maya_myers

<p>Thank you for your response Matt!<br>

1. What do you suggest then comes up when people search my name by chance? For now I have www.mayamyers.com (the old side is already down now it's just a landing page). The new sites will have to be different names all together like www.mayamyersweddings.com and lifestyle.com.<br>

2 Do I get rid of the main www.mayamyers.com site all together? If I do that do I have to build my rankings all over again? I get first page placement with LA event photog searches with that one so I don't want to lose that... <br>

<br />I appreciate your response and advise!</p>

<p>This seems to be the never ending question.... What is best for SEO?<br>

I already know that I need at least two sites. One for my weddings, and one for events/lifestyle work. The plan WAS to have a landing page with options/links to two subdomains that would serve as the two separate websites.<br>

I was suddenly told that for SEO optimization it's best to completely separate the sites into two separate domains because too many key words will lower my stats with google.<br>

what do I do?! any advise would be greatly appreciated thank you!</p>

<p>Thank you for your responses! Mark - The thumbnail/preview would drag (black line moving with mouse) but wouldn't actually stay there when I release.<br>

I ended up creating a collection of the whole event and I'm moving the image through there. It's just very strange that it allows me to move some and not the others. The reason I do this within the folder is that it allows me to arrange the whole event while editing.... and then rename all in sequential order. I can manage with doing the same in 'collections' just and added step and I wanted to hear any feedback of anyone else experiencing this.</p>

<p>Hello Before I completely pull my hair out I'm coming to you in hopes of some troubleshooting help.<br>

I've upgraded my Lightroom to version 3.4.1<br>

I'm rearranging the order of my images as I'm editing them and for some reason it's allowing me to to move some and not others. I'm in the 'User Order' sorting mode. Does anyone have any suggestions?<br>

thank you</p>

<p>Thank you both Scott and Cristian..!!!<br>

my question remains though, since my website is a template and the current company I use doesn't support subdomains, do you know of a photography website template company that does? I don't know coding and it has been successful and simple for me to use a template company the past five years.... just now that I've decided to split into two sites, this is the part I'm trying to figure out.<br>

have any suggestions?<br>

thank you again!!<br>

maya</p>

<p>thank you Scott. Do you use templates for your subdomains? Would you mind sending me a link to your website(s) so I can see an example?<br>

m</p>

<p>Thank you for your response!!<br>

my problem is that my website is created on a template (the landing page will be custom but the two separate sites are templates) and the current company I use doesn't have the capability or option to host sub domains... I can't seem to find a company that does and I'd love to keep using a template so it's easy for me to consistently update. I don't know coding and don't have the budget to have someone on hand to make changes for me every time I want to update...</p>

<p>Hi There!<br>

my current website is a bit of a mishmosh of my wedding work and my events/documentary/non-profit work. I've finally come to the decision to create two separate websites. One specifically for 'weddings' and the other for everything else which I'll call 'studio'. So... I'm creating a landing page (www.mayamyers.com) where the visiter can select to go to my blog (mayamyers.com/blog), weddings, or studio. The thing is.. since the two sites will have different content in each page (layout and design will be very similar so it goes with my branding) they cannot belong to the same domain. They will have to be mayamyers-weddings.com and mayamyers-studio.com.<br>

My question is this: Is this a smart or dumb move SEO wise? Currently I am listed in google places, yelp, wedding advertising sites, etc as www.mayamyers.com which I would like to keep.. but will it hurt me in the long run because no one will be on that landing page for that long? Do I want to create google places accounts for each separately with different keywords?? or link in certain places directly to each site? I'm utterly confused as what is the smart route.<br>

All suggestions are welcome!!<br>

thank you!<br>

maya</p>