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- Side Note: Pinterest offers sponsored ads.
- Create lovely galleries of your art for free.
Create as many galleries as you want.
Post each piece of art in several of your galleries.
You can have a gallery for each painting if you want.
1. Create a painting.
- Scan it on a home scanner.
- Scanners come with printers, copiers and faxes for under $100. You can combine sections in your computer if your painting is larger than the scanner.
- Use an inexpensive software program like Adobe Elements (AE) or Paint Shop Pro (PSP).
- Search Google for instructions on how to use AE or PSP.
- Use AE or PSP to fine tune and correct flaws.
- Add a frame around it in AE or PSP called a "canvas."
- Canvas can be twelve inches tall and four inches wide.
2. Your painting is now surrounded by a "canvas," which is an area for information, but is not readable in searches..
- Text should include your website name and your name.
- Canvas should be tall, so the pinned image stands out on the page.
- Text on the canvas is not readable by search engines.
- Add a color to the canvas.
- Add a color line around the canvas, called a frame.
- Add a small copyright on top of your painting without it overwhelming the art.
- Save as a jpeg.
3. Upload onto your Pinterest account in one or more of your galleries.
- Post your SEO text and announcements under the pinned image in the description.
- This is where you concentrate on SEO to get into the Pinterest search and Google search.
- Identify the subject clearly, the important message you want to convey, the purpose for which it can be used, your website and your name.
- Don't use a vague, mystical title at the beginning of the text; it can be added at the end.
4. Name a board(s) the SEO phrase you want to be found in for search in Pinterest and Google.
- Use SEO keywords on titles of boards, names of paintings and their descriptions.
- The Search bar on Pinterest will give you suggestions based on popular searches when you type in a word.
- Use words that show up in the search bar for keywords.
SEO is a very complicated study. More information can be found in Google searches and Youtube.
You can use hashtags on Pinterest.
Pinterest Pins - the more you pin, the more likely you will get likes and repins and will move up in search.
- Set up multiple galleries called "boards" with content that is complementary to your art and lifestyle so that people will be drawn to your boards and find your art.
- Pinterest is for you and your potential followers.
- Pin items that may be of interest to others even if it isn't your favorite.
- Pinterest provides many ways to search for interesting subject matter to save on your boards.
- The more you pin to your boards, the more attention you will get.
- Search Pinterest daily for information and images to pin to your boards.
- Be careful about copyrights.
- Pins on Pinterest are copyrighted by their creators.
- Post daily at different times to reach more visitors.
- People who follow a lot of people do not get everything in their feeds.
- After a few days you can repost them again, ideally at a different time of day.
- You can create some new galleries to pin them into.
- It will be easier for you to get found in searches on Pinterest than on a single personal website.
These sites are searched by Google.
- Facebook artist pages
- Pinterest boards
- Pinterest posts for art blogs
- Twitter posts
- Blogspot posts
- Linkedin profiles
These social media sites are searched by Google.
Instagram is not searched because the accounts are private, but I have heard there is an app that will allow Google to search an Instagram account.
Instagram is not searched because the accounts are private, but I have heard there is an app that will allow Google to search an Instagram account.
