Comments on: About pages in 1st or 3rd person: A compromise

By: Maria Brophy

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:13:35 +0000

This is excellent advice! I really never gave thought to the SEO of an About page until now. Thank you.

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By: Rob

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:36:45 +0000

I prefer bios in the first person and, depending on the topic, you may not have an image to attach your name to.

So the copyright notice is a great idea but here’s another one. At the end of your post, add your name (as well as any other keyword you want to use) and format it as 1 or 2 point text and change its color to the background color. It won’t appear to the human eye but Google will pick it up. Change it to small text so that you don’t have really obvious spacing issues.

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:19:36 +0000

In reply to Mary G..

Mary: I just talked with a client about this today. The artist’s full name wasn’t anywhere on the site. BIG mistake.

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By: Mary G.

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:31:15 +0000

Alyson, thank you for this post. It was quite shocking when I checked my name on google and then checked for my name on my website pages. My name appeared on only one page! And that page is the one that showed up in google. My name is on every page now. THANK YOU SO MUCH! You are the greatest.

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By: Don’t let your text become outdated — Art Biz Blog

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:55:02 +0000

[…] About page and all other pages and posts on your blog or website should include text that is as […]

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By: SGuyot

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:40:02 +0000

But Google does matter..a lot ! Stick with the third person.

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By: PaMdora

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:06:35 +0000

If it’s a blog, what about tagging certain posts with the artist name? This should be done on group blogs.

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:07:11 +0000

Kirsty: That’s great to bring up here! Artists really should be putting their names under each photo. Re blog posts, wouldn’t their name show up in “Posted by” ? I guess this has to be enabled.

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By: Kirsty Hall

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:35:18 +0000

If people are blogging on their site (as you and I both firmly believe they should, Alyson!) another solution might be to put a small copyright notice at the bottom of each post so that their name is being read by Google that way.

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By: Kirsty Hall

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:33:51 +0000

My site always come top in Google and reading this I couldn’t work out why then I realised, I put my name under ALL of my photos when I use them in my blog and I use a lot of my own images. As discussed in a recent post of yours, not having my name on the image itself leaves the photos slightly under-protected but apparently my current system helps shove me up Google. So it’s swings and roundabouts, I guess!

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