Brian,
Make sure also that every image has an alt tag. This is a written
description (not a list of keywords!) of what the photo depicts. My website
has a story under each photo, but got few people asking to purchase things
the first 5 yrs I had the site. Three yrs ago I spent months adding alt tags
to all of the 800 photos the site had at the time, and when I add something
new I put in alt tags on the new stuff. Sales skyrocketed. Last year I
earned half of my income from sales off my site. Admittedly, my income is
still very low, but things are getting better every year on my website
sales. Make sure also that each page has a title that describes in a few
words what the page shows. Page titles and alt tags are more important than
text on the page for search engines to find images.
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Chris Crawford
Fine Art Photography
Fort Wayne, Indiana
260-747-5101
http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio
http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work!
On 6/5/09 4:29 AM, "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
> A while ago I was somewhat despondent about the apparent failure of my
> photo site pages to show up in searches simulating what a potential client
> might want.
>
> So I have begun a systematic revision of all 86 image pages I have up at
> present, inserting a few carefully chosen words a couple or three times on
> each page. Two or three days after doing the tested pages, one page
> came up at the very top of Google and one was on page 2.
>
> Only about 50 pages to go .....
>
> Brian Swale.
>
> http://www.brianswale.com
>
> Philosopher (n): a blind person in a dark room looking for a black hat that
> is
> not there
> (and) Remember, even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat...
>
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