Early last month, I attended a seminar at Adorama about photo websites and SEO. The seminar was hosted by Allen Murabyashi, the CEO and one of the founders of PhotoShelter. I was expecting the seminar to be a sales show for PhotoShelter's advantages. But it wasn't. Or was it?
I'm not really sure, truthfully, Mr. Murabyashi did not talk much about PhotoShelter. But what he did talk about made me realize my current site (a scrappy Dreamweaver site married to a Backprint ecommerce platform) was not working hard enough for me. And to get it SEO ready would take a lot of work. Plus, the site just looks so 1997.
Yesterday, I bit the bullet and started uploading galleries onto PhotoShelter. I really like the integration with Aperture and the pulling in of the meta data. There is a lot of customization available that I have yet to explore, but so far it looks a lot easier than creating this on my own in Dreamweaver.
I guess the proof will be in how many photos I sell. First I need to finish the site. Stay tuned!
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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