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94lincoln
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I have a question about smugmug and backlinks for seo. My competitor has a smugmug site also. I have been using SEOMOZ to improve my seo and get general ideas from other photo websites. It appears my competitor is uploading photos to galleries on his site "acmephoto.smugmug.com" and then linking these galleries to his site "acmephoto.com" The result looks like he is getting some pretty heavy seo juice from "acmephoto.smugmug.com. I assume this is because of the powers of smugmug.com.
When I try to edit "mysite.smugmug.com" I just get referred back to "mysite.com" I would love to get some heavy link juice frmom smugmug.com. This is a primary reason I switch to smugmug. My great benefit is that it is a great platform for building a photo website.
Any suggestions on how to harness the power of "mysite.smugmug.com"? :dunno
We all know how competitive the wedding photography business can be.
When I try to edit "mysite.smugmug.com" I just get referred back to "mysite.com" I would love to get some heavy link juice frmom smugmug.com. This is a primary reason I switch to smugmug. My great benefit is that it is a great platform for building a photo website.
Any suggestions on how to harness the power of "mysite.smugmug.com"? :dunno
We all know how competitive the wedding photography business can be.
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The only way that I know to link 'acmephoto.smugmug.com' to 'acmephoto.com' is to have two different websites.
Images in the Backcountry
My SmugMug Customizations | Adding CSS to Your Site | SEO for the Photographer | Locate Your Page/Widget Number | SmugMug Help Desk
Have you followed the suggestions on this page - http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/1229846-how-do-i-make-my-site-seo-friendly-?
Do you have a blog? Does that blog link back to your smug site? Are there links to your site or photos from other sites?
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
My Photography Blog.
My Popular Photos
- Photos of Edinburgh, Scottish Highlands and Islands, Fife.
Links to your site and your photos are important for SEO. Within your site, use of text in the form of titles, captions, and keywords is important. I believe gallery descriptions will feed in as well.
From this page - http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/1229846-how-do-i-make-my-site-seo-friendly-?
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
As for gallery descriptions, are you sure they are seen by search engines? I know a lot of smugmug sites widgets and so on are javascript and I wasn't convinced that search engines necessarily saw javascript?
My Photography Blog.
My Popular Photos
- Photos of Edinburgh, Scottish Highlands and Islands, Fife.
It's all the same: SiteNameHere.smugmug.com = SiteNameHere.com = www.SiteNameHere.com
Your descriptions are seen in the search engines.
Images in the Backcountry
My SmugMug Customizations | Adding CSS to Your Site | SEO for the Photographer | Locate Your Page/Widget Number | SmugMug Help Desk
Say for example, my website was spectacularedinburgh.com but I decided to change to http://www.edinburghphotography.com and also bought up the http://www.tomfosterphotos.co.uk at the same time. I've got 301 redirects redirecting everything to the http://www.edinburghphotography.com link so all my previous links, etc. are redirected to the appropriate place on the new domain.
However, I'm not sure Google uses previous links to the Spectacular Edinburgh domain for ranking of the Tom Foster Photos domain. I may be wrong! By the same logic I would have guessed that the DomainName.smugmug.com SEO would be separate to DomainName.com?
My Photography Blog.
My Popular Photos
- Photos of Edinburgh, Scottish Highlands and Islands, Fife.