Driving Traffic to your Art Portfolio
Driving Traffic to Your Art Portfolio
Each week I write a new article to support members of our three wonderful groups on Facebook, The Artists Exchange, The Artists Directory, and The Artist Hangout. Recently we took a look at creating a portfolio website that showcases your art and this week we take a quick look at some of the things that you need to know about to drive visitor traffic to your site or online art store. Creating an online presence is one thing but managing it, maintaining it, and then driving real people to your site is something else entirely. The old adage of build it and they will come just doesn’t apply to most websites, unless you include shredders in the frames of your artwork and your name is Banksy. When I started this website back in 2014 my average traffic for the first six-months was around four or five unique visitors each day, thankfully today there are many more. It takes a huge amount of effort to build up significant web traffic to any site and from exp…
Each week I write a new article to support members of our three wonderful groups on Facebook, The Artists Exchange, The Artists Directory, and The Artist Hangout. Recently we took a look at creating a portfolio website that showcases your art and this week we take a quick look at some of the things that you need to know about to drive visitor traffic to your site or online art store. Creating an online presence is one thing but managing it, maintaining it, and then driving real people to your site is something else entirely. The old adage of build it and they will come just doesn’t apply to most websites, unless you include shredders in the frames of your artwork and your name is Banksy. When I started this website back in 2014 my average traffic for the first six-months was around four or five unique visitors each day, thankfully today there are many more. It takes a huge amount of effort to build up significant web traffic to any site and from exp…
