Wednesday, August 30, 2006

The Tender Kiss Of An Angel

This is the last piece I own in a series I created quite a few years ago. The pieces were inspired by my children and the tenderness they shared when hurting.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Google & Blogger Need Better PR and Advertsing Campaigns

Due to my present time constraints my blog is mostly about my art and photographs of my work. The content, although limited to a smaller audience, is still capable of generating viewers and interest. I intend to add more posts because I enjoy the format and I hope to branch out in different directions. Like my my art, I was initially only doing this blog to share my work. Once I started, I realized I could possibly reach a larger audience and have more visitors to my site via advertising links. The problem is that although I enjoy it, I will only continue using Blogger if it's worth the time and shows some increase in generating more than the meager advertising revenue I have earned so far.

After the first week of postings, my blog name and my proper name came up in many Google and Web searches. I had many friends, family, co-workers and neighbors complain that they might have returned, if they could still find my site. They might have returned to visit and click on an advertising link like AdSense or some the other advertisers who were willing to take a chance on my site. They might have returned to forward my site on the their friends and co-workers, in effect promoting the site and the advertisers.

As I said, in the beginning my blog was easy to find. Recently it has disappeared from just about all search engines. Something that I understand is very common with Google and the way they rank particular web pages and blog searches. The one place it does come up on, TECHNORATI, is useless. Not only is it useless dead end information, TECHNORATI doesn't answer e-mails to fix or resolve the problems.

My proper name comes up under carpenter, that's fine, but that's not the main interest of my blog. Art is. I did use carpentry as one of my many occupations but also included artist, stone mason and craftsman. My blog profile also lists many other highlighted interests and granted they may be vague or bland topics in the larger scheme of things but would it be that difficult to have a search result with my name, my blog name and a list of topics or interests that are included and that pertain to my blog. It seems pretty basic to me. Once it's created, it's always part of a complete search.

I will continue to create posts but probably only rely on the information as a central location or personal library of my work. As far as expecting the site to generate any ad revenue, currently and sadly I'm disappointed. Google, shape up and do a better job of expanding the very limited search realm you have and do a better job of promoting yourself, your loyal customers and in the end the advertisers who support you. I'm doing the best I can with what I know right now, you do your part and make it much easier for viewers and potential customers to find my blog.