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50. Selecting Your Keywords
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The topic of this lesson is selecting keywords for a photography business. The instructor explains the importance of focusing on specific areas, venues, styles, and services when developing a keyword strategy. He also discusses the process of mind mapping and combining different components to create potential search terms. The lesson includes a question about whether Google gets confused when listing multiple areas, and the instructor explains that Google is smart enough to recognize similar keywords and aggregate the results together. The lesson concludes by emphasizing the importance of testing keywords to see what people are searching for.
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Class Introduction
13:12 2Common Myths & Unknown Truths
11:42 3The Road Ahead
13:03 4Find Your Passion
06:06 5The Lin & Jirsa Journey
13:54 6Part-time, Full-time, Employed, Partners?
03:51 7Stop Wasting Time & Money
06:07 8Your 12 Week Roadmap
04:33Great Plans Still Fail
06:01 10Strategy Vs. Planning
04:16 11Mind Mapping
07:25 12Select a Focus
14:16 13Competitor Research
09:34 14S.W.O.T. Analysis
13:54 15Strategy & Long Term Goals
03:50 16Values, Vision & Mission
27:49 17Effectively Managing Your Time
15:05 18Artistic Development
07:30 19Create Your Plan
13:12 20What's Your Product
10:51 21Luxury vs Consumer Products & Experiences
11:44 22Quick Break for Econ 101
16:31 23Your Target Market & Brand Message
21:25 24What's in a Name
09:20 25Your Client 'Why'
05:43 26Crafting the Why Experience
24:17 27Document the Client Experience
08:29 28Business Administration Basics
27:03 29Book Keeping Management
06:51 30Create the Logo & Branding
07:04 31Portfolio Design
15:11 32Design Your Services & Packages
18:51 33Pricing Fears & Myths
08:46 34Three Pricing Methods
25:39 35Package Pricing Psychology & Design
06:15 36Psychology of Numbers
07:29 37Pricing Q&A
23:51 38Grass Roots Marketing
09:36 39The Empty Party
07:03 40Friends & Family Test Shoots
16:28 41Join Groups
04:32 42Second Shooting Etiquette
07:44 43The Listing & Classified Hustle
14:10 44Make Instagram Simple
13:55 45Your Automated Pinterest Plan
08:01 46Facebook Because You Must
07:37 47Giveaway & Styled Shoots
12:17 48Content Marketing & SEO
08:12 49The Monster: SEO
07:26 50Selecting Your Keywords
05:45 51Testing Your Keywords
07:53 52Grouping Main & Niche Goals
12:39 53Your Content Road Map
11:47 54Content Marketing Q&A
10:45 55Inspiration to Keep Working
07:45 56How to Craft Your Content
15:03 57Internal Linking Basics
05:30 58Back Link Building Basics
04:55 59Link Value Factos
14:38 60Measuring Link Value
04:24 61Link Building Strategy & Plan
06:10 62Link Building Plan: Vendors & Guest Writing
06:45 63Link Building Plan: Features, Directories, Comments
03:11 64Link Building: Shortcuts & One Simple Tool
14:44 65What is Sales? Show Me!
12:58 66Your First Massive Failure
05:17 67The Sales Process
07:31 68Your Second Massive Failure
05:23 69Understand Buyer Psychology
10:00 70Step 0: Building Rapport & Trust
15:14 71Step 1: Identify Need or Want
15:39 72Cognitive Dissonance
12:01 73Steps 2 & 3: Value Proposition & The Solution
14:21 74Step 4 : Close, Make the Ask
04:32 75Step 5: Follow Up & Resolve Concerns
06:13 76Family Photography Hot Seat
12:06 77Business Example Hot Seat
15:52 78Boudoir Photography Hot Seat
16:09 79The Best Sales Person
07:45 80Your Mindset, Vibrations & Frequency
06:56 81Always Positive, Always Affirming
11:55 82The Second Money & Dual Process
07:39 83Chumming the Price Waters
03:57 84Creating Want or Scarcity
09:54 85Timeless Advice on Being Likable
11:53 86Selling Over The Phone
10:59 87Forbidden Words in Sales
11:40Lesson Info
Selecting Your Keywords
Let's start with perfecting your keywords. That's my daughter, Ellie, again, oh. Doesn't it make things better when you see your kids in the slides? (audience chuckles) Selecting your keywords. Developing a good keyword strategy. Think S.A.L.E. Services, list your services. This goes back to your focus. Your areas, what areas do you want your ideal client? This is a big one, guys. Look, if it's a pain in the butt to drive from one place, 45 minutes up to another place to constantly be doing portrait sessions, why in the world would you SEO and list that location as where you want to go? If you hate going there, don't list it, right? Does that make sense? Like, we focus on Orange County. Why, because from Orange County to LA, it's about 10 miles, but that 10 miles takes about an hour to an hour and a half every single day. It's ridiculous. So we focus in that area that we want to be. Do the same thing. Just understand that wherever you are listing, wherever you're putting your SEO, is w...
here you're gonna be driving to every day. Or whenever you have a shoot. Locations, we want to list out ideal locations and venues. We want to have an emphasis, a style, a genre, perhaps even a religion. You can identify whatever it is that you want to focus into, right. Religion is really wedding-specific. For example, Jewish, Orthodox, wedding, photography. That's a thing and it's a thing that gets a ton of search. And it's a thing that gets the types of clients that want photographers specifically focused in that thing because it's so specific. Back to mind mapping. We're gonna mind map out our keyword strategy. Your central topic is gonna be S.A.L.E. and it's gonna look something like this. Services, are you wedding, are you engagement? Are you newborn, are you maternity? Are you boudoir, are you, what are you? Family, senior? That's number one, what is your service. Number two, where are areas do you serve? Branch out. Decide from your mind map of where you want to serve. Number three, what are the most relevant venues and locations that might apply to what it is that you do? Now this is very much an event photographer-specific thing, a wedding photographer-specific thing, but if there happens to be family portraits that frequently get done at a certain park that people might look up, that's also relevant. And the emphasis or style, right. Film, bright, airy, rustic, pastel, modern, dramatic, whatever it might be. And all you do is you start picking what people might actually be searching. San Francisco, wedding, photographer, film. Okay, that gives me an idea. Now you combine this into potential search terms and this is what we get to. San Francisco Wedding Photography. So we're using the example of, well we have family photography, too. Oakland Family Photographer, Golden Gate Park Photography, Fremont Wedding Venues, City Hall Wedding Photography. These are all possible combinations that you might land on based on your mind map. Is that kinda making sense? You mind map these four pieces and you select one of these each components to kinda figure out what a keyword strategy is and you write all those different possible combinations down. This is where you pause the video to do that, pause. Do you guys have a few ideas yourselves? Let's hear it. I've got a question. Question, I love questions. I'm still trying to wrap my head around SEO 'cause I know it constantly evolves. But does Google get confused if you name more than one area? Like servicing Seattle and the greater Seattle area, or Bellevue, servicing the greater Seattle. Does it get confused with locations? So Google's really smart and Google can probably tell by now if you're listing, what was your listing name? I mean what were those keywords that you just said? Like Bellevue photographer-- Okay, so if you said wedding or Bellevue photographer, photographer in Bellevue, those similar components, Google is pretty smart. It can say that they're probably looking for the same thing and it aggregates the results together. But we're gonna test that in just a second. So what we're doing right now is we're just trying to figure out our keyword strategy. To do that, and remember, keywording is, just think categorization. We need to tell the world what category of service we offer. Okay, so we write down the potential categories that we have, then we have to test them. Once we get to this place, we simply test them to see what are people looking for? Does that make sense? So we start with, well, how to start a photography business. Oddly enough, when we tested that keyword, the keyword that came up was how to launch a photography business got more searches than how to start a photography business. So this is our idea, this is our idea list. Then we go the next step.
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