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Old 8th April 2015, 07:58 PM
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All good advice above.

I would add that in any website whether it be a blog (which is just a website with blogging functionality) or a normal website, require text. A pure photo blog which just shows images provides very little to search engines to index. You need wordy text with search phrases that people might actually use to find what you are "Blogging" about.

And just because you think people will use a particular phrase doesn't mean they will. They will use a myriad of different phrases to look for content like yours (whatever it is) and if those phrases aren't in your content it won't be found when they do searches using them.

This is why most websites and blogs fail to get more than a trickle of visits (and why people give up on them). Artists and photographers are particularly bad about this. They just want to put pictures in their site and don't want to write text to go with them. Result = useless website except for actually giving people your web address.

And bear in mind that Art and Photography are two of the biggest subjects on the WWW after computing ( in all its forms). That means massive competition to get yourself found.
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