Judith Greathouse Success Story

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Cynthia Tom's online portfolio Cynthia wears many hats, being both an artist and a business person. She was laid off by Merck Pharma in 2009 and she has immersed herself in her art, lead curator for Asian American Women in the Arts, AAWAA and working with women's social justice issues. Her work focuses on women, identity, Chinese American issues and fashion. She's been an artist in residence at the De Young Museum and a guest artist at the Legion of Honor. She lectures at UC Berkeley, Mills College and San Francisco State University, speaking on ethnicity, feminism and her art. She also discusses Asian American women artists as part of AAWAA and the issues they run into and victories celebrated.

When I started putting my web site together, I went to selfpromotion.com. It is an old site, put together when people who wanted web sites had to use markup language. I merely used his advice in putting in my text.

I also did research on SEO. While I didn't understand all the nuances of their technical language, what I gleaned was to maximize the use of the title of your web site and to use keywords in context, not spamming the sentences.

I don't know if you are aware that 'functional jewelry' was added to the title of my home page because I learned that the weight given in search engines skews mostly by the title that is used.

After the change, I went from about the 7th page on a google search return for 'functional jewelry' to consistently #1. Yahoo has me at about #5 (and to get any higher I'd have to pay $299 per year) and MSN or Bing return me on the first page as well.

I think I could take parts of my training package and shorten the verbiage. You could still use the training package for new users.

I'd be willing to put together a few ideas and see what you think. I'll go to your web site and look at what is already there and see what I can do if you'd like me to do so.

Judith E. Greathouse, Ph.D. Stretchies by Judith Functional Jewelry [www.StretchiesByJudith.com|StretchiesByJudith.com]