When I was frustrated by my lack of incoming traffic for a website I was building for my photography in Japan, I spent so much time linkbuilding, going to forums to promoted it, learning how to market it on social media, heck I had a Facebook fan page with nearly 13,000 active viewers. A few times a week I would post to them, I couldn't leave them waiting too long for my next photo, and boy did those hundreds or thousand :ertery: with hundreds of comments praising my work felt pretty good. With all of this love on Facebook and social media why would I even need Google to index my website? A few years later, I still have over 12,000 people on my fan page -- and really it means nothing -- it was just one big circlejerk on Facebook. For all those years I had ignored Google, rarely posting quality content to my website itself, but what I did post was quality and unique. I had a few deep links for awhile to individual photos, and many years later Google has shown me that one of the things that makes them so special, is that you can be rest assured, many years later, they will have let your content that you built ago like wine, and will properly reward you. If I google words related to my photos, Flickr doesn't come up, Facebook doesn't come up -- no, all of the content shows up that mirrored my content, that discussed my content, etc. And I believe that Google understand that when people Google my name, that there is a contextual meaning given because the content all had my photo credits. I am not in Japan anymore, but I think I know that once I add my by-line to my new photo blog where I try to raise awareness for the homeless -- that Google will wrap that blog up in the context of "professional photographer" and keep carrying on the relevancy and make the associations between my old content. It's early morning, so I am rambling, carry on. :computer:
