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Balancing SEO and Art

 One of my insights about SEO was to incorporate keywords into your text, metadata, and alt text. I don't have a lot of text on my site, so working keywords in naturally is difficult, so I thought it might be a good idea to incorporate a blog. This could not only add keywords, but would also let me update the site more often, which is good for SEO, and could also help people get to know me and feel more invested in my art which would hopefully lead them to purchase.

So, instead of writing about how I could do this, I thought I would write a draft for such a blog. This would be found on aliciajakeman.com.


To say that my photography journey started in 2021 when I took my first photography class would be a gross simplification. It's true that this is when I bought my first DSLR camera, but as any photographer worth their salt will tell you, it's not the equipment that makes a good photographer. I'm not saying I fit into that class of photographer yet, but my journey started much earlier.

As a kid, I loved to draw. I drew my house over and over, which became sort of a general idea of what a generic house would look like. But as many copies of that as I drew, what filled most of my notebooks were renditions of the alphabet, over and over. I would write the alphabet: Aa Bb Cc... then my name, then numbers 0-9. Then I would do the same thing in cursive. Then I would go back to print, etc. Forever.

Close up image of a daisyTo me, there was so much beauty in writing the alphabet perfectly. As I grew, I continued to focus on overlooked beauty. Yes, I love a sunset or a flower as much as the next person and I think they are worth capturing, but my favorite is to find the beauty in the mundane. To see the shot that no one else sees. I love it when someone says that they would never have thought to photograph an item or location, but how much they love what I have done with it.

Maybe it's because I felt overlooked or that I didn't live up to the standard of beauty with which we're all bombarded. I'm sure there's plenty to be analyzed. But for me it continues to simply be an opportunity to stop, look closer, and recognize the beauty that was there all along. 








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