About the Photographers SEO Community
Hi, I’m Erick Danzer, SEO-Guy-in-Chief at the Photographers’ SEO Community. Building off the success of the Photographers SEO Book, we’ve launched a fully featured SEO Community just for photographers.
What will you find here? A powerful repertoire of SEO resources, including ebooks (six of them and counting), videos (3+ hours and counting), and our unique link exchange and SEO forum for photographers. You won’t find any place else on the internet with more or better tools to help you succeed in your SEO efforts!
A Bit on Me
In addition to being SEO-guy-in-chief at the Photographers SEO Community, I am also the founder of Photocrati Media. We run Photocrati.com, a leading provider of WordPress photography themes. I’m also the founder of Best of Wedding Photography, an invitation-only association of the world’s top wedding photographers.
Photocrati has a strong philanthropic mission, and giving back to the photography community and to important causes is part of our DNA. As part of our philanthropic focus, we offer $5,000 grants to photographers working on important humanitarian and environmental projects. Our first grant in 2010 is supporting a project on Chilean fisheries.
More on me and my projects:
Personal Site: www.erickdanzer.com
Photocrati WordPress Photography Themes
Photocrati Fund Grants for Photographers
Best of Wedding Photography
Photography SEO
A Passion for SEO
I love SEO and I believe great SEO can transform just about any business. I personally manage SEO efforts for Photocrati and Best of Wedding Photography. Within its first year, Photocrati ranked on the first page of Google for over 400 photography-related keywords and received 30,000 visitors per month from organic Google search results. Because of all the great links we received as part of our link-building campaign, we get almost the same amount of traffic from site referrals. In total, we receive over 80,000 visitors and 215,000 pageviews per month. And that’s just our main site – it doesn’t include our highly trafficked member area.
Similarly, Best of Wedding Photography, launched in 2010, already ranks on the first page for over 200 highly competitive keywords in the wedding industry and gets over 20,000 visitors and 60,000 page views each month.
We’ve also worked with thousands of Photocrati Members and hundreds of top photographers at BOWP, and we’ve seen first hand the SEO techniques that leading photographers use to dominate search results in their respective markets. Getting into the first 5 search results for the right keywords can provide you with an endless stream of new client leads. Of course, converting leads to clients still takes great photography and business skills, but SEO can transform your business like nothing else.
Ranking high on search engines is not rocket science. It requires that you understand and execute certain simple principles, and of course, it requires some leg work. But the strategies and “secrets” you’ll find in our books and training materials are exactly those we use on our own sites and those used by the photographers we’ve worked with.
Welcome to the community! I hope to see you at the top!
Thanks!
Erick Danzer
Photographers SEO Community
PS. Where’s Zach?
Those of you familiar with this site may be wondering, “Where’s Zach?” Zach is still around and he’ll be contributing content here at the SEO community. But he’s expanded his focus to web marketing for photographers. Zach produces great stuff for photograpehrs and we highly recommend anything he’s working on, so go have a look!
