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    Is that a Hassleblad? Brian Vuillemenot's Avatar
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    Search Engine Optimization Books

    I want to optimize my photo website for the search engines, and am looking for a good book and/or website to point me in the right direction. There's just so much hype out there on this topic that it's hard to know what to believe! Any suggestions? Thanks!
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    Re: Search Engine Optimization Books

    A lot of practitioners of this black art seem to congregate at http://www.webmasterworld.com/

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    The best information is available right on the web. You just have to dig a bit for it with good keyword searches. Basically, from what I understand, metatags are only of limited use now. The very best thing you can do is have a lot of good text content for bots to index. Any 'tricks' you might want to cook up should probably be based on this fact.

    Get a Google Analytics account (this will tell you what your search results are, when you're coming up, and under what keywords, etc...) - it's free. And, if it's worth that much to you, you can PAY Google to make you more visible (disgusting, I know - but true) and get a Google (I forgot what it's called - Google Keywords? - can someone help out here) account.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JW Dewdney
    if it's worth that much to you, you can PAY Google to make you more visible (disgusting, I know - but true)
    Google doesn't mix "editorial" and advertising. Search results and sponsored links are clearly separated. You cannot buy a higher placement in the former.

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    Re: Search Engine Optimization Books

    Write more, ditch the meaningless entry page of your website, and get linked and hit upon from other websites. There is no trickery and mystery, just have good content.

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    Dale Proctor claims to have found a way to be at the top of the search list with his site California Pictures. He never would tell me exactly how he did it but he seems to have done it. His site is chock full of keywords though.

    http://www.californiapictures.com/
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    Re: Search Engine Optimization Books

    Quote Originally Posted by Doug Dolde
    Dale Proctor claims to have found a way to be at the top of the search list with his site California Pictures. He never would tell me exactly how he did it but he seems to have done it. His site is chock full of keywords though.

    http://www.californiapictures.com/
    Jeeze, that site is just a few photographs in the midst of thousands of keywords! I thought the Google spiders were more sophisticated than to fall for that...
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    Crazy huh?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Vuillemenot
    Jeeze, that site is just a few photographs in the midst of thousands of keywords!
    I'm glad I'm not the only one to feel that way.
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    Re: Search Engine Optimization Books

    It's not that difficult to get visitors to land on your pages by search engines. It is more difficult to get them to stay, come back, and buy something. Sometimes that's conflicting objectives. I chose the later, yet I still get plenty of traffic.

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