SEO Photo Guide

Register your Site with Bing

March 3, 2010

Now that you have hopefully gotten your site listed and verified with Google, now it’s time to move on and do a few other search engines.  The next one I am going to talk about is Bing. Although, it’s not as popular as Google it’s still important to make sure that Bing is listing your [...]

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SEO – Manic Monday Backup your files

March 1, 2010

Ok this post pretty much has nothing to do, directly with SEO, but is a reminder to backup your files.  For photographers this goes without saying more then likely you have (or I hope you have) a backup service and are backing up a few different ways all of your client and personal photographs.  If [...]

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Off Topic: A Word of Caution

February 26, 2010

I know that many of my readers are very talented photographers, but some of you are just starting on your journey. This blog post by Lisa Russo of Lisa Russo Photography, about newborn photography as an art is important to read. It is extremely important to remember that while you have great plans to try [...]

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Best SEO on a Blog? Thesis Theme

February 26, 2010

Although wordpress blogs give you tons of SEO power, not all blog themes are created equal.  There are some that are better then others at providing easy to do SEO.  The Thesis theme is one of them. This is a flexible theme that has so many SEO features built it that it’s makes SEO nothing [...]

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SEO and Random Thoughts: SEO Field Guide

February 23, 2010

I missed posting yesterday because, well life got in the way.  This lead me to have  a ton of random thoughts.  Some of the thoughts are about SEO, some photography, some social media and still others good old fashioned marketing. My son just turned seven this weekend.  I was amazed when I sat down and [...]

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SEO and Permalinks: Photographers and SEO

February 19, 2010

SEO is more then just what we write and link to it can be influenced by our links and how they are structured as well. It’s a good idea to make sure you have your blog set to use permalinks. This means you are making each blog post into it’s own html page. Your blog [...]

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SEO – Partnerships and Marketing

February 18, 2010

I know that SEO seems so scary to everyone, but it is really not as scary as you think. During a recent consult I realized that some of SEO is basic marketing as well.  It is about developing relationships with others who will blog about you and then you in turn blog about them.  This [...]

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SEO : The first step Verify your site with Google

February 17, 2010

I often get asked what is the first step to take with SEO. There are so many different ways to appraoch this but the most logical is to make sure that Google is searching your website. The quickest and easiest way to do this is to create an account with Webmaster tools. 1. Create a [...]

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SEO – Field Guide working with Bloom Photogrpahy workshops

February 15, 2010

I am very excited to announce that I have been asked to be a guest speaker at the Bloom Workshops. I will be talking about SEO and websites. I love sharing my knowledge with others and the small intimate forum that is part of this online workshop is the prefect way! I can not wait [...]

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SEO : How to link

February 12, 2010

I know I have talked in the past about linking. Linking is a key ingrediant in how your site ranks.  However, it’s not just a matter of typing out a list and linking to those sites and having those sites link back to you.  Search engines are smart, they get that a list is well [...]

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