After having allowed search engine crawlers and also adding more photos to my photo website, I’m pleased to discover that I am ranking for my first keyword!
It’s “bond falls haight township mi”. One of my photos is of this location (one of my first, actually), and I specifically targeted keywords like that.
And it worked! I’m like the 80th result for both web search and image search.
That’s not great, but that’s not the point. I’m already seeing results from optimizing to these search terms. All I have to do is keep it up and hopefully I’ll start ranking for tons of keywords, and then I’ll really start getting the traffic I’m looking for.
The whole site is sort of built on the belief that I can start ranking for local keywords like that and that soon, people will start actually buying my photos.
And it has already started.
I expect to see results improve over time as I add more photos and continue optimizing the website.
I’m pretty excited!