Viral Marketing for Artists and Photographers

It’s more important to be a marketer of what you do than a doer of what you do.

Or I’ve heard it said anyways. But if you make great work and no one is able to find it or ever sees it–then what?

So I try to keep up on marketing occasionally. People know to social network on facebook or facebook (my two facebook pages) or myspace. For artists there is myartspace, deviantart, and for photographers, photo.net.

But now we come to the latest craze in web 2.0: widgets.

Wikipedia says:

A web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. They are derived from the idea of code reuse. Other terms used to describe web widgets including: gadget, badge, module, capsule, snippet, mini and flake.

I’ve been looking for the best way to make an widget that will work on as many sites as possible, short of outsourcing the project to a computer programmer. If anyone has any ideas pleas contact me.

The best thing I’ve found so far is a quick way to make a google gadget (widget) here. The problem is the photos you can place in the widget are limited to seven in number, and I couldn’t find a way to link back to my web page.

The pluses are the gadget is distributable through google’s directory. Click here to add it to your google page (or just look at it, you can always remove it later.)

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List of web directories for artists sorted by pagerank

    As website owners may know, sites with more high quality links pointing to them–that are from sites which themselves are ranked more highly by google–have higher listings in search results.
Website directories are sites whose listings are hand-picked and filtered by real people, as opposed to algorithms, so they are weighted as more trustworthy sources because they are expected to be good sites rather than sites that are designed to trick the search engines.
Wikipedia on web directories.
I compiled this list for myself and hope it comes in useful for others. Feel free to contact me if I am making any glaring omissions.

Below is a list of web directories specializing in art, roughly in order of pagerank by google:

Surrealist Directories:

General Directories:

(Homepage has a higher pagerank than all the directories listed above.)

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