Heavy Traffic: the good kind
‘Til The Cows Come Home
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Oil Pastel on Arches 140# Hot Press WC Paper
Mark 2 things off my list
So I just got right on task with my 2009 goals and took 2 whole days completely off. I didn’t go into the gallery (Mike did) or work on any art. I didn’t read or answer any email. And I didn’t work on anything blog related (thus the blog silence.)
What I did do was shlep around the house in lounge wear, ate more than I should have, drank copious amount of Diet Coke and played the PS2 until I was bleary eyed. (Ah good times, good times.)
And the other thing?
The other thing I accomplished and can mark as done, is I made my first Squidoo lens. (It is pretty much the exact same thing as my post dealing with making handmade paper.)
For some time now I had been thinking about all the effort I put into some posts and how all that information just scrolls off the screen and is pretty much lost to obscurity.
Making lenses however, keeps that information available, (or it will when I add the links to my sidebar.) So anyone wanting to review any of my tutorials has an easy way to find and access them. Now I just have to do the rest of my lens worthy posts.
What’s this about traffic?
The other good reason for creating lenses is that (in theory) they will generate traffic to the blog. Which in turn will (in theory) generate traffic to my website. Which of course will lead to the final goal of exposing myself (meaning my artwork, in case you were wondering) to more people, some of who may buy. (Frankly, I think artfairs are easier.)
Looking over the numbers this year, we’ve had a little over 20% growth in traffic to my website Wild Faces Gallery. Much of that (though not all) can be directly attributed to the blog. So what’s next after I get more traffic to the blog? Why of course, I’ll need to generate traffic to the lenses and that’s where Twitter comes in. Shesh! No wonder people can easily spend all of their free time online.
Tags: cattle
I thought the traffic refered to the herd of cows in your painting! Lovely painting by the way
Well done on giving yourself a rest.
All that internet stuff sounds complicated!
Ha! I never thought of that, though the girls certainly qualify as heavy traffic.
Squidoo lenses are not really complicated (no more so than blogging) just time consuming. Though again, probably not more so than blogging. It just means I’ll be spending more time online, which may translate into less time creating. Though more likely, it will mean less time watching TV. Which is a good trade.
The cows are lovely. I would have been leary about so much blue with a green background — but it looks great!!! The pink contrasts on the cows is great also!
Big congratulations on two goals down already!!!! You didn’t sound like you were too determined about time off or time for you this year when you finalized your goals — but I am very glad you took a good amount of time for yourself right away!
Thanks Angela, Time off depends largely on artfairs. This time of year it is much easier to do. How is the teaching going?