Why it's important to put a title (and tags) on your photos

When you upload your photos to iphone-shots.com, we suggest that you give a title and - ideally - that you tag your photos. These steps are sometimes overlooked by photographers who want to have their photos on line as fast as possible, but it is an important step. I am going to explain why and I'll essentially give you three mains reasons:

1. A good title means better SEO (search engine optimization)
Besides the fact that visitors will much more appreciate a photo that has a relevant title instead of the default "photo uploaded on September, 25" (for example), search engines (and visitors) will have a greater chance to find your photos if you have given them a relevant title. Our website at iphone-shots.com will use your photo's title as the title of the web page which displays the photo. This is an important element for SEO and it will help drive more traffic to your photos.

2. Greater chances to have a photo featured
When our team at iphone-shots.com selects a photo from the pool in order to feature it, a good title is important. While quality and originality of the photo are the main criteria for our selection, we want good titles. One reason is that we publish every featured photo on Twitter and for that, we need a title. If you want to see how we do this and why a title is important, please check our twitter feed. By regularly publishing a link to featured photos on iphone-shots.com, we drive more traffic to our website but we also help increase our members' visibility on the Internet. And we know you want people to see your photos, right? So please help us help you get more traffic to your photos by adding titles to your photos. But what if you have photos already uploaded on the site that don't have a good title? No problem! Just browse to your photo's page and click on the "Edit photo" link located below the image on the right side. You will be able to add or change an exiting title, add tags and an optional description and location.

3. Tags are the ultimate SEO tools for your photos
When you add tags to your photos, you help people find them. Tags are used when people search for specific images. This works on our website with the integrated search engine (see the "Search Social Network" box at the upper right of the page) but also with regular search engines. In fact, when you add tags to your photo, these words are used as the "meta keywords" in the html code of the page, and this will be indexed by Google and other search engines. If all this sound too complicated for you, don't worry, all you have to do is add a title and relevant tags to your photos. We'll do the rest.

Now, I think you understand why it is important to give a title and tags to your photos on iphone-shots.com. Feel free to ask any question regarding this subject. To do this, just reply to this message and I'll be happy to answer.