Hi everyone

I have one gallery on my website that just shows photos that can be brought as prints and I think it needs to be broken down into categories.

anyone have any tips?

http://gallery.runnycustard.co.uk/photo

London Landmarks, B&W, moody, er... gone blank on more (you might see my problem lol)

do you repeat images that would go in both ie: a B&W london landmark would go in both galleries?

I just think it might get confusing as I have several other galleries... portrait examples, events etc http://gallery.runnycustard.co.uk/photography... maybe I should get rid of that and have several galleries in the 'print to buy' section... then portfolio stuff in another?

any tips would be great as I don't want to keep faffing and make things worse.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

My recommendation would be to organize your photos into categories that give you the best shot to rank your respective group pages high on google. How do you do that ? Every set of images is different, but if you notice what I do on my site (I do weddings), I have a group 'weddings' but then I have a selection of weddings each associated with the venue at which I shot it. This means sometime typing in '[venue] photography' or '[venue] wedding' will very likely find my site at or near the top of google search results. This leads to more clicks + more potential sales. If I didn't split things up in this way then I'd have FAR less organic search results because ranking for the much more broad 'weddings' would be impossible.

So, in short: create categories that are narrow enough such that you stand a chance at ranking high (localizing can help), and broad enough that there are actually people searching for those terms.

Hopefully someone else chimes in on how this might look for a site offering fine arts and other prints. But as always, it starts at the end: by considering just who your customer is, and how you can create a path for them to find you.

christopherstevenb:

My recommendation would be to organize your photos into categories that give you the best shot to rank your respective group pages high on google. How do you do that ? Every set of images is different, but if you notice what I do on my site (I do weddings), I have a group 'weddings' but then I have a selection of weddings each associated with the venue at which I shot it. This means sometime typing in '[venue] photography' or '[venue] wedding' will very likely find my site at or near the top of google search results. This leads to more clicks + more potential sales. If I didn't split things up in this way then I'd have FAR less organic search results because ranking for the much more broad 'weddings' would be impossible.

 

So, in short: create categories that are narrow enough such that you stand a chance at ranking high (localizing can help), and broad enough that there are actually people searching for those terms.

 

Hopefully someone else chimes in on how this might look for a site offering fine arts and other prints. But as always, it starts at the end: by considering just who your customer is, and how you can create a path for them to find you.

This is pretty best idea I have ever experienced. So guys go with this.

I use folders in different names and name the images clearly.

Have made a gallery for it and managing them there .

I would recommend Microsoft's photo Gallery and Google's picasa.Both are excellent and free.

Yes, picasa is the best option.

Yes!  Organize your photos into categories ans sub categories, use picasa or there are a lot of apps and webs. So good luck! 

I made sub categories for every folder and organize them for every folder by creating sub categories.

My images tend to cover a lot of categories!

(sorry for the late response back - my notifications seem to have dropped off somewhere?!)

I think that if people come to my website to view a particular style/content of image then they don't want to trawl through a load of unrelated images - especially when there's a lot of images... ie: they have to click through pages - most people get bored afterwhile and give up... so some nice images taken ages ago wont be seen unless the viewer really wants to spend time clicking through - so I'm wondering if I should use 'collections' more.

I'd not looked into this before and just used galleries.

I did just have 'architecture', 'back&white', Urban Scenes' and 'nature' before (well still have!)

I'm wondering if I should just add all the images to one large gallery folder and then break the contents into collections - this would probably save on storage space on the account - I've copied some images into different folders ie: architecture can be in the black&white as well.

doing this would break any links I've used in my blog or other websites right?

I really want to think this through before trying it! 

I added some pics recently of flowers (which I don't normally do) and b&w trees and put them in their own gallery - and also one image from each in another gallery (so that if a viewer comes across it they will know there's more of that series/collection).

does this make sense?

I've just had to contact the tech support though as my images don't show up in google searches which isn't good at all! my images only show where I've put them on another site... redbubble/FAA etc.