Blogging

Top 10 Must-Read Blogs for Photographers in 2012

Top 10 Must-Read Blogs for Photographers

Pin It It’s hard to believe that it’s been a full year since creating my first list of Top 10 Must-Read Blogs for Photographers, and I had no idea how popular it would be (right now it’s the 3rd most read post on my entire blog!) I’ve decided to make this an annual list. There’s [...]

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What to Blog About When Your Photography Business Is Slow

What to Blog

If you want to attract new clients online, it’s absolutely essential that you blog regularly. Search engines like Google will lower your rankings in their results if your website isn’t being updated regularly. But what do you blog about when you’ve already blogged all your client work and don’t have anything to blog about. Please [...]

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4 Steps to Get Out of Your Blogging Slump

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Blogging and creating new content is important for improving and maintaining your search ranking on Google and other search engines. Fresh content keeps your website interesting to potential clients but is also much loved by the Google spiders which helps you to rank better in internet searches. For these reasons, blogging has become crucial to the [...]

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What Professional Photo Blog Theme is Best?

Pro Photo Blog Themes Comparison Review

Your photography blog is your most important marketing tool. With the flexibility that WordPress offers, it is by far the best option for creating both your site and blog that exists right now. The hard part is choosing what professional photo blog theme you want to use to to create your site. I’ve used a [...]

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Don’t Let Your Photography Blog Suck

niche photo blog tutorial

Let me start by saying this: Your blog is not that great. Your blog doesn’t stand out from the rest. Your blog is sometimes (maybe even often) boring. I’m sorry. But somebody had to break the bad news. The wedding photography world is filled with full timers looking for more clients, part timers wanting to [...]

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The Photographer’s Guide to Building Links (And Why They Are Necessary)

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No matter how optimized your website is, around 60% of the ranking factors for search engines involve links from other sites to your site called backlinks. There are important aspects to each link which may make one more valuable than another. So lets see if we can break all of this down and tell you [...]

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Get More Business by Treating Your Prospects Like Sheep

sheep

Confession: I never really put much thought into my website design. I considered what template I wanted and customized how it looked, but that was about it. It pretty much looks the same as all the other photographers’ websites out there who use the same template that I do. I don’t even want to know [...]

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Does Your Photography Website Have a Twin and Not Know It?

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The question is: Does your website have a twin and not know it? The answer is: More than likely. We’ll be getting a little technical here, but the concept is simple and it’s important to get resolved early on. It has to do with the little “www” that either appears or doesn’t appear when you [...]

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Top 10 Must-Read Blogs for Photographers

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When I got the idea to start this blog, I started researching the various blogs for photographers that were out there. I wanted to make sure that The Modern Tog wasn’t simply doing the same thing that everyone else was already doing. Along the way, I’ve collected a large number of blogs that I follow [...]

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How I Doubled my Website Traffic in One Month Using Facebook

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One of the most difficult parts of growing your photography business is finding a way to get your work in front of new people. You can have the most gorgeous work, but if no one can find it, they won’t know to book you. Last year I hit a traffic plateau. I was getting about [...]

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How to Configure WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast for Maximum Online Exposure

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There is much debate about what Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Plugin for WordPress is the best. Currently I use the WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast. Aside from being a very talented WordPress developer, Joost de Valk (pronounced Yoast) has a good handle on the needs of WordPress users in addition to all the benefits that [...]

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