{"id":2073,"date":"2009-12-01T16:55:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T05:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2018-03-05T21:19:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T10:19:15","slug":"photography-seo-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/photography-seo-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography SEO Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m by no means an expert on SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) but I want to share some little things that I&#8217;ve incorporated which has helped boost my traffic and get my photography out there.<\/p>\n<h3><!--more-->Post Tags<\/h3>\n<p>When creating a new post it&#8217;s important to tag the content appearing in both WordPress Post Tags and the All in One SEO plugin. Here is an example of tags used for a seascape long exposure photograph captured at South Arm, Tasmania.\u00a0 I get a small amount of traffic for the keywords B+W and Cokin neutral density filters so I incorporate this into my tags when I&#8217;ve used either of my B+W or Cokin filters.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;South Arm, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, seascape, waterscape, long exposure, B+W 110, Cokin neutral density, nd, filter, grad&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Drop Keywords<\/h3>\n<p>You need to decide what popular keywords you will target and then slowly work them into the content of your posts. Be realistic though as aiming to rank high for the keywords &#8220;photography&#8221; or &#8220;wedding photographer&#8221; isn&#8217;t going to happen. Instead I try to target local words like<em> &#8216;Tasmania photography<\/em>&#8216; <em>&#8216;Seascape photography&#8217;<\/em> <em>&#8216;nd filters&#8217;<\/em> you get the jist.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve decided on the keywords you&#8217;re going to target, begin to add them to your titles and descriptions where relevant. Once again don&#8217;t over do this and try to do so without the reader even noticing.<\/p>\n<h3>Permalinks<\/h3>\n<p>The default permalink structure isn&#8217;t great.<\/p>\n<p><em>Default \t\t<code>https:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/?p=123<\/code><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Instead change to the &#8216;Day and Name&#8217; structure which allows you to incorporate the headings (keywords cough) into the post URL. This is found in the Settings &gt; Permalinks menu.<\/p>\n<p><em>Day and name \t\t<code>https:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/sample-post\/<\/code><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Make Use of Plugins<\/h3>\n<p>Most of these are quite straight forward or are explained well on their websites so I won&#8217;t bore you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/all-in-one-seo-pack\" target=\"_blank\">All in One SEO Pack<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/google-xml-sitemaps-generator\" target=\"_blank\">Google Sitemaps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxblogpress.com\/plugins\/mpo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Max Blog Ping Optimiser<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/redirection\" target=\"_blank\">Redirection<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/stats\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress Stats<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/wp-greet-box-wordpress-plugin\" target=\"_blank\">Greet Box<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fairyfish.com\/2008\/03\/21\/wordpress-related-posts-plugin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Related Posts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/akismet.com\" target=\"_blank\">Akismet <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Social Media<\/h3>\n<p>Use social media websites to your advantage through subtly building links to your blog. By this I mean<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comment on other photography blogs with your website in the URL field but don&#8217;t over do it. I get the occasional comment from people where it&#8217;s quite obviously a link building exercise and the comment is quickly marked as spam.<\/li>\n<li>Add your photography link to your signature on forums you use.<\/li>\n<li>Social media websites like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/www.digg.com\" target=\"_blank\">Digg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/www.stumbleupon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stumble Upon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/www.reddit.com\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/List_of_social_networking_websites\" target=\"_blank\">etc<\/a> can rake in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndesign-studio.com\/blog\/updates\/the-digg-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\">huge amounts<\/a> of traffic if you&#8217;re lucky. I suggest only submitting your best articles or photographs as it&#8217;s not easy to hit the front page on these sites so save it for your best.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Google Webmaster<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/webmasters\" target=\"_blank\">Google Webmaster<\/a> is a handy tool that allows you to monitor any crawl errors Google encountered, popular keywords and your rank on Google, websites linking to you and sitemap diagnostic tools.<\/p>\n<p>As I said I&#8217;m no expert and am interested to hear how you optimise your blog for SEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m by no means an expert on SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) but I want to share some little things that I&#8217;ve incorporated which has helped boost my traffic and get my photography out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[610,1114,605,612,188,160,606,609,607,601,507,600,599,611,602,238,603,608,604],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels","tag-akismet","tag-alex-wise","tag-all-in-one-seo-pack","tag-article","tag-blog","tag-business","tag-google-sitemaps","tag-greet-box","tag-max-blog-ping-optimiser","tag-optimization","tag-photography-blog","tag-search-engine-optimisation","tag-seo","tag-social-media","tag-tasmania-photography","tag-tips","tag-webmaster","tag-wordpress","tag-wordpress-plugins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p93MA-xr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2403,"url":"https:\/\/www.alexwisephotography.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/16\/guide-to-daytime-long-exposures\/","url_meta":{"origin":2073,"position":0},"title":"Guide to Daytime Long Exposures","author":"Alex Wise","date":"February 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A small buying guide and photography tips to assist you in making the right purchases to photograph daytime long exposures. 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