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artHIVES acts like a virtual community of artists which allows visitors to move from one artist site to another, hence widening your audience and increasing your traffic.

Being part of the artHIVES community greatly increases your chances of appearing higher on search engines results because search engines have a ranking system which is based on the links and traffic to each website. It appears that the search engines are unable to differentiate between the traffic going to the individual artHIVES artists sites and therefore assumes that all of the traffic / links going to the whole of artHIVES are directed at your site alone and there fore this pushes your site up in their ranking. Visit the google technology information page to get more information on their page ranking system.