I’m in the habit of doing search engine optimization reviews of website systems that I think photographers would use. If I’m lucky, the company will offer a 7 day trial where I can check out some of the features related to SEO. Because you know they never list all the juicy ones, or the ones they are missing, right on their website. So I was pleasantly surprised to find that Showit has a completely free version. That’s right, not a trial, but a free version of Showit where you can upload up to 30 MB of content and publish 5 pages to a vanity URL. You can also embed any of those 5 pages to a blog, shopping cart, Facebook or other website. Of course this is not enough to run a business, but with any luck I can uncover some SEO gems and share them with you in a future post.
By upgrading to a PRO subscription of Showit you will be able to:
Publish more than five pages to your website
- 10 Gigabytes of web hosting space
- Host your site at your own domain name
- Track your site stats with Google Analytics
- Remove Showit branding from your pages
- Access to PRO only content in Club Showit
So stay tuned while I am testing out my free version and looking at the titles, tagging, text and linking features that will be important if you are trying to rank your Showit site.
Zach strongly recommends Showit SEO: Search Review for Web Sites, Display & Slideshows
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clickbooq users can download the Photographers SEO Book here for $39 to get the Showit SEO How to Guide ($10 value) included for free. That’s 8-10 bonus pages with screenshots of Showit specific advice for making the most of your clickbooq SEO features.
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