Saturday, 22 February 2014

Creating a new web page to make the Google Gods Happy


Creating a new web page to make the Google Gods Happy
Ranking high in Google search results is everything.  That is why I created a new web page for my Food Photography web site.  I did everything right (I think)… I hope I do not upset the Google Gods. 

Google is like a moody spouse

I call Google my other spouse because (like it or not) I am married to it; I need Google. I call her moody because you never really know how your actions will affect your organic ranking with her.

May the Google Gods not get angry with me
 
Indeed, at any given time, other competitors are courting her in order to take my place.  I am constantly fighting these seducers by grooming my content.  That said; Google has expressed a willingness to penalize sites with over optimized content.  Therein lays the confusion; where is the over optimized threshold? 

A year ago, I created a food photography page for my web commercial photography web site.  Visually it looked good, but I knew it would never rank well. The page was a template I found on the web; it demonstrated ALT tags nicely, but it was limited in its ability to denote volumes of written content.  Because Google likes content, this page hindered my ability to communicate and rank well; a change was required.

So I just created this new web site. I did not do anything intentionally to over optimize.  That said, I am put good stuff in my page’s design to rank well (relevant URL name, meta title, description, H1 tags, Backlinks, key words, etc).  I try to SEO with taste; but I am terrified that I will piss off Google if I do something wrong! 

And indeed I have some content relevant to two product photography sites, so yes I will shamefully admit that I did recycle some content but it is truly at a miniscule level.

I lose sleep at night because I worry that Google may pooh pooh my attempt to signal the search engines.  For example, this article already has two backlinks to the same web site to facilitate the reference.  Will I get in shit from the big guy for back linking it more than once??? Does it look spammy to Google?? Dang if I know! 

 

Comments are appreciated!

Monday, 10 February 2014

Toronto Chocolate Photography – Toronto Food Photographer

I spent a whole day shooting delicious chocolates made by a culinary artisan at the Trump Towers. These chocolates make Laura Secord look like a Kit Kat (no disrespectin’ yummy Kit Kats). These guys made chocolate shoes which I converted into a 360 rotating animation in addition to this montage.

For more information on Toronto Food Photo Services contact Jules Design
647 997 2793
jules@julesdesign.ca
http://www.julesdesign.ca/Toronto-LCBO-and-Food-Photography/Toronto-Food-and-Drink-Photography.html

Toronto Wine Bottle Photography

Maybe I should put in more reflection when I shoot the wine bottles, or should I?
I figured out how to photograph wine bottles ISO 100 F14 with no reflection and VERY LITTLE PHOTOSHOP. For clear bottles, the effect (I think) is beautiful and unique; for the dark wine bottle it might need dimension. What do you think?
Wine Photographer Toronto
http://www.julesdesign.ca/Toronto-LCBO-and-Food-Photography/Toronto-Food-and-Drink-Photography.html

Brampton Food Photography Toronto

Food Photography at my Toronto Studio. Image masked, we added a natural shadow, the cheese was custom made to fit these cups. A light meter was used to get perfect exposure. One strobe light from above using soft light
http://www.julesdesign.ca/Toronto-LCBO-and-Food-Photography/Toronto-Food-and-Drink-Photography.html