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February 2007: Artspan rankings for different search terms
Artspan has a considerable and continuing interest in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). We spend a lot of time and money on it. Recently, a website with an offering that was similar to ours emailed all our members with an unsolicited sales pitch. The features and pricing of our respective member sites are similar. What is very different is that Artspan.com is a serious portal and gets a lot of traffic from visitors interested in contemporary art. This is in part due to our Google page rank which is now a 6, the same as MASS MoCA, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art and other major art content sites, but more importantly is the result of our optimizing the site for various search terms. Here is a comparative table of some representative search terms. A search on any of them brings up literally millions of results. We rank in the top 10 for many terms and are moving up for the rest of these terms and for others not shown here.
It is important to remember that free listings on Google and on the other search engines are clicked on at a rate of better than 4 to 1 over paid listings. Artspan is the only provider of artist websites to offer not only a low-cost, fully functional and easy to manage site but also the traffic to go with it.

N/A = ranking of 50 - 200
0 = ranking of over 200 (almost no one will look past the first 10 or 20 pages)
Rankings in the top 10 are in bold (these appear in the first page of results)

Artspan.comother sites:
myexpose, yessy, snapfolio, foliolink, etc
keywordGoogleMSNYahookeywordGoogleMSNYahoo
abstract painting331930abstract painting000
artists websites191artists website000
black and white photographyN/A2648black and white photography000
contemporary art623contemporary art000
contemporary art gallery2105contemporary art gallery000
landscape paintingN/A110landscape painting000
mixed media06N/Amixed media000
mixed media art146N/Amixed media art000
online art galleries189N/Aonline art galleries000
original art6315original art000
original art web site3N/AN/Aoriginal art web site000
original art work320original art work000
original artists111original artists000
original artwork480original artwork000
photographer websites1411still life art000
still life artN/A122still life art000

 

 
   
June 2008 - Wall Street Journal article
 
 
April 2008: Tutorial Videos, PDF and Video Uploads, New Portals
 
 
March 2008: RSS feeds for Portals and New Portals
 
 
February 2008: Image Zoom Added
 
 
February 2008: New Search Functions
 
 
January 2008: New Portals
 
 
November 2007: Customization of Member Site Designs
 
 
October 2007: Reordering Images on Member Sites
 
 
October 2007: Three New Portals
 
 
September 2007: Four New Portals
 
 
October 2007: Tech Developments
 
 
August 2007: Slideshow Option Added to Sites
 
 
August 2007: More Editorial Help for Portals
 
 
July 2007: New Member Site Designs
 
 
July 2007: First Portals Launch
 
 
August 2007: Seven Portals Launched
 
 
June 2007: New Artspan Look
 
 
April 2007 - Articles Section Launched
 
 
April 2007 - Directories go Live
 
 
February 2007: Artspan rankings for different search terms
 
 
 
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