Oxford gets an update

City photograph websites are designed to wow the crowds with great information  and great photography. Oxford City Photography does just that with its website design.

Images do the talking

A sleek Low text website with a Slide show back ground, shows off some Stunning Ultra High definition images in an ever changing slide show.

The websites has had some recent updates to the text content, and as you may guess this is minimal as there is very little text on the pages.
We are working our way around the  City photography websites with updates and content for the photographers and clients as they become available.

Oxford has a lot of competition and some photographers or companies are already trying to copy our ideas, but they lack the technical prowess that is behind City Photography.

We are still looking for photographers  who present themselves with a high quality of work and customer services to join City Photography, we have over 400 photography jobs to fill… could you launch your photography career with City Photography?

Visit the website to find out how to join and take a look at the photography and services that are avialable at Oxford City Photography.

Oxford Portrait Photography – Oxford Boudoir Photography – Oxford Wedding Photography

National Photographer

National Photographer opens its new website and lets us know  about its services in its new proactive website..

Visit the National Photographer website for more information.

Wedding photography Marketing 3

Yes the long awaited part 3 of this multi posting of wedding photography marketing..

I have spent some time looking at how things have done across our website networks which is pretty BIG..  and notice that there is a massive growth in people searching for information on photography marketing and training as well. But if you had been a member you would have already been ahead of the game when it comes to Wedding photography and the stats – Not that I like to say I told you so.. (which of course I love saying) and who wouldn’t.

wedding photography marketing 2

As a follow-up to the wedding photography marketing post we will detail some of the ways in which city photography deal with the need and requirements. You may want to read the wedding photography marketing post first.      

There is a lot of myths and wasted time when it comes to SEO and how much time you spend developing your websites, and paying for advertising;  it quite often is throwing good money after bad if you are not hitting the right place at the right time in the right way. This blog post will go into the details of wedding photography marketing from the stand point of online marketing with your website and how it will comes across, we talk about meta tags and word weights as well as colours and sounds which make a big difference.. There are also other post links at the bottom of the page that you may find helpful and may not be about wedding website marketing.      

Wedding photography marketing

Wedding photography is the topic of this post which deal with marketing a wedding photography business and getting it just right, all we need now is goldie locks

http://weddingphotographyuk.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/wedding-photography-marketing/

Make over photo shoots

http://makeoverphotographyuk.wordpress.com/

this link will bring you to a make over blog,  it has information on  make over photo shoots, make up and make up artisits as well as the photographers that offer the services to clients

City Photography getting your own site

City Photography is part of national photographer, the man behind the website network is Rory Witham a photographer and a person synonymous with the internet and online business.    

 “When I set up National photographer the internet worked differently, I had to set up city photography to allow us to be localised  to areas we worked and also to optimise the websites and business traffic to those areas. The national photographer websites just couldn’t be updated to target the traffic correctly and this is why we went local with the city websites”. said Rory CEO of National Photographer    

Cheltenham City Photography

We have been having much success with the city photography websites  in terms of search engine ranking and with the new websites. We have been inundated with  photo shoot calls for the past month and we have found the websites that work as we tested out all the research that we have done over the past year with City photography and the test sites we rolled out.

Cheltenham’s  City photography  website is the same design as the one used on the main city photography website,  and we havent really looked into up dating the sites since they were first launched this summer with the new design and more or less the same textual content and basically reduced the websites size.

The Cheltenham photography site offers the same 3 services (wedding) (Portrait) and (boudoir) services that all the city photography websites offer (although some offer event photography) but we do have a slight issue with the site. I will list the issues, so if you are having a look around on the website you can see what I am talking about.

Menu – The links in the menu needs to be replaced with a area of photography (prob boudoir) as this back links to the main city photography websites local photography site list, this could cause confusion as the sites look the same and people could get lost as to which website they are on.

The boudoir section of the site is only linked from the index page and it is a sub for portraits, and not the boudoir page which is here:
http://cheltenham.city-photography.co.uk/cheltenham_boudoir_photography/

The boudoir section and other sections of the site are limited with the content and images as well as limited pricing information.

Deal links – we have now  closed the portrait peoples website to one page and some of the links for information on subjects is contained within the right boxes these lead to dead page links.. not good..  so there is development that needs to be carried out in making new links and content for the site and the links from the sites.

What’s next?

With the website design being bright and fresh there is no reason why is wouldn’t work for most people coming to the website, we have already started on the development with the about page,  and started rewriting the content, We have been working on the wedding photography and wedding photography packages to add interest and a more personal touch to the site.

As you will notice the website  do not  hold considerable information and also have links off site to the national photographer websites, What we aim to do is to make the websites more self-contained so that they hold the information within the site itself, over referring clients to targeted websites.

We have just started gathering stats for the website which will allow us to see how users are using the site and finding it as well as looking at individual performance of each page.
This information will tell us how the site is performing so that we can develop each area of the site accordingly and change its content where needed. 

http://cheltenham.city-photography.co.uk/

We will also be looking at page marking (seo keyword and landing pages) as the website has targeted itself in a certain area which will need addressing, ‘photo shoot cheltenham’ and ‘family portraits cheltenham’  may be ideal for many photographers, but we want people finding the right page the first time. and the results are showing that we are a middle to the bottom of the first results page which will need addressing.

We will be updating the cheltenham website over the next few coming weeks and hope to post what we are doing so that you can read up and follow us.

Offer more and something different

If you are an avid photographer then there is little doubt in my mind that you have searched the web looking at your competition to see what they offer and how you compare, I know that we do, but we have found that every photographer offers the same things and there is seldom something new in the way of products…   

Spot the difference

   

Every photographer has their own style of photography which fits into the taste of those around  looking for that style of photography. When we look at photographers we are looking for that WOW FACTOR in some of the images, and we see many photographers with the ’same old’ images and a lack of imagination.   

3 good reasons why Photographer should be on City photography

Photographers know that there are many directories and places to advertise their businesses online, They know that with there website they can push toward their local area for selling their services.. But what if they were on a City Photography website?

Reason One:
Many professional photographer wish to offer cover in other areas that they may not be able to push from a single website. Typically You can only push one area at a time. City Photography websites are localised and optimised for a local area and there are many websites. This would mean that all sites being optimised around that area will send the work to that photographer.

Reason Two:
With online advertising the photographer only has a small part of a website that may list 30 or so photographer and other services in those areas, Typically a Directory listing could be free, but offers very little, or the directory is around £60-£120 which still gives you just a paragraph and a few pictures or many one..
City Photography websites are designed as websites not directories. You don’t get one page but pages to tell your story and place pictures to really give your client a view of what to expect.
The website also have a range of fancy ways to show off your photo’s From full page slide shows, Galleries and banner shows, the choice is pretty limitless and you don’t even need to know any code as we do it all for you… Just send your pictures and textual content and the rest is all taken care of.

Reason Tree:
Web sites really do take a lot of work to keep up to date, You need to track users of the websites to find out the trends of your website, update code, keywords descriptions, create links and backlinks, list your self on directories, stream line load balance Submit site maps, keep them current Bla bla bla the list is pretty endless.
Then of course the website updates which you may do every year or two years.
So we do all this behind the closed doors so that your city photography website works for you.

Reason Four:
Ever wanted to offer fantastic promotions to your clients and create something different? Well once a member of city photography you can offer promotions at very little cost to yourself. For example the £1,000 give away costs you Just £1.00 per client and you send us the details of your client list and the £1.00 from each client and when we have our winner a press package will be released to you as well as the £1,000 to give to the lucky new winner…