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How to Use the Internet and Social Media Sites to
Develop an Online Presence and Earn New Clients

By Jason Ludwig
816west.com
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INTERNET MARKETING FOR
PHOTOGRAPHERS AND PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIOS

Advertising for Photographers and or Photography Studios

Using Google, Facebook, YouTube, Angie's List, Search Engine
Optimization (SEO), and More.

A Click-by-Click Guide Book for Photographers

Jason Ludwig
www.816west.com

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Published 2011 United States of America

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About the Author........................................................................................... 7
How to Use This Book.................................................................................... 8
Getting New Customers ......................................................................................... 8
The Internet Marketing Plan .................................................................................. 9
Best Choices For Photographers ........................................................................... 10
Order of Sections ................................................................................................ 11
Updates ............................................................................................................. 11
Notation ............................................................................................................. 11
Google Notation .................................................................................................. 11
Other Notation.................................................................................................... 11
How Links are Handled........................................................................................ 12
Affiliate Links ...................................................................................................... 12
Contact Information ............................................................................................ 12
Your Website Sells Your Free Consultation ............................................................ 13
Your Website Isn't About You .............................................................................. 13
Your Website is Not a Wish List............................................................................ 14
What Your Website Needs to Do .......................................................................... 14
Your Website's Graphics ...................................................................................... 14
If You Already Have a Website............................................................................. 15
When You Should Scrap Your Website .................................................................. 15
When You Should Keep Your Website................................................................... 15
Why Wordpress, and Why Thesis?........................................................................ 16
How to Build Your Site ................................................................................. 17
If You Decide This is Too Much ............................................................................ 17
Choosing and Purchasing Your Domain................................................................. 17
Set Up Hosting.................................................................................................... 18
Setup Your Email Address.................................................................................... 19
One-Click Wordpress Install ................................................................................. 19
Purchase the Thesis Theme ................................................................................. 21
Installing Thesis.................................................................................................. 21
Set Up Wordpress ............................................................................................... 23
Change Your Title and Tagline Settings ................................................................ 23
Make Your Site Visible to Search Engines .............................................................. 24
Make Your Site Static .......................................................................................... 25
Add Pages to Your Site ........................................................................................ 25
Add Pages to Menu Bar ....................................................................................... 27
Write the Copy for Your Site ................................................................................ 28
Add a Contact Form, Free Consultation Form, FREE Consultation Buttons................ 29
Create and Insert Contact Form ........................................................................... 30
Create and Insert Free Consultation Form............................................................. 31
Add Free Consultation Buttons to Your Pages........................................................ 31
Install Gallery Viewer .......................................................................................... 32
Add a Gallery Page to Your Site............................................................................ 34
Install Google Analytics ....................................................................................... 35
Create a Google Analytics Goal............................................................................. 36

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 A Quick Google Analytics Intro ............................................................................. 37
Add Your Address to Every Page .......................................................................... 39
Extra Credit: Target the Suburbs and Subregions .................................................. 40
Your Site's Design ....................................................................................... 41
Customize the Thesis theme yourself.................................................................... 41
Install a Free or Paid Skin .................................................................................... 43
Hire a Designer for a Custom Design .................................................................... 43
Why You Should Blog .................................................................................. 44
What to Blog ...................................................................................................... 45
Things Not to Blog .............................................................................................. 45
How to Create a Blog Post ................................................................................... 46
When to Blog...................................................................................................... 46
Get Links to Your Blog and Site ............................................................................ 46
Get Links Wherever You Can................................................................................ 47
Essential Social Media Sites .......................................................................... 48
Facebook ........................................................................................................... 48
Facebook Sign-Up ............................................................................................... 48
Benefits Of Using Facebook for Photographers: ..................................................... 48
Facebook Fan Page ............................................................................................. 49
Set Up Your Facebook Fan Page........................................................................... 49
Get Fans on Facebook ......................................................................................... 50
What Do You Post on Facebook?.......................................................................... 51
Youtube ............................................................................................................. 52
Youtube Sign-Up................................................................................................. 52
Benefits Of Using Youtube for Photographers........................................................ 52
What Type of Video To Post? ............................................................................... 52
Youtube Video SEO ............................................................................................. 53
Uploading a Video to Youtube .............................................................................. 53
Twitter ............................................................................................................... 54
Twitter Sign-Up................................................................................................... 54
Benefits Of Using Twitter for Photographers: ........................................................ 54
Flickr.................................................................................................................. 55
Flickr Sign-Up ..................................................................................................... 55
Benefits Of Using Flickr for Photographers ............................................................ 55
LinkedIn............................................................................................................. 56
LinkedIn Sign-Up ................................................................................................ 56
Benefits Of Using LinkedIn for Photographers ....................................................... 56
Google Local and Other Yellow Pages Sites ................................................... 58
Google Local Business Center .............................................................................. 59
Sign Up For Google Local Business Center ............................................................ 60
Yahoo Local........................................................................................................ 61
Angie's List ......................................................................................................... 62
The Rest of the Local Yellow Pages Type Services ................................................. 64
Reviews and Referrals ......................................................................................... 64
Reviews ............................................................................................................. 64
Referrals ............................................................................................................ 65

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Keeping in Touch With Email........................................................................ 66
Get Started With Your Email Service ..................................................................... 67
Create a New List................................................................................................ 67
Add Email Addresses ........................................................................................... 68
Send a Broadcast Email ....................................................................................... 68
Set Up an Autoresponder..................................................................................... 69
Pay-Per-Click Advertising ............................................................................. 72
Create Your Adwords Account .............................................................................. 72
Campaign Setup ................................................................................................. 73
Creating an Ad Group, Ad, and Keywords ............................................................. 74
Set up Google Adwords Conversion Tracking......................................................... 76
The Landing Page - Keyword Relationship............................................................. 78
Add Additional Ads and Keywords ........................................................................ 78
Suggested Keywords ........................................................................................... 79
Maintaining and Optimizing Your Account ............................................................. 79
How to Adjust Your Cost Per Clicks....................................................................... 79
Testing Ads ........................................................................................................ 80
Switching Your Bidding Strategy to CPA (Eventually) ............................................. 81
Show Ads on Yahoo and Bing .............................................................................. 82
What Is Next? ............................................................................................. 84
Maintain Your Online Presence ............................................................................. 84
Blog ................................................................................................................... 84
Collect Customer Emails ...................................................................................... 84
Promote Your Facebook Fan Page ........................................................................ 85
Optimize Your Presence....................................................................................... 85
Test Google Adwords Ads .................................................................................... 85
Split Test With Google Website Optimizer ............................................................. 85
Ten Great Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog ...................................................... 86
The Next Big Thing ............................................................................................. 87
How to Keep Up With Changes ............................................................................ 88
Use Advanced Google Search Options................................................................... 88
Google Alerts ...................................................................................................... 88
Try to Migrate Your Budget Online ....................................................................... 89
Thank You .................................................................................................. 90

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