Three Websites Walk into a Bar… to meet a prospective client

The bar must have WiFi. Now stop me if you have heard this one before … but three websites each from different photographers (or any service or product that the prospect was searching for) meet a prospective client. Each may present only one page to try and make a sale.
One website shows [...]

Another Bludomain Website SEO Upgrade Success

It is pretty well established that a Bludomain website alone will never get good search results and resulting website traffic. Having experienced many months of poor search placement and website traffic, and then trying to SEO his Bludomain site to no avail Jim Bendewald of James Studio Photography in Madison WI emailed for help.
I [...]

A Client Shares – How Our WordPress Based Websites Actually Increased His Business

Don Samples of Midnight Magic Videography in Knoxville TN just sent me a note recounting his satisfaction and success from using our website. I really like that we were able to help his success, but before I share his experience I need to tell you a little about how we began.
About five months ago [...]

The Marketing Power of Beauty and Soul

You need more than just a business identity, you need to share your business soul. For a small business to quickly power up to a successful internet marketing presence they must be able to present both beauty and soul. It needs to be more than just a pretty picture. It needs to be [...]

Bludomain websites offer the best opportunity for SEO improvement

If you own a Bludomain Flash website and want to increase your search engine referal traffic, congratulations it is possible to make your website the fastest gazelle* in the herd.
Don’t blame Bludomain or Flash for sub-par search engine results. That is the nature of Flash websites. They are what they are and current [...]

Ultimate Bludomain Flash website SEO enhancement. Proven 300% search marketing increase in just days.

There is no doubt that Bludomain provides a beautiful platform for showcasing your photography on the web. Unfortunately they are not good websites for internet marketing. Bludomain describes their websites as “portfolio websites”. Heck, even Bludomain’s own website isn’t Flash. So they are great websites for portfolio galleries, but bad for internet marketing.
How to [...]

Brand New Tennessee Wedding and Events Specialists Association (TWESA) Website

What could be better than putting all the content of a non-profit professional wedding association, resource directory, members’ information together with advice, tips and info for people planning a wedding or event altogether in a WordPress based web/blogsite? Well for the ease of site owner’s maintenance and future additions or the search engine marketing [...]

Don’t market your website, let your website market you

So we get a new website and we want visitors and traffic. What do many of us end up doing … we market and promote our website! We often buy Adwords, send out direct email and even have price reduction specials. In other words, after we have spent money and time [...]

Contrast of a wedding photographer’s website changing from Flash to WordPress

This is just a simple comparison of a professional photographer client’s WordPress web/blog site that went live over the weekend, replacing their old Flash website.
Photographer – Lyrical Lens Photography
OLD SITE

The prior website platform was Flash, Big Black Bag, hosted on 1 and 1.
The cost of the site was $50 initial setup fee and then $200/annually
Website [...]

SEO tidbit – domain age and registration term impact on search results rank

For a some time it has been known that Google’s patents includes factoring the continuous age of a site’s domain name and the remaining term of its registration period. But what is a little more obscure is if Google actually used it, how and what weight they give to it. Some [...]

It’s a Slam Dunk – the power of wedding show lead follow up

This is a continuation of my earlier post in that it is a note from the same person, regarding her website traffic improvement and upcoming appointments by following up on the contacts from the wedding show.
“I know you love this stuff for your blog, so I thought I would update you.
After sending a follow-up email [...]

Always try to finish the loop for maximum marketing ROI

Yesterday I had a note from a client who was disappointed by the low number of website visitors following her presence at a well attended wedding show.
She wrote:
“I did what was supposed to be a BIG wedding show. … I checked my {website} stats from this weekend and there were really very few hits. [...]

MUST DO – follow up those wedding and bridal show leads

This was going to be the “everything you need to know” post of following up on your bridal and wedding show leads. But I found that Andy Ebon has just recently created a great post on this most fundamental practice, though unused opportunity. And then that there was some relevant stuff in other [...]

How Flash websites prevent “Word of Mouth” internet referrals

The marketing activity we all hope for; the free, powerful word of mouth referral to our website is severely hampered by Flash based website. The monolithic nature of Flash websites prevent anyone directing a contact into a specific part of your website. So they take a screen capture to show what they find [...]

My CameraDojo podcast with expert photographers Kerry Garrison and David Esquire on website search optimization/marketing and getting the most from your blog

If you haven’t been taking lessons at the CameraDojo, you probably should take the time to visit. It could only help you gain the skill to survive and thrive in meeting any challenge … even this economic recession.

Created by well known and respected photographers, Kerry and David, it is an excellent website to assist professionals [...]

Links are now the votes of confidence in your website

My advice to people seeking to increase search page rank is to reduce focusing on the search engine and focus more on what your prospective clients would want. All the search engine tries to do is provide the pages with the greatest likelihood of what the searcher is seeking. If your site has lots [...]

Are you suffering from blogging fatigue

Do feel almost totally unmotivated to make another post to your blog? Does it seem like anything is better than blogging? Did you start blogging with enthusiasm and are now afraid that your blog is dieing?
There are a lot of thoughts about this and some time we all experience it to some degree. [...]

Upgrade your Blogger* blog to self-hosted WordPress – just $47 – This weekend only

*Offer is good not only for Blogger/Blogspot, but also TypePad, LiveJournal, BigFolio, SquareSpace, Xanga, and others … even WordPress.com. But only this weekend through Sunday night (Jan 4th) EXTENDED THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT, Jan 5th
I thought I was going to travel some this weekend, but the plans fell through. So I want to put the [...]

Why a blog makes a poor web/blogsite main page and a how a splash page is even worse.

Just a quick post. I wrote a longer post over on the Kertesz WordPress Web/Blogsite for Professionals site that explains in detail what a unique “property” your website’s main page is. Why a blog is not a very good main page for a full business web/blogsite. And a Flash splash page is worse. [...]

Blogging advice wrap-up

This is the final (for now) post on how to blog. Your website’s blog can make a huge difference in your on-line success, increasing your search engine result page rank, visitor traffic and presenting you as an expert in your field. Here are a few other helpful perspectives.
In his recent brief and [...]

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