Ask Ur SEO Q's 2011
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- trooperbill0
@hektor911 The problem you're going to have is that by limiting yourself to a region you're going to come up against Google Places listings and a host of spammy sites all SEOing for that local term. (google places is a bitch because it takes over the above the fold listings and theres no hard and fast way to manipulate the results - my best advice here is to copy the profile of the #2 listing and get lots of reviews) so organic listings for these terms is worthless.
I'd go into the Google Adwords keyword tool and look for some bigger traffic non geographic keywords that have reasonable traffic and lower competition. and formulate the site around those.
I wouldnt buy a keyword rich domain name as yes at the moment its a shortcut to high serps but Matt Cutts has already publically posted that theyre aware this is a problem and theyre looking for a solution. so go with something branded.
as for links, sticl with photography resources and at least links from within the creative industry. the google adwords tool will show you in the let hand menu what industries your terms relate to.
design wise, dont have a splash screen
get around 300-500 words of unique content on each page and if possible make sure that theres in text links to deep pages throughout your site (look how wikipedia does it)
check your site through with the screamingfrog web crawler which will show you any issues with your site.
For your photography subject matter - this is great - you can seo each f those pages for the subject/location etc which might bring in additional custom