Need a name for dog photo business

No Bones Abowt It

Binning wrote in post #9011094
Lindsey, you have the right idea. The name of the business is relevant to business cards and word of mouth and it will show up just fine when someone searches it online. The marketing angle is to get the lion's share of those who don't know the name "Lazy Dog" but who search for dog photography in your area.

In its own goofy way its no different than a business that would name itself AAA taxicab so they could be the first one listed in the yellow pages under taxicabs. The nice thing is the domain name doesn't have to be the same as your business name.... and you can still have a unique site for Lazy Dog if you want as long as it isn't a pure duplicate.

BTW I loved your first couple shots of pooches on the link you posted -- a real WOW effect. Spot on in terms of what folks who consider their dogs part of the family would really like. As always, you have a great marketing mind.

Tim

Thinking into the future... if/when dogs gets expanded to cats (did I just say that?) & horses, I'm thinking I should pick up Ontario Pet Photography also. I do love cats though not as easy, or enjoyable, for me to shoot

I'm leaning towards a Bludomain flash template hosted where my current site is (not with Bludomain). I see much improved SEO capability such as:

flash indexing for improved search-engine friendliness
ability to access each section directly with a separate url address
ability to enter separate meta title for each main menu button and each text section
ability to add custom meta tags (besides the standard title, keywords, and description)

My old site is html, do you think these features will do a good job for SEO?

I'm so pumped about a doggie business. When I say "I love dogs", it is a total under statement - lol

I don't really know. I'm a little behind the times in terms of efforts to make flash SEO friendly. I can tell you from my own sports site that the ability to provide alternate text for each photo is huge in terms of people being able to find it. It impacts both in terms of general web searches and image searches. In addition, you lose the ability to have a distinct file name for each photo that can have keywords (as well as the alternate description) in its name.

The flash pages (galleries) that I have on my site are only found by the title of the page and whatever text I place around the flash content. Flash is efficient in terms of space and speed. It has a beautiful appearance, but I don't know that it is really SEO friendly yet. If I was starting a new site, I would go with HTML and provide text for every picture (and include "Ontario pet photography" in the content of every description) and I would do the same with the file name. Frustrating, I know. But that's my take on it.

If you do dual sites, one for SEO and one for business card and WOM, flash is not a problem.

By all means, secure the more general pet photography domain name. Think of it as prime real estate in a high traffic area. It will only increase in value.

It looks like you've found your niche`! You'll do great!

Tim

BFF... Best Friends Fotography which is expandable to other animals later.

My sister in law came up with the name for my Melbourne based pet photography business - Pupparazzi.

It always generates a conversation and gets us noticed in the google map listings.

How about something like PhoDOGrapher or PhoDOGraphy or Happy Tails?

Let us know what you decide on! Good luck with the business.

skidzam wrote in post #9005566
Pawfect Photography

Expanded to cats it becomes Purrfect Photography

pupparazzimelbourne wrote in post #19074080
My sister in law came up with the name for my Melbourne based pet photography business - Pupparazzi.

It always generates a conversation and gets us noticed in the google map listings.

How about something like PhoDOGrapher or PhoDOGraphy or Happy Tails?

Let us know what you decide on! Good luck with the business.

Thread was started 11 years ago, and OP hasn’t been here in five years, but I do like your suggestion.

moose10101 wrote in post #19074135
Thread was started 11 years ago, and OP hasn’t been here in five years, but I do like your suggestion.

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