SEO for Photographers | Wedding Photography Marketing

Hello

My company has a proven track record helping photographers and other wedding professionals improve their positioning in Google and increasing, sometimes dramatically, their bottom line. Take a moment to learn more about my unique services and capabilities. And if you'd like to learn more, drop me a line... :-)

My name is Jesse Chatham and I'm the President of SEO for Wedding Pros. I live in Denver, Colorado with my lovely wife, Julie Harris, and my brand new baby girl, Ramona! I have a passion for many things including music, politics, football and basketball, Scotch, good food, reading and, of course, SEO. I love getting my clients to the top of Google for valuable keywords that apply to their particular market and industry. And I'm quite good at it. I hit my mark using only industry leading, white hat methods and strategies. I've been working in this field for over 9 years and I've achieved remarkable results for my clients.

The fact is, Google and the other search engines don't care how pretty or cool your website looks; they only care about the content of your site and your overall "link profile." And by content, I mean the information, images, videos and other elements on your website that bots identify, categorize, and assign value and rank. Why is this important to understand? Because in an online world of trillions of web pages, getting "found" has become considerably more difficult even as the rewards of being found have become signficantly more valuable.

Read more about my personal experience with this stuff.

You’re a photographer or wedding business owner. You want to photograph more couples, sell more flowers or plan more weddings… You want to be more successful. And you live in the 21st century and use Google a lot to find businesses and information and eventually you say to yourself, “what can Google do for me?” And then a hologram appears that looks like Obi Wan Kenobe from Star Wars but sounds like Keanu Reeves from The Matrix and says, “Ask not what Google can do for you; ask what you can you do for Google.”

Okay, okay. So I’m completely ripping off the iconic 1961 inaugural address by John F Kennedy. Please forgive me for that; however, my larger point remains. Your site needs to do something (or be something) in order for Google to give you the attention and love you so desperately desire. In other words, you need to create a site that is interesting and compelling enough to gather the votes (natural links) and social signals (Google Pluses, FB Likes, Tweets) needed to grab the eye of the wily Google Bot.

And to be sure, the affections of the Google Bot are not easily obtained. It takes hard work, patience, creativity and perseverance in order to be noticed. But when you are, it’s oh so worth it!

Okay, enough with the analogies.

Simply said, you need to create an awesome website full of lovely images and/or videos, well written, compelling content (including blogging... Wordpress blogs are the standard) and great site architecture in order to put yourself in the best possible position to win those votes. Can a site rank well without those elements? Yes. But maybe not forever. Google is going to more and more lengths to ensure that top ranking websites deserve to be in those spots by offering great content and information. Every year, more and more components and data from your website are being taken into account when Google's algorithm evaluates and interprets your site’s content, structure and backlink profile as well as visitor behavior, bounce rates, social signals and other metrics. Pretty soon, Google is going to be reading our minds.. Seriously.

But for now, Google can't read our minds and thus can only read our websites. And that's good for me because it means that I still have a job. Wanna learn more? Drop me a line and let's talk.

Why are photographers and wedding professionals my focus?

Our niche is wedding industry professionals because I've been involved in this industry since 2003. Married to a wedding and portrait photographer, I began learning about this stuff in order to help my wife's site get the attention I felt it deserved on the search engines. Happily, we've enjoyed great success in this endeavor. Julie is in the top 5 results on Google for numerous keywords relating to her photography business in Denver, CO. She even ranks nationally for many other keywords.

Suffice it to say, ranking well on Google has its rewards. If you're curious and would like to learn more, contact me and we'lll set up a time to chat. If you're a photographer, check out photographik.org to learn more about this exclusive website for photogs.

And if you find all this content boring... (which I hope you don't!) ... then check out some music from my former band - Jesse Daniel & The Reckoning.