Shedding Light in Michael Alan Bielat’s SEO

March 18, 2010 Photographer Interviews
Paramour Photography

The photographer SEO interview series gives insight to individual photographer experiences with implementing search engine optimization. I find it insightful and helpful to learn from their growth and mistakes.

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PhotoMerchant New Website, US Launch, and Free SEO Book

March 8, 2010 Reviews
Photomerchant

PhotoMerchant announced an array of items including a new website, service in the United States, and a partnership with Zach Prez and the Photographers SEO Book. For a limited time, new paid PhotoMerchant subscribers will be getting a free copy of the ebook as well as a custom How to Guide I wrote specifically for [...]

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Photography Blog SEO Nirvana: Plugins & a Theme to Get You Ranked

March 8, 2010 PhotoBlog SEO

Any search engine optimization (SEO) expert or enthusiast will tell you  WordPress.org is the foundation for a photographer that wants to get optimal traffic from Google for a blog. You won’t reach nirvana by preaching the blogger.com, wordpress.com (they host it for you) or some home-baked blog religion. In my 6 years of SEO consulting, [...]

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5 Minute Photography Blog SEO Overhaul

March 8, 2010 PhotoBlog SEO

Blog titles and descriptions are a critical element in photography blog search engine ranking. Here’s a quick way to control these SEO elements for WordPress.org blogs plus SEO recommendations for photographers.

WordPress.org with All in One SEO Pack
WordPress.org is your best chance at optimizing your photography blog, so if you have a self hosted blog with [...]

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Photographers SEO Book

March 6, 2010 Buy Products

25 page eBook of proven SEO gems offers easy to read and deploy steps for getting your site in Google. Photographers who read it immediately know what to rank for and why, plus how to SEO their sites with the right photography keywords and link building techniques. Perfect for Flash or image systems like SmugMug, [...]

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How to Build a Photographer Master Keyword List Video Training

March 5, 2010 Buy Products

The most important step in an SEO strategy is to create a keyword list so you focus your optimize efforts. This 60 minute recorded video training (iTunes/Quicktime compatible) will cover the process and tools I use to create a 100+ word keyword list:

Keyword brainstorming
Keyword demand – find high search words in your niche
Assess competition for [...]

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Video Training: How to Track Keywords and SEO for Your Photography Site

February 23, 2010 Buy Products

Tracking Keywords and SEO Video Training
Web stats save time and grow traffic. The photographers that I see who look at their analytics at least weekly are getting more than double the traffic than those who do not. I think it’s because they are serious about optimization, but also because of the GEMS that can be [...]

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Thesis 1.7 Upgrades and SEO Features

February 13, 2010 PhotoBlog SEO

I just got an email about the next version of my Thesis theme for WordPress that will be coming out soon. It’s not really my theme, but the theme that I use. Thesis is the mother-of-all themes for WordPress because of its build in search engine optimization control. Hence why my blog posts rank in [...]

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5 Things to Know When Writing Photo Alt Text

February 13, 2010 Image SEO

Alternate text (alt text) is that HTML tag behind your photos that helps a robot like Google look at an image and enjoy its beauty. I’ll assume you already know the basics like why they are so great and how to update them. This post focuses on what to say in the darn things, which [...]

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How to Use Long Tail Keywords to Increase Blog Traffic

February 11, 2010 Keywords and Meta Tags

In search engines the long tail applies to the large number of unique key phrases that send you traffic in little quantities. The beauty about these phrases

Highly qualified
Little competition (easier to rank)
Can add up to the same volume as your main keyword phrase
Cheap to purchase in Google adwords

Long Tail Examples for Photographers
Let’s say you’re a [...]

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