PHOTOGRAPHER SEO GUIDE CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Why this Guide?
What This Guide Is and Is Not
SEO is Achievable with the Right Guidance
What Do I Need to Know to Perform SEO On My Own?
Why a Guide Specifically for Professional Photographers?
How Do You Know These Techniques Work?
I Need a Roadmap!
SEO Roadmap
Chapter 2: What is Search Engine Optimization?
How do Search Engines Rank Sites?
When Will I See My Ranking Increase?
Natural Search versus Paid Search
How Does SEO Create a Business Advantage?
White Hat versus Black Hat
White Hat SEO Techniques
Black Hat SEO Techniques
Chapter 3: Search Engines Speak HTML
What Does a Search Engine See?
What about Flash?
Chapter 4: Tracking the Success of Your SEO
Start with a Baseline
Chapter 5: How to Implement SEO Changes
Big Bang or Incremental?
Big Bang Approach
Incremental Approach
Study Your Competition
Chapter 6: Targeted Keywords
Choose Your Targeted Keywords Wisely
Targeted Keywords That Are Too Broad
Targeted Keywords That Are Too Specific
Effective Targeted Keywords
How to Use Your Targeted Keywords
Chapter 7: How to Write Content Both Customers and Search Engines Will Enjoy Reading
Write for Your Customers, not for Search Engines
Chapter 8: HTML Optimization Techniques
Technique 1: Write quality page titles
Bad Page Title Examples
Good Page Title Examples
Technique 2: Use Meta Description Tag on Every Page
Technique 3: Avoid Excessive In-Line CSS and Javascript
Technique 4: Make URLs Meaningful
Technique 5: Use ALT Attributes in All IMG Tags
Technique 6: Make your Image File Names Meaningful
Technique 7: Use TITLE Attribute in All Anchor Tags
Chapter 9: Submit Your Site
How to Create a Sitemap File
Web-Based Sitemap Generator
Mac OS X Sitemap Generator
Windows Sitemap Generator
Upload Sitemap File to Your Web Server
Notify Search Engines About Your Sitemap
Chapter 10: SEO for Flash Web Sites
Chapter 11: Other Ways to Increase Your Search Engine Rankings
The Importance of Incoming Links
Quality Matters
Link Text Matters
Ways to Generate Meaningful Links to Your Web Site
Start a Blog
Blog Software
Blog Post Ideas
Continuous Blog Posting, or Making it Appear You Never Leave
Blog SEO
Chapter 12: Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
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