Comments for Photography Spark

Comment on XML Sitemap by HeatherMohr

HeatherMohr — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 14:23:37 +0000

I have a question on this. When I typed in the “mywebsite/sitemap.xml” I had one. But I have a slightly different version in my Yoast plugin that is “mywebsite/sitemap_index.xml”. So apparently I have two of them. Should I submit both in webmaster tools or would that do more harm than good? If I should only use one, is one preferred over the other?

Comment on Page with Keywords by HeatherM

HeatherM — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 21:20:59 +0000

At one point, I was advised to list the same paragraph at the bottom of each post, that was something along the lines of “Heather Mohr Photography is a St. Louis Newborn Photographer serving St. Louis, Edwardsville, Clayton…” and then going on to list every municipality for which I want to rank within our city (St. Louis Newborn Photographer being my main site key words). Is this a practice you recommend? I have taken that down for now, but I’m not sure if this is helpful or harmful. I was concerned that posting this same thing on every single page of my website/blog would upset Google. However, I know another local photographer who has started doing this and has quickly risen up the SEO ranks.

Comment on Understanding Links by HeatherM

HeatherM — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 21:16:12 +0000

I made the mistake about a year or so ago of participating in those link exchanges, where everyone comments on each other’s blog posts. Is this likely to be harming my SEO? Is there anything I can do to “undo” any harm that has been done as a result?

Comment on Homepage SEO by Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 21:34:03 +0000

Do you still recommend a sticky post for our first blog post? Should I update that post or keep it as is and if I need to update the information, create a new sticky post?

Comment on WordPress SEO by Yoast by Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 21:25:50 +0000

I see around the web that Headings on a Blog Post are very important. Does Yoast or All in One SEO automatically help with out headings or should we know exactly which head (h1, h2, etc) to use when creating a blog post?

Comment on Rank Your Name by zachprez

zachprez — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 20:17:56 +0000

ashleyyvonnephotography I only see downside (no help to local search), including a very annoying Facebook URL.

Comment on Rank Your Name by ashleyyvonnephotography

ashleyyvonnephotography — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:54:54 +0000

There have been mass amounts of Photographers changing their Facebook Business page names to include their City and State that they are located in. Does this help SEO? As per FB policies, you may only change your name once. I see this causing a problem if any of these photographers ever move, they won’t be able to change their name again. What is your opinion?

So for example: Ashley Yvonne Photography is my page name but they’re adding “Tampa Photographer” at the end. Thank you!

Comment on Homepage SEO by zachprez

zachprez — Thu, 28 May 2015 03:16:20 +0000

JeffDietz Most of the time both would count toward readable page text, but every system works differently so we’d need to see via the source code of the page. What is the URL of the page in question?

Comment on Homepage SEO by JeffDietz

JeffDietz — Thu, 28 May 2015 02:00:55 +0000

1. If you are using a regular HTML5 website, but you can embed a blog post on the front page (like the most recent) can google still read it as embedded?
2. If you have a slideshow that can allow you to still do a description for each photo, plus it will allow you to have a different caption pop up underneath in a text box each time a different image comes up, can google read those captions? Or only what is constant on the page all at one time?

Comment on Local Search by zachprez

zachprez — Thu, 28 May 2015 00:08:04 +0000

JeffDietz Not sure if it helps but all three of those things are essentially merged by Google to be the same system. They have definitely had growing pains and confusion during their consolidation.

I searched for your Google Local business name “Jeff Dietz Photography of Pennsylvania”. Above the little map pinpoint in the search results I see a link for Google+ Page. That takes me to https://plus.google.com/116217180012296536567/about?hl=en which is the one you want to edit.