Search Engine Optimization

[Rocco]

Well, I finished the comments, Captions, Tags, and Titles for everything on my page. Still no dice as of yet. Something interesting happened though..


When searching for "Photographer Ogden Utah" I am on the first page of results.. but it's a post from my g+ account, asking for feedback from my followers and linking my website. Very strange.

Hey Bob, haven't been to your site in a while.. but if you're like me I went for a clean and simple look. I really didn't like the idea of having captions and photo "titles" with every picture. But that also meant missing out on the SEO opportunity. One of the Zenfolio CSRs suggested I make the text of those items the same color as my background. So it's there, but it's not really there. Here's a link to one of my images so you can see what I mean: http://www.vierimagestudios.com/p979947389#h15ff353f Use your cursor to highlight the area below the photo. Now that I think about it.. I wonder how it looks on the mobile website. hmm..

[bob williams]

One of the Zenfolio CSRs suggested I make the text of those items the same color as my background. So it's there, but it's not really there.

I'm Like you Rocco, I like the clean simple look on my homepage. And... That is a great idea to get some non viewable key words on your hompage, but your back ground would have to be a solid color, unless you can make the text transparent---I might give that a try this weekend. Thanks for the idea.

PS, Very nice website you have there.

[bob williams]

Just wanted to share something with those that are interested in improving your search engine visibility.

Some of you may know this but it is fairly new to me: Google Adwords . This was recommended from another source. You use this to develop keyword lists for various topics. For example: If I list "wolf photo" then this page will list many variations of the phrase. Then you can drop them in to and editor and do what you wish with them. It will even show you the competition for each phrase for both world wide and local areas. Looks like a really great tool.

After a couple of practice runs, I realized my key word lists were very, very weak and completely off target. Hopefully, with a little help from Google, my hit rate will improve.