Photoblog/pBlog SEO
Photblog or pblog
A photoblog is a form of blog differentiated by the predominant use of and focuses on the author's photographs rather than text. Typically, some kind archive is available, often divided by month or category. Most photoblogs also allow visitors to leave comments that are associated with a particular entry. These comments allow a photoblog to establish a community of visitors. Comments usually link back to the commenter's site. This further permits the creation of a loose community with authors and visitors able to access, share and communicate through each others sites.
Problem with Photoblog SEO
It’s simple, since photoblog contains mostly pictures not words, you can’t do keyword tricks to boost up SEO. In fact most of the conventional SEO technique is useless here. And if you go through major search engines crawler FAQ, you will notice crawler skip graphics, audio, flash, JavaScript etc. Traditional SEO strategies are building upon keywords, contents and links, photoblog lack of two out of three. What photoblog has is link (one link per picture) which doesn’t change the situation a bit. So does that mean photoblog won’t come up high in search engine, yes it won’t if you stuck with general SEO techniques. You have to adopt different SEO strategy for your photoblog or podcasting, same goes with Vlog (video blog).
SEO for pblog
Categorize your picture blog, don’t just put it chronological/reverse chronological. Put your photos into categories named using popular keywords you will use to find/search those. Search engine will love it since your categories are keyword rich.
Alt image tag is major blow; we mostly miss when we post any pictures. Try to put as descriptive and meaningful Alt img tag as possible, since search engine won’t read the picture but will read the description. If your picture is about “mak six” and your Alt Img tag is “img13000” or something like that, search engine will never find you when someone really looking for “mak six”.
Since you don’t have lot of text in your pblog, try to increase amount of text by reply back to comments and add a bio in your pblog. This will give a big P.R (Public Relation) boost as well as some foods to search engine crawler.
Lastly use tagging, lots of photoblog software support “Tag”, relevant keyword.
The Example of Alt Tag, you will see when you hover mouse on the logo bellow.
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A photoblog is a form of blog differentiated by the predominant use of and focuses on the author's photographs rather than text. Typically, some kind archive is available, often divided by month or category. Most photoblogs also allow visitors to leave comments that are associated with a particular entry. These comments allow a photoblog to establish a community of visitors. Comments usually link back to the commenter's site. This further permits the creation of a loose community with authors and visitors able to access, share and communicate through each others sites.
Problem with Photoblog SEO
It’s simple, since photoblog contains mostly pictures not words, you can’t do keyword tricks to boost up SEO. In fact most of the conventional SEO technique is useless here. And if you go through major search engines crawler FAQ, you will notice crawler skip graphics, audio, flash, JavaScript etc. Traditional SEO strategies are building upon keywords, contents and links, photoblog lack of two out of three. What photoblog has is link (one link per picture) which doesn’t change the situation a bit. So does that mean photoblog won’t come up high in search engine, yes it won’t if you stuck with general SEO techniques. You have to adopt different SEO strategy for your photoblog or podcasting, same goes with Vlog (video blog).
SEO for pblog
Categorize your picture blog, don’t just put it chronological/reverse chronological. Put your photos into categories named using popular keywords you will use to find/search those. Search engine will love it since your categories are keyword rich.
Alt image tag is major blow; we mostly miss when we post any pictures. Try to put as descriptive and meaningful Alt img tag as possible, since search engine won’t read the picture but will read the description. If your picture is about “mak six” and your Alt Img tag is “img13000” or something like that, search engine will never find you when someone really looking for “mak six”.
Since you don’t have lot of text in your pblog, try to increase amount of text by reply back to comments and add a bio in your pblog. This will give a big P.R (Public Relation) boost as well as some foods to search engine crawler.
Lastly use tagging, lots of photoblog software support “Tag”, relevant keyword.
The Example of Alt Tag, you will see when you hover mouse on the logo bellow.
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Geek Metro
Bloggers Tips
and still there in another tab.
Very good protective informations. Do write sometimes about splog if interest you.
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Geek Metro
Bloggers Tips
I really don't understand why not add some description of the picture of photo beside it, so that search engine don't get pissed off!
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Can't remmeber if they were metatags though
Geek Metro
Bloggers Tips
For example-here or in blogger or in weblog Inc.
I rekon Tag-Cloud works better than Meta Tags.
eg: A photo of George Bush should be named george-bush.jpg.
Image search engines will push you a lot of traffic if you get your alt tags and picture names correct.
Just my 2 cents. Ok?