Photography Website Mistakes

Posted: October 20, 2015

[caption id="attachment_12478" align="alignright" width="430"] Image from digital-photography-school.com[/caption] Having a website to promote photography is a great way to build a successful business. However, even the slightest website mistake can cause clients to leave and never return. Avoid the ten most common website mistakes that might be hurting your business. Matej Slezak, writer for Digital Photography School, shares what top ten mistakes are made by owners of a photography website.

10 Photography Website Mistakes That Might be Repelling Your Potential Clients

If you are serious about your photography business, then you most likely have your own photography website already (if not, you should set one up right away). You are probably really proud of it and consider it the best website under the sun. However, numerous mistakes can be found on almost every photographer’s site. These mistakes could be fatal for your business, since they can easily repel your potential clients. We are talking big agencies, companies and even government organizations, not just regular consumers who want you to be their wedding photographer. Here’s some good news: these mistakes can be fixed easily once you know what they are based on. We have recently researched thousands of photographers’ websites when looking for professional vacation photographers for our new project. We were quite surprised by the number of mistakes we had encountered on them. On top of that, several particular mistakes kept constantly repeating! Some seem obvious, some of them not, but almost every photographer’s website is guilty of at least one or two of these mistakes. So, here comes the checklist of some of the most common photography website mistakes that might save some of your serious assignments: 1) Your name is missing This is probably the most obvious mistake. However, you would be really surprised how many websites are anonymous. A nickname may be great, it might help you look like a mysterious artist, but it definitely won’t help you to get new inquiries. Read the entire article 10 Photography Website Mistakes That Might be Repelling Your Potential Clients on Digital Photography School.