SEO for Photographers

These search engine features from Google will change the search landscape in 2011. Make sure your photography website looks good in Google Instant Preview and you show up in Google Social Search and Google Places. Google Instant Preview Google announced it’s instant preview function on its blog: With Google Instant you get results as fast [...]

SEO Photography website reviews are an activity I do often during coaching and training calls. I’ll be reviewing some sites publicly next week at the San Francisco SmugMug user group as well as a part of an SEO panel that includes Google. It only takes a couple minutes to assess some of the top factors [...]

Photography businesses need a multi-pronged approach to winning traffic and new business from search. Enter Google. Not only does it offer search results far beyond the traditional page results, but a Google account lets photographers take control of their listings. First, understand a search engine result page (SERP) displays business listings, images, videos, social media [...]

A hacked website can hurt its search engine rank, and fast. Once Google finds a website to have spammy material, the site loses years of established trust and can have difficulty ranking for anything. Your site may experience this without even knowing. For example a photography site I was recently consulting had 50 pages about [...]

Google’s personalized search provides custom search results based on your search history. Learn how to not let it fool you by turning them off.

Google understands what’s shown in an images by reading alt attributes (you may have heard them called alt tags) in the HTML code of a webpage. An alt attribute is text behind the image, visible only when the image cannot display like during page load or in email messages. The text you use in the [...]

2 things: Google Profiles and Social Search. They go hand in hand. I suggest you set up something for yourself now and worry about how it will affect you later. I myself am still trying to figure out the benefits of all this as it relates to search engine optimization but I’m confident the ROI [...]

Many photography searches come back with business results above the regular search results and a map next to them. These are very relevant and trust me they get clicked. These are local search listings and the cool thing is that you can get your photography business to show up there if you know a couple [...]