Well I’ve finally found some decent time to catch up with the RB and as usual I’m astounded with the level of talent here in our little bubble.
I just wanted to mention about tagging our artwork as It’s no good having a wonderful piece of art if no one can find it.
Google actually index the art displayed here so it needs to be tagged appropriately. It’s no good tagging eg, tree, landscape, bird, dog, cat, etc. Not if you want your work to be actually found by those within the bubble or coming in from outside. So a little thought needs to go into the tagging. Basically think of them as keywords people would use to find what their looking for on he internet
When you are ready to add another masterpiece to your gallery take a moment to think about your tags. If you were trying to find your particular work online, what words would you use to describe it? Generally single word tags don’t cut the musturd. How many of us search for something on the net using one keyword?...ok, unless it’s sex :O)
For example I saw an excellent image earlier on, which had the tags
drought, gibsland, ..and a few other singular terms I can’t recall
This really should be tagged drought_images_gibsland, victorian_drought_ images, These are the terms I would use in the search engine to find this sort of photography on this subject.
Don’t forget to underscore your tags to join_ the_ search_ term and separate with ,
Toodles bubblers
Tom Godfrey, 10 months ago
Thanks_andromada_great_advice_:) mine need some attention
Di Edwards, 10 months ago
Thanks heaps andromada, I never knew that about the underscores!
Much appreciated.
Anita Donohoe, 10 months ago
Andromeda, thank you for the tip about underscoring! I’ve learned how to make a clickable link but didn’t know I could create tags containing more than one word!
David Stuart, 10 months ago
Your very welcome. The underscoring tip was passed to me by Craig Watson when I first joined.
Btw I actually managed to find my stuff on a google search so the tags do work.
Kara Rountree, 10 months ago
You are absolutely right!
I have actually gone into WORD and used the synonym tool with some words to find additional words for that word to beef up my tags. Not everyone uses that same word that I would to search for something.
And make sure that you are using both the singular and plurals for words. Example: boy and boys for shots that have boys in them.
Also, consider the typical misspellingsof words and use them too. People make typos all the time and this way YOUR photos will come up first. Socccer, for example – and anything with the “ie, ei” that is the easiest misspelling.
Good luck – happy selling!
Tom Godfrey, 10 months ago
another good piece of advice thanks Kara. We could end up with five pages of tags for one image though :) just kidding
David Stuart, 10 months ago
Yep, excellent addition Kara, thank you.
Mel Brackstone, 10 months ago
I’ve found google actually offers the option of both right and wrong spellings, so the search engines are definitely becoming more intelligent :)