Anyone have above average SEO knowledge?

[Chris K]

Was wondering if anyone here has any above average SEO knowledge, I have some questions regarding my photo based blog, noticed I hardly get any organic traffic. Wanted to get some help, perhaps someone could take a look and give me some pointers. Things I have done so far...

Title Tags and Alt Tags with keywords for each image.

Created site map, submitted site map to major search engines.

Continuously try building backlinks.

Have title of blog and description with keywords for my niche.

Keywords for niche in each post.

Was wondering if I could add anything else to my list of things to do to improve SEO, or, perhaps I have my current set up quite wrong.

Anyone willing to help with a bit of experience please let me know I am willing to cough up some FP$ for good advice. You can even PM me if you'd like.

Thanks,
Alycium aka Chris

 

[Sam]

You might find you get penalized for being overly optimized by Google. 😉 http://searchengineland.com/too-much-se ... hat-115627. How long has your photo blog been running?

 

[Chris K]

You might find you get penalized for being overly optimized by Google. 😉 http://searchengineland.com/too-much-se ... hat-115627. How long has your photo blog been running?

About 6 months now. I've been doing pretty much how other sites with the same niche as me are doing. Take a look at my site if you'd like (In signature)

Note: Even in the past, I never got that much organic traffic from google. I actually get two specific post that actually show up in google images (towards the top) and the rest of the post pretty much get traffic from else where.

 

[Sam]

hmm. I had a wallpaper site at one stage that was getting a decent amount of traffic from Google. I found adding descriptions where possible helped. e.g. for a car fb cover, something about the car specs etc. 🙂

 

[Chris K]

hmm. I had a wallpaper site at one stage that was getting a decent amount of traffic from Google. I found adding descriptions where possible helped. e.g. for a car fb cover, something about the car specs etc. 🙂

Thought about doing this. At least worth a try. It's just odd all the top competitors don't use description or anything, they just seem to pound in keywords.

 

[Bridget]

Most website owners perceive SEO as a dark art, shrouded in mystery. They have heard phrases like “gateway pages” and “keyword density” or have been bamboozled by technobabble about the way websites should be built. All of this has left them feeling that SEO is the purview of experts. This is a misconception reinforced by certain segments of the SEO community.

The problem is that these kinds of complex techniques do work, to a point. It is possible to improve placement through a manipulation of the system. However, although it can have short term benefits, it will not last without continual investment. This is because the objective is wrong. SEO shouldn’t be about getting to the top of Google for particular phrases. In fact, we shouldn’t be optimizing for search engines at all. We should be optimizing for people. After all, that is what Google is trying to do.