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Bradford Martin

8 Years Ago

My Google Search Results

I have a lot of images in a tight niche. But it's a big world. I am posting this not to brag but to show how it can work
I cleared my cache, logged off Google and did a Google search from Firefox. I chose the words “Offshore oil rig print”. I am sharing the results because of the insights they may give to getting seen and making sales.

For Google Web results FAA was in the top ten. But it was a link to the search to ‘Oil rig Photography”. Notice the word “offshore” is missing. I am not thrilled about it as my work is mostly to the back of that search. I can only hope the viewer will make it to page 44 or add the word "offshore" into the search.

Now for the Google Image results.
My images ranked high on the first page. The number one slot was mine , linked directly to my sale page.
The number three spot was mine, linked to Wanelo which links to my sale page.
Several others linked to FAA.
One linked to Pinterest. That linked back to FAA.
One linked to a competitor where I keep an account open with a few images. The colors are way off.
One linked to an image I have on Getty Images. You can license it for $375.00 You can’t use it to sell prints and it has a tracking code embedded in the image. It is not print ready and it would be cheaper and easier to just buy a print from FAA. But if someone buys a download and makes one print I am not complaining.

Analysis;
I tried this a couple of years ago and the images mostly linked to the FAA search. Now I am seeing a lot more link right to my own image.
Pinterest and Wanelo can help just by making your images more visible in a Google search. I don’t care if it is nothing but young women, if it puts me on page one for Google I am doing it.
People can link into the FAA search results, but the search words might not match what the user searched for on Google. Search rank on FAA still matters because Google directs users there.
My efforts at marketing off site pay off in Google search results. As to views and sales the Google results are reflected in views but not as much in sales.
Results may vary.

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Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

usually i just look for my name. type it in, leave it hanging and see what others are looking up about me. some are interesting because they are looking for me in wiki. still not sure if its a good idea to do that though.

then i put it in quotes and see how many times its mentioned. sometimes sorting it out by week and day to see if i came up.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Xueling Zou

8 Years Ago

Google search my name usually comes out many other people's images, I don't know what to do... Not many repeating names like mine.

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

if you have a habit of commenting on lots of images, your name will associate with all those images... but i just tried it, and you come up fine, images too, under your name. which is farily unique.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Jeff Folger

8 Years Ago

On Wanelo, what are you using for the description? I try to be unique but I don't always put the keywords in there? I assume you get the keywords into the title and description

 

Bradford Martin

8 Years Ago

Jeff, good question. I just checked that image and all I had was the image with the title. I never added a description or comments or hashtags. The title had "offshore oil rig" as part of it. Score one more for titles that match the main keyword.

 

Jeff Folger

8 Years Ago

I haven't seen Wanelo come up for my keyword searches. I'll keep looking. But I've only had an account for two weeks

 

Kirsten Giving

8 Years Ago

Thanks for all your interesting and frequent posts, Bradford. When I Google my name, a lot of my images show up right away, but with a last name that is such a common word, with so many uses (even a famous book title), odd images start showing up. Though Kirsten isn't very common, I find many references to others such as "Kirsten Dunst giving... Also, Kirsten Gillibrand is a New York senator, and she appears in my searches. I imagine others with verbs, nouns and so forth as names, face the same situation. I guess that will remain.
Best regards, Kirsten

 

Xueling Zou

8 Years Ago

@Mike, Thanks! My new images never show, only the very old ones ;(...

 

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