Business, online

Website basics for artists

Jul 27th, 2006 | By Aisling D'Art | Category: Your website

Every artist needs his or her own website for credibility. And, it should be a website that is free of pop-up ads.
DOMAIN NAMES AND HOSTING SERVICES
GeoCities and Fortune City may be great places to start, but to look professional and really earn money, you need your own domain name and your […]



Embed your Live Journal entries at your website

Jul 1st, 2006 | By Aisling D'Art | Category: Your website

You can use HTML (or Javascript if you have a paid account at Live Journal) so that your LJ entries are automatically embedded on a webpage at your own website. It’s easy.
I used to do this myself, using simple JavaScript code copied from Live Journal.
The entries were automatically fed to a webpage that […]



Live Journal - pros and cons

Jun 20th, 2006 | By Aisling D'Art | Category: Networking

The subject of LiveJournal.com comes up regularly, in terms of marketing.
Important: It’s in LiveJournal’s terms of service that you can’t use your LJ membership as a blatant marketing tool outside of your journal itself. Be sure to check this if your primary interest in LiveJounal is PR.
(Related rules can be […]



What are keywords?

Jun 15th, 2006 | By Aisling D'Art | Category: Your website

Keywords are the words and phrases that are important to the subject of the webpage. They are also the words that people are most likely to use when they visit a search engine for a list of relevant websites.
Search engines look for keywords. Some–but not all–look in the “keywords” section of […]



Search engine optimization - AdSense and keywords

May 14th, 2006 | By Aisling D'Art | Category: Your website

Keywords are the words and phrases that people type in at Google, Yahoo, etc., to find a website like yours.
Keywords can be found…
In the META code at the top of your webpage,In the title of your webpage, and
In the text on your webpage.
Do search engines “see” the right words and phrases, to correctly […]