Jo O'Brien

Very good info! I think a lot of people on here will benefit from this post.

I never tag – I’ll give it a try, thanks for the info….

Redbubble is really indexed with Google. I search my name, drcochran and come up on the first page of my search…

Jo – I have seen people on here tag their work with

” the, a, me, and .... ” and all kinds of small words like this

Cheers Jo!

this should go in the howto group jo, thanks

yep google likes redbubble that’s for sure!

thanks for this Jo – really good of you to help us out so much…(still embarassed about the other day lol! – you were so helpful!) -sg

so Jo. Why doesnt my search on google list my taged photo? I dont think google is even picking up our tags.

I’m not even going to try to pretend that I understand the nuances of how google searches work, but my understanding is that redbubble gets a lot of love from google. For example when I search you name, your redbubble portfolio comes up on the first page. That’s pretty damn good.

If I search: o’brien self portrait -one of my redbubble works is the first hit. Again, that’s pretty damn good (I think anyway)

drcochran, first page on google thats great…

AllyL first entry on google Oz. Woohooo!

mine comes up also ….spooky love tags too. thanks for wonderfull info .

Thats funny none of mine work.

Huh? You’re on the first page when I search for you Walter

Yea but it only lists one of my photos.

I guess my thinking is that redbubble has me on the first page when I google myself. But if I was doing it on my own, promoting my own site, I wouldn’t even be a blip on the radar. I think that is brilliant.

when did this stop beign about tags and become about google?

Makes sense, thanks.

Ok yea i figured it out. you have to put your name in the search field as well. Im so sorry Jo.

very cool. thank you.

great info jo..and you’re right, but i do wish our work would show up better on google, think there is any way to fix that? i just checked, only alittle bit shows up..on the 3rd page!! of a google search!! other sites i have decided to let go..are on the front page!! grrrr any idea of how to improve that?

So many people don’t use tags, it’s madness.
I’d also really love it if painters would put ‘painting’ or ‘watercolour’ or ‘oils’ etc into their tags. If you have a painting of a flower and tag it ‘flower’, sure it will come up when people type ‘flower’ into the search. But so will a gazillion photographs. Sometimes people search for a media/kind of art as well as just the subject matter.

Christopher, search engine optimisation for a site as big and complex as RB is a massive job and can cost lots. I just tried your name and your RB journal entry comes up 2nd.

Good info Jo. I get annoyed with keyword spammers who add millions of tags just so they appear everywhere.

And also good for those who have yet to use tags!

thanks drake..when i did my name (christopher ewing) it came up on third..and i totally understand the masses, you think google would give us a discount! lol i appreciate you checking as well, at least ive moved up a page! lol still great info jo..thanks for sharing

Works on RedBubble are optimised for ranking well in Google for their title’s – helped of course if you repeat these words in the description and tags. Christopher, try surreal barn for instance

i tag mine but i don’t know,but thanks for the i do i will see what wrong with mine

thanks, helpful. I tag mine but not heaps I’ll add a couple after this.

...good info!

Really good information Jo. Thanks for posting this.

yes ive noticed people will tag totally different words to their art…
say a picture of a bird might include; leg, fire, hot.. and so on.. things not related to the topic at all…
annoys me a lot.. cheap way of getting interest…

I often wonder whether it would be better to have a preset list of tags so that people are restricted in the tags they use. Not sure whether this would result in greater consistency for searches or not, but I have seen it done elsewhere with reasonable success…

Nice one Jo. I have seen work where there have been in excess of 70 tags.

Tags are very useful! Still looking for an image uploaded by a RB artist – obviously not tagged, and I’ve been searching for it ever since. I’ll give up looking for it one day…

Tags definitely help buyers, whether they’re RBers’ or general public looking for a particular type of image – eg, purple vintage= , but it does help if the tags are relevant to the subject.

I hope that by bringing this to everyone’s attention, more people will tag their work.

=D

I can never think of which tags are BUZZ words. Would there be any chance of providing tick boxes for tags. These would be for the main tags with a further box for any additional tags that artists would like to add?

Thanks for the helpful info Jo…~A

Thanks for the advise, will need to work on tags

Good info, thanks.

Tagging is something I learnt about since joinging red bubble. At first I thought it was some sort of virus but then I went to the forums and worked out that it is only a virus if done incorrectly. LOL
Seriously, if would be great for new RB members to have a link to this entry when they hover over the tag section for too long, wondering what to do next.

Thanks Jo, have never tagged, thought about it, but now will do it!

Well, I so want google to love me more…
I will tag better from now on.

google love sounds good, thank you for the advice with tags

very cool thanx

I think the title “How to tag your work” is a little misleading. I’m trying to find out the steps involved in tagging an image for Red Bubble. I normally tag my images, on my computer, using Bridge but I can’t seem to find a way to tag images I have uploaded to RB. Can someone please help me? Thanks

Ah ha!!! I just found out! Ignore the previous call for help! I’m on my way now! Thanks

I am having difficulties with TAGS in RedBubble, and wonder if that has happened to you. I have assigned a whole variety of ‘suitable’ tags to various images, but when I do a RB search most of them are missed. It is important because in my advertising I want to advise people to visit “redbubble.com” and do a search on “xxx” or whatever for that particular advertisement. I wondered if you have experienced this problem?

Thanks Jo – I will explore reducing the number of tags per picture and see if that has the desired effect. To be precise, I have made a video for YouTube et al, promoting my asian elephant photographs on RedBubble. I want people to be able to log onto redbubble and do a search on “elephant_keith”, hoping that no-one else at RB will have used that tag i.e. it would be unique. AI have made the video, but felt I should test out whether the tags work or not, and problems!
Thanks for answering so quickly, Keith.

Jo, that has worked! I reduced the number of tags per picture down to about 5, and voila! A search from the RedBubble home page for “elephantkeith” worked perfectly.
For some strange reason, searching for “elephant_keith” does not work – must be something to do with the underscore – this gives only a few, but not the whole lot.
CONCLUSIONS: limit tags to about 5 maximum.
Decision – I will re-make part of the video, advising viewers who wish to see and purchase my elephant images from RedBubble to search for “elephantkeith”.

A great post for people who don’t understand the importance of tags.

I’ve been using them since my first day on RB and it makes a real difference, even though we can’t know where every last viewer came from. Typing single words instead of descriptive phrases can really improve the relevancy of a given page to the search engine / RB Search results. So black, car, ford, vehicle is far superior to typing into the tag box “a black ford sedan that I photographed in Brisbane” for example.

Mel, i was wondering if you could confirm how you put your tags in, mine work sometimes and othertimes not.

Do you type them in like this:- car, red, blue, green

For example with commas after each descriptive word??

Thanks, Danielle

Sorry Jo, for addressing this to Mel… just realised, arrived at this journal from Mels page. Appologies :o)

I have to be home for 7.30pm or my tag sends an alarm to the boys in blue..:-)

Thanks for the tip!

Good advice, thanks.

thanks

THANK YOU and AWESOME

Yes, probablíy I need to do a little homework on my tagging myself..

other ideas are look at other artists work similar images to yours and copy the tags and add you own….it makes it easier when searching for images

also remember usa english and international english some words are spelt different….

another idea for tags is add some spelling mistakes..often ppl miss a letter via typing errors

eg.
uk english ….tyre usa english …..tire

frog mistake fog

letter mistake leter

weather mistake whether

cartoon mistake carton

another helpful website

http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/cartoon

i typed in cartoon in the thesaurus

Main Entry: cartoon
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: funny drawing, often with dialogue or caption
Synonyms:
animation, caricature, comic strip, drawing, lampoon, parody, representation, satire, sketch, takeoff

Main Entry: caricature
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exaggerated description in writing, drawing
Synonyms:
burlesque, cartoon, distortion, farce, imitation, lampoon, libel, mimicry, mockery, parody, pasquinade, pastiche, put-on, ridicule, satire, send-up, sham, takeoff, travesty

Main Entry: copy
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: duplicate
Synonyms:
Xerox, carbon, cartoon, clone, counterfeit, delineate, depict, ditto, draw, dupe, engrave, engross, fake, forge, imitate, knock off, limn, manifold, mimeo, mirror, mold, paint, paraphrase, photocopy, photostat, picture, plagiarize, portray, reduplicate, reflect, repeat, replicate, represent, reproduce, rewrite, sculpture, simulate, sketch, stat, trace, transcribe
Notes: Xerox is actually a trademark for copies made on that brand of machine; copy is a duplicate made in any of a number of ways, while photocopy is a duplicate made using a machine with a photographic process

Main Entry: drawing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: illustration
Synonyms:
cartoon, commercial art, comp, delineation, depiction, design, doodle, etching, graphics, layout, likeness, outline, painting, picture, portrayal, representation, sketch, storyboard, study, tracing, work of art

next one is dog this might help matt mawson

Main Entry: dog
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: canine mammal
Synonyms:
bitch, bowwow, cur, doggy, fido, flea bag, hound, man’s best friend, mongrel, mutt, pooch, pup, puppy, stray, tail-wagger, tyke

Main Entry: dog
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: chase after; bother
Synonyms:
bedog, haunt, hound, plague, pursue, shadow, tag, tail, track, trail, trouble
Antonyms:
leave alone, let go