Sunday, July 31, 2011

The right way to Advertise Your Professional Photography Business Online Part 1 of 3

By Clwyd Probert


There are a few methods to generate clients on the internet. The 3 most popular techniques are:

- Universal listing in the search sites like Google
- PPC (Pay-per-click) advertising
- Paid adverts in online websites and directories

The method you use will depend on numerous factors and each methodology might be relevant for different photographers at various times in their economic cycle. Let's look at each system in turn and analyse its strengths and weaknesses. In this post we are going to look at the first of these methods.

Common Listing In The Search Engines

In principle, this is the handiest method and the one which each photographer wants. Everybody would like to be number one in Google for the keyword phrase 'wedding photography'. However with roughly 95 million (95,000,000) web pages being returned for this search term, it isn't reasonable for most photographers to achieve this target. However by carful use of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) techniques either thru work all alone or by hiring an expert SEO advisor, it's actually possible to target less competitive terms which would be concentrated on a neighborhood like 'wedding photography London ' and build traffic this way.

It is important to follow some essential rules before launching on a SEO campaign. Remember the three things that really must be in place before you consider promoting a particular keyphrase for your website:

- The term must be relevant for your business. There is not any point in being number one on Google if the people who come to your site are not especially interested in what you do
- The term must generate traffic. Use the Google keyword tool to guess the amount of visitors you will get if you do well for the term Remember the 1 spot takes a high percentage of all traffic.
- The term should have low competition. If you try to compete with a robust existing competitor, then it might take you a very long time to get results, if ever.

The downside is that the effort required to do the market analysis, change the internet site and promote it takes both cash and time and the results aren't quick. A common SEO campaign will take 3 to 6 months to begin to generate results.

Conclusion: A good methodology for the long term. Research the field and hire a SEO expert to help. The time and money invested will pay off.




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