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	C	Those people who spend a fair amount of time online will be familiar with the growth of blogs (or weblog diaries). Many of you may also have started one yourselves, only to find that the major blog directories reject them, due to low-volume content, insufficient visitors and a hundred and one other variations. Your blog may make it into the directories eventually, but in the meantime you find yourself having to post on an almost daily basis, with few to no readers except yourself. I have had a look round for artists blog directories and have found very little in the way of anything useful. If, therefore, you know of a useful one (or two) then perhaps you might post details here; alternatively I am prepared to make a list at my website for anyone who has an art blog---whether it has one entry or a hundred---in order to try and increase exposure. It is not easy to get the things off the ground. The whole blog thing has a frightening array of interlinking groups, subgroups, webrings, directories and blog-to-blog bonds, but despite this, newer participants still have problems attracting visitors. Anyt thoughts, ideas, to improve exposure via blogs would be useful. Posted - 13/06/2007 16:04:40
	Sarah	I have been blogging for 18 months now, I have four blogs and one web site. Blogs are the business! I sell my paintings via my blog in the year (just) that I have had my painting blog I have sold over 160 paintings, had several commissions and met some great friends. I have a blog where I sometimes talk about the process of painting, more often I use it as a diary type of blog, I have one where I post up and sell paintings, I have another which is devoted to sketch books and one for the painting holidays that I run. In a year my blog has attracted nearly 35,000 visitors from 119 different countries, my web site in the same time has attracted only 6,000. Blogs are easy to do, free to make and use. They do involve a little work on the bloggers part but they are well worth the effort. They provide contact with other artists and collectors and valuable feedback for your work. I would highly reccomend starting a blog to any artist out there. You can see my blogs at http//muddyredshoes.blogspot.com there are links to all of my blogs there as well as a selection of other good blogs. If anyone has any questions I would be more than happy to help, just email me. Sarah Posted - 18/06/2007 18:50:48
	C	Nice to see the statistics, but I was focusing more on solving the problems, because I just can't see how people get exposure for these things. My point was that many artists' blogs don't seem to attract comments (I've looked at lots of them now) so are they actually getting visitors? It seems 95% of blog visitors don't ( or won't) leave comments, so one ends up with a rather sad-looking blog....an issue which has already been discussed by several active writers in the USA. I recently submitted my own blog to over two dozen directories, and have left comments in other blogs, but it hasn't made much difference to the visitor numbers....in fact, I get far more to my own proper website which produces the sales, so rather the reverse of your situation. Interestingly both our comments here seem to illustrate opposite ends of the blog phenomenon......some artists find them very productive, others just can't get anything out of them. Whether the SAA forum is quite the most suitable place to stimulate discussion on this, I don't know.......that's the problem, we don't know how many artists are actually trying this system out! Posted - 19/06/2007 08:20:06
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