Comments on: Why No One is Linking to Your Photos http://blog.photoshelter.com/2009/06/why-no-one-is-linking-to-your/ Daily discussion of photography business issues & photography websites. Marketing and sales tips for smart photographers, plus a dose of inspiration from the PhotoShelter team. Fri, 17 May 2013 12:01:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: spikephoto http://blog.photoshelter.com/2009/06/why-no-one-is-linking-to-your/#comment-17157 spikephoto Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:37:31 +0000 http://blog.photoshelter.com/2009/06/why-no-one-is-linking-to-your/#comment-17157 As traditional paper directories decline and folk turn to Google to search for photographers, SEO is becoming increasingly important. I was wondering why some photographers in Nottingham were showing up much higher in Google rankings than my site - I have had a site on the domain www.spikephoto.com since 1998. After getting in touch with Photoshelter, they explained my backlinks, although good, were nowhere near the page one sites. So here I go, building up links. Does posting on a blog count, I wonder? As traditional paper directories decline and folk turn to Google to search for photographers, SEO is becoming increasingly important. I was wondering why some photographers in Nottingham were showing up much higher in Google rankings than my site – I have had a site on the domain http://www.spikephoto.com since 1998. After getting in touch with Photoshelter, they explained my backlinks, although good, were nowhere near the page one sites. So here I go, building up links. Does posting on a blog count, I wonder?

]]> By: Essex http://blog.photoshelter.com/2009/06/why-no-one-is-linking-to-your/#comment-17156 Essex Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:18:19 +0000 http://blog.photoshelter.com/2009/06/why-no-one-is-linking-to-your/#comment-17156 I concur with the above post, SEO is a simple but effective technique but to get the best from it you need to work over a period of time rather than trying to force a quick win. In addition to the content the use of social media can add value in bringing people to the site, awesome pictures are often hotlinked to once people have seen them, search results are a big driver but remember now Google is pushing brand so look to deliver longtail as well as the generic terms. Twitter and other SM outlets can drive a lot of interest when you build up a following, also consider setting up squidoo etc. Most of all don not spam your linking through farms, link spikes are definately a no go now. I concur with the above post, SEO is a simple but effective technique but to get the best from it you need to work over a period of time rather than trying to force a quick win. In addition to the content the use of social media can add value in bringing people to the site, awesome pictures are often hotlinked to once people have seen them, search results are a big driver but remember now Google is pushing brand so look to deliver longtail as well as the generic terms. Twitter and other SM outlets can drive a lot of interest when you build up a following, also consider setting up squidoo etc. Most of all don not spam your linking through farms, link spikes are definately a no go now.

]]> By: acclaimimages http://blog.photoshelter.com/2009/06/why-no-one-is-linking-to-your/#comment-17155 acclaimimages Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:37:20 +0000 http://blog.photoshelter.com/2009/06/why-no-one-is-linking-to-your/#comment-17155 SEO is worth the time invested and I can say from experience that this is true and that you need to stick with it. I have been at this since 1995 and now have some 8 million visitors per month to my various web properties. Spend most of your time building interesting, usable content and then a bit of time building links in and any other type of marketing you can think of. Having great content will allow you to ignore marketing because once you get a bit of exposure people will want to link to you. Don't pay people to market for you unless you understand what they are doing to help you. Many of these services can actually hurt your search results. SEO is worth the time invested and I can say from experience that this is true and that you need to stick with it. I have been at this since 1995 and now have some 8 million visitors per month to my various web properties. Spend most of your time building interesting, usable content and then a bit of time building links in and any other type of marketing you can think of. Having great content will allow you to ignore marketing because once you get a bit of exposure people will want to link to you. Don’t pay people to market for you unless you understand what they are doing to help you. Many of these services can actually hurt your search results.

]]> By: SEO Palm Beach http://blog.photoshelter.com/2009/06/why-no-one-is-linking-to-your/#comment-17158 SEO Palm Beach Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:10:38 +0000 http://blog.photoshelter.com/2009/06/why-no-one-is-linking-to-your/#comment-17158 <strong>SEO Palm Beach</strong> We recently tested“ how many keywords will Google read in the title tag/ element? ” using our simple seo mythbuster test (number 2 in the series). And here’ s the results, which are quite surprising. SEO Palm Beach

We recently tested“ how many keywords will Google read in the title tag/ element? ” using our simple seo mythbuster test (number 2 in the series). And here’ s the results, which are quite surprising.

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