Optimizing photos for search engines gives you another chance to gain exposure – Getting your site ranked in Search Engines is awesome and good for any photographer’s business, but getting ranked for your photos is another way to get yourself out there. You may have even hired an SEO Company to help you optimize your site.
Well have you ever thought about optimizing your photos for search?
Image optimization can be a huge source of traffic! Professional Photographers listen up; having good, clear, medium-sized photos of yours getting indexed in the Image Searches of Google, Yahoo, and Bing is a good move for getting more clients or sales. Here are a few tips for doing just that.
Save AS! Save AS! Save AS! When you’re saving your photo inside Photoshop don’t ever “save for web”. Why? Cause it strips meta data. So useing “Save As” in Photoshop is the first step.
Meta-data: JPGs have the ability to store meta-data that is keywords, description, and the rest of the EXIF meta data from your camera.
When Saving (save as), your file name needs to be descriptive with keywords that you’re looking to get indexed for in the image search of the major search engines.
Yes, Yes, I know nothing has been posted all of last month. After Vegas, Life got crazy for me and my contributors for Photograview. I shot a Wedding, got a Girlfriend, and a new Job. Also, in a month I’ll be moving to my new place. So these past few Months; I’ve been all over the place.
“To the Photograview Readers & Subscribers I am deeply sorry for no new content.”
I’m working on sorting out my life and time to get interviews done. Along with the Video Podcast show with Mr. DJsteen.
On to Today’s Photo… I call it the Intense Stare. I shot it at my friend’s Crazy House. The Guy is the one who did all the art on the walls & the girl is his love, muse, friend & creative partner. Continue reading »
So the other day I took this photo in hopes to make it on to Flickr’s Explore list for August 6h, 2008. However, that didn’t happen. Which is strange cause at the time of writing this I received more comments, favorites, and views in less amount of time than the last few photos in flickr’s explore list. Could some one please give me a little bit more in sight on getting on to Flickr’s Explore list? Continue reading »
Our first site Announcement! So far we’ve only posted photographer interviews which will not be changing. We are going to try and keep these announcements to a minimum here on Photograview. However, they are necessary as our site grows and things are added. Continue reading »