Site of the Day: Clay Art Web Guide

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-