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Guest blog editor Chris Cummins, owner and chief photographer of Glow Imagery, a wedding and portrait photography studio based in Kansas City, shares his top tips for increasing the search engine visibility of your clickbooq portfolio website.
So you have your clickbooq website up and running. The portfolios look awesome, you’ve customized your website with your […]

Seems like the second you hop onto one new technology, another one comes along demanding your attention. You may have just gotten the hang of posting images to your Wordpress blog or MySpace page, only to find everyone’s moved on to posting tweets or updating their Facebook profile. So is Twitter going to be an […]

Using clickbooq’s PayPal shopping cart to sell your images
Recently we announced our partnership with RedCart to provide online proofing and ecommerce for our photographers. This is a robust system that allows you to create individual client galleries and apply custom print price groups based on your image sizes, paper types, and finishing services. You can […]

We are pleased to announce a new partnership with RedCart to bring all clickbooq users a full-featured and easy-to-use online proofing and shopping cart system. We know being able to sell your prints and specialty products online to your clients is an integral part of your business. Since your shopping cart site should be an […]

How to Post Price Lists and Create Lightboxes with Easy to Remember URLs

Here’s a few tips for taking full advantage of your clickbooq FTP account.
To post a pricelist on your clickbooq website, or any downloadable file, you can upload the file to your FTP account and easily link to it within a Content Page on […]

Ready to jump on the blog bandwagon? clickbooq makes it oh-so-easy for you to add a blog to your clickbooq website. We’ll setup and install Wordpress for you in the folder name of your choice (for example, yourdomainname.com/myblog). Since the blog resides on your domain name, it’s a great way to drive search engine […]

clickbooq is one of the sponsors for WedComp ‘08, an international wedding image competition open to all wedding photographers. Leading wedding photographers Susan Stripling, Brooks Whittington, Garrett and Joy Nudd, and David Beckstead are judging the competition. The overall winning image will receive a free annual subscription to clickbooq plus a $1,000 cash prize.
WedComp is […]

So you’ve finished building your new clickbooq portfolio website and are ready for launch. How can you make the most of your new website launch? Here’s a few pointers to drive traffic to your new website:

If you haven’t done so before, submit your website to directories so you can get some inbound links to your […]

One of the feature requests we’ve been getting is adding a shopping cart or print fulfillment service. Although we are continuing to investigate the best way to provide this feature, we realize it’s no small task to develop a competitive ecommerce solution that matches all the bells and whistles of the shopping cart and print […]

Whether they are an art director, photo editor, or a time-pressed bride-to-be, visitors to your site don’t have the luxury or patience to wait for slow-loading portfolios. Bottom-line: if your images take too long to load, your site audience will move on.
The easiest way to increase the download speed of your portfolios is to optimize […]