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PhotoShelter Newsletter | April 2009

A whole new set of tools helps you attract more visitors to view your images, PhotoShelter teams up with Magnum Photos to offer you $10,000, more webinars and workflow tips. Read on, amigo!

In this month's issue:

SEO Toolkit: Attract more visitors

SEO Kit for Photographers Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a technique that helps your website rank higher in searches on Google and other major search engines. The better your ranking for specific keywords, the more likely you are to drive traffic to your website, which leads to more potential new business.

PhotoShelter has the best tools online to help photographers increase their visibility to Google. Read our new step-by-step guide to getting your website optimized.

» Download your SEO Kit now

SEO Grader

What's Your Grade?

We built an SEO Grader to help you understand SEO and chart your progress.. Just answer 5 questions, and the SEO Grader will automatically scan your your account and measure over 30 metrics to determine your search engine readiness. You'll get a score of 1 to 100. The average so far is 56. Are you better than your peers?

» Get graded now! All account levels are eligible.

Free Webinars: Get the most from PhotoShelter

We've added more specialized webinars and increased the frequency. Join us anytime for these live, online tutorials to get the most out of your PhotoShelter account.

  • Get Seen: PhotoShelter's Guide to SEO - 4/15
  • Configuring SEO in your PhotoShelter Account - 4/16
  • PhotoShelter 101 Live Training - 4/22
Registration is required as space is limited.

» View the full webinar calendar and sign up today.

Magnum Expression Photo Award: Win $10,000

Magnum Expression Photo Award Magnum Photos has partnered with HP, PhotoShelter and Blurb to present the 2009 Magnum Expression Photo Award. A jury of some of Magnum's finest photographers including Jonas Bendiksen, Susan Meiselas, Alec Soth and Paolo Pellegrin will judge the final photos, and the winner receive $10,000 and an HP Z3200 printer. This year's theme is "communities".

» Learn more and submit your entry through PhotoShelter today

What's Your Workflow

what's your photo workflow We get a lot of questions about how different types of photographers are using PhotoShelter within their digital workflow. So we asked a few successful photographers to document their process for various niches. Check these bad boys out:

Installing Google Analytics

google analytics How do you know if your website is working for you? Measure it. Google offers a free analytics package, and PhotoShelter gives you an easy way to install their custom code into our website customization templates. Learn key metrics like:
  • Where your visitors came from
  • How long they are staying on your site
  • What's your most popular content
  • Where are people dropping out of your sales process

» Learn more

Shout Outs, High Fives and Fist Bumps

To Gary Crabbe, who recently survived a plunge off of a 40' cliff on a dark desert night in Death Valley. Get well soon! gary crabbe survived a 40' plunge
To Dean Oros, whose project Angelic will be featured across Canada in 2009 - 2010 through Cancer Connections: a PhotoSensitive Exhibition in cooperation with the Canadian Cancer Society. Angelic
To the guys at Luceo Images - congrats on your 1 year anniversary print sale! luceo images
To Redux Pictures, kudos on the launch of your new PhotoShelter-based custom website for the new book, American Youth. american youth
To Bruno Vincent for writing step-by-step instructions on setting up a CNAME with domain registrar 1and1.

And finally, to our friends at PhotoCamp Utah, congrats on a fantastic event, and best wishes to PhotoCamp Milwaukee for their May 2 event!

Bruno Vincent - Parkour

That's it for this month. Shoot well and stay away from those pirates!

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