Quick New SEO Tip For Your Photography Blog
Since most photographers use flash websites, our blogs are our most important asset when it comes to getting a little attention from Google.
Even still, most of the content on our blogs consists of images. Unfortunately, Google hasn’t quite learned to see yet, so images don’t quite make the grade either. Of course, you have the ever-important alt tags, but you are still lacking in the text department.
In order to help you offset your blog’s image-heaviness, I have created a simple video tutorial to teach you how to take advantage of a part of your site that is almost always under utilized – the category and tag pages. Did you know you can edit these? Check out the video to see how to use them for some extra SEO juice:
Simple, right? Just a little change could go a long way in getting your category and tag pages ranked. This could result in more bookings as visitors searching for specific terms such as “engagement photographer” will find just the page they are looking for and be that much closer to contacting you.
Here is the code from the video:
Category page:
<?php echo category_description(); ?>
Tag page:
<?php echo tag_description(); ?>
In the video I mentioned that you might not have a tag page in your template files. There is a simple fix. Simply use an FTP program to copy your category template (blog folder > wp-content > themes > yourtheme > category.php ) onto your desktop. Change its filename to tag.php and reupload it to the same folder. WordPress will automatically identify it as your tag template.
Want to do more with your category and tag pages? Check out the WordPress codex for additional info.
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Likei have read many interesting article on blogging seo but "SEO Tip For Your Photography" is entirely different and really liked your tips and tricks thanks for sharing.
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Likethanks for the tips ,nice blog
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LikeSome great tips here. Guess I'm not doing too bad whenever it comes to promotion. Thanks for helping me to see this :)
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LikeThanks for the tips!! Very informative!!
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