@Ian H - Overall, your site works quite well. I wouldn't mind a reduction in the header however. This would bring your photos more into view when the page first loads.
Not structure related but I think your Services page should provide specific detail on your offering.
"Bespoke fine art commissions. One off unique creations produced to clients need's on a variety of media. Please contact to discuss prices."
Provide an example and outline of specifically how this will work. The generic SM form is fine for a standard email however if you develop a comprehensive contact form you will be able to collect the information you first need as well as guiding prospective customers.
Also, include a phone number. If you don't to give our your personal number, use a Google Voice number. When selling your products and services you want to be easy to contact.
And I think you need to remove the apostrophe from the word "need's" in that statement.
Is purchasing "Wall art" and "Corporate decor" different than clicking the Buy button on the gallery pages?
You list clients on the Services page - would be interested to read testimonials and see your work in their environment.
Not sure if you are using your IG feed for anything other than fun but if you are or want to tie it to your business I suggest you focus on one of the subjects. All of your photography is stellar but from my research on IG audiences, they want a specific subject. So if you are focusing on landscapes for corporate decor, that audience is going to be less likely to be interested in a street scene or architecture.
Overall fantastic photography and a clean site. Only the messaging needs to be tweaked. And that's all from a random dude on the Internet.
@Ian H said:
I thought I would share my site and see if anybody has any feedback or suggestions.
@Cygnus Studios said:
I agree with uncool, but I'll also add that you should remove the smugmug footer.
The site is smooth and easy to navigate. Not sure why you have the architecture section set to a mini slideshow, then make viewers click another link to get to the portfolio though. I would make it the same as the others, but that is more personal preference.
Can you help with removing the smugmug footer?
The architecture section didn't look well like other pages because it's only one gallery and I thought that visitors won't go to the gallery. I still experiment with it.
You still have a smugmug footer. Your about me and services go to .smugmug.com instead of being part of your custom domain.
Your font is a tad small for my wore out eyes, but that is just a personal opinion. If I make the page 100% it is perfect.
The links being green isn't exactly eye catching either, but again that is just a personal opinion.
Cheers for looking over the site and giving the feedback. Any idea how I can change the url? I have made it so it looks like the others in my custom domain but then the pages will no longer load.
My site currently is missing a bunch of the types of photography that I shoot so I'm working on making a few new folders. Right now the only one is fine art and it uses the same size gallery images as the main page but what I'm experimenting with is using wider ones for areas with fewer galleries and I'm wondering if you think this works? Or if I should keep it consistent? And any thoughts about the main site too are welcome, I'm not sure if I've put it up here before and if I did it was more than a few revisions ago.
@NikonsandVstroms said:
My site currently is missing a bunch of the types of photography that I shoot so I'm working on making a few new folders.
My first thought was that you have too many now. In my experience clients hire photographers who specialize, not a jack of all trades. Heck, my agent is constantly narrowing our focus and that works incredibly well for us.
Now if doing a bunch of different genre's works for you, continue to do it. There isn't any one size fits all business model.
@NikonsandVstroms said:
My site currently is missing a bunch of the types of photography that I shoot so I'm working on making a few new folders.
My first thought was that you have too many now. In my experience clients hire photographers who specialize, not a jack of all trades. Heck, my agent is constantly narrowing our focus and that works incredibly well for us.
Now if doing a bunch of different genre's works for you, continue to do it. There isn't any one size fits all business model.
The site itself is clean and easy to navigate.
My business situation currently is a bit unique. I have a disability in my hands and legs so I only can take a few jobs per month. Though I'm still able to do the occasional larger gig because I have very capable second shooters who are great in their own right but those gigs wipe me out for weeks. Currently I get all of my work through referrals and people know that I can shoot pretty much everything which means I've had to throw together portfolios of say my product work and then send them out. Even if I had these galleries ready to go my thought is that people can just send them to my site VS having to contact me/wait until I am able to respond.
Though if that situation changes I definitely get your point, thanks for the comments.
One quick question which I couldn't find the answer for via search, is there a way to put in CSS code that wont take up space on the site? I figured out that " .sm-tile-info .sm-tile-title {font-size: 16px !important;} " will normalize the font size for all the galleries but it leaves a large gap wherever I put it which hurts the design to my eye more than the larger fonts.
The first thing that jumped out at me is that you have included links in your blog to take your viewers to your smugmug site but there are no links from your smug site back to your blog.
The photos in your blog were uploaded to blogger. Have you considered using HTML in your blog to show the photo and link back to your smug site? If you'd like to see an example of this you can look at my blog (link in signature below). I use the SHARE dialog on my smug site to grab the HTML to show the photos in my blog.
Your smug site includes HOME BROWSE SEARCH links just above the Senior Portraits section of your home page. Why?
If I go to http://www.adahighlanderphotography.com/browse I see two folders listed, Landscapes, and Wildlife/Flowers. If I click either of these folders I am taken to what appears to be the same place, folders allowing access to Landscapes, WIldlife/Flowers, and Portraits. Worse than that, clicking on any of the folders from that page redisplays the same page. I see the same (bad) behavior if I click on the folder name in the breadcrumb expected to see other galleries in that same folder. This seems a bit odd to me. If I click on Landscapes from the browse page I expect to be taken into the Landscapes folder.
Kent,
Here are a few thoughts that may or may not be relevant because besides increasing SEO, I am not sure if your focus is more on selling prints or booking portraits and family shoots:
1. Great images
2. Remove the Buy feature from the Family and Senior photos (unless you have permission to sell them to the public. And then, I'm not sure why unless it's for stock.)
3. Move the logo next to your name. This will move the images up and more in view.
4. I find the end of the subhead wording a bit off (Landscape, Wildlife, & Portrait Fine Art Photography). Are you marketing your portraits as fine art? It's just not a common term.
5. Your social connections and content relate well to your site. I'd explore building the blog into the SM world. This will keep people at your main domain.
6. Keep your Instagram content consistent. Most of it is birds, that's where I would keep the focus. KelbyOne has a a good course on building an Instagram audience.
7. The Subscribe button has a prominent location. Clicking it allows a user to sign up for Blog updates. If a visitor has not been to your blog, they do not know what they are getting or why they should subscribe. Tell the visitor what they are going to get.
8. The About page does of a good job of informing visitors of who you and your mission
9. There is lots of debate over providing prices on a site or not. Personally I am a fan - keeps the tire kickers at bay but I certainly understand the other side of the argument in that you may either leave money on the table or let your competition undercut you. But if someone does contact you, you know it's a solid lead.
10. You can turn your testimonials into additional content by providing behind the scenes info and photos - show and explain what lead to the satisfied client.
11. Keep shooting and posting on a consistent basis.
Well every person you can know,
And every place that you can go,
And any thing that you can show,
You know they're nouns.
Thanks for the great comments! @denisegoldberg thanks for catching that menu that shouldn't have been there! And I'll look at your suggestion of linking the photos from site into a blog post. @uncool lots of great feedback, thanks. I'll have to digest it and make some updates.
Hi all. I have recently moved from Ft Lauderdale FL to Wilmington NC. I am a portrait photographer. When my business was in Ft Lauderdale my website always came up on first page I'd google search. Of course now at my new location in NC it does not. How do I improve SEO so my site improves visibility? Not sure this was the correct forum for this help. Also feedback on improving site is always helpful. Thanks. diane. Www.dianeschafer.com.
I've tried to make the website and blog look as much as possible like the same site.
Thanks for any suggestions (like how to improve my SEO )
Kent
Hi Kent. Had a look at your site and have a couple of comments. I agree with the previous comment of the logo and menu taking up too much space in the banner. Perhaps move navigation menu to upper left or right, and logo to the other side opposite the menu.
Also, I'm not sure if you are aware that you can fine tune the centering of the picture in the banner. The example here is the banner picture of the bluebird in your birds gallery. You can drag the picture down so that the bird's head and eyes are showing in the banner.
I am just looking for some feedback on my site. It seems to be a little lacking, but I can't put my finger on it. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
I had a look at your site and we seem to have similar interests.
Your galleries could be improved by controlling which image appears as the gallery cover image. As an example the two galleries for gnatcatchers have rear views of the birds whereas you have much nicer pictures in the individual galleries that would make a better cover image. In the case of the D'Arnaud's Barbet, the cover image is missing all together. Specifying the cover image is done in the Basics tab of the gallery settings. It's unfeatured image. You can get to it by selecting Customize ! Gallery Settings or Organize ! Settings.
In the birds folder it would help navigation if the bird groupings followed some order that matched ebird or other bird taxonomy order. You have some very nice landscape images but I kept wanting to see more. I thought clicking the image would send me to a gallery for more images of the location, so you might want to consider adding more landscape images.
I am just looking for some feedback on my site. It seems to be a little lacking, but I can't put my finger on it. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
The first thing that jumped out at me is that you have included links in your blog to take your viewers to your smugmug site but there are no links from your smug site back to your blog.
The photos in your blog were uploaded to blogger. Have you considered using HTML in your blog to show the photo and link back to your smug site? If you'd like to see an example of this you can look at my blog (link in signature below). I use the SHARE dialog on my smug site to grab the HTML to show the photos in my blog.
Your smug site includes HOME BROWSE SEARCH links just above the Senior Portraits section of your home page. Why?
If I go to http://www.adahighlanderphotography.com/browse I see two folders listed, Landscapes, and Wildlife/Flowers. If I click either of these folders I am taken to what appears to be the same place, folders allowing access to Landscapes, WIldlife/Flowers, and Portraits. Worse than that, clicking on any of the folders from that page redisplays the same page. I see the same (bad) behavior if I click on the folder name in the breadcrumb expected to see other galleries in that same folder. This seems a bit odd to me. If I click on Landscapes from the browse page I expect to be taken into the Landscapes folder.
@denisegoldberg I have deleted the menu that somehow got there in error (mine I'm sure!) so I think all the comments in your last paragraph go away?
I just updated my latest blog post to embed the HTML directly from my website which now makes the picture clickable and goes right to that photo on my website. Hardest thing about that for me was when I click over to edit the HTML on blogger, it's a little hard to find the spot where I want to insert the picture but I did end up getting it right. I also added a BLOG menu item to make it easy to get back to the blog.
@Diane S said:
Hi all. I have recently moved from Ft Lauderdale FL to Wilmington NC. I am a portrait photographer. When my business was in Ft Lauderdale my website always came up on first page I'd google search. Of course now at my new location in NC it does not. How do I improve SEO so my site improves visibility? Not sure this was the correct forum for this help. Also feedback on improving site is always helpful. Thanks. diane. Www.dianeschafer.com.
What are you searching for? If I look for Diane Schafer Photography your site comes up first in the google search.
Are you aware that your keywords - https://dianes.smugmug.com/keyword - are a mess? It looks like you are allowing smug to create keywords from your file names. You can easily turn that off in Account Settings > Discovery > Search.
When I click on some of the entries in your navbar the requested page opens in a new browser tab. If a site opens a tab that I didn't ask for I usually close the entire site. Yes, I know, I'm a bit picky - but unless I request a new tab myself I expect a given site to use only one tab.
You have plenty of text on your site to feed SEO.
Do you have inbound links to your site from anywhere?
@FriendlyCow said:
I am just looking for some feedback on my site. It seems to be a little lacking, but I can't put my finger on it. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. http://www.davidimages.com
One thing that jumped out at me is that you are using square thumbs in your galleries without adjusting the thumbs for portrait-oriented photos. I always hate to see thumbs where the heads of the individuals in the photos are cut off. Have you considered either not using square thumbs or choosing a different gallery style?
Are you using your Wedding, Portraiture, Engagements, and Bar Mitzvahs pages to entice customers to hire you? I assume those are sample galleries - it seems that it would be helpful to include some text about the services you provide.
@Kentinada said:
I just updated my latest blog post to embed the HTML directly from my website which now makes the picture clickable and goes right to that photo on my website. Hardest thing about that for me was when I click over to edit the HTML on blogger, it's a little hard to find the spot where I want to insert the picture but I did end up getting it right. I also added a BLOG menu item to make it easy to get back to the blog.
Ah, I usually create my blog entries using the HTML tab instead of the Compose tab. That makes it easy for me to see where to place the HTML.
@uncool said:
Kent,
Here are a few thoughts that may or may not be relevant because besides increasing SEO, I am not sure if your focus is more on selling prints or booking portraits and family shoots:
1. Great images
2. Remove the Buy feature from the Family and Senior photos (unless you have permission to sell them to the public. And then, I'm not sure why unless it's for stock.)
3. Move the logo next to your name. This will move the images up and more in view.
4. I find the end of the subhead wording a bit off (Landscape, Wildlife, & Portrait Fine Art Photography). Are you marketing your portraits as fine art? It's just not a common term.
5. Your social connections and content relate well to your site. I'd explore building the blog into the SM world. This will keep people at your main domain.
6. Keep your Instagram content consistent. Most of it is birds, that's where I would keep the focus. KelbyOne has a a good course on building an Instagram audience.
7. The Subscribe button has a prominent location. Clicking it allows a user to sign up for Blog updates. If a visitor has not been to your blog, they do not know what they are getting or why they should subscribe. Tell the visitor what they are going to get.
8. The About page does of a good job of informing visitors of who you and your mission
9. There is lots of debate over providing prices on a site or not. Personally I am a fan - keeps the tire kickers at bay but I certainly understand the other side of the argument in that you may either leave money on the table or let your competition undercut you. But if someone does contact you, you know it's a solid lead.
10. You can turn your testimonials into additional content by providing behind the scenes info and photos - show and explain what lead to the satisfied client.
11. Keep shooting and posting on a consistent basis.
@uncool my focus is really trying to sell more prints from the website while still advertising the family and senior portraits.
Thanks said...
Thanks!
The intent here is while I provide downloads for family and senior portraits, I wanted the customer to be able to buy prints through my website too. I tell people what a great job Bayphoto does on their prints. Should I do this in some other fashion? I really should only provide the Buy option for the customer but I'm not sure that's possible to restrict in that way.
Where were you referring to on this one? Did you mean where my logo is centered and the website title is under that?
Ya I get you on this. I do both sides so I'll have to work on this one a bit.
Pointers for doing this one? I didn't think SM had blogging capabilities.
I tried to do some of all types but I did get in a bit of rut on birds for a while. I love to shoot them - so to speak.
I just added a Subscribe page to my site that describes what they'll get and has the wufoo form embedded on the end.
Comments
@Ian H - Overall, your site works quite well. I wouldn't mind a reduction in the header however. This would bring your photos more into view when the page first loads.
Not structure related but I think your Services page should provide specific detail on your offering.
"Bespoke fine art commissions. One off unique creations produced to clients need's on a variety of media. Please contact to discuss prices."
Provide an example and outline of specifically how this will work. The generic SM form is fine for a standard email however if you develop a comprehensive contact form you will be able to collect the information you first need as well as guiding prospective customers.
Also, include a phone number. If you don't to give our your personal number, use a Google Voice number. When selling your products and services you want to be easy to contact.
And I think you need to remove the apostrophe from the word "need's" in that statement.
Is purchasing "Wall art" and "Corporate decor" different than clicking the Buy button on the gallery pages?
You list clients on the Services page - would be interested to read testimonials and see your work in their environment.
Not sure if you are using your IG feed for anything other than fun but if you are or want to tie it to your business I suggest you focus on one of the subjects. All of your photography is stellar but from my research on IG audiences, they want a specific subject. So if you are focusing on landscapes for corporate decor, that audience is going to be less likely to be interested in a street scene or architecture.
Overall fantastic photography and a clean site. Only the messaging needs to be tweaked. And that's all from a random dude on the Internet.
And every place that you can go,
And any thing that you can show,
You know they're nouns.
Cheers Uncool. I will certainly look at your suggestions and make some tweaks.
I didnt think my ig feed was showing ?
It's showing in your footer:
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
Oh right thats cool I thought it was meant there was a feed embedded from a widget (i used to have one but removed it)
A couple of things I've noticed:
You still have a smugmug footer. Your about me and services go to .smugmug.com instead of being part of your custom domain.
Your font is a tad small for my wore out eyes, but that is just a personal opinion. If I make the page 100% it is perfect.
The links being green isn't exactly eye catching either, but again that is just a personal opinion.
Website
Can you help with removing the smugmug footer?
The architecture section didn't look well like other pages because it's only one gallery and I thought that visitors won't go to the gallery. I still experiment with it.
@Cygnus Studios
A couple of things I've noticed:
You still have a smugmug footer. Your about me and services go to .smugmug.com instead of being part of your custom domain.
Your font is a tad small for my wore out eyes, but that is just a personal opinion. If I make the page 100% it is perfect.
The links being green isn't exactly eye catching either, but again that is just a personal opinion.
Cheers for looking over the site and giving the feedback. Any idea how I can change the url? I have made it so it looks like the others in my custom domain but then the pages will no longer load.
Add this to your CSS:
.sm-page-powered-by a { display: none; }Images in the Backcountry
My SmugMug Customizations | Adding CSS to Your Site | SEO for the Photographer | Locate Your Page/Widget Number | SmugMug Help Desk
Cheers Mike all sorted
Any ideas on how to rectify the url problem ?
If you're using a custom link (
https://ianhufton.smugmug.com/About-Me/) to your About and Sevices page, then remove thehttps://ianhufton.smugmug.com.Images in the Backcountry
My SmugMug Customizations | Adding CSS to Your Site | SEO for the Photographer | Locate Your Page/Widget Number | SmugMug Help Desk
@Hikin' Mike Cheers thanks for the help.
My site currently is missing a bunch of the types of photography that I shoot so I'm working on making a few new folders. Right now the only one is fine art and it uses the same size gallery images as the main page but what I'm experimenting with is using wider ones for areas with fewer galleries and I'm wondering if you think this works? Or if I should keep it consistent? And any thoughts about the main site too are welcome, I'm not sure if I've put it up here before and if I did it was more than a few revisions ago.
Here's the main site:
http://www.jonathanbeckley.com
And the new folder:
http://www.jonathanbeckley.com/Art/Commercial
My first thought was that you have too many now. In my experience clients hire photographers who specialize, not a jack of all trades. Heck, my agent is constantly narrowing our focus and that works incredibly well for us.
Now if doing a bunch of different genre's works for you, continue to do it. There isn't any one size fits all business model.
The site itself is clean and easy to navigate.
Website
My business situation currently is a bit unique. I have a disability in my hands and legs so I only can take a few jobs per month. Though I'm still able to do the occasional larger gig because I have very capable second shooters who are great in their own right but those gigs wipe me out for weeks. Currently I get all of my work through referrals and people know that I can shoot pretty much everything which means I've had to throw together portfolios of say my product work and then send them out. Even if I had these galleries ready to go my thought is that people can just send them to my site VS having to contact me/wait until I am able to respond.
Though if that situation changes I definitely get your point, thanks for the comments.
One quick question which I couldn't find the answer for via search, is there a way to put in CSS code that wont take up space on the site? I figured out that " .sm-tile-info .sm-tile-title {font-size: 16px !important;} " will normalize the font size for all the galleries but it leaves a large gap wherever I put it which hurts the design to my eye more than the larger fonts.
Check out www.birdpixel.com. A long ways from being done, but getting there
http://www.birdpixel.com
mailto:birdpixel@gmail.com
If anyone has some cycles to spare, I'd appreciate your comments on my site.
Main site: http://www.adahighlanderphotography.com
Blog: http://blog.adahighlanderphotography.com (hosted on blogger)
I've tried to make the website and blog look as much as possible like the same site.
Thanks for any suggestions (like how to improve my SEO )
Kent
web: www.adahighlanderphotography.com
FB: www.facebook.com/adahighlanderphotography.com
blog: blog.adahighlanderphotography.com
The first thing that jumped out at me is that you have included links in your blog to take your viewers to your smugmug site but there are no links from your smug site back to your blog.
The photos in your blog were uploaded to blogger. Have you considered using HTML in your blog to show the photo and link back to your smug site? If you'd like to see an example of this you can look at my blog (link in signature below). I use the SHARE dialog on my smug site to grab the HTML to show the photos in my blog.
Your smug site includes HOME BROWSE SEARCH links just above the Senior Portraits section of your home page. Why?
If I go to http://www.adahighlanderphotography.com/browse I see two folders listed, Landscapes, and Wildlife/Flowers. If I click either of these folders I am taken to what appears to be the same place, folders allowing access to Landscapes, WIldlife/Flowers, and Portraits. Worse than that, clicking on any of the folders from that page redisplays the same page. I see the same (bad) behavior if I click on the folder name in the breadcrumb expected to see other galleries in that same folder. This seems a bit odd to me. If I click on Landscapes from the browse page I expect to be taken into the Landscapes folder.
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
Kent,
Here are a few thoughts that may or may not be relevant because besides increasing SEO, I am not sure if your focus is more on selling prints or booking portraits and family shoots:
1. Great images
2. Remove the Buy feature from the Family and Senior photos (unless you have permission to sell them to the public. And then, I'm not sure why unless it's for stock.)
3. Move the logo next to your name. This will move the images up and more in view.
4. I find the end of the subhead wording a bit off (Landscape, Wildlife, & Portrait Fine Art Photography). Are you marketing your portraits as fine art? It's just not a common term.
5. Your social connections and content relate well to your site. I'd explore building the blog into the SM world. This will keep people at your main domain.
6. Keep your Instagram content consistent. Most of it is birds, that's where I would keep the focus. KelbyOne has a a good course on building an Instagram audience.
7. The Subscribe button has a prominent location. Clicking it allows a user to sign up for Blog updates. If a visitor has not been to your blog, they do not know what they are getting or why they should subscribe. Tell the visitor what they are going to get.
8. The About page does of a good job of informing visitors of who you and your mission
9. There is lots of debate over providing prices on a site or not. Personally I am a fan - keeps the tire kickers at bay but I certainly understand the other side of the argument in that you may either leave money on the table or let your competition undercut you. But if someone does contact you, you know it's a solid lead.
10. You can turn your testimonials into additional content by providing behind the scenes info and photos - show and explain what lead to the satisfied client.
11. Keep shooting and posting on a consistent basis.
And every place that you can go,
And any thing that you can show,
You know they're nouns.
Thanks for the great comments!
And I'll look at your suggestion of linking the photos from site into a blog post.
@denisegoldberg thanks for catching that menu that shouldn't have been there!
@uncool lots of great feedback, thanks. I'll have to digest it and make some updates.
Again, many thanks!
web: www.adahighlanderphotography.com
FB: www.facebook.com/adahighlanderphotography.com
blog: blog.adahighlanderphotography.com
Hi all. I have recently moved from Ft Lauderdale FL to Wilmington NC. I am a portrait photographer. When my business was in Ft Lauderdale my website always came up on first page I'd google search. Of course now at my new location in NC it does not. How do I improve SEO so my site improves visibility? Not sure this was the correct forum for this help. Also feedback on improving site is always helpful. Thanks. diane. Www.dianeschafer.com.
http://www.dianeschafer.com
Hi Kent. Had a look at your site and have a couple of comments. I agree with the previous comment of the logo and menu taking up too much space in the banner. Perhaps move navigation menu to upper left or right, and logo to the other side opposite the menu.
Also, I'm not sure if you are aware that you can fine tune the centering of the picture in the banner. The example here is the banner picture of the bluebird in your birds gallery. You can drag the picture down so that the bird's head and eyes are showing in the banner.
Paul
http://paultavares.smugmug.com/
Hello,
I am just looking for some feedback on my site. It seems to be a little lacking, but I can't put my finger on it. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
http://www.davidimages.com
Thank you!
Hi Vivek.
I had a look at your site and we seem to have similar interests.
Your galleries could be improved by controlling which image appears as the gallery cover image. As an example the two galleries for gnatcatchers have rear views of the birds whereas you have much nicer pictures in the individual galleries that would make a better cover image. In the case of the D'Arnaud's Barbet, the cover image is missing all together. Specifying the cover image is done in the Basics tab of the gallery settings. It's unfeatured image. You can get to it by selecting Customize ! Gallery Settings or Organize ! Settings.
In the birds folder it would help navigation if the bird groupings followed some order that matched ebird or other bird taxonomy order. You have some very nice landscape images but I kept wanting to see more. I thought clicking the image would send me to a gallery for more images of the location, so you might want to consider adding more landscape images.
http://paultavares.smugmug.com/
I suggest using _ for dashes in bird keywords. It's closer to what the actual name looks like.
See my page http://www.photosbyat.com/keyword
Check your /keyword page. There is one huge KW at the top. Must of forgot the separators.
http://www.birdpixel.com/keyword
My Website index | My Blog
@denisegoldberg I have deleted the menu that somehow got there in error (mine I'm sure!) so I think all the comments in your last paragraph go away?
I just updated my latest blog post to embed the HTML directly from my website which now makes the picture clickable and goes right to that photo on my website. Hardest thing about that for me was when I click over to edit the HTML on blogger, it's a little hard to find the spot where I want to insert the picture but I did end up getting it right. I also added a BLOG menu item to make it easy to get back to the blog.
Thanks again for the fast feedback and ideas!
web: www.adahighlanderphotography.com
FB: www.facebook.com/adahighlanderphotography.com
blog: blog.adahighlanderphotography.com
What are you searching for? If I look for Diane Schafer Photography your site comes up first in the google search.
Are you aware that your keywords - https://dianes.smugmug.com/keyword - are a mess? It looks like you are allowing smug to create keywords from your file names. You can easily turn that off in Account Settings > Discovery > Search.
When I click on some of the entries in your navbar the requested page opens in a new browser tab. If a site opens a tab that I didn't ask for I usually close the entire site. Yes, I know, I'm a bit picky - but unless I request a new tab myself I expect a given site to use only one tab.
You have plenty of text on your site to feed SEO.
Do you have inbound links to your site from anywhere?
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
One thing that jumped out at me is that you are using square thumbs in your galleries without adjusting the thumbs for portrait-oriented photos. I always hate to see thumbs where the heads of the individuals in the photos are cut off. Have you considered either not using square thumbs or choosing a different gallery style?
The text on the page http://www.davidimages.com/Videography overlaps your logo if the browser window is not maximized.
Are you using your Wedding, Portraiture, Engagements, and Bar Mitzvahs pages to entice customers to hire you? I assume those are sample galleries - it seems that it would be helpful to include some text about the services you provide.
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Ah, I usually create my blog entries using the HTML tab instead of the Compose tab. That makes it easy for me to see where to place the HTML.
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@uncool my focus is really trying to sell more prints from the website while still advertising the family and senior portraits.
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Kent
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