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SEO and Photography Websites: Seeing what Google Sees
As I mentioned in my last post entited Why SEO Matters to Photographers, links and link text make a difference in how you optimize your photography...
As I mentioned in my last post entited Why SEO Matters to Photographers, links and link text make a difference in how you optimize your photography website for search engines. But how do we know if Google has indexed any of our pages?
Simple.
Go to Google, and type in:
site:[your site url]
When you execute this search, Google will show you everything that it has crawled and indexed from your site. It even works if you’ve set up a PhotoShelter customized website and used a domain alias (aka CNAME).
I did a search for Christopher Morrison, who is a photographer in Tucson, AZ specializing in fine art landscapes, travel and stock photography. Christopher set up a CNAME of http://archive.cmo-photos.com and wanted to ensure that his site had the best SEO possible.
The results for his Google indexed pages were good, but not as good as I expected…
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