048: Corey Potter - Beginners Guide to SEO for Photographers
SEO is a tricky subject. No one knows the exact algorithm search engines use to determine where you should rank when someone searches for "Your City Family Photographer". Todays Guest is Corey Potter who is a Wedding Photographer in Columbia South Carolina who also runs the popular website Fuel Your Photos which specializes in SEO and marketing tips for photographers. This episode is full of tips on improving the SEO on your photography website and how to do SEO for wedding photographers.
In This Episode You'll Learn:
How Corey went from shooting 9 weddings a year to 27 thanks to SEO
What SEO is, as described to a 5 year old
How to add more text on your site when you mostly just put photos
SEO for images
How to improve SEO for your photography website
What ALT text is and how to add it to your photos
What is better for SEO for Photographers, Squarespace or Wordpress
How to set up your website blog for SEO
How often you should be blogging
How to figure out what keywords to rank for
Why doing keyword research is important for your growth in google
How long it could take you to get to the first page of google
Why paying someone to work on your SEO can be a bad idea
One think you should put on your website that will boost your rank immediately
Why getting featured is so important
Great tips on working with vendors to help you out in google
Resources
Quotes
SEO is giving the clues that google needs to give the right answer
Adding alt text is a great way to tell google what you do
most people think they suck at writing but its probably fine for google
if you can blog everyday, blog everyday
But getting links to your website is not enough
do the hard work because no one else is
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