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As Egol has said....it's all true...and as he never takes any consulting....he's unavailable But DO look up Alan on google - and you'll find he's one of the best known, most revered, most reputable audit guys out there...in fact I couldn't even name a peer of his....he's def the one to contact.

It took me a while to come back, but I made it. Link building is all about leveraging your assets.  You have a great blog with great images, so this opens up a number of strategies that you can follow to maximise the links that come back your way.  The ones that interest me in your case do involve giving a little something away, and that can be uncomfortable at first as it can feel like devaluing your work. However quality links have value, so there is a return to be had. I'd be tempted to start by thinking about what you might be prepared to give away for the right credit.  For instance would you be happy for people to use smaller versions of your images on their website if they linked back to you?  How about if that only applied to some images?  Would you let "the right website" use a full sized image in exchange for a credit? Consider what you are comfortable with and then communicate that.  Having a link to "use this image on your website" that explained the rules would encourage more to do it. You could even upload specific images to Flickr as creative commons with the required attribution being a credit link. On a smaller scale you could target high quality sites that have poor imagery and just offer them the use of a relevant image in exchange for a credit.  That can be a very effective way of getting some very high quality links.  My photos are rubbish, but I've done this successfully for even related things in the past. If you are not doing so already I'd also look at something like imageraider.  Imageraider will monitor the web for places where your images are used and alert you.  This can be equally useful for protecting your IP as it is for link building.

You may use this SEOgadget tool. It is thought for Infographics, but it works perfect for photos too (and aren't both images?). For reverse images searches you can use http://www.tineye.com/, but it still present the one photo per time issue...

If your site does not get crawl completely, i will recommend a) To create a site-map, so that search engines can understand the site hierarchy and can deep crawl the site b) Look at your site structure, Make your site more organized so as to have better crawl. It should not happen that a user needs to visit - home page > category page > sub category page > article or below to read the article. At best, article snippet should come on home page for a day. If not, should be accessible from home page > category page > article c) Submit the article posted to Social Media - Reddit, Pinterest, Twitter etc. It will help search engines discover your link faster By sure - will improve the crawl mechanism to your site

Great responses guys. Tom - Thanks for the very complete answer.  What I am looking to do is drive exposure for my blog.  I am not really interested in commercial work as a photographer but want to continue to drive a lot of traffic to my blog.   Great article on your site by the way.

Thanks Thomas.  I can see the Meta Keywords 2 but not the 1 for some reasons.   It doesn't look like it is hurting anything so I'm going to leave it alone for now.  FTP is out of my depth.    Thanks for your help!

Hi Dave 404 errors will happen on website and you dont have to usually worry about them ( unless they are in alarmingly high numbers ) . You only want to worry about 301ing 404 pages when you are losing link juice with those. I would use these 3 methods to find 404s on the site Like Chris mentioned using Screaming Frog Use your Analytics Package and search for traffic landing on the 404 page Use Google Bing Webmaster Tools and see the 404 message warning ( in Crawl Stats area ) Form here you would want to 301 all valid 404 error pages to the close resembling pages ( that visitors will find useful ).