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I am new to SEO and absolutely fascinated by the whole process.... this is fun! I am a newish photographer, and I am bringing together my blog with my static page to one URL, and am going to be using wordpress. My goals are a little different than typical.  What I am looking for in my web site is not sales, but viewership.  I want people to find my site, then keep coming back to my blog to follow what I do. Hopefully I get lots of people put my feed in their reader, or sign on to my email list. In looking at keywords, I found the below info from google as far as global monthy searches: photography blog 110,000
photo blog 823,000 black and white photographers 135,000
black and white photography 110,000 fine art photographers 60,500
fine art photography 49,500 abstract photographer 14,800
abstract photography 14,800 erotic photographer 60,500
erotic photography  3,600 editorial photographer 12,100
editorial photography 6,600 Questions: Photo blog is where the big numbers are, and this is eventually what I would like to be known for ... but the competition here is much stiffer than that for lets say 'fine art photographer'.  The top listing in photo blog has a domain authority of 78 as opposed to 47 for fine art photographer.  Given the importance of being high in the rankings, would it be better to try to dominate some of the long tail first?  But if I do, is it then hard to switch to photo blog and come up high because I have all the link and keyword 'baggage' on my domain from the old attempts at optimizing for 'fine art photographer'? 2)  How would people suggest handling photographer and photography, in terms of keywords, and using the terms in directories, etc?  Pick one or use both? 3)  Is this too many keywords to focus on at first?  General thoughts to approach? Thanks! Brent