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The more places you submit and show your work the better the chances you have of being found through search engine marketing (SEM). There are two ways you can be found through searches. First there is the organic way. The more hits on your site the higher up in page ranking you become. Don’t think you can fool the system by clicking on your site over and over…your IP address shows up in the searches and the search engines are smarter than that. Then there is search engine optimization. You know when you search for a particular item and there is a special search box at the top and the side navigation bar? The owner of that site has paid for that placement. They submitted a keyword or key phrase to the search engine, like Yahoo, Google or Bing and when the browser puts that word or phrase into the search box a paid subscriber shows up in that space. This is pay per click meaning that that retailer or owner of that site pays each time you click on their advertisement. Be nice…don’t click over and over.

Ok getting back to what I said about submitting your images to sites. Here is a list of ways to show your art.

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Originally posted 2010-03-06 10:21:00.