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Happy 2nd birthday to Paperie Boutique!
Visit PaperieBirthday.com for all events!

Winner announcements started Monday, July 25th…

COMMENTS CLOSED on this entry—winner chosen!

Don’t forget we have 7 other giveaways going on right now!

We have another pop-quiz – this time from Collages.net. The winner will receive $50 off collagesGSO (Google Optimization Services).

In today’s highly competitive Web environment, the importance of search engines cannot be underestimated. Did you know that search engines drive over 70% of all Internet traffic? Consequently, if your website is not listed on page one of a search, then chances are you’re not in “today’s phone book!” Your absence gives competitors a chance to gain more exposure, book more shoots, and become more successful.

Don’t let that happen. By implementing collagesGSO, you’re guaranteed to land on page one of a Google search for your targeted keywords. collagesGSO is designed exclusively to help professional photographers connect with their customers. [ read more ]

I’m going to make this pop-quiz easy. One question. One answer. First to post correctly is the winner! Ready? Set? Google!

No need to repost the question – just type the answer here:

QUESTION:
What Weezer album is “The Good Life” the sixth track on?


ANSWER:
Pinkerton

Good luck!

Thanks to Collages.net for being such a great friend to Paperie! Don’t forget to check the Paperie birthday celebration coupon codes. You can find coupon codes for several other vendors here!



Believe it or not, we still have more giveaways left! We’ll keep
going ’til all of the giveaways have winners – see ya’ soon!
-Robyn

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I’m excited to announce the winner of the Jo Totes camera bag…Heather Mann:

Heather gets her choice of bag / color / style! Congrats Heather, thanks to everyone who entered, and thanks to Jo Totes for the amazing giveaway!

Don’t forget there’s still a chance to win a $50 gift certificate to Denny Manufacturing Company through midnight tonight (Thursday) — and also to win a copy of the “Photographers SEO Book” and “Photography Blog SEO Zen” from Zach Prez until the end of the day Saturday.

Last but not least, I have THREE coupon codes good for free shipping on anything at Photojojo (anywhere in the USA, no minimum). I’ll give the codes to the first three people to e-mail me (robyn AT paperieboutique DOT com). The codes are only good through the end of Friday, September 3rd, so if you want it – get it now! Just please only take it if you’ll use it on time.

P.S. If you are interested in advertising with Paperie Boutique, please contact todd @ this domain. If you are a photographer and are interested in having your packaging featured – or are a vendor and are interested in having your business packaging, marketing ideas, or photography-related products featured – please contact robyn @ this domain to be added to the posting schedule.

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gimme an S! an E! an O!

The digital edition of the September 2010 Professional Photographer Magazine was released today.

(P.S. Keep reading for a special giveaway from photographers-seo.com!)

For this month’s article, I reviewed several digital media storage products by BellaGrafica (“Jeff & Julia Woods General Collection“), DNL Photo Packaging, JLee Albums, Loktah, Miller’s Professional Imaging and The Designer Concept, MpixPro, Pexagon Tech, Rice Studio Supply, and Verbatim.

Click each of the magazine pages above for a larger view. You can find the article on page 48 and page 50 of the print-version when it hits mailboxes. And you can also download the digital edition now if you’re a PPA member or digital subscriber.

And last month Heather Lickliter of Stylized Portraiture helped me write the August “The Goods” column. This month she’s escaped over to the new “Workflow Polish” column where she shares her post-session workflow, with added comments / critique by Audrey Woulard. Congratulations Heather!




Today’s guest / vendor post is by Zach Prez. He has freebies and a prize for Paperie readers!

Hi, I’m Zach Prez. I specialize in search engine optimization for photographers, although I’ve been helping small businesses rank in Google for about 10 years. There’s no better feeling than helping someone become successful on the web and grow his or her business. Okay, maybe there are a few things better, like cycling on the American River Bike trail near Sacramento, CA.

I wrote Photographers SEO Book almost 2 years ago now. What started as some informal phone conversations with my photographer friend quickly expanded into ninja tactics that boomed her business from Google in a matter of weeks. Everyone wanted to know her secret, so I turned those conversations into a non-technical how to guide that any level of photographer can follow. It has since helped hundreds of people understand and improve in search results.

Earlier this year I released Photography Blog SEO Zen. It’s an ebook for photographers, designers, or wedding vendors on how to update your blog infrastructure and write blog posts to rank more easily. Blogs typically output many more pages than a traditional website, meaning more chances to rank in search. Blogs are especially helpful in ranking very specific phrases (long-tail SEO) so I would hope you see about 3x the traffic from your blog compared to your photography website. My blogs and ebook help you get there.

I’m giving away one of each product above for Paperie Boutique readers. Enter to win by commenting on any blog post on either of my websites – photographers-seo.com -OR- photoblogseo.com – by the end of the day on Saturday. (We’ll notify and announce the winners on Monday.) You’ll learn something new and hopefully share your thoughts about the post, what you learned, or something insightful

If you want something FREE right now, check out my Search Engine Optimization Guide for SmugMug Sites -OR- Email SEO Class for Photographers.

UPDATE: The winners have both been announced here – check them out!

Thanks Zach for sharing such valuable information with our readers!

And don’t forget we currently have two giveaway-contests going on here at Paperie. Through midnight Wednesday you can have a chance to win your choice of camera bags from Jo Totes. And through midnight Thursday you have the chance to win a $50 gift certificate from Denny Manufacturing.

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Several businesses are offering “Christmas in July deals” this week, so we’re joining in here at Paperie Boutique, too!

Purchase any ad (excluding our fADtastic program and Blogads) between now and 11:59 p.m. EDT on Sunday, July 25th, and get 10% off AND three months FREE!

Our readership has grown 30.9% since the first week of June and we’d love you to be a part of it! Just contact Todd FAST for more details.

And don’t forget that we’re currently doing a giveaway with the Photographer’s Wall Display Guide. Contest ends Friday night, so hurry up and enter to win!

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fADtastic!

I’m excited to announce the launch of something new at Paperie Boutique just in time for summer – the fADtastic merchant ad program. Not only will you have the opportunity to advertise with Paperie Boutique starting today and running the next three months (through September 15th) for just $100.00, but you’ll also be able to increase your Google ranking / SEO by being linked on our readers’ websites in addition to being linked here! A bit about how it works…

If you’ll scroll to the bottom of the page, I have put together a demo set-up of current Paperie advertisers. New fADtastic program members will send 100×100 pixel (flat, non-rotating) images and I will create a uniform-looking square bordered ad for you just like the ones you see there. Your ad will appear at that section of the site (by the “Older Entries” and RSS links) – grouped together with the other fADtastic program member ads – for the duration of the program. There is no limit to the number of vendors who can participate. Your ad will also appear on a separate page – always linked at the top of Paperie (by both image and text) – where Paperie readers can go and get the HTML to copy, cut, and paste your ad’s HTML code so they can add it to their own blogs, websites or Facebook accounts.

In exchange for the Paperie readers adding your ad to their blogs, websites or Facebook walls for a minimum of 7-10 days, you are asked to provide a product or “prize” in return that is valued anywhere from $10 – $25. This could include a gift certificate code without a minimum purchase requirement, an action, a photo prop, a template, etc. You get the exposure to their website audiences and an SEO boost – they get to learn more about your business / service and a little freebie to reward their efforts. (Your ad will remain on Paperie Boutique from the date of purchase through September 15th. The 7-10 day time limit applies to ad display time on Paperie reader sites only. Paperie readers may only collect one prize per vendor during this promotion. Please do not register multiple times with the same vendor over the course of this promotion. Play nice!)

So if you’re a vendor and you’re saying, “Sounds great! What do I need to do?” Just three little things!

1. make your $100.00 ad payment:

2. send “Robyn at paperieboutique dot com” your 100×100 pixel flat,
   non-rotating image

3. send “Robyn at paperieboutique dot com” an e-mail address for
   site visitors to contact you after they’ve added your ad to their site
   for you to verify and then send on their prize – and list the prize
   you’ll be giving away to Paperie readers who link your ad

As always, if you have any questions just let me know! Thanks and I can’t wait to see you “get with the program” – happy summer!

UPDATE:: We have our first vendor added to the site! Please
welcome BrandSixty – copy the HTML shown below and e-mail
“create at brandsixty dot com” for your prize (5×5 gift certificate
template).

<A HREF="http://www.brandsixty.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://paperieboutique.com/fadtastic/brand_sixty.jpg" BORDER=0 width=110 height=110 ALT="brand sixty"></A>

Then view even more vendors just added at the new ad-HTML page.

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