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YOUR WEEKLY DOSE OF PHOTO WEBSITE ADVICE & INSPIRATION.
IN TODAY’S EMAIL:
⚡️ 3 Quick tips: cold vs hot traffic, a 5-minute brand audit, and the bored-with-my-site trap
🧠 Main Topic: The only email they actually read
📷 Website Spotlight: Kati Photography (Zurich)
🔍 SEO: The SEO task that actually moves your rankings
🌐 From the Trenches: a polish problem I keep spotting + a sales episode worth your drive time
QUICK TIPS
1. 🌡️ Not all traffic is equal: the temperature test
Google traffic is cold. Those visitors don't know you. They searched for "wedding photographer near me," clicked a result, and they're comparing you to five other tabs.
Social media is slightly warmer, but still cold. Maybe they've seen a post or two.
Your email list? That's warm. You've been in their inbox, they recognize your name.
But past clients are hot. They already trust you. They've seen how you work, how you communicate, how you deliver. The likelihood of them hiring you again (or referring someone) is 10x higher than a cold Google visitor converting.
I see photographers pour months into SEO while ignoring the 50 past clients sitting in their inbox. Those 50 people will outperform 5,000 cold visitors almost every time.
Where does most of your business actually come from when you look back honestly?
2. ✅ A five-minute brand consistency check
Google yourself. Right now.
Open an incognito window, type your business name, and look at what comes up. Your website, your Instagram, your Google Business profile, maybe an old Facebook page you forgot about.
Do they all tell the same story? Does the name match? Does the description of what you do still apply?
Most photographers I work with fail this test. There's a stale account with an old name, a profile that still says "available worldwide" when they went local two years ago, or an Instagram handle that doesn't match the domain at all.
Clients notice this stuff. They check multiple sources before booking, and any mismatch makes them pause.
The fix takes five minutes: update every profile to match your current domain and business name. Deactivate or remove what's outdated.
Try it now. What did you find when you Googled your business name?
