I'm enjoying myself with a daily photoblog but what bugs me now is that I have virtually no traffic from search engines. Ofcourse.. I do understand that if I should've picked a normal weblog if I wanted more traffic from searching. But some improvement would be nice. My template so far is very straight forward. The image-title is in <h1>-tags. My alts, titles and meta have content. Every picture has it's own description. And ofcourse, I've submitted to quite some blog-directories and such for backlinking. I was thinking about putting a small descriptive text at the top of my page on a div that can be shown/hidden by users so search engines see it all the time without messing up my basic layout. But I don't know if I get a penalty for repeating content then? Otherwise, I could add a seperate About-page but I guess that doesn't do much for the mainpage and it's PageRank. And I could add a footer that just happens to catch some keywords as well. (Aka: This photoblog and it's daily photos are powered by pixelpost, or something alike) And ofcourse, I should watch the little pieces of text I *do* type closely. Is there anything else I can do to improve my listing and pagerank? I don't know if it's ok to post urls but probably handy if I do. The url is my homepage/website in my profile. forgot to add: I comment on other blogs as much as I can and I've also submitted my xml-sitemap to google and ping several sites regularly.
Spiders can't read images. At least fill in the descriptions on the meta-tags. If I was you I would add some text with each post relating to the photos, but it sounds like you don't want to do that.
A photoblog is typically hard to get ranked - as it focuses on the photos. That being said, it is not impossible. I notice your blog is only a couple of weeks old - and getting it noticed will take time. Honestly, there is a lot of competition for photoblogs to rank - just look at photoblogs.org -over 20,000 other photoblogs trying to get noticed! As there is very little text, and you appear to be spamming your meta-tags, you really need to concentrate on off-site SEO techniques. Build links and be very careful about targetting keywords. Of course, you could probably start a seperate text blog that frequently refers to your photoblog to give it incoming links. I have my own photoblog that has been going for about 15 months (and around 360 pics) and it doesn't really rank. I participate in a few photo forums and I am able to discuss my posted pictures in my blog within that space - it certainly helps to generate some traffic. It will probably take you several months before you start ranking -so sit back, build links, add quality pictures so visitors bookmark you, participate in communities and wait!
I have some probz with traffic too with my photoblog (flickrville dot com), but i guess mine is a little easier cause i'm focusing on flickr and i always make a comment on the photo i'm gonna post on my blog which indirectly provides a linkback and traffic. Other ways include buying links from similar themed sites and try to get your url 'STUMBLED UPON' it brings good traffic too.
That's something I haven't heard before. Can you tell me more? I do add some text and I just got a great advice on that. To use a "template" for every post with extended location information (ie: place, city, state/province, country) and I think that could do well. And I do try to add some keywords in the description ofcourse... but in a short description it's pretty hard. I'm a member of quite some forums and communities and I do make use of it. Mentioning your site in some big flickr-communities can do wonders for traffic. But I just found my biggest trick yet (I think). Do you know DeviantArt? Every user has it's own subdomain. And their pagerank usually varies from 3 to 5. Up to 6 in some cases. So you can just put your website in your signature and leave comments everywhere. And I think they get indexed pretty often too! Well I'm not gonna spend any money on this site besides hosting. It really is just a hobby. I'll try stumbledupon though, thanks.
You can appear in SERPs (including image SERPs) only by some keywords, therefore any way of using keywords can be useful. I always name all pictures of my site with keywords and add alt and title tags with keywords too. Sometimes this trick drives up to 10% of traffic to my sites.
use dynamic meta tags on your pages and try to write description on your images (f.e : title="your description" this must be in your image link )
Wow! Come here, ask for advice, get some great info for your EXACT situation then dump on everyone who did help with your negative comment - You have not given anything back to the community either. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
Did you read over the 4 times I said thanks? I just expected more indepth critique and tips from a forum that profiles itself as the SEO-forum around. Excuse me for the fact the image I had is apparently better than the real thing. If I compare the reactions I got here, to the ones I got on a random general forum... I actually think I liked the second better. But I thank you nonetheless. And I'll probably will stick around here because I do see interesting information float around. Jeez. Google must've had it easy finding you with such long toes.