10 Simple Ways to Get Your Photoblog Noticed

Follow these ten simple steps to help increase the traffic coming to your photoblog.

1. Shoot Well and Shoot Often
Frequently updating your photoblog with new images is the first step to building your blog’s audience. The quality and style of photos you take is what will keep people coming back for more. Make sure you have something new to show them and upload images often to maintain their interest and keep them loyal. By posting new images frequently you also increase the number of chances for your photoblog’s content being noticed by search engines such as Google or Technorati.

2. Submit Your Photoblog to Search Engines
Get noticed by the popular search engines by submitting your photoblog’s URL to Google and Yahoo. Most search engines provide a ‘Submit Site’ link to notify the search engine of new websites and blogs. By submitting your photoblog, the search engines will crawl it and include your pages in their results. Simply submitting your photoblog to search engines doesn’t mean your images will appear at the top of Google or Yahoo search results, but at least images on your photoblog will be included and will have the chance of being picked up by a search engine.

3. Update Your Blogroll
By adding links to your favourite sites in your blogroll, the owners of those photoblogs will find your photoblog and will be likely to add a reciprocal link in their blogrolls. It’s an easy way to get the link to your photoblog in front of many other photoblogs. The hope is that others will find your content interesting and enjoyable and become loyal visitors to your photoblog.

4. Leave Powerful Comments
Commenting is an essential tool to increasing traffic to your photoblog. Respond to comments left on your photoblog to show your readers that you value their opinions. By encouraging conversation on your photoblog you will increase visitor loyalty. Leave comments on other photoblogs to drive new traffic to your own photoblog. Make sure you leave your photoblog’s URL in your comment, so you create a link back to your own blog. Many people will read the comments left on a photoblog post. If they read a comment that interests them they are more likely to click on the link to visit the website. So it’s important you leave meaningful comments on other photoblogs that are likely to invite people to click on your link to read more.

5. Syndicate Your Photoblog’s Content with an RSS Feed
Setting up an RSS feed button on your photoblog makes it easy for your visitors to read your blog and receive a notification when you publish new content.

6. Use Links
Links are one of the most powerful features on your photoblog. Links are noticed by search engines and act as a nudge to other photobloggers who can easily identify who is linking to their sites. Linking helps you get noticed by other photobloggers who are likely to investigate sites linking to them. This may lead them to become new visitors to your photoblog or to add links to your photoblog from theirs.

7. Tag Your Image Posts
It only takes a few moments to add tags to each of your photoblog image posts. The benefit og adding tags is worth the effort, because they can drive extra traffic to your photoblog. Tags are like links, they are easily noticed by search engines. They also help visitors find your photoblog when they carry out searches on search engines such as Technorati.

8. Submt Your Image Posts to Social Bookmarking Sites
Taking the time to submit your best image posts to social bookmarking sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, and Reddit can be a quick and simple way to boost traffic to your photoblog.

9. Search Engine Optimization
Remember to optimize your pages for search engines to find them. Include relevant keywords and links, but don’t overload your image posts with too many keywords as this can be considered spamming and may result in your photoblog being removed from Google’s search entirely.

10. Join Photoblog Forums and Discussion Groups
Online forums, groups or social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn are valuable places where you can share ideas and discuss issues with like-minded people. By adding a link to your photoblog in your profile you’re able to promote your photoblog each time you leave a post or contribute to an onlinecommunity. People will click on your link to find out more about you.

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