My first website

[Fireball]

Well I finally decided to go with photobiz and have been very happy with the ease of use and the quick response to questions. Check it out and let me know what you think, tacky comments and all.
Shockey Photography

[Angelo]

Charrie, nice, very nice!!!!
It took about 15 seconds to come up, but once it did it was very impressive.

[doctahjones]

nit picks
-the music doesn't stay off when i turn it off. everytime i go to a new link it turns back on. very annoying for me.
-the 3-4 sec animations/transitions from page to page bug me. but i'm a buggy person.

other than that seems pretty standard to me

[Fireball]

Thanks Angelo!

James, I can't do anything about the music on each link other than have NO music at all. I was glad there was a mute button at least. Thanks for commenting.

[Hikin' Mike]

Kill the music, really....please.

Anyway, if you want to be found in search engines, you need to change your title (at least). Do you think a potential client will Google "Shockey Photography"? You need to add your city/state and a few of your keywords (specialties).

Adding a short 'bio', using TEXT, on your home page can help too.

[Fireball]

Shockey Photography is the name of my business. Don't think I would want to change that. I can't add any key words to the home page. It's a set template that won't allow me to add anything else to the home page except the tabs at the bottom (and my business name, of course).

I've already added my city, state, etc. to the SEO panel in my template.

[Hikin' Mike]

I'm not saying to change your name. I'm saying to change the title tag that shows on the top of every browser and more importantly, that is the BEST way to be found in Google. I realize you probably can't add much on most of the templates, but I'm sure you can change the title tag from "Shockey Photography" to something like "Ardmore Oklahoma Portrait Photographer".

[Fireball]

How do you change the title tag?

[darrenwilson]

Her name "Shockey Photography" Google's well:

CLICK HERE

...top four results.

I agree, however, that more could/should be added to the <title> tags.

Charrie,
Just look for the text box in your template where you typed in "Shockey Photography" probably on your SEO page. Just add your keywords there.

[Fireball]

Thanks Darren. It's done. Still learning all this web stuff!

[Hikin' Mike]

Originally Posted by darrenwilson

Her name "Shockey Photography" Google's well:

It should be the first one, it's her site.

Originally Posted by Fireball

Thanks Darren. It's done. Still learning all this web stuff!

If you changed the title tag, I'm still seeing the old title, even after I refreshed my browser.

[dryicerx]

Clean site.

Just a couple of observations: The other thing I noticed is, in your pricing page (Information -> Pricing), the page does not scroll fully (only a little bit) when using the mouse wheel, although it does when you manually click and scroll.

These are just personal preferences of me: I'm not a fan of music on sites, and the transition between photos seem very long (~2s)

Originally Posted by Hikin' Mike

If you changed the title tag, I'm still seeing the old title, even after I refreshed my browser.

It will once google re-crawls the site, which may take hours to days.

[Hikin' Mike]

Originally Posted by dryicerx

It will once google re-crawls the site, which may take hours to days.

That shouldn't matter. When you upload new content/changes, you should see it as soon as it's finished uploaded.

[dryicerx]

Originally Posted by Hikin' Mike

That shouldn't matter. When you upload new content/changes, you should see it as soon as it's finished uploaded.

Oh yeah, woops, you're right. For some reason I thought meant you were seeing the "Google result's title" not being changed yet.

[Hikin' Mike]

Originally Posted by dryicerx

Oh yeah, woops, you're right. For some reason I thought meant you were seeing the "Google result's title" not being changed yet.

Nope, I was referring to the <title> tag.