getting close.....

The art fair season is inching its way nearer! I can't believe it's almost March already. In just 28 short days I'll be...*gasp*....30. But that's neither here nor there. 

Some quick website notes.....

I've learned that people with AOL have been having a hard time viewing my website. This is an AOL issue and unfortunately I can't think of a way around it. If you view it in Internet Explorer (or Safari on a Mac) and not AOL, hopefully you shouldn't have a problem.

You will need Flash to view it! Because of the slideshow that I've put up on the site, you will need to have a new version of Flash Player installed. It's free....no worries!

Down to business!

I've ordered the Nordeast Nocturne posters, so if you have been following my completely erratic blog posting, you're the first to know! I should receiving them in about a week and a half, just in time for the Arts at the Oval show that's listed on my schedule page. YAY!

For all of you who haven't signed up for my email newsletter and already received the news, I'm very sad to announce the closing of Studio 10 in Har Mar Mall. They are unsure whether they will be closing in April or May, but I will post more information as I find out. They have been wonderful to me and I'm very sad to lose one of my best retailers.

With warmer weather (crossing my fingers AND toe for that!!) comes my ability to get out and get some photos! As I said earlier in the year, I'll be working on a new Nightlife Minneapolis piece and also a Riverfront Minneapolis piece. I'm going to try to get up to Duluth as well to FINALLY get that piece started!

Back to work!

adventures in googling

At work a woman who created a new business asked me what makes your site show up in searches. The truth was I used to know but it slipped my mind, so I did a quick Google search. The answer was metadata tags. Which made me think, well, I don't have metadata tags on my site. That may be why when you do a search for inkblots you get nada.

Upon further inspection, I learned that metadata tags are now almost irrelevant and it's titles that get you up there on the search.

So....I tried a few things.

Google my name, Giesla Hoelscher, and there I am, all over the place. Pretty neat.

Google Inkblots and I'm 7 pages in.

Google inkblots art, and there I am, right at the top! Weird. Same thing with inkblots collage and inkblots digital.

So here I was thinking that people couldn't find me unless they knew how to spell my name (not an easy task), but the truth is, there are just too many Inkblots titled website that it buries mine 7 pages deep. If those people that couldn't remember my website address had typed inkblots art, I would've popped up right away! Now to just get people to remember that.....ah, yet another marketing task.