We're trying something new here, as we continue to work on brand awareness and expanding our commercial footprint. Regarding the latter, we're incredibly jazzed to share that we will soon [this summer] have a gallery [of sorts] opening in the Dallas metro area. More details on that will be announced as soon as we can.
Second, we've engaged a firm to assist with the SEO side of our website business. A key focus of this work will be broadening the depth of our blogging beyond discussions of our specific images [and recipes], and expanding into the business side of making, selecting, and selling fine art landscape, architectural, and travel photography. This new effort requires something of a fork in the road on this blog. Our current platform, Photodeck, affords Mary and me full artistic flexibility and provides excellent support for our imagery vision, but it doesn't offer the capabilities of a complete blog platform with third-party management. It's something of an "either or" approach, but we want both.
So, today, we are forking the blog. Our legacy journal will continue as "Our Journal," and will always be available in the menu here, while our new, more business-oriented blog will be available in the "News & Articles" menu selection. Here are a few Q&A; don't hesitate to let us know if this ticks you off. ;)
Q1: Why are you doing this?
A1: This is all about SEO. We get good traffic to our website when we advertise, but not as much organically as we'd like to see. Across the board, every single "SEO optimizer" made this recommendation.
Q2: Will you be employing AI on this new blog?
A2: Yes, we will. Because the topics addressed in the new blog lend themselves to AI analysis, it would be foolish for us not to take advantage of these machine capabilities. Mary and I retain all final editorial oversight and responsibility. Some “room-look mockups” may also be AI-generated, but the artwork shown in those images is our artwork, not AI.
