Worldwide Directory of Photographers - Addition Request

Get your website, images and business noticed with a full promotional, SEO, keyworded page for just $10 per month or $100 per year!

The Worldwide Directory of Photographers at All Things Photography has now been maturing over the last 4 years year and many photographers are receiving and converting regular leads. This is entirely due to each page being well keyword-focussed and search engine optimised for each individual photographer.

Recent email regarding (what I think is) an exciting job to one of our directory members:

I am looking for a local Barbados professional photographer that would be available at the end of this month for a photo shoot for Lime. The photographer must have a portfolio to present.

The style of photography is reportage, portraits, landscape........they want the local environment captured, preferably, by a local person as they don't want a "tourists" take on the island. The images have got to be the real thing!

They want images of "local life". So portraits of "genuine" local people all shot in their natural surroundings. There is a strong clear colour code which runs through the identity of the campaign so these will either need to be included in the propping of the locations, or will be added in in post production.

If you have this please do not hesitate to call me with any questions that you may have. Looking forward to seeing your work.

I have seen a few like this and just one of these a year will make the low fee seem more than worth it!

Being a professional wedding, stock and commercial photographer myself, I understand the "peaks and troughs" that we all go through with regard to ongoing work and jobs. I myself have rested on my laurels in the past having secured a long term contract, only to find it swiftly pulled from under me as the company paying me hit hard times.

There is no such thing as having too much work on in this industry, there is just too much competition out there, especially with this digital boom we find ourselves in.

Everyone is a photographer nowadays!

The aim of this worldwide directory of photographers is simple, to promote the real professionals of this world, to put the best photographers in front of clients and keep the true professionalism of the industry well in place.

Even though All Things Photography is still growing, we currently receive over 150,000 unique visitors a month with more than 350,000 page views from 190 countries.

We expect this traffic to continue growing substantially as we continuously build more and more pages and the site matures over the coming years.

If you wish to be included in this worldwide directory of photographers, it is a long term project. The number of photographers listed in any particular area will be kept to a minimum to prevent saturation of that location.

We will build a full page specifically for your business, using your own images and links to your site and geographical location, which will be fully optimised for the search engines and hopefully, drive traffic to your business from the search engines.

Once the directory has a substantial amount of listings, we will promote it actively including Google Ads.

Even if your site is already optimised, how can more exposure hinder your success?

Why is this directory any different to others? Well firstly, your listing is a full, web optimised page including sample images, links to your website and a slideshow with music if you wish, and secondly, as far as any potential clients are concerned, a recommendation from a fellow professional photographer is about as good as it gets.

Here are some simple stats using obvious search terms when a client is looking for a photographer;

Of the current photographers listed, many are ranked on the first page of any related searches using speech marks, i.e. "property photographer dorset", either with Google or Yahoo.

As a test, go to Google and type Wedding Photographer Spain...of more than 33 million results, we are listed at number 6 (at the time of writing) for the entire country. We are on the first page of results for many other terms such as wedding photographer costa del sol, wedding photographer estepona etc.

The bookings for me personally that have come from this page have made a huge difference to my business.

Once your page is more established, it will be found easily by any number of keyworded searches by more and more search engines. The more recent additions have been graded with a Google PR of 3 with the older listings given a PR of 4.

All of this means that the search engines have recognised these photographer directory listings and soon they will be receiving more and more targeted traffic.

Once we have filled the pages, the directory will be aggressively marketed worldwide through paid ads, press releases and other methods in order to get the most coverage.

The charge for the full page ad is just $10 per month or $100 per year with no set up fee.

So even if you convert just ONE LEAD PER YEAR, the page has more than paid for itself! We recommend that you leave the ad running for at least 6 months as this gives it time to mature, get indexed and once established, you can amend the details at any time, free of charge.

Please bear in mind that we normally charge $30 per month for a single link from All Things Photography so this is pretty good value. Also, a link from us to your website will also help your own SEO as ATP is considered an "authority" site by Google and will help you in your own rankings.

The reason that this works for many photographers is the sheer size of this website and its standing with all the major search engines...and this will only get better.

We have well over 1,000 pages of photography related, optimized and relevant information which allows us to "rise above" all the other sites giving you and your business more exposure.

This coupled with All Things Photography´s good standing with Google and Yahoo means that your page jumps up the rankings of searches for your own specific terms, meaning your page gets found first.

If you wish to participate, fill in the form below and please remember that it helps to have a website for us to direct clients to.

If you don't have a website with a portfolio but still wish to be added, please provide us with 12 of your best images at low resolution but high quality (800px longest edge), any text you wish to add to your page and your full contact details (email, telephone etc), and we will do the rest.

Benefits:

• Personal page with your own images and write up.
• Totally keyword and content based and optimised for your area all backed with the ranking and status of All Things Photography behind it.
• One photographer per area to prevent saturation and to maximise leads.
• Outbound links directly to your own website.
• Click here for a very recent sample page - Wedding Photographer Dorset. And for an an older page...which is still ranked no. 1 for "Wedding Photographer Nassau", "Commercial Photographer Nassau" and "Portrait Photographer Nassau" after 4 years!

Please also note: Once monthly payments stop at any time, the page will be offered up to photographers in the same area using their own details and images but keeping the page rank, keywords and Search Engine Optimisation (S.E.O.). This is by no means a scare tactic to "cough up", it is simply filling the gap and making the best use of the matured S.E.O.

Remember, just one job received makes it worthwhile, and from little acorns...

N.B. Please only apply to the worldwide directory of photographers if you have an online presence or examples of your work.