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Alan Armstrong

5 Years Ago

What Is The Purpose To Have Followers And To Follow Others Here On Faa?

Is it a good thing to have many followers and to follow many others, why so?

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Hans Zimmer

5 Years Ago

Why not? But to be serious again - it´s nice to follw people and see their latest works. Makes only sense though if you only follow people whos work you like :o) and if you check on the activity stream.

 

Abbie Shores

5 Years Ago

There are 25 criteria for search placement. How many followers you have may be one of them. Of course, it may not be........

 

It's about being friendly. It's about the possibility of networking. It's about seeing what others, where you like their work, are doing. If you follow someone else, they may even follow you. They might even like your work and share it with others.

There are a multitude of reasons.

 

Alan Armstrong

5 Years Ago

Isabella Shores55 Minutes Ago
There are 25 criteria for search placement. How many followers you have may be one of them. Of course, it may not be........

What are the 25 criteria?

 

Jessica Jenney

5 Years Ago

I follow artists whose work I admire and can see their new uploads in the activity feed. I think it's nice to have followers whatever their reasons.

 

Mike Savad

5 Years Ago

everything helps, if he didn't want it there, it woudln't be added. followers are people that see your work as its uploaded. so if you have a buyer and they have an account they can follow you. you can follow people back, but i don't like getting stuff in my feed. its the reason i don't really follow anyone. my mother is there, as an experiment to see if anyone leaves my page to go to her... they do not.

mostly its a status thing, and that search thing.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

 

Kathy Anselmo

5 Years Ago

I'm the only person I follow.

 

Mike Savad

5 Years Ago

the 25 criteria is the elusive number of unknown factors that go into search placement. the first 5 are roughly:

1. how well you sell
2. have the right words
3. i lost track of what i thought these would be.

mostly its the first one. each bit here gets you a little higher up, like i think features was one of them.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

 

Frank J Casella

5 Years Ago

At present I follow the people whom I have a professional relationship with, whom I've talked with and the like. I'm not not social media much anymore, so I'm trying more to use the social tools on the website. Including the Pixels app. https://pixels.com/showmessages.php?messageid=3947737

But Followers s part of the social aspect of the website. How many followers you have may, or may not, be a criteria for search ranking, but I do know making comments are ... and when you follow others you can comment on their new uploads and help rank their works. When you give sincerely it always comes back to you in some way.

EDIT: What surprises me is that a dozen or so members hers, I'm the only person they follow.

 

Joseph C Hinson

5 Years Ago

I like to follow folks to see what they're doing. I follow those whose work I admire. Others are close to me geographically and some are fellow train shooters. It takes almost no time to add and attract followers, so my question is why not?

 

Hans Zimmer

5 Years Ago

I like to say occasionally: the door swings both ways :o) Same here - follow, visit, like - if it´s not too single sided it can be fun :o) I met a lot of very nice and decend people here by that.

 

Dan Turner

5 Years Ago

I follow them because I like their work. For me, that's the beginning, middle and end of the story.


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

 

Alan Armstrong

5 Years Ago

I wouldn't consider myself to be worth following as I can upload many images in a single day clogging up their feed with my images.

 

Hans Zimmer

5 Years Ago

If it -sort of- "spams" (not meant in a rude way) my activity stream i think i would consider to un-follow

 

Alan Armstrong

5 Years Ago

Isabella Shores5 Years Ago
Search takes into consideration many different factors when determining the sort order of the images.

It takes into consideration:

1. the relevance of your image keywords
2. the number of times an image has been sold
3. the number of times an image has been favourited
4. the number of times an image has been commented on (by others. Your own comments on your work do NOT count)
5. how long an image has been on the site
6. the number of times an image has been featured in a group
etc...

There are more than 25 different criteria that the search engine evaluates.

This is exactly the same thing that Google do. You have to have good rankings to be in the first pages of Google. They also have a limited number of pages and some sites never see the light of day.

No way would there ever be a random showing of work on the first pages and I am sure you can understand why if you look at some of the images. Sorry, rude but true.

On this site the keyword is KEYWORDS

On Google and beyond it is titles and descriptions

Hope this helps

 

Alan Armstrong

5 Years Ago

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@Hans my work isn't spam but I can be very prolific at uploading, therefore I take no offence from you or anyone to un-follow me.

 

Joseph C Hinson

5 Years Ago

Alan,

It's not like Facebook where we get notifications (the little red number) for every time someone makes a post. People who follow you can decide if you're clogging up their feed or not. I somehow have 385 followers and I've actually gained a few in the last week where I believe I have loaded literally more than a hundred train images. Don't worry if you're being "too prolific."

 

Edward Fielding

5 Years Ago

Followers are an indication of popularity. Everyone wants to be in with the "in crowd" so don't miss out following the popular ones. BTW - I need 60 more follower to reach 1,000. Thank you in advance.

 

Brian Wallace

5 Years Ago

Fellow Support. We like to think others like us and/or what we do. It's also a form of networking. Everyone likes to have some support. We like to think we're not alone.

You could fill a page with reasons, but I don't think some of these threads are really started because of concern for the answer do you?

 

Joseph C Hinson

5 Years Ago

To me, it also shows you're engaged with the web site and the community. But I obviously need more followers.

 

Rose Santuci-Sofranko

5 Years Ago

I just like to follow the artists whose works I admire!

 

Lisa Kaiser

5 Years Ago

Follow me and I'll follow you. It makes us look famous and liked, forget all the other stuff, it matters not.

More than likely if a person wants your art, they will not give a crap about who and how many followed you.

But it does make you look good, so follow me and I'll follow you.

 

Uther Pendraggin

5 Years Ago

As a point (maybe widely known) There is a way to upload a ton of stuff without ultra bombing your followers activity stream.

If you create a password protected file and it is the default (for you) folder for uploads, it won't show in their activity streams. Then you can just transfer the images to the proper collection folder. Or just unpassword the folder.

 

Frank J Casella

5 Years Ago

Here's a good answer to your question, found on the Sell Your Art page

Professional Networking --- Build your professional network by interacting with hundreds of thousands of artists, photographers, graphic designers, and brand respresentatives who participate in the Fine Art America social network each day.


https://fineartamerica.com/sell-art-online.html

 

Alan Armstrong

5 Years Ago

Thank you for taking the time to respond to this topic. Seems there are many reasons to follow and to be followed. Please feel free to start a continuation of this topic if so inclined.

 

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