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YOUR WEEKLY DOSE OF PHOTO WEBSITE ADVICE & INSPIRATION.
IN TODAY’S EMAIL:
⚡️ 3 Quick tips: organic traffic, mobile speed, nav menu order
🧠 Deep dive: 7 signs you've outgrown your current business
🔍 SEO: stop keyword stuffing
QUICK TIPS
1. ⚠️ AI is eating organic traffic — here’s what that means for your photography website
Most photographers don’t realize it yet… but your website is about to compete with AI summaries, not just other photographers.
Search engines are answering questions on the results page, meaning fewer people click through to actual websites. Wikipedia just reported an 8% traffic drop — and it’s not alone.
If AI is summarizing your content (or your competitors'), your website needs to be clearer, faster, and more compelling than ever to win the click and the inquiry.
Here’s what still cuts through:
A focused niche & clear positioning
Strong UX that reduces friction
A portfolio that loads instantly & shines on mobile
Trust elements baked into every key page
The photographers who modernize now will pull ahead while others fade into “AI noise.”
Curious how your website holds up? I run deep manual audits for photographers and show you exactly what’s costing you leads. See details.
2. 🚀 Only 6% of photo sites are fast on mobile — are you one of them?
Photography websites are notoriously slow — mostly due to heavy, unoptimized images.
If you care about SEO, user experience, and converting visitors into clients, you need to speed things up.
Start with your images:
Resize before uploading
Compress without killing quality
Use modern formats like WebP
Then layer on speed best practices: caching, good hosting, and lightweight themes.
Speed = trust + better rankings. Don’t let your site lag behind.
