Web Traffic Part 4: Noah Photo Blogsites – Take control of your image

I’ve been talking a lot about building up your web traffic without spending a ton of money, and actually doing it yourself. If you are just starting this 5 part article right now, go back and read Part 1-3. You’ll see the links below:

• Part 1: SEO – Why your web traffic sucks(The Bad News)
• Part 2: SEO – 5 simple steps to improve search engine ranking(The Good News)
• Part 3: WordPress
• Part 4: Noah Photo Blogsites <—You are here.
• Part 5: Social Media and Networking.(How twitter and facebook can change your life)

Well, I’m really hoping that you installed WordPress, and maybe tried out a few themes. I’ll be talking about the Noah Photo Blogsites now, and how they can be beneficial to you.

This part isn’t really geared to getting people to visit your site, it’s more about getting them to interact and stay on your site longer. What I love about my blogsites, well one of the things that I love is the elegant clean layout. I’ve talked to A LOT of people about what they do or don’t like about websites, and tried to incorporate the good stuff into the blogsites. People like ease of use. They want to be able to get anywhere with a couple clicks of a button without having to search everywhere. They don’t like confusing layouts, or scrolling for a mile and a half. The Noah Photo Blogsites have passed the MOM test. Can YOUR mother go to your website and navigate the content?

Another thing I really love about these blogsites is that all you need to do is upload your own header image, background image, bio image(if your blogsite has a bio section,) and change some colors  around. It’s amazing how much you can really do with these sites. It really is limitless. What can your imagination do? That’s the limit.

Although there are only two designs right now, I’m in the planning stages for a few more. So stay tuned. Also the beauty of these blogsites is that they are 100% interchangeable. If you see a new layout that I designed that you want to change/upgrade to, just ask, and it’s yours for no charge. You have to have purchased a Noah Photo Blogsite in the past of course, but all the same, these come with a full lifetime of free upgrades.

I love the fact that they’re so easy to install and work with. In the video below I show myself installing the Noah Photo Blogsite theme onto the wordpress blog that we created yesterday. The video is 10 minutes, and apart from uploading the theme, that’s about how long it takes to install, and change a few things around… can you beat that? That means that if you put yesterday’s video and today’s video together, I installed WordPress, a few plugins, installed the Noah Photo Blogsite theme and imported our old blog in about 20 minutes. Now I do realize that I’m a pro, and have been doing this for a while, but I show you how to do everything here, you just need to try it out… I realize this isn’t for everyone, and that’s why I offer installation support which can be purchased separately.

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Now what should you do to keep people on your site longer? Well, content, content, content. You need to have interesting content on your site. Whether that be videos, photographs that you made, captivating articles, or anything really that can keep and hold people’s attention. I wish it was as easy as “if you build it, they will come.” But it just isn’t. You have to work hard at creating top notch blogs, or showcasing your incredible images. And another thing, keep on updating your blog. I’ve seen too many great blogs go to waste because their owners stopped caring for them. Remember that this is YOUR space. This is your virtual storefront. You don’t want people to come to your virtual storefront and come to the conclusion that you haven’t been in for over 5 months. Would you go to a business that the owner or manager hadn’t actually visited the store in over 5 months? I wouldn’t want to invest my time into a company that is an obvious dead end.

There are people that have decided to blog every day for a year. EVERY DAY! Can you imagine? I’m having a tough enough time creating fresh content over this week of articles alone. But every day for a year? Could you imagine what that could do to help your business grow? Remember what I was saying about search engines loving text? Imagine having a years worth of text talking about all the places you shot a portrait session, or would like to shoot a portrait session. Imagine if somebody searched for a photographer at Leo Carillo beach, and just because you visited the beach with your sister, took some photos and posted them to your daily blog, you just booked a wedding at that beach. Wouldn’t that be amazing? It happens all the time.

Should you create a daily blog? Maybe. It’s not for everyone. I lack the discipline to do it at the moment. But do you think you could put forth the effort to writing interesting content? You’ll be happy you did, and so will the people visiting your site. At the very least, take 1 photo a week, write a blog post highlighting it, and talk about how you created the image. Where you were, what is in the image, what you would do differently. And ask for people to take part in a discussion, and let them leave comments and even critique your photo if you want.

So here’s the bottom line. You want the people coming to your site to stay more than 10 seconds. In order for that to happen you need to make sure that you 1. have a great looking site. The Noah Photo Blogsites are the perfect fit for that. And 2. Create fresh and interesting content.

That’s it for today, and I hope to hear what you think… Also make sure you get yourself a Noah Photo Blogsite, and take control of your site’s image today!

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s article.

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