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At times I’ll be giving one of my workshops on the business of wedding photography, and I’ll inevitably be asked why blogging is important. What’s the point of it?

For me, one of the main points is to provide images for people to look at, but also to include valuable search terms that will attract people needing my services to their site. While this may seem obvious, many photographers just blog about how great their clients were. No one is searching for “The Smith Wedding”, except of course The Smiths.

I’ve run a report using a statistics program called Woopra, showing the different search terms that have brought 819 people to my wedding photography site over the past month. Many of the terms that brought in only one visitor were acquired through blog entries. After looking at the report below, you’ll notice that I have brought people to my site by including in my blog entries the name of the wedding facility and reception facility.

For instance, go to Google and do a search for a wedding facility here in Houston called The Courtyard on St James Place Houston. Because of my blog entries I should be the second or third listing.

While I’m telling you that this report shows that the following search terms brought in 819 visitors to my site, that is not the total amount of visits I had to my site. 819 visits represents the number of visits generated by searching for specific search terms on sites like Goolge. The total amount of visitors to my site for the past month is much higher at 4773. Higher than some, but much less than many.

As a rule, I try to focus on four basic search terms throughout my site and blog. For each of these terms I want to always be on the first page of returned search results with Google.

Houston Wedding Photography
Houston Wedding Photographer
Wedding Photographer Houston
Wedding Photography Houston

Here’s the report. I hope you don’t get to bored. My hope is that you will see how important it is to include search terms in your blog entries that you think people planning a wedding might be using.

Name / Visits
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aric hoek 3
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By Aric C. Hoek, owner and creator of Ten Houston Wedding Photographers