Today, I’m practicing Search Engine Optimization. My instructors are my gurus at WPBeginners. In particular, this page. So far, I’ve gotten as far as Welcome to the Google Search Console, and I have to wait till tomorrow for my site to do its thing.
My Yoast plug-in for SEO is telling me now that my SEO is not good. So, yay! Room for improvement! And remember that here I’m practicing Search Engine Optimization.
Back in the day, we didn’t have to do SEO. I made a good site with lots of great information and useful links and people found me. Over the many years, things have <gasp> changed!
So, now that I have good and plentiful website content, like my Tutorials page and my Galleries, I am ready for people to find me again.
And I’ve dreamed up another angle for me: Photoshop Hobbyists! I’m not a teach-to-the-test sort of instructor, so training for the Adobe Certified Expert test is not my realm. I have never aspired to train Photoshop professionals, although I’ve gotten a few of them started on their way. But I’m really targeting hobbyists.
It’s not about the age of the student; it’s more about the goals. I’m not as into Color Management as I am into color correction or into colorizing a grayscale photo. And, while I love creating graphics with Photoshop, if a student wants to know about how to present said graphics to an offset printer, I would leave that investigation to the student.
I’m still working out in my mind how to implement Art Challenges into my site. I want a way to attract new visitors to the site, new people who will want to get better in Photoshop, but I don’t know that I want the Challenge to be huge. If I did a huge thing like on Facebook, I’d attract many people, but would it get too unwieldy? I don’t want an un-Janee-like atmosphere. So still working on that.