How Are You Driving People To Your Site

*AJ*

I'm interested in hearing how people are driving visitors / potential buyers to their site. Obviously this will differ depending on what you shoot.

I just read on another forum here on www.dgrin.com that a guy had 1.8 million visitors in 8 days. I checked out the gallery and there wasn't anything special to be found and it just makes me ponder how in the world did he get all those hits.

Right now my traffic is 6% from search engines and most of the rest are from Facebook, which I have found to be a good resource to point people to your site.

Thanks!
AJ
www.AJWittPhotography.com

zoomer

Well first of all your photography is very good...which will help a lot.
If you post very good photos on the major internet forums it can drive a lot of traffic to your site. Post 1 photo and link it to a gallery at your site. If people like the photo and want to see more they will click on the link to your site and have a look.
I had 27,000 visitors to my websites doing that last month.
Fred Miranda, POTN, DP Review, this site. Link your website to your blog and link them both to your Facebook. The more action you get going on the net the more visitors you will get to your sites.
Having said that it is VERY difficult to sell photos from your site, because your work is good you can probably sell one here or there.
There are a few people that sell a decent amount of photos off their Smugmug sites...hopefully one of them will chime in here.

You want to be sure to keyword all your photos and gallerys which will bring them up when people do internet searches.

Your portraits are great...if you are not already you could make great money with those and you could easily do weddings (where the real money is if you are good enough) with your skills.

Angelo

AJ

something's a bit screwy. neither link, in your post or your signature, lead me to image sites

zoomer

That is weird it worked the first time I looked, but now it doesn't.

W.W. Webster

Angelo wrote: »

something's a bit screwy. neither link, in your post or your signature, lead me to image sites

If you can't get your link right, no amount of urging will get visitors to your site!

Glort

Numbers are basically Irrelevant especially in your case.
It's the quality of the traffic you should concern yourself with first.

You could put a gateway page on your site, look up the most popular searches being done, seed the gateway page with those terms and you could get a Million hits in a week no worries.
Unfortunately you probably wouldn't get a single client out of it.

You are in a specialised market with a very small target market population.
I would strongly suggest you target the people within your market area rather than worrying about the numbers of traffic you get. You may well be a lot better off doing promotions with local business etc and putting your effort into that than worrying about promoting through the web.

Yeah, web marketing may be a bit easier and you can do it sitting on your butt however that is far from a gaurantee it will be effective or even worthwhile.

Fishead

"nothing special"?
....about my snow photos except I went to the trouble to take them and no one else did! The gallery has had 2,300,000 views this month. The location here is a major summer resort serving Washington Baltimore and Philadelphia. The visitors usually experience a hot, muggy, sweltering Boardwalk. Seeing it covered in drifts was amazing to them and they sent links to their friends and it went viral quickly. A unique situation that doesn't really apply to your type of photography. As a business owner in Ocean City I enjoy sharing my perspectives of the town through my photography.

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Mark Dickinson

6% could be a lot what's your total views. Mines around 20-30k a month with all Pw protected galleries

*AJ*

Sorry guys, I was having my URL redirected when I posted this and it took a couple days to get it right.

Thanks to all who chimed in!

Hikin' Mike

Trying to get more visitors via Google, you need to change your title tag from AJ Witt Photography to something that has your location and what you do. People are NOT going to search for your business name. Read my SEO for the Photographer in my sig.

denisegoldberg

If people do happen to find your site, how will they know where you are located or how to contact you? Your Contact Me and About Me pages are blank. I tried on 3 browsers (IE8, Firefox, Chrome) just in case it was a browser issue, nope.

Do you have links on your site posted in places where potential customers might see them? Do you have a blog that links back to your site and perhaps provides a way to contact you?

--- Denise

SamirD

I know what niche likes to view my images and my images cater to that market. In the summer months, I see about 350k views a month.

Sales are a different story. I still haven't figured out a formula for that one.