Hi Verna
The article is at http://artbiz.ca/warning-bad-galleries/
I changed my permalinks a while back to remove the category from the URL, thus making them shorter.

Hi Kim
I would like to read this article but it’s no longer there. Can I find it somewhere else?

Blogs are great for helping speed up indexing of your site. Search engines love new and fresh content. My story above, Pins & Needles, happened with in 6 months from when I started to blog.
To find out how many and which pages of your site are actually indexed with Google enter “site:www.example.com” into the Google search bar. Obvioulsy you need to replace example.com with your own url.

Hi Susan – there is plenty you can do. For a start make sure you are tracking your visitors – google analytics is a good tool for this. Just do a google search and you should be able to find out how to insert the small piece of code into your website so you can see who is visiting the site, how many visitors, what keywords they have typed into google to find you etc. Content is SO important so make sure you do include text about your work as this post states, as much as you can and make sure you update the website constantly. There are plenty of resources online including art biz blog of course (way too many to include in a comment) to help you with basic marketing of your site. These days, it’s not enough to just create a website and wait for traffic. Blogs are great – regular posts means Google sees you as “active”. Think about why you are blogging and what – good to have a strategy. Hope this helps.
Eve.

Hi Jaimee;
All to often, like your friend, artists feel that benifits far outweigh the consequences. Blogging is a great platform to spread the word not only about your work but the in’s and out’s of being an artist. I wrote an post about bad galleries and the warning signs http://artbiz.ca/creative-resources/bad-galleries/warning-bad-galleries/ that seemed to fall on deaf ears. Hum!