Clay Art Web Guide
Quick Facts
- Address: clayartwebguide.com
- Produced By: Vicki Hardin / Clay Art Pottery
- Domain Name Registered: March 9, 2002
- Alexa Rank (?): Approx. 1,500,000
- Inbound Links (?): Approx. 75
Overview
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The Clay Art Web Guide is a large collection of ceramic and pottery links. In it’s own words:
Clay Art Web Guide is a leading online ceramic portal serving the clay art community since 2000. We serve over 20,000 visitors a month on a wide variety of clay related topics in over 60 categories with more than 3,000 unique listings.
Submitting a site requires a one-time payment and the directory seems to be well maintained so visitors don’t have to sort through a bunch of worthless links. Links are sorted into categories and usually presented in order of submission date, most recently submitted sites are first. A few of the larger categories seem to have sites listed alphabetically.
Features
- Over 3,000 links organized in almost 70 categories.
- The “Newly Listed” page shows the most recent sites that have been submitted.
- There are a few good articles submitted by experienced potters or ceramic artists.
- You can create a ceramic listing on the “Classified Ads” page for $5 per month.
- There is a list of Amazon pottery books in the “Bookstore” and a blog with many listings for workshops, openings, and events.
- You can submit a ceramics site to be listed in the Clay Art Web Guide for a one-time payment:
- $15 will get your site listed in one category and requires a reciprocal link on your site.
- $25 will list your site in two categories and does not require a link to the Clay Art Web Guide.
Final Thoughts (?)
- Content Quantity: C (There isn’t a lot of unique content on the site other than the links.)
- Content Quality: B+ (There are some good articles and most of the links are worth checking.)
- Navigation: A- (Pretty clear and intuitive for such a large collection but links in each category are only viewable by most recently listed first.)
- Presentation: B- (Pretty clean layout, there are a lot of ads per page but most are related to the content and not overly annoying.)
- Interaction: D (There isn’t really a lot to interact with. You can contact the site owners through email to make suggestions or add your link.)
Overall: B-
