Tampa Photographer Keyword Spam?
Grrrrrrr.... I've been so busy with television interviews and working on modeling resource web sites that my SEO efforts for my photography company have been on the back burner for months. Many of my web sites enjoy top search engine results. My Aurora PhotoArts web site, which is designed for top search engine performance and is the most advanced photography services marketing web site our of any that I have seen, has been idling, and I haven't been able to push it yet. Search engine results for that site have been ok, but there are a lot of so-called photographers and wedding photographers spamming the crap out of search engines and PAYING for search engine results. Once I can put some effort into my Aurora PhotoArts photography site, this shouldn't be a problem. Right now, however, I am tied up with modeling web sites, and the sloppy, half-ass efforts of these Tampa photographers is annoying me. I've invested far more than they have, and yet they seem to be annoying more returns for minimal work than they should be.
Perhaps it is because they are using black hat tactics and are spamming the web sites with repetitive keywords. I have been accused of doing this in the past, but as I grew and learned what I was doing (and began to allow Google to advertise on my web sites), I had to clean up my act. Still, it's annoying to fumble around on some Tampa photographer's web site and read "your Tampa portrait photographer" this, "your Tampa wedding photographer" that, and "your Tampa headshot photographer", etc, in the site copy and crammed into single paragraphs! The copy is obviously written to spam keyword counts on the search engines and not to benefit the human readers, as the copy is poorly written and is hard to read with all of the repetitive "Tampa", "photographer", and "photography" keywords dropped every other word. It's like "Hey, I is a writer! I be using this here word processing to write about Tampa photography and Tampa photography advice for the Tampa people looking for a Tampa photographer, and I be dropping Tampa and Photography words every chance I gets". Jesus Christ. There is this one "crummy" photographer who did not show up anywhere on the search engines a few months ago and who is now a top offender. Reading his site hurts my eyes, and I have never seen such a rape of the words "Tampa" and "photographer" ever. I have learned, however, by studying his site just how tolerant that search engines are of such abuse, and how using a freebie blog account owned by a top search engine can bump up search engine results even when they are not the most relevant for the search terms entered. This guy has obviously looked at my search engine dominance and is gunning for me. He is now on my radar. My friend, model and actress Sarah Bray, told me yesterday that she constantly see's all of my sites are the top of her search engine results. I told her that it was not enough. I want it all. I deserve it all. She agreed (keep in mind that Sarah and I met four years ago when she was a photography client of mine paying me for her actor headshot photography. We've been friends ever since). Another thing that annoys me is that I paid good money for this domain name and spent a lot of time coding meta tags, which the freebie blogs don't have or support. This is the most relevant web site for those keywords! I suppose that the search engines don't work like they are supposed to, have sold out, and play favorites. Well, like a good game of chess, I will match their moves and continue with advanced moves of my own.
You wait. Just wait. I am almost done with my modeling and talent web site work (which all have top search engine performance, by the way). I haven't had a chance to do anything with my Tampa photography web site- yet. Anyway, I am a professional writer. I am able to write better and much more than anyone else in this market. I also have a web site which absolutely kicks ass (why no one has tried to rip off the design surprises me, but I am convinced this will happen once the true potential and the power of the web site is realized). My Tampa photography web site IS THE most RELEVANT search result for any Tampa photography or Tampa photographer search inquiry, and I will not rest until these low-rent hacks are put in their proper place and I get the search results that I deserve. Look at the search engine results for my modeling and talent sites, and you will see the future of what is coming for my Tampa photography site. I am going to kick their ass in this search engine fight and take their market share from them. For people to settle for what they have to offer sells the people short, and is a tragedy. Looks like i have a new project. I will have to save people who are looking for a Tampa photographer from the ones who cannot do what I can do for them. The main reason? Because I really do love photography and I really care about my clients and future clients. Some of these photographers are in for a big surprise when I go to work against them. By this fall. Many of them will notice that the real deal is dealing with them.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Tampa Photographer Blog Mirror Now Online
Well, not quite a mirror. More of a Tampa Photographer Blog Annex for my TampaPhotographerBlog.Com blog web site.
On this Tampa Photographer blog, I will share anecdotes and experiences of mine as a professional Tampa photographer. My name is Chris Passinault, and I am lead photographer and owner of Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Photography and Design, Tampa Bay's top, and I may add best, photography services company.
I've been working on Florida Modeling Career this week, and tonight did a routine SEO check on some keywords (mainly the ones that my domain names make most relevant, in theory). I was a bit annoyed by what I found.
This half-baked, half-ass Tampa photographer has been keyword stuffing his web site and a blog in an attempt to compete with my array of web sites. He started only a few months ago, and is making some strides which has came to my attention. Well, it's on. I have him outgunned, and he is about to be schooled in the ways of SEO. Not only will I use my existing domain assets, but I will compete with him in the ways that he has been doing (mainly, that search engines like blog sites that they own rather than relevant search engine results). Since I am a professional writer and write more than I shoot, he will find it difficult to match my content, too.
I guess you can say that I want all the search engine results for myself. As far as I am concerned, my photography company and my photography association are THE relevant search engine results for any photography-related search inquiries. Everyone else just falls short of the standard, and I am certainly not impressed my a lot of what I have been seeing in the Tampa photography services market. That's why I am a photographer and I won Tampa's top photography services company. I offer services that I would want if I were looking for a professional Tampa photographer.
It's all about professional pride in what you do. I love what I do. So do my clients from the past 14 years.
On this Tampa Photographer blog, I will share anecdotes and experiences of mine as a professional Tampa photographer. My name is Chris Passinault, and I am lead photographer and owner of Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Photography and Design, Tampa Bay's top, and I may add best, photography services company.
I've been working on Florida Modeling Career this week, and tonight did a routine SEO check on some keywords (mainly the ones that my domain names make most relevant, in theory). I was a bit annoyed by what I found.
This half-baked, half-ass Tampa photographer has been keyword stuffing his web site and a blog in an attempt to compete with my array of web sites. He started only a few months ago, and is making some strides which has came to my attention. Well, it's on. I have him outgunned, and he is about to be schooled in the ways of SEO. Not only will I use my existing domain assets, but I will compete with him in the ways that he has been doing (mainly, that search engines like blog sites that they own rather than relevant search engine results). Since I am a professional writer and write more than I shoot, he will find it difficult to match my content, too.
I guess you can say that I want all the search engine results for myself. As far as I am concerned, my photography company and my photography association are THE relevant search engine results for any photography-related search inquiries. Everyone else just falls short of the standard, and I am certainly not impressed my a lot of what I have been seeing in the Tampa photography services market. That's why I am a photographer and I won Tampa's top photography services company. I offer services that I would want if I were looking for a professional Tampa photographer.
It's all about professional pride in what you do. I love what I do. So do my clients from the past 14 years.
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