Comments for Dameian Lott

Comment on Wedding Photographers SEO : Optimizing Images by Hilary Mercer

Hilary Mercer — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:46:14 +0000

These tips were UUUUBER helpful! Thank you!

Comment on Photographers! Is your site on this list? You’re server may have been hacked. by Alex

Alex — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:47:33 +0000

Thank you for posting this, Damien. I’m filing a lawsuit against BluDomain. If anyone wants to share their story with me, please e-mail me. I was dicked around for the last 6 months trying to transfer my domain, and they refused to acknowledge that it was locked. It wasn’t until I filed a complaint with the BBB that they unlocked my domain. They still refused to acknowledge it, and instead acted like babies saying things like, “I’m not making a case, you are!” and “I’ve been in business for 10 years… I’ve been in business for 8 years, why are you telling me how to run a business.” What kind of business is supported by such childish antics?

Anyway, I’m contacting a well-known lawyer here in the valley sometime this week and would like to put together enough stories to make a strong case against BluDomain.

Comment on SEO Permalinks : What You Need To Know by Shane

Shane — Sat, 21 May 2011 04:08:04 +0000

One comment about including %category% in your permalink: recategorizing a post, or changing your category structure in the future will break any links or bookmarks. There are plugins to help with 301 redirects, but you’ll still take a bit of a traffic hit via Google’s index when this kind of change happens.

Also if you’re expecting to be Google News-worthy, see http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?answer=68323&cbid=1d7kv7l9u7to0&src=cb&lev=answer

Comment on Wedding Photographers SEO : Optimizing Images by Anton Chia

Anton Chia — Wed, 04 May 2011 06:31:50 +0000

Hi Dameian,

Many thanx for the confirmation! It helps much!

Comment on Wedding Photographers SEO : Optimizing Images by Dameian

Dameian — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:38:14 +0000

Hello Anton,

Lightbox Galleries: Yes. The ProPhoto theme properly allows for alt text in the lightbox galleries.

Flash Galleries: No. The ProPhoto3 theme is not coded properly for this. You might be able to get a little if it were coded differently, but as it is you’d get no benefit from alt text because they completely fail to include the alt attribute in their code. On top of that, Flash is difficult for search engines to read in general. Google has said on multiple occasions that they can index it to a certain degree, but I wouldn’t bank on it being near as optimal as standard images inserted into a blog post or a jQuery powered slideshow. I’d avoid Flash unless you’re doing video (or video slideshow), or it is absolutely necessary for some reason.

I hope that helps!

Comment on Wedding Photographers SEO : Optimizing Images by Anton Chia

Anton Chia — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:46:13 +0000

Awesome! Thank you very much for your generosity!

I have a question if you have time to address this;

Is adding Alt Text still useful if the images are used in ProPhoto3 Blog’s inbuilt Flash slide shows? Does this applies to the Lightbox galleries too?

Many thanx again.

Comment on SEO Permalinks : What You Need To Know by Dameian

Dameian — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:31:31 +0000

No problem Aaron! I hope it helps.

Comment on SEO Permalinks : What You Need To Know by Aaron Downs

Aaron Downs — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:14:24 +0000

Thanks for the post. I am in the process of establishing a blog site so this is very timely for me.

Comment on Photographers! Is your site on this list? You’re server may have been hacked. by Dameian

Dameian — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:26:45 +0000

No problem Vanessa. I’m just glad the hack has been taken care of and everyone’s sites are okay. Hopefully everyone effected does their due diligence now and follows up with Google!

Comment on Photographers! Is your site on this list? You’re server may have been hacked. by Vanessa Helmick

Vanessa Helmick — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:56:08 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for posting this blog. It was the ONLY real info I could get all day as to what was happening. No one responded to my support ticket.
As far as bludomains service, I bought a cheap site. I got what I paid for. If I had paid more I would expect more. Luckily I am not a photographer so I don’t use my site for shopping carts or anything like that.
Am having my new hosting company see if she move my site over, we aren’t sure yet.
Thanks again!!