SEO for Photographers !

I know, I know you don’t really want to learn this, but you either start working your way through SEO fro Dummies, pay someone to do it for you…or you’re going to have to learn what to do yourself.

As a wedding photographer we need a shop, maybe not a bricks and mortar shop or a physical studio but most definately a ‘virtual shop’ or to you and I a website.

So step one, we need a name, it would appear that the majority us photographer types are quite unimaginative when it comes to picking our website names…we tend to just buy our names and stick ‘photography’ on the end. [personally I didn't even bother with the photography bit on the end!]

Tip 1, Google is most definitely your friend, there are so many tools out there to help you, some free, some are very expensive !
Use Google and search… If you live in Birmingham…and you are a “Birmingham wedding photographer” search for that…who’s at the top of the list, what are their URL’s ?

Now surely you have checked? Is birminghamweddingphotographer.com birminghamweddingphotographer.co.uk or any variants still available, you never know ! If it is buy it, buy it now !!!

You can search for your new domain here via 1 and 1…
 

Tip 1a Check the .co domain surprisingly there are still many domains available, that you would think had gone already.

So if I were a Manchester wedding photographer (which I am!) then I would definitely want to own manchesterweddingphotographer.{co, .co.uk, .com, .net, .org, or .info}

Why?

Well, Google is going all ‘local’ so it’s so much easier to get ranked for ‘local’ keywords…and if you have the keywords in the domain itself….well it certainly makes the SEO work a lot easier !

Go back to Google again…are there any websites ranked on the first page with ‘town’weddingphotographer as the domain name, I bet there is !

Put your coffee down and go get yours… if you are in the UK stick with .co.uk .com .co .net .org or .info

SEO for Photographers !