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Oh yeah, it was purely from an SEO standpoint.

Not quite sure how to encourage people to share my stuff from or on Pinterest yet.

Ok, so you're into sharing the links rather than posting the pictures then?

What do you think is the best approach when it comes to using Google+ as a photographer?

The images have no real SEO benefit, but the ones I post seem to get shared more, +1ed more than posting a link to one of my blog posts with a preview image.

What do you think is the best way to approach this problem?

Maybe because my blog is now on blog.celynnenphotography.co.uk and I've just told Bing and Google about it?

Hello! I was busy doing lots of key wording for my images which I hate and notices that when viewed in source code, the different places I inputed information translated into Title and Description meta tags but NO alt tags. As I'm a a photographer, it's really important to me that I make the most of my images to get increased traffic so I challenged the people behind my website about it. This is their response to the question:

"We all know how important the alt tags are for image SEO so why does
the design allows Title, Description and Keyword image tags but not alt
tags?"

Unfortunately, there is no way to add an alt tag and title tag specifically to an image display page. However, as you have pointed out here, we use other elements that essentially accomplish the same thing.

Each image display page does have its own page title and meta description, as you have also noticed. For the title, we use the IPTC Headline field (if there is no headline, then we use IPTC Title, and if there is no title, then we go to file name), and for the meta description, we use both the IPTC caption as well as the keywords - so all of that information is embedded on the image display page with the image itself and search engines can index this content.

Alt Text data intends to given contextual information to search engines when they crawl your site, and the IPTC metadata that shows along with your images, does this as well."

What is your opinion on that answer?

Hello!

I have a few URLs all related to  the same business sector.

Can I point them all at my home domain or should I point them to different relevant content within it?

Ioan

My website is quite established.

I just have loads of 302s and the links are all similar to this:

http://celynnenphotography.co.uk/index.php?social_controller=auth&social_action=authorize&key=facebook&post_id=2111

http://celynnenphotography.co.uk/index.php?social_controller=auth&social_action=authorize&key=facebook&post_id=1832

http://celynnenphotography.co.uk/index.php?social_controller=auth&social_action=authorize&key=facebook&post_id=1850

And they all direct to:

https://sopresto.socialize-this.com/facebook/authorize/?req_perms=publish_stream&v=2&id=6acb34e591&response_url=http%3A%2F%2Fcelynnenphotography.photographyblogsites.com%2Findex.php%3Fsocial_controller%3Dauth%26social_action%3Dauthorized%26salt%3D5f0400db5dda670e8325036d3dd708da%26p%3D1400

Yeah, I get what you mean about the silly hovering thing...

But as far as you're concerned, neither way will provide any SEO boost?

I just wonder what is best in term of SEO.

This is the link http://celynnenphotography.co.uk/links/wedding-venues/

Is it better to send traffic back into my own website or is it better to send traffic out to "reputable" websites?

I am a wedding photographer and have a "Venues" page on my website.

Am I better associating the links to the venue's actual website or to a blog post featuring a wedding I did there? (PS: In the blog post there will be a post aiming at the venue's website.)

Thanks!

Looking at my report and saw I had over 400 302s. When I looked where they came from, it seems it's from a plugin called socialize sending stuff to Facebook.

Does it matter?

Hello!

I use Photoshelter for my commercial photography website:

http://www.ioansaidphotography.co.uk/

I'm trying to make it better re SEO and all that by filling as much information as I can. I'm using Picworkflow who give you a title, description and keywords for every picture..

But in Photoshelter's IPTC metadata editor, they put an SEO tag by Headline (essentially saying it's important) and not by title. Do you think it's good/useful/safe to use the info Picworkflow gave me for title and put it in Headline?

PS: This is for the pictures individually and not the pages.

Thanks!

Thank you!

Hello! I have a wordpress based blog/website and I was wondering what were the most important things to put in my title.

I'm a wedding photographer.

I think the location of the shoot is important and the fact that it's wedding photography, but is it important to try and put my company name (Celynnen Photography) in it too?!

It's very hard to keep the titles short!

Ioan

Right now there are set at:

| <a title="Click for Help!">Use noindex for Categories:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Use noindex for Archives:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Use noindex for Tag Archives:</a> | |

But SEOMoz still picks up stuff.

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll have a look and see how that's done!

I'm using a wordpress blog

I seem to have duplicate issues on my website due to tags and categories having the same title.

If I was to delete one of the two, which would be better to delete?

Thanks!

A quick side-question, I have an about me page:  http://about.me/ioansaid

Looks nice enough and all that and I guess it's quite friendly and less commercial looking of a link than my company link which is what I have in my twitter profile.

Twitter has much higher authority and all that than About.me as you pointed it out so I thought that having my http://celynnenphotography.co.uk link there would be more beneficial than my about.me page. But perhaps the About.me would generate more clicks? I don't know..

Purely for SEO purposes, am I right in leaving my company's link there or perhaps should I put my About me and hope for more clicks?

Thank you!

Every year, we do a popular "Favourite pictures of the year" contest where people vote on the best picture (i.e: their mate's) in order to win something.

But I just found that I'm going way over the "Too many links" limit and I think it's because of all the comments.

1. Is it a problem

2. Is there a way to de-activate the links?

Thank you!

Ioan

1. I've IMPORTED the content. That is what you mean, yes?

2. is that complicated?!

3. Thank you.

4. So when people will go to the old addressdo they see old content or is it instantly redirected?

5. Thanks!

I have a blog on a separate address to my website.

http://cheshireweddingphotographyblog.co.uk/ and http://celynnenphotography.co.uk

Now I'm going to have a new website which is going to be wordpress based and it will sit on the main website (http://celynnenphotography.co.uk ) and include both gallery and blog.

now the blog does well enough on google, etc.. so i wanted to mix their SEO juju and all that, but what happens with my blog?

Do i: Stop paying for hosting, nice and simple.

OR Do I need to do something?

OK...so what about:

Portrait Photography

• Boudoir
• Family Portraits
• Newborns

Better?

Ok.

What do you think of my current categories then?

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Right.

So right now my categories are:

Commercial

• PR Photography
• Event Photography
• Interior Photography

Portrait Photography

• Boudoir Phootgraphy
• Family Portraits
• Newborn Photography

Etc... Carry on or.....?

Thanks!

Right.

So right now my categories are:

Commercial

• PR Photography
• Event Photography
• Interior Photography

Portrait Photography

• Boudoir Phootgraphy
• Family Portraits
• Newborn Photography

Etc... Carry on or.....?

The reason for the "relevancy" for me is more to do with search engines. For example, I have clients in London looking out for photographers in North Wales where they would like to get married.

When I put subcategories, I noticed the category (weddings) and sub-category (north wales) were both mentioned in the custom URL, which I thought made it better in terms of getting to the website rather than when client look at things within the site itself.

Hello!

I'm a professional photographer and have used categories in an old blog to separate my work. (weddings, portraits, etc.)

I'm starting an new blog and everything was imported, except categories so as i started rewriting them, I noticed the 'personalised URL.

So I was thinking of re-writing my categories based on types of jobs and location.

For example:

*North Wales

-wedding photography

-portrait photography

-commercial photography

*Cheshire

-wedding photography

-portrait photography

-commercial photography

and so on...

Or do you think it's best to just have shoot style categories?

What do you guys think?

Thanks!

Right.

I hate Photobiz.

Right.

I hate Photobiz.

Right... so really simple landing pages that simply explain that if they want more detail, they need to go to the main website?

So taking http://cheshireweddingphotographyblog.co.uk/, forwarding it to http://www.celynnenphography.co.uk/blog will make http://www.celynnenphography.co.uk/ (my main and  "most important" website) worst?!

Hello again..

Last blog question for a while, I promise!

The annoying folk behind my website say that the only way for my blog to be at http://www.celynnenphography.co.uk/blog would be to frame forward it, because of how they are hosting, managing it etc

Is this an acceptable and useful thing regarding SEO? (I want my website to benefit from my blog's content)

Thanks a lot guys!

Ioan

I have a few URLs... Is there any benefit for me to frame forward these empty domains?

What is it's done through Frame Forwarding?

What is it's done through Frame Forwarding?

This is what he told me after what you guys said. Is this accurate and OK?

"In making this transition from having a separate blog domain for your blog to celynnenphotography.co.uk/blog please be aware that there are several steps involved that can result in temporary down time for your site and blog in making this transition.  Please also note that since you are making a major DNS change on the domain for the blog it can take some time for the blog to re-index on search engines.  Also your Photobiz site will be down until this transition is complete, and after that it will index on Google as "site.celynnenphotography.co.uk""

Hello again!

The other day I was asking about my blog which is on http://cheshireweddingphotographyblog.co.uk/

Based on the answer, I decided I wanted to move it within my website. So I emailed Photobiz saying I wanted it to become:

http://www.celynnenphotography.co.uk/blog

They want me to make it: blog.celynnenphotography.co.uk

They say the benefits (re: SEO) would be the same but that there would be more downtime if I wanted it done my way.

Are they right in saying the benefits would be the same for blog.celynnenphotography.co.uk as it would for http://www.celynnenphotography.co.uk/blog ?

Thanks!

Thank you very much for your response and the link to the video!

I have a website:

http://www.celynnenphotography.co.uk

I also have a blog which I put there because I thought the URL would be useful:

http://cheshireweddingphotographyblog.co.uk/

Should I:

Move my blog within my website's url? (i.e: http://www.celynnenphotography.co.uk/blog )

Make a NEW blog within the website's URL?

or leave it as it is?

My interest is raising the SEO of my website.

Thank you!