Photographer SEO, demystified.
Studio Visibility checks your website, your Google ranking for your specialties in your city, whether AI assistants recommend you, and how you compare to the photographers booking the clients you want — then hands you a short list of fixes written in normal human sentences.
- Free snapshot, no credit card
- Plans from $15/month
- Cancel any time
Visibility Snapshot
rivermeadowphoto.com
Your homepage clearly targets Denver + newborn photography
Title, H1, and About page all line up. Keep it that way.
12 gallery images are named DSC_4821.jpg
Rename them like
denver-newborn-studio-session.jpgbefore you re-upload.You’re #14 for “newborn photographer denver”
Willow & Vine sits at #3 with a page for every neighborhood you shoot in.
ChatGPT named 5 Denver newborn photographers. Not you.
Add pricing and a clear service area — the studios it named have both.
Sound familiar?
You are a photographer. Somehow you are also the marketing department. SEO shouldn't take a second career to figure out.
You searched for your own studio and found five competitors before you found yourself.
The SEO agency quoted $800 a month — roughly a whole wedding, every month, forever.
You opened a keyword tool, saw forty columns of numbers, and quietly closed the tab.
Clients are asking ChatGPT for photographer recommendations and you have no idea what it says.
What you get
Every tool a photographer actually needs, in one place
Not forty. Six things that move the needle for a portfolio site trying to get booked locally.
Specialty rank tracking
We build the searches your clients actually type — “newborn photographer in Austin,” “best boudoir photographer Austin” — from your specialties and your city, then show you exactly where you land.
AI visibility
We ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews who they'd recommend in your area — and record whether your studio gets named, and who does instead.
Competitor comparisons
Put your site side by side with the studios ranking above you. See what they cover that you don't, and watch the gap close over time.
Full site audit
Crawl health, duplicate titles, missing headings, image alt text and filenames, FAQ and LocalBusiness schema, and whether your About page proves you're the real thing.
Page speed that matters
Real mobile performance numbers plus the specific oversized gallery images making your portfolio pages crawl on a phone.
Local listing checks
Consistent name, phone, and service area across your site, plus the local business data Google needs to show you in map results.
Why it's different
Most SEO tools were not built with you in mind
They were built for marketing teams with a budget and a vocabulary. This one was built for a photographer editing a gallery at 11pm.
Typical SEO tools
- Built for e-commerce brands and SaaS marketing teams
- “Improve your topical authority and internal link equity”
- Generic keyword lists you have to research yourself
- Tracks Google and stops there
- $99–$500 a month, often plus a consultant to read it for you
Studio Visibility
- Built for one photographer with a portfolio site and no marketing budget
- “Rename these 12 gallery photos — here's the filename to use”
- Keywords generated from your specialties and your city, automatically
- Tracks Google plus the five AI engines your clients now ask
- $15–$49 a month, no contract, nothing to interpret
Real-language suggestions
What you usually get
Thin content detected on 6 URLs. Optimize crawl budget and improve semantic relevance for target entity clusters.
What we tell you
Your six venue pages each have two sentences on them. Pick the three venues you shoot most, and write a short paragraph about what a wedding day there actually looks like — timings, light, where you shoot portraits.
Built around your work
It knows the difference between a newborn studio and a wedding film company
Pick your specialties when you sign up. Everything after that — the searches we track, the questions we ask the AI engines, the competitors we pull, the fixes we suggest — is built from them and from the city you shoot in.
- 550+ photo and video specialties across 40 categories — pick as many as you actually shoot.
- Your primary specialty gets the deepest coverage, because that's the work you want more of.
- Connect Google Search Console (optional) to see your real clicks and impressions next to every specialty.
A few of the specialties we cover
Half your clients aren't Googling any more. They're asking.
“Who's a good newborn photographer in Charlotte?” gets typed into an AI assistant hundreds of times a week, and it answers with three or four names. We ask those questions for you, on every major engine, and show you exactly who got named — and what the ones who did have on their sites that you don't.
Mentioned or not
A straight answer for every question, on every engine, every scan.
Who got named instead
The studios the AI recommends in your city, and how often.
What to change
Concrete edits — pricing pages, service areas, FAQs — that get you into those answers.
How it works
Three steps, no learning curve
No dashboard training, no onboarding call, no glossary open in another tab.
STEP 1
Tell us about your studio
Your website, the city you shoot in, and the specialties you want to be booked for. Takes about two minutes.
STEP 2
We run the scan
We crawl your site, check your Google rankings, ask the AI engines, and pull the competitors ranking above you. Grab a coffee.
STEP 3
You get a to-do list
Ordered by what will help most, written in plain English, specific enough to hand to whoever built your site.
We never touch your website. You stay in control of every change.
Pricing
Less than one mini session a month
Start with a free Visibility Snapshot. Upgrade only once you've seen what's actually wrong.
Free
See where you stand
$0
One Visibility Snapshot so you can see exactly where you stand before paying anything.
Solo
For a single studio
$15/mo
billed annually · $19/mo monthly
- 1 full scan per month
- Site audit + AI visibility + competitors
- Specific, plain-English fixes
- History & trends
- 1 site
Pro
Stay on top of it
$39/mo
billed annually · $49/mo monthly
- Weekly full scans (5 / month)
- Everything in Solo
- Competitor tracking over time
- Expanded keyword coverage
- 1 site
Studio
Multiple brands or locations
$79/mo
billed annually · $99/mo monthly
- Weekly full scans across sites (20 / month)
- Everything in Pro
- Up to 3 sites / brands
- Priority support
Questions
The things photographers ask us first
Do I need to know anything about SEO?
No. That's the entire point. Every finding is written as a sentence you can act on — which page, what's wrong, and what to change it to. If a fix needs your web person, you can forward it as-is.
Will it change my website?
Never. Studio Visibility only reads your public site, the same way Google does. You decide what to change and make the change yourself, in whatever platform you use.
Does it work with Showit, Squarespace, WordPress, Pixieset…?
Yes. We read your live site, so the platform doesn't matter. The fixes are described in terms of pages and content, not code, so they translate to any builder.
What's in the free Visibility Snapshot?
Your site audit score, the biggest issues we find, and a preview of how you're showing up in AI answers — enough to know whether the full picture is worth $15 a month to you.
I only need this once. Do I have to subscribe?
No. You can buy a single full scan on its own, no subscription, and come back whenever you want another one.
Find out what your clients see when they look for a photographer
Free Visibility Snapshot, no credit card, no sales call. Just an honest look at where you stand — and what to do about it.
Get found. Get booked.