jackerayc Loc: Southeast Texas

I will look back over the website to ensure the terminology is presented correctly. It should state that it is Fine Art Photography. I do appreciate and value your insights and opinions. Thanks for commenting.

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I went through lots of pages on your website. I think it's very nice. The images show well and the various offerings of each one is nicely engineered. The website flows nicely to the shopping cart, and that's nice. I do question one thing on your shopping cart in that you offer "Apply Color Correction." That should be totally done before the image is uploaded. It's not for the buyer to request this, and I would find that confusing as a buyer. Also, you offer canvas prints, but when I was on the cheetah, for example, and selected canvas, it said it was not available. Your print prices are certainly cheap. I can't even get prints made myself for that price, let alone make any profit off the picture. Your canvas print prices, however, are considerably higher than what I pay, so I assume there is some profit built into them.

I can't tell if you have keywords built into the images or not. That's really important in search engines. The site is built on your name. That's fine and normal. However, from a marketing point of view, unless someone has your name already and knows how to spell it correctly, they're not going to find you. And that brings up the biggest hurdle to selling off your own website: marketing. You now have to drive people to the site. It should be listed on every e-mail you send out; printed on every business card you give out; etc. Marketing of one's website is hard work and takes a lot of time and effort. It doesn't happen automatically.

It's a beautiful site that's very well done. But you have to put in a lot of work to drive people to it. And a word of caution: photography is a hard sell. Unless you are already famous, or your shots are of a particularly appealing, unique type, the general reaction from the public is, "that's nice. I could do that." In today's world, everyone is a photographer, and if they are going to hang a photo on their wall, it will be one they took - even if it's not particularly good. I've had a website for over 10 years. I don't sell a lot. But I do sell some. I have to have a mailing list and use it to announce new images or new groups. I participate in contests and discussions with links to my site. That generates hits, but not necessarily sales. For sales, the image has to touch the heart of the viewer sufficiently to spend next week's grocery money on it. That's hard to do on a website.

Give it time and work.

Chadp Loc: Virginia Beach

There are a lot of things you can do for free to increase your page’s Google status. Get it listed on as many sites as you can. Use Facebook, Instagram, etc. But there are many other free methods that I am not knowledgeable about.

Also, tell all your friends and family to visit your page. And ask them visit it multiple times. The more hits it gets the quicker it moves to the top of searches.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Give it time. Your domain is only 76 days old.

It's not like pouf, everyone goes to your site once it appears on the web.
And you are in competition with how many other photographers?
You might want to add some keywords to your home page, that will help with search engines.
It took a long time for a Google search of "Bill Harbison photography" to show my site first.
(But I'm more interested in displaying than selling.)

I agree with another poster regarding having space between the images.
Very distracting having no space between them.

It will also take a while to get sufficient quantity photos that may appeal to everyone.

repleo Loc: Boston

Is it your intention to sell the prints with your signature.? I would never buy a print with a signature on it - at least not one that detracts from the picture the way yours does. If you are worried about copyright, register it with the copyright office https://www.copyright.gov/registration/photographs/. You don't need the signature.
If the signature is for advertising or promotional purposes, you should be giving them away for free.
Some of the thumbnails appear to be cropped when you add a frame. The signatures is half in and half out of the frame.
When you click on 'prints' it only offers one size. There seemed to be an option for different sizes in the cart section but that is confusing.
Good luck with your endevour.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

The images I post on the net usually have a signature or are a smaller version, the actual prints do not have a signature on them.

jackerayc Loc: Southeast Texas

Thank you all for the input, advice, and encouragement. I have taken this into consideration and made a number of adjustments to the site. The signature that showed on the images was just a watermark and would not have been printed. However, to reduce confusion, and because the configuration of my website reduces the risk of undesirable downloading of my images, I have removed the watermark. After doing so, I personally feel that it is a more aesthetic approach also. Thanks again for all of the help and any future critique.

HardwareGuy

Yes, it's easier to be the "critic" than the one doing all the work, as they say. Here are my 2 cents...
The one thing I would change is to not be bombarded with so many disparate images when the site opens on your home page. It's actually overwhelming. It would be better to select some of your signature photos to highlight your talent and then link to the specific subjects from there. Also, reduce how much verbiage on the home page. Keep it simple and 'feed' your viewer the information you want to convey as they stroll through the site.
Nice photographic work.

repleo Loc: Boston

If that is the OP's intent, he needs to clarify that.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Probably advisable as some do print with the signature/logo on the image.

Ourspolair

As others have stated, the navigation and layout is good. I think that you have to put some pricing guidlines up and also increase the number of images in each of the galleries. You also have to find a good way to get word out about the site being online and put a visit counter on the site so that you know how many are visiting without necessarily ordering an image. Also think that you should scale the image previews to the users' screen size. The examples you have in the galleries only occupy about an eighth of my 4k screen...
You will find this to be a labour of love - it will take some time for traffic to build up.
Good luck - Please stay safe during the holidays and keep up the good work.