, I was even more thrilled because that told me that Sonny knows what Sonny's doing.
In the article that he wrote, he explains how an artist had become upset at him for using his image, so, he took the image down.
What that artist didn't realize was that Sonny Wilkins had and still has a growing blog with a growing reader's base.
So, the more people visiting the site, the more exposure that artist would have received.
You can't go wrong, especially with all the competition in this art world.
Anyways, the point of this post is that the more marketing via online or off is GOOD, especially, when the goal of promoting the arts is the same.
I recommend visiting the Chronicles of Sonny Wilkins as it has some pretty interesting blog rants.
Copyright 2010 Capulet Art
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