Hi All, I am a Wedding Photographer and these are the steps I have done to increase visibility in Google. - Change my website from a flash-based design to a html-based design to help the bots. It has it's own google sitemap. - Create a Blog to post regulary. It has it's own google sitemap. - Get 1,000 Angela & Pauls backlinks - Get some Yahoo answers What's next? I am considering the following: - Get a article writing service to post 10 article to ezinearticles. - get a new website (maybe wordpress) in another hosting company, create a lot of wedding related content andhave banners and links in that website. What do you think? Just in case you are wondering, my website is www.febusphotography.com Best Regards, Jose
Due to related on photography, why not you start some image marketing service like, image hosting on different free image hosting service provider.
you are on right path, the techniques you have implemented are perfectly correct. now go as per you plan. start writing articles related to you site and in the author section, give link to you site from the keywords.
Hi Jose, I hope you don't mind me barging in here. Before I can answer your question (other than to ditch the weak links that you've acquired so far), are you providing wedding photography services only on the main island of Puerto Rico, the main island and the smaller ones (the entire Commonwealth), or are you also offering your services to the US mainland and/or the nations that surrund the islands?
Great photos. As for SEO you are on the right path. I hope you using variations of your keywords on the backlinks you're building. Plus you could use some keyword rich content on the home page. The content you are posting on your blog is enough for you to dominate the terms your targeting, but unfortunately you are not using keywords on your blog optimally (though I don't understand Spanish). I hope you are naming the photos based on your keywords. Also put links to your service pages on the blog top menu.
My main problem is that I serve two markets, the english speaking destination weddings and the spanish speaking local weddings. I have two folders in my website with two versions (english and spanish) of my website and a frontpage that let the visitors choose the language. Do you think having two subdomains ( one for each language ) instead of two folders will help in the SEO? All my posts in the blog are in spanish..any idea how can I do a blog in spanish and in english? different folders?
Do not split the main/business site in to sub domains. Instead have two additional and completely separate blog sites and link them directly to the correct language. Do article submissions for your blogs and your main site. Be sure to submit RSS feeds and take ownership of them on sites like technorati and mybloglog
Can I understand that : www.febusphotography.com\en www.febusphotography.com\es is better than es.febusphotography.com en.febusphotography.com ???? Will be a good SEO structure to have this? www.febusphotography.com - visitor selection menu www.febusphotography.com\es - main website in spanish www.febusphotography.com\en - main website in english www.febusphotography.com\es\blog - blog in spanish www.febusphotography.com\en\blog - blog in english Then have only one sitemap with all the links.... Any ideas?
Jose - get more links on term "Wedding Photographer" rather than on your name - Instead of creating another site and posting articles to it, add more pages through blog to the current site. - Do little keyword research to find targeted keywords and build your blog around that. - You can post couples of article to ezine and get some back links.
Just a quick question to the other posters here. Have ANY of you actually STUDIED his Web site in depth before offering your advice? I know I have - and I'm not liking what I'm seeing from an SEO perspective. (So many missed opportunities.)
Hi Dan Will be a good SEO structure to have this? www.febusphotography.com - visitor selection menu www.febusphotography.com\es - main website in spanish www.febusphotography.com\en - main website in english www.febusphotography.com\es\blog - blog in spanish www.febusphotography.com\en\blog - blog in english Then have only one sitemap with all the links.... Thanks for your time... Jose
I was just getting around to replying to you, Jose. If you can hang on while I clear out my PM inbox, I'll get my reply written up.
No...but i think he will give me some suggestions when he gets the time... Do you have any suggestions? Thanks!
These writeups take time, especially when dinner (chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, and mac & cheese) calls.
Another place you can get links is through quality relevant directories. I would look for 2 types: Industry related directories (i.e. wedding services) Geographic directories (i.e. Puerto Rico businesses)
BATTER UP!!! Okay, let's get this started. The first thing you need to do is fix your canonical URL issue. Right now you have http://febusphotography.com http://www.febusphotography.com http://febusphotography.com/index.html and http://www.www.febusphotography.com/index.html - that's four separate home pages alone; now imagine each of your site's pages having three extra copies of the exact same content! (And that's just one language - your site is bilingual, which makes the problem twice as bad.) Fortunately, it's pretty easy to fix if you're running Apache. Just use this code (as is). RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.html?\ HTTP/ RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html?$ http://www.febusphotography.com/$1 [R=301,L] Code (markup): With that out of the way, it's time to give your home page the proper tender loving care it rightfully deserves. What I would probably do is leave the home page title the way it is for now (scary, I know) and focus on the page content. Instead of presenting an option for the English and Puerto Rican Spanish language versions (with their own landing pages), why not list those services on the home page? Have English or Puerto Rican Spanish on the top, with the other on the bottom (for each page type, such as the galleries, products, and so on). Or even side by side could work. For example, you can have an English and Spanish writeup for the blog or store over/under each other or side by side. Then, when the user is taken into their respective language version of the site, you can use the en. and es. subdomains to hold the English and Spanish language versions. I prefer subdomains here for two reasons. One, they're unique and separate parts of the same Web site, and two, you can set custom settings for subdomains within Google's Webmasters' Central (such as your preferred geopolitical region, for example). Your site does have some internal linking and structure optimization issues that do need to be addressed, along with duplicate content as well. Speaking of content, there's no real content there to speak of whatsoever. It's obvious what you do (you're a wedding photographer - and a very good one at that from what I've seen so far), but your site doesn't say what services you provide, how you provide the services you do, and how everything ties together to set you apart from your competition (in other words, you're lacking what's called a "unique selling position"). I'm going to map out your site's content and structure for you in the morning so you can see what I mean, and then propose some suggestions and alternatives that will help you truly optimize your Web site for the search engines while also targeting the right audience and converting them into paying clients. I'll also conduct some free keyword research for you as well (this will be sent via PM) so you'll know what keywords to target, which pages to put them on, and have a list of keywords you can use when you begin building your site's unique linking profile. And with your permission, I'd like to build a mockup of what your site would look like with an optimized code structure (the design would remain mostly the same) that would be delivered to you right here on the thread so you and others can learn (I'll block the files from the search engines on my end). Then, once the mockup is ready and you see how an optimized version of your site would look, I'll tell you how to get the links you really need to crush the competition in the search engines for your niche. Oh, and the best thing is, it wouldn't cost you a dime. Not even a penny. You interested?