Blogs

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Blogs
are they worth it?
For advertising your work, for generally letting people your out there
 
Animal said:
odd it missed off the last line

Blogs
are they worth it?
For advertising your work, for generally letting people your out there
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That's better :) I think yes. It can be used - like you say, to show off your work, organise photos, tell stories and much more. If anything it's a place you can send someone who is interested in your work or would like to see more.

The difficult part is getting people to actually go and visit your blog. To advertise your images on your blog, you first have to advertise your blog.
 
Animal said:
would you run it along side a normal website?
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Yes.

Website with no blog, updated occasionally with new galleries but no text, so google et al don't see anything new.

Website with a blog, talking about shoots, technique etc means there are regularly new pages loaded with relevant text which can all lead to adding to your search rankings.

You can also fall into the Create-Share-Sustain cycle. I've just had Chase Jarvis's latest drop into my reader, which is where it comes from.

With a blog, you really want to be updating it with relevant content regularly, as this will all draw attention to it. Mine's focused predominantly on retouching techniques, and so I'll not be posting recent snow shoots on there as they're not relevant to what I'm blogging about. I have one on my website which is updated about once a month, covers shoots etc and is more succinct than the retouching one.

Some good advice I picked up early on, write one for a month before publishing about it, just to see if you can get into and maintain the habit of writing it, then when you advertise it, people can see there's more content than just one page and keep coming back.
 
I think so, but it depends on the user and the purpose.
Know why you want one and what you want to convey on your blog - is it support for your work or just an outlet!?

Check out other blogs and see if you want to do this or just thing you think you should, also do you have the time to give to it?

Then consider who do you want to use as your host? Blogspot, Wordpress LiveJournal etc
 
It is like anything, if you keep it up to date, relevant information to your audience of potential clients and possibly other togs. The yes very relevant.

If you don't update regularly, random information that may be of no use to reader, then you may as well not bother. You have to give the reader a reason to come back. Also if you do not consider your writing skills to be something you excel at, then again a blog may not be for you.
 
JasonRS said:
Yes.

Website with no blog, updated occasionally with new galleries but no text, so google et al don't see anything new.

Website with a blog, talking about shoots, technique etc means there are regularly new pages loaded with relevant text which can all lead to adding to your search rankings.

You can also fall into the Create-Share-Sustain cycle. I've just had Chase Jarvis's latest drop into my reader, which is where it comes from.

With a blog, you really want to be updating it with relevant content regularly, as this will all draw attention to it. Mine's focused predominantly on retouching techniques, and so I'll not be posting recent snow shoots on there as they're not relevant to what I'm blogging about. I have one on my website which is updated about once a month, covers shoots etc and is more succinct than the retouching one.

Some good advice I picked up early on, write one for a month before publishing about it, just to see if you can get into and maintain the habit of writing it, then when you advertise it, people can see there's more content than just one page and keep coming back.
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thanks jason thats a really useful post, I'll come back to it and reread at some point.
 
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