SEO Check · for Photographers

SEO Check for
Photographers

Your portfolio is your work — but if images do not rank on Google, client acquisition runs through platforms instead of organic search. Enter your domain: 60-second audit specifically for image-heavy sites, with image SEO focus.

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What we regularly find for Photographers

These five findings appear across industries again and again. Sorted by impact — the first two cost you enquiries today, the last three constrain long-term growth.

  • Finding #1

    Images without structured alt texts

    Impact: High

    Google Image Search is your second traffic stream after Google Search. Without descriptive alt texts (not "IMG_4521.jpg") the context is missing — images are crawled but not ranked for search queries.

  • Finding #2

    Image sitemap is missing

    Impact: High

    A separate <urlset xmlns:image> sitemap explicitly submits every portfolio image to Google. Drastically faster indexing, higher coverage rate. Auto-generated with mekyn.

  • Finding #3

    Schema type missing (ImageObject + Photograph)

    Impact: Medium

    Per image a Schema with @type ImageObject + creator (Person), copyrightHolder, license. Google uses this in search results and AI Overview to correctly attribute authorship.

  • Finding #4

    Original sizes instead of responsive variants

    Impact: High

    6,000×4,000 px originals on mobile kill LCP. <picture> element with srcset for 480w/768w/1280w/1920w + AVIF + WebP. mekyn <Image> does this at build time.

  • Finding #5

    Gallery pages without thematic clusters

    Impact: Medium

    A single "portfolio" page ranks worse than thematic clusters: /wedding-photography/, /business-portrait/, /family/. One own H1, own description, own image selection per cluster.

What we specifically check for Photographer

Beyond the 210+ standard signals, the audit for this industry additionally pulls in these aspects:

  • Image SEO: alt texts, srcset, AVIF/WebP, lazy loading, fetchpriority
  • Image sitemap with @type ImageObject per portfolio image
  • Gallery cluster audit: thematic sub-pages instead of one-page portfolio
  • Schema: Person + Photograph + ImageObject with creator + copyrightHolder
  • Watermark strategy: SEO-compliant image protection without ranking loss

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