SEO for Photographers by Fuel Your Photos

We often get asked, "Which website platform do you recommend for SEO?" In this podcast, we don't really answer that question.. but we do walk you through our process of evaluating a website platform, what we look for, why, and how.

We talk about blocking, or not blocking, AI bots from crawling your photography website. We also go into creating Custom GPTs to better handle individual tasks.

In today's episode, we discuss common reasons that people end up on a photographers website. This is part one of a two part series on optimizng your website for its users. In the next episode, we'll use the answers from this exercise to create better content, a better user experience, and hopefully better conversions for our goals!

Flothemes announced this week that they would be shutting down their WordPress theme operation in one year. The flex builder / flex block will not work after September 24, 2024. We talk about alternative solutions and where to go from here! We also talk to Melissa Love from Style Cloud. We take a look at Kadence themes from Sightsee as well!

We share our current WordPress stack. The domain registrars, hosting, themes, pagebuilders, and plugins that we use and recommend for photography sites.

We discuss ChatGPT (3.5 & 4.0), Google Bard / Google SGE, Github Co-Pilot, the new Bing, and their effect on search and SEO. We then speculate on what could change in the future!

Steph ranks #1 for "Iceland Elopement Photographer", but her marketing and digital marketing is so much more than that! She's a Master Coach, Sales Expert, Photographer, and Podcast Host. Check out her free guide "25 Ways to Market Your Business As An Introvert, without relying on social media" https://www.stephzakas.com/25-introvert-marketing-freebie and more info about her Icela

Automated testing tools can be helpful in certain circumstances, but there are also downsides. The recommendations can be inaccurate, outdated, or simply incorrect. Further, they can miss actual issues impacting your rankings! We chat about them today on the podcast.

When we do SEO consultations, we often start off by asking “what are your goals when it comes to SEO?” The response is almost *always* some form of: “I want to rank on the first page!” While it’s an understandable aspiration, this type of goal is not specific or action-oriented. SEO is a broad field, with thousands of factors impacting search rankings. In reality, there i

Should you put your main keyword in your H1 heading? What about a secondary specialty in your H2? We talk keywords, on-page, SEO, and how to navigate these questions!