We at FASO have always advised artists not to rely upon search engine traffic. From day one, Clint Watson has advocated that artists focus on owned channels (email, snail mail, website, podcast) rather than rented ones (Google, Social Media, ads). 

He has written numerous articles about this.
Here's a great one:
Search Engine Marketing for Artists
(available to FASO and BoldBrush members only)

Not only has search engine traffic always been a poor channel for visual artists to procure leads, today, even the traffic artists might have garnered from search is rapidly going away, due to AI.

For more info about this, see Clint's article Don't Be Google's Bitch, July 08, 2025

Having said all of that, some artists still want to "work the system" to get better search engine results so we continue to offer the following info.

It can take a while to get picked up by Google; they re-index on a schedule known only to them. It can take several weeks after you register a domain name for Google to include it in their listings.

One way to get Googlebot to crawl and index your website is to get friends to link to your site from their sites. Google will normally find any site with a link or two pointing to it.

You can submit your site to Google at this address: 
http://www.google.com/addurl/

Make sure that you are following Google's Webmaster guidelines to be sure you've done nothing to 'upset' Googlebot:
Google's Webmaster guidelines

FASO sites comply with Google's guidelines out of the box, but you may still want to read over those guidelines to be sure you haven't changed any of FASO's defaults in a way that Google might not like.

Make sure you are not excluding yourself from the FASO Artist Directory which automatically links to your site (you are included by default, so unless you changed it, you should be in it).

Lastly, consider blogging with your FASO blog. Googlebot LOVES blogs and it may increase your chances of getting indexed.

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