good place to advertise wedding website?

Hi, I'm another person who just came into wedding industry. I know we are competitors each other, but would you be able to tell me good web site to advertise? I have a website but I only use craigslist to advertise....

Thanks in advance

For me the best site to advertise on with the best results is a site called The Google. I grab 8-10 weddings per year through organic clicks from google and pay $0 for advertising. See: SEO.

Christopher Steven b wrote in post #16503016
For me the best site to advertise on with the best results is a site called The Google. I grab 8-10 weddings per year through organic clicks from google and pay $0 for advertising. See: SEO.

^^^ This about half my bookings each year come from organic search results.

Use classified and other paper source, give ad in new paper. Also consult any website optimizer and make your website attractive for people. Use social website for your ad.

The Google is all wise and powerful.

Google is my friend. Just booked one last week for next year

Referrals are a great way to get additional business but you do have to start somewhere.

I should also add that if you're starting from zero, making SEO (via google) convert to actual sales will, unless you're really lucky or really talented, take 6+ months. So you'll want to develop other avenues and even continue with other free options like craigslist in the meanwhile.

Christopher Steven b wrote in post #16504061
I should also add that if you're starting from zero, making SEO (via google) convert to actual sales will, unless you're really lucky or really talented, take 6+ months. So you'll want to develop other avenues and even continue with other free options like craigslist in the meanwhile.

+1, google and word of mouth are where most of your business will come from eventually, until then CL and good old fashioned networking are the way to get the ball rolling. Give out business cards, have friends and family give out cards if they know someone getting married, try to meet with event planners at venues, etc.

depending on where you are, there may be some wedding shows.... and some of the people that run these shows often publish some sort of publication that's targeted at vendors, and is made available at various wedding vendors (i.e. dress shops, cake shops, etc...)

to my knowledge, there's 3 such publications in my general area, and advertise in 2 of them...

I'm always kind of surprised when I hear about wedding photographers paying for advertising. In the entire 4 years I've been doing this, money spent on advertising = $0. I think once I get into my desired bracket ($3500 weddings, just the disc) I'll probably have to spend a little.

If you're prepared for the learning curve, Google Adwords can be used until your SEO is up to speed, and even beyond if you fancy some targeted advertising outside your immediate location.

But do your research first, it can work brilliantly or be a huge waste of money depending on how smart you are. There's no time for all the rules here but avoid the 'network' its why you see wedding photographers ad's on sites like this (total waste).

If you aren't sure where to start with SEO, you have two options really. One, you can read hours and hours of articles and forums to pick it up yourself... but it doesn't stop there. You have to keep evolving your approach as well as producing solid content. The second option is to hire an SEO expert. If may seem like expensive at first, but a quality SEO professional will be a better return on investment than paying for a wedding website advert.

I have yet to pay for a wedding website subscription and have never ran across a photographer that has booked XX amount of weddings from such website. Maybe 1 or 2, which isn't bad, but probably not the greatest return since a lot of them are $xxxx per year.