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Great thread! We have these conversations quite frequently with our artists. My experience is that the more successful artists who are satisfying income requirements and their own personal creative goals are doing a mix of both "one off" and "production". As a side note, I would ...

Where you fall in the search engine results partially depends on the popularity of the keywords and how many other sites are using those same keywords. You can probably imagine that the amount of sites using "warm glass" are considerably less than "glass artist" - thus the compet...

Well said with another caveat - My understanding is that Google uses a formula that includes how often your site is referenced (and the size and type of those sites) - but also it still has to "crawl" through your site and keywords/descriptions/meta tags is very important in this process. ...

To Deborah: One other suggestion as I look again at your description on your site. The words you use are: "Beautiful fused glass that is functional". You only have so many characters available. Take out the words "beautiful", "that" and "is". What are the most...

:P - Yep - much of what you say is true, Brad. ...I guess I wasn't complete in my answer - the post was just getting too long. If I type in "glass artists gallery" I fully expect to be on the top of the list. ...however "glass artists" is a different thing all together. It would ...

A comment on this - submitting to search engines through a company like bCentral ($35 or so) will expedite this process considerably. Bert's suggestion of making sure your keywords & description meta tags are set up properly is important before you submit. The side benefit of a service like bCen...

Hi Deborah, I would like to take a stab at answering your question, but am confused. Are you trying to submit your website to a search engine? If so, I recommend using bCentral. ...or are you wondering whether to use a "pay per click" portal site? ...or Google? If you are interested in our...

Hello all, Since I have been "lurking" on this forum for a while, I thought I should introduce myself. I am a co-owner of Glass Artists Gallery. We work with over 65 glass artists making functional & architectural glass art. Our core business is working with design professionals nation...