offering a daily photo good for pagerank?

Hello,

I have tried to find the answer to this by reading, but no luck.

I am a photographer and seek to build a highly SEO'ed website and want
to do it with content. If you were in my shoes, which of these three
ideas would you pursue to heighten my future pagerank? I want to feel
pretty good that my efforts will be helping my photography business
rise to the top.

a) Have a daily photo offered on my home-page of my local town (60,000
pop). I would dream of people seeking links because it would be just so
fun to see what my town looks like from afar.

b) Offer an rss feed of a daily photo.

c) Offer a desktop background photo of my town. (I know nothing about
this, perhaps it could be daily as well?)

I am a commercial and wedding photographer and am completely open to
any ideas/ critique of my plight.

Thanks!

Tor Clausen

On 16 Jan 2006 22:55:11 -0800, "tor" <galleywench (AT) mail (DOT) com> wrote:

Hello,

I have tried to find the answer to this by reading, but no luck.

I am a photographer and seek to build a highly SEO'ed website and want
to do it with content. If you were in my shoes, which of these three
ideas would you pursue to heighten my future pagerank? I want to feel
pretty good that my efforts will be helping my photography business
rise to the top.

a) Have a daily photo offered on my home-page of my local town (60,000
pop). I would dream of people seeking links because it would be just so
fun to see what my town looks like from afar.

b) Offer an rss feed of a daily photo.

c) Offer a desktop background photo of my town. (I know nothing about
this, perhaps it could be daily as well?)

I am a commercial and wedding photographer and am completely open to
any ideas/ critique of my plight.

Thanks!

Tor Clausen

Hi
You could do all of the above to attract humans, but what you also
need is text (content). Spiders don't give a damn as such about
images, it cannot see them as you and I can.

What you want it unique, well written content with your keywords
scattered thoughout. (In a way that it is pleasurable to read)
It will give the spiders something to eat.

hth
plh
Paul

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Paul B <webmaster (AT) firstpeople (DOT) us> wrote:

Hi
You could do all of the above to attract humans, but what you also
need is text (content). Spiders don't give a damn as such about
images, it cannot see them as you and I can.

You're right, and you're wrong (how is that):

http://images.google.com/images?safe=off&q=sad%20horse
http://images.google.com/images?safe...aying%20mantis
http://images.google.com/images?safe=off&q=gnu%20logo
http://images.google.com/images?safe=off&q=weta

And yes, I do get traffic via those queries (and a lot of leechers)

What you want it unique, well written content with your keywords
scattered thoughout. (In a way that it is pleasurable to read)
It will give the spiders something to eat.

Yup, just posting a picture is probably not doing much good.

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"tor" <galleywench (AT) mail (DOT) com> wrote:

Hello,

I have tried to find the answer to this by reading, but no luck.

I am a photographer and seek to build a highly SEO'ed website and want
to do it with content. If you were in my shoes, which of these three
ideas would you pursue to heighten my future pagerank? I want to feel
pretty good that my efforts will be helping my photography business
rise to the top.

a) Have a daily photo offered on my home-page of my local town (60,000
pop). I would dream of people seeking links because it would be just so
fun to see what my town looks like from afar.

b) Offer an rss feed of a daily photo.

c) Offer a desktop background photo of my town. (I know nothing about
this, perhaps it could be daily as well?)

combine a) and b): if you post your picture, write something about it, and
add the entry to your RSS feed.

You can do c) on a separate page.

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On 17 Jan 2006 07:24:25 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Paul B <webmaster (AT) firstpeople (DOT) us> wrote:

Hi
You could do all of the above to attract humans, but what you also
need is text (content). Spiders don't give a damn as such about
images, it cannot see them as you and I can.

You're right, and you're wrong (how is that):

http://images.google.com/images?safe=off&q=sad%20horse
http://images.google.com/images?safe...aying%20mantis
http://images.google.com/images?safe=off&q=gnu%20logo
http://images.google.com/images?safe=off&q=weta

And yes, I do get traffic via those queries (and a lot of leechers)

I do too Borek with many of my images, but as you know, you have to
add alt.

The OP never mentioned about using alt, and you cannot go round k/w
stuffing either.

But sometimes people will think "whats the use of a picture without
words" ,,,,,, so text (content) is needed.

What you want it unique, well written content with your keywords
scattered thoughout. (In a way that it is pleasurable to read)
It will give the spiders something to eat.

Yup, just posting a picture is probably not doing much good.

x

plh
Paul
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Paul B <webmaster (AT) firstpeople (DOT) us> wrote:

On 17 Jan 2006 07:24:25 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Paul B <webmaster (AT) firstpeople (DOT) us> wrote:

Hi
You could do all of the above to attract humans, but what you also
need is text (content). Spiders don't give a damn as such about
images, it cannot see them as you and I can.

You're right, and you're wrong (how is that):

http://images.google.com/images?safe=off&q=sad%20horse
http://images.google.com/images?safe...aying%20mantis
http://images.google.com/images?safe=off&q=gnu%20logo
http://images.google.com/images?safe=off&q=weta

And yes, I do get traffic via those queries (and a lot of leechers)

I do too Borek

:-D, ok Borek and I share some letters.

with many of my images, but as you know, you have to
add alt.

I am not 100% sure how it exactly works, I have the feeling that the
filename counts a lot, and the page it's on.

But sometimes people will think "whats the use of a picture without
words" ,,,,,, so text (content) is needed.

True, unless you just want them to leech your pics for one reason or
another.

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On 17 Jan 2006 07:39:31 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Paul B <webmaster (AT) firstpeople (DOT) us> wrote:

On 17 Jan 2006 07:24:25 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Paul B <webmaster (AT) firstpeople (DOT) us> wrote:

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with many of my images, but as you know, you have to
add alt.

I am not 100% sure how it exactly works, I have the feeling that the
filename counts a lot, and the page it's on.

I am not 100% sure myself. And what works for one S/E won't for
another.

But sometimes people will think "whats the use of a picture without
words" ,,,,,, so text (content) is needed.

True, unless you just want them to leech your pics for one reason or
another.

True.
plh
Paul
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Paul B <webmaster (AT) firstpeople (DOT) us> wrote:

I am not 100% sure myself. And what works for one S/E won't for
another.

Other SE... hmmmm...

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On 17 Jan 2006 08:08:09 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

John -
no message came through, so I cannot reply.
I think there are problems with the newsfeed.
plh
Paul
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Thank you all for the dialog,

1) If a person chooses to place one of my photo w/caption RSS feeds on
there website, or reads it on their RSS yahoo site, does google see
that as a backlink? Is there any credit to me towards raising pagerank?

2) Is there something fancier than just placing jpgs for download that
I can do to offer desktop backgrounds? Is there software that updates
backgrounds if I were to post a new one?

Thanks again,

John, cool fish tank photos.

Paul, those are two huge websites, damn.