SEO for Freelancers
Optimize your professional branding via image meta data strategies.
- Metadata creates a "map" for web crawlers looking for digital connective tissue.
- Consistency is key. Don't take shortcuts. Put the same effort into your personal branding as you do for clients. SEO isn't just luck; it's deliberate optimization
- Put the words to the image - the more descriptive details the better!
- Put in the same hard work for yourself as you do on the job for others!
🤖 Bots can’t see pictures, but they can read.🤖SEO for Freelancers is a real thing and no one told you that until now! What if your work showed up in Google Images? It can, It’s not luck, it’s Search Engine Optimization.
ArtCube Nation, like all creative job, is crawled by search engine bots or crawlers. We built the platform; you have to provide the data.
Otherwise, the blood, sweat, tears, and hours are wasted when the final product, the set photos has zero metadata aka image SEO.
The remarkable photos on ArtCube Nation profiles, showcasing the talents of Set Designers, Set Decorators, Production Designers, and Prop Stylists, often go unnoticed on the web due to messy or missing metadata.
Furthermore, In the ever-shifting world of the film industry or any creative industry where creativity meets commerce, freelancers face a unique challenge: how to showcase their skills to a local and global audience while competing with an ever-expanding pool of talent that seems to get by on luck. It’s not luck. They have optimized their brand and images.
Simply put, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) steps in as a strategic ally for anyone. Freelance Film Crew, Niche Artists and Makers on ArtCube Nation, and other freelancers can position themselves for success in this visually-driven, fast-paced landscape.
Your ArtCube Nation Profile: Fill it out.
Your Profile is an SEO for Freelancers Tool for Art Department Crew by design!SEO is a lot less and a lot more than you might think.
- It's NOT all about tags and clicks. That was 1996.
- SEO is more time-consuming than complicated.
- The algorithms get smarter and change all the time. So had better your brand strategy.
Make your name consistent across platforms.
- Alex J. Upsom and Alex Upsom are two different people to search bots
- Use consistent social handles and links
- If you are @truckPA on Instagram and @petaltothemetal on ArtCube Nation, that is not helpful.
- Does your handle bio contain your tag words?
- Your job title(s)
- Make sure it is consistent across platforms.
- Have you moved up or on? Update.
- Your city
- Make sure it is consistent across platforms.
- We suggest a CITY over a borough or neighborhood for a wider cast net
- Update your bios
- Ensure consistency across platforms.
- Do your bios relate consistent information?
- Does your bio contain your tag words?
Social Media is not SEO
Creative professionals THINK they are promoting themselves when they use hashtags, while it helps with search results with the app, it's not the full SEO picture.
Cubers LOVE to post their images of projects to Instagram and all the various social media outlets.
Ask yourself: does social media tip the needle?
Are followers and likes contributing to your career path with people you don't know?
Maybe somewhat, but what if your work showed up in a Google image search for Production Design, for example?
A Search Engine's job is to produce the best search result given the information provided, including meta information. You have to literally spell it out for web crawlers and, remember, just because YOU can't see it, doesn't mean it's not really important.
Image Meta Data Examples
Screenshots and random strings of letters and numbers do nothing for you.
ALT TEXT: Describe with keywords
We provide the platform; you provide the intel
Take control of your online presence. Complete your profile, edit image metadata, and share your profile link on social media and your website.
We genuinely want to help you achieve the most success possible ON and OFF our platform. The Art Department is hard enough and frankly, not a lot of you are tech-savvy. That’s our job.
Know why everyone regards ArtCube as the best site for the Art Department? Because we care and we listen and we see how hard you work.
Let ArtCube Nation work for YOU!
Read about Skills, Tools, and Licenses for additional tips and a few easter eggs to find!
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