ArtWanted.com - News

New Statistics Report - Portfolio Hits

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:53:21 MST

Have you ever wanted to know who is visiting your ArtWanted.com portfolio and how they found you? This new statistics page shows you what type of people are hitting your portfolio and how they found you.

The first new chart on this page shows WHO is looking at your portfolio. Your traffic is divided into ArtWanted.com members, anonymous visitors/buyers and your own visits. You can now see what percent of your hits are from other artists and those that are not artists.

The next pie chart on this report shows HOW they found your portfolio. Your traffic is broken down by hits from ArtWanted.com pages, external referring traffic and direct hits from bookmarks or those that typed in your URL directly.

This new report is available to both free & premium members of our site. Additional statistics reports are coming soon. Enjoy!

View Portfolio Hits Report

Small Change in Statistics Tracking

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:33:59 MST

Over the last few months, we have really been studying the web traffic we get to our site. We have discovered that there are a lot of search spiders/robots that are surfing the site to index our pages in search engines (like Google, Yahoo & Bing).

This is a good thing, because it will get your ArtWanted.com portfolio ranked higher in the search engine pages. However, there is one problem. Often these robots will record a hit to your portfolio images, when it was not "technically" a real person looking at your artwork.

In the last week, we have changed the tracking of your portfolio, so that these robots/spiders will no longer record a "hit" to your images or portfolio. While this may decrease the number of hits some of you see on your stats reports, we feel that it's a more accurate number to report to you.

Keep in mind that this does not mean that fewer people are looking at your art, only that we are filtering out the automated bots that scan our site daily.

On a related note, the research we have been doing is in preparation for some new stats reports that will be coming out soon. Stay tuned...

Featured Artists now posted on Twitter

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:43:42 MST

Each day we feature a different artist or photographer on the ArtWanted.com home page. This artist is randomly selected by our staff and is highlighted on our home page for the day.

For additional exposure to that artist, we will now be posting the featured artist/photographer on our Twitter page as well.

If you have a Twitter account, be sure to follow ArtWanted.com for the latest updates, specials and information.

Twitter.com/ArtWanted

PS - In the near future, we will be adding a new feature that will link to your Twitter/Facebook page from your ArtWanted.com portfolio. We will also have the ability to automatically post your new artwork to your Twitter & Facebook pages. Stay tuned...

ArtWanted.com 2009 Haunted House

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:45:28 MST

We just couldn't wait until October, so we launched the 2009 Haunted House a few days early.

The ArtWanted.com 2009 Haunted House is a special Halloween gallery full of scary, creepy and spooky artwork from our members.

This year, we have over 600 talented pieces of art in the gallery, which grows everyday. This brings the grand total to over 4,800 images in the haunted gallery.

You can sit back and watch a slideshow of the artwork, set to scary music, or browse the thumbnails. We give you two different sizes of thumbnails to view, for the best experience.

If you like what you see, we encourage you to share this gallery with friends and family. You can even download a special "Haunted Widget" that only displays artwork from this gallery, and post it on your website/blog.

Remember - If you have any Halloween artwork you would like to post in this gallery, submit it in your members area.

Enjoy the virtual haunted house...

www.ArtWanted.com/browse/HauntedHouse

ArtWanted.com Haunted House Submissions

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:02:43 MST

It's that time of the year again, when we bring out all the scary, spooky and creepy artwork for everyone to enjoy.

Submit your artwork to the ArtWanted.com 2009 Haunted House - a special online art gallery for our members we have each October.

If you have any artwork that fits this theme, we invite you to submit your artwork, before the gallery opens in a few weeks.

Final Days for 2010 Calendar Submissions

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:01:09 MST

We just wanted to remind all our members that Sept. 15th is the last day you can submit artwork for the ArtWanted.com 2010 Calendar.

If you have already submitted artwork, be sure to pre-order your calendar by Sept. 15th to guarantee your spot in the calendar. Sorry - not all entries will be accepted, due to the large number of images we receive for consideration.

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New! Download Your Entire Portfolio

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:33:07 MST

We have added a new feature to our Manage Portfolio section that allows you to quickly download all of your ArtWanted.com portfolio images in a single zip file.

Premium members can also download the high-resolution files that are stored on our site as well.

Hopefully, this is one of those features you shouldn't use too often. However, if the time comes when you need a copy of all your artwork, it's good to know that ArtWanted.com has a copy for you that you can downloaded at anytime.

Visit the Download Portfolio page for more information and to try it out.

Now Accepting Submissions for the 2010 Calendars

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:59:47 MST

We are excited to announce we are now accepting submissions for the 2010 ArtWanted.com Calendar! Don't miss this opportunity for free exposure through our yearly calendar program.

This calendar features 365 'tear-off' pages, for each day of the year. Each day features a different ArtWanted.com artist and displays their name, artwork title/description and website address for more information on that artist. The artwork featured in the calendar is a large mixed sample of traditional art, digital art and photography of our members.

Submissions are open to all ArtWanted.com members, but space is limited. Only 365 artists will be selected to have their artwork included in next year's calendar. All submissions will be reviewed and our staff we will select the artwork and photos that will be included in the calendar.

To guarantee a spot in the calendar, you can pre-order your copy today. When you pre-order the calendar, we will make sure your artwork is included in next year's calendar and you can also select which date you want to be featured on.

To submit your artwork/photos, visit this page.

To pre-order your copy, click here.

New ArtWanted.com Twitter Page

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:08:22 MST

Are you on Twitter? Would you like to be? Would you like to know all the latest ArtWanted.com news, tips, contests, updates and promotions before anyone else? If so, you need to follow us on Twitter!

We have just created a new Twitter account for ArtWanted.com, so we can communicate faster with our members about the latest information about the site.

If you are already using Twitter, then you know what to do. Just go to our new Twitter page below and click the "follow" button and you will be set to get instant updates from ArtWanted.com.

www.twitter.com/ArtWanted

If you are new to Twitter, let us give you a quick overview. Twitter.com is one of the top 25 most popular websites on the Internet. People and companies create Twitter accounts to share brief updates (tweets) with everyone that "follows" them. You can get instant updates from your friends, family and other groups on twitter through your computer or phone. Twitter is free to join and it a great way to get lightening fast information on the people and subjects you are interested in. Sound fun? Try it out. Go to the ArtWanted.com twitter page below and create your free Twitter account now. Enjoy!

ArtWanted.com Down Time

Sat, 30 May 2009 11:57:48 MST

Valued ArtWanted.com Members

As many of you may have noticed, our website has been unavailable for a couple of days. We deeply apologize to everyone that was affected by this down time. Below you will find the details of what happened if you would like to know...

This all started a few weeks ago when we started seeing random hardware errors on one of our critical servers, which caused the website to go down for a few minutes at a time. Our engineers have been investigating the cause of these problems, when everything came to a halt on Thursday. One of the hard drives failed and the other drives on the server were corrupted, which made the server worthless and the website went offline. This is a very rare situation to happen to a server, but it is possible.

With this server out-of-commission, we needed to get a brand-new server built and setup to replace the old server. The process of building this new server from scratch and restoring our backups took several days, but things are now up and running. We are using a temporary server right now, which may make the site slower than normal, but this is only until we get our more power powerful server working early next week. We will have some scheduled maintenance next week to upgrade our servers, but we will plan to do this in the late evening.

And now the good news&

All of the ArtWanted.com data is safe, secure and backed-up.
No data was lost from this hard drive failure, because of our back-ups.
The new server should also fix the brief random down time you may have seen over the last few weeks.
Computers are unpredictable, but this situation has caused our staff to re-double our efforts on disaster mitigation, data back-ups and look for ways to be prepared for the worst.

We want to remind everyone again that the security of your data and images is very important to us and taken very seriously. We use the highest standards of data encryption on all sensitive data and maintain backups of our data for cases of emergency (like this one). You can feel good knowing your important data is safe and secure with ArtWanted.com.

Again we apologize for the last few days of down time and we welcome you back to the site. Hopefully you were busy painting and drawing and never even noticed that the site was down. Please report any errors or strange problems to our staff immediately. Thank You!

Sincerely,

The Staff of ArtWanted.com