By Sara Dunn. I know you’re working hard to increase your visibility, and in many cases that means using SEO tactics on your website.  You’ve read a few articles, and you’re doing your best to follow the SEO rules you know. Unfortunately, I’m here to tell you that not every wedding industry SEO article you’ve read has good, updated advice.

Guest Post by Misti Marquette Cooke. This is a completely real and honest post about what I’ve learned about SEO and marketing our destination photography business from Mexico.  For many photographers, we get our first camera and think that once we learn how to use it correctly, we’ll have a cash cow on our hands! It might seem that all

When was the last time you Googled yourself? It’s probably been a while. So… Go ahead and do it now. Open up Google, type in your name and hit search. I’ll wait. (If you have a maiden name or nom de plume, you’ll want to search for that, too.) What do you notice at the top of the page? You’ll

Repeat after me: “I didn’t go to all of the trouble to write this blog post and then not take the time to promote it.” Remember that marketing is a system you install (when it’s done right). Part of good blogging is taking the time to promote your post after you hit “publish.” YES: share your real wedding blog posts

It’s frustrating to see your competitor’s blogs ahead of yours in the Google results when it’s almost impossible to read their blog posts due to keyword stuffing. How can you compete but still have a readable blog? Let me share 4 into your wedding blog posts without distracting your readers. #1 Way to Sneak Local Keywords Into Your Wedding Blog:

SEO is kind of like baking cookies. Let me explain. When I was a kid, my grandmother would announce she’d be making her famous chocolate chip cookies and I was over the moon with happiness. Her cookies were unbelievably delicious! I’d watch eagerly as she measured the ingredients. And mixed them. And rolled them out onto a cookie tray. And

I’m going to let you in on a little secret…stuff you pin from your site to Pinterest is a link back to your site! Yeah. Unlike videos on YouTube, tweets, or Facebook posts, pins are direct links to your site. Because we know Pinterest is the bride’s natural habitat, this is particularly good for those of us in the wedding

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All Things Weddings: This is What a Cannabis Wedding Looks Like – Colorado opens the door for new (unexpected) wedding businesses The Most Touching and Talked About Weddings of 2015 – I dare ya not to cry! 14 Out-Of-The-Box Weddings Trends You’ll Soon Be Seeing Everywhere – The Knot’s annual wedding report reveals the newest trends. Tips from the Pros:

  Back in the Dinosaur Age of the internet (think before 2010) SEO was simple: figure out the keyword phrases you want to rank for and cram as many of them as possible onto your website and blog posts. It may have been slightly more involved than that, but there were plenty of ways to game with system with link