10 MUST HAVE FREE WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR

HIGH CONVERTING PHOTOGRAPHERS’

WEBSITESby

Golam Samdanihttps://www.gsamdani.com

Do you know how are photographers encouraged to launch their own portfolio or service website?

I personally noticed photographers create

their websites by hearing the success stories of their fellow photographers those who are profoundly generating revenue through online. It’s natural, people grow their new habits either noticing their surrounding ups and downs or making research on the moving trend and the necessity of future.

When a photographer creates a new website being inspired by the infinite achievements of closed photographer friends, they become frustrated after passing the first couple of weeks. Thinking why? It’s because, in spite of driving huge traffic from numerous channels, they can’t get expected conversion and revenue. If you’re facing such a situation for a long, you have to optimize your site quickly.

I know you guys are curious to learn about the solution to be away from such an unfavorable situation, right? Don’t worry for your convenience I’ve diagnosed the difficulties and make a collection of best free WordPress plugins for photographers to wash away all the hurdles which are responsible for slowing or interrupting your conversion wheels.

10 MUST HAVE FREE WORDPRESS PLUGINS

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

01. WP SMUSH

If your photography website extremely loads slow, it will be penalized by major search engines like Google. Do know why such rule is rolled out by search engines? Statistics shows that If your website can’t loads within 3 seconds, 40% visitors abandon your website without waiting for complete loading. This scenario is common in photography websites because such websites take a huge amount time to load high quality images, which doubles overall site loading speed. If you afraid of image compression thinking it loses image quality badly, I recommend you to install WP Smush. KeepIng your image quality unchanged, It reduces photo size removing hidden and bulky image information through running lossless compression.

02. META SLIDER

If you are familiar with the website of renowned photographers, you might have noticed they try to showcase their most engaging images in a responsive image slider at above the fold, right? Do you ever think why professional photographers add their most engaging creation in the slider? It because statistics shows 80% people spend more time on above the fold area. If your website can’t convince them from hero area, they will definitely bounce. So, If you don’t have such an astounding slider like Meta Slider enabled in your photography portfolio website, install it now because 60k+ website owner found this slider interesting.

03. GS PORTFOLIO

Being a professional photographer, I found people gain excellence in fashion photography, wild photography, wedding photography, sports photography, advertising photography, events photography, and more, If you do tremendously well in your photography profession, I bet, you have some awesome collection of photographs that can amaze your customers and clients. Unfortunately, In spite of having amazing photographs people can’t present them creatively in their website. Curious to know the reason, right?

Before writing this article, I visited many websites of popular photographers, I find they creatively showcase their photographs in an artistic gallery. If you want to enchant your visitors showing your work in an incredible photo gallery, I recommend you to install GS Portfolio plugin. It will create you a fantastic sortable/filterable photography gallery “on the fly” from where visitors can quickly scan your extraordinary works

04. SEO FRIENDLY IMAGES

Defining ALT and TITLE tags for images is important, it makes your images findable through the search engines. Though it adds a supplement to make your photography website SEO friendly, I find photographers don’t care to add those while uploading even creative images. If you are accustomed to uploading project images in your website without adding ALT and TITLE tags and want to add them right away knowing its benefits, install SEO Friendly Images plugin, it will set appropriate TITLE and ALT tags automatically.

05. YOAST SEO

When you own a photography website, you must care about the SEO. I find many of photographers spend time learning SEO best practices and implement them manually. if you are the sailor of the same vessel, I request you to stop it right away. Because time never returns if you lose it once. There are many of free SEO plugins available in the market. which successful implement you all possible SEO on page aspects automatically or notify you what to do to make your photography website SEO friendly. I personally use Yoast SEO plugin, because it comes with built-in page SEO analysis, meta and link elements, XML sitemaps, RSS optimization, breadcrumbs, social media button, multisite compatibility and so on.

06. GS LOGO SLIDER

Before hiring you or heading for placing an order for your photographs, they try to check whether you have experience of working with big brands or renown individuals. Such a section acts like an endorsement. If you have such an opportunity to work with those who are nationally or internationally reputed, add their logos on your website. If you don’t know how to present them creatively, install GS Logo Slider plugin, it enables you a stunning logo slider, that can catch your customers’ eyes easily.

07. CLICK TO TWEET

Twitter is a great source to find potential customers easily. If you can share your creation through the twitter consistently, I believe, you’ll get paying customers in no time. But tweeting website contents individually is not an easy job. Let’s make the sharing automated. Install Click To Tweet plugin, it will make your website content tweetable. Whenever visitors find your content working worth sharing, they tweet your creation from their twitter account on their own.

08. PINTEREST PIN IT BUTTON

Pinterest is a great hub of photographers from where they share their creative creations to their fellow photographers making different photography related boards. If people pin your work to their popular boards, your work will receive a huge exposure. But the question is how visitors pin or share your work through Pinterest when you don’t provide any options to do so. Don’t worry, you can do it right now, install “Pinterest Pin It Button For Images plugin”, it will add a button called “Pin It” over every image on your website. Clicking on the button people can share your work easily on their Pinterest account.

09. SIMPLY INSTAGRAM

I notice Instagram has been one of the most viral marketing channels for the photographers. Almost every professional photographer processes a personal Instagram account from where they can share their work to judge their picture quality through fellow photographers and followers appreciation. If you have a highly populated Instagram account and want to amaze your visitors with those images as well, fetch the data to your WordPress website through widgets or shortcodes. If you want to do that now without writing codes, activate Simply Instagram. Validating your Instagram ID and Access Token. the plugin will showcase all your Instagram images on your photography website beautifully.

10. GS TESTIMONIAL SLIDER

Statistics shows customers look for online reviews before taking a buying decision. If you want to convert your website visitors and turn them into paying customers, add an astounding testimonial section in your website. Because positive testimonials in a photography website act like online reviews alike, When visitors find the testimonial convincing, they will hire you or purchase photos from your website without making any delay. If you don’t have a vibrant testimonial section attached in your website, download and install GS Testimonial Slider plugin. It will enable testimonial slider on your website turning your customers testimonial into catchy slides assuring their high readability.

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https://www.gsamdani.com