robertalert86
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Images are very useful for search engine optimization! And, as a photographer, you have incredible opportunities to leverage images and photos for SEO! First and foremost, my biggest SEO Tip for a photography website would be to use the ALT attribute and place SEO-friendly keywords 'behind' the images. Google pays a lot of attention to the ALT attribute behind images, so that is one of the biggest SEO tips for photograph websites. Second, use the XML sitemap feature and webmaster tools to implement an image sitemap. That isn't as important as the ALT attribute, but still worth it.
Here are other SEO tips for photographers -
In SEO, what is the TITLE tag vs. TITLE attribute for images? - Image heavy sites like wedding photographers are challenging for SEO. First, remember that you are designing for TWO audiences. One: Google, which prefers text heavy sites, and TWO: humans, who prefer images. They are DIFFERENT and require DIFFERENT designs. As I explained in SEO class today, the workaround is to a) put the images / FLASH at the top for humans and text at the bottom for Google, or b) have just some pages that are SEO friendly on the site (to pull in traffic) and other pages that are not, for humans. Not every page has to be SEO optimized. The home page is special, as we will discuss in website structure.
If you have a photography FLASH website, what do you do for SEO? - I do not have any direct experience here, other than to say that YES, Flash-based sides are HORRIBLE for SEO. It's not that Adobe Flash hurts you; it's that it is largely invisible to Google. You must use text-based HTML to do well on SEO.
How can images or Adobe Flash work with SEO? - The sad news is basically Google doesn't index images of any time in any real sense. It can read Adobe Flash and PDF, but it doesn't like to. So, in general, you MUST use HTML / text to perform well in Google searches.
Here are other SEO tips for photographers -
In SEO, what is the TITLE tag vs. TITLE attribute for images? - Image heavy sites like wedding photographers are challenging for SEO. First, remember that you are designing for TWO audiences. One: Google, which prefers text heavy sites, and TWO: humans, who prefer images. They are DIFFERENT and require DIFFERENT designs. As I explained in SEO class today, the workaround is to a) put the images / FLASH at the top for humans and text at the bottom for Google, or b) have just some pages that are SEO friendly on the site (to pull in traffic) and other pages that are not, for humans. Not every page has to be SEO optimized. The home page is special, as we will discuss in website structure.
If you have a photography FLASH website, what do you do for SEO? - I do not have any direct experience here, other than to say that YES, Flash-based sides are HORRIBLE for SEO. It's not that Adobe Flash hurts you; it's that it is largely invisible to Google. You must use text-based HTML to do well on SEO.
How can images or Adobe Flash work with SEO? - The sad news is basically Google doesn't index images of any time in any real sense. It can read Adobe Flash and PDF, but it doesn't like to. So, in general, you MUST use HTML / text to perform well in Google searches.
