Photographer Website Checklist
A photography website should make the work easy to experience and the business easy to understand. The checklist below focuses on the information and conversion points a prospective client actually needs.
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Portfolio essentials
- Organize galleries by useful service or project type
- Use your strongest representative work
- Keep gallery navigation simple
- Test images on mobile
- Balance image quality with page performance
Business information
- Photography services
- Service area or locations
- About/profile information
- Availability and booking process
- Pricing or starting-price guidance where appropriate
- Clear contact details
Trust and conversion
Give visitors a clear next step: enquiry, availability request, consultation, or booking. Use genuine testimonials and real project information where available.
Search and content basics
- Create useful service pages for the work you actually offer.
- Use descriptive page titles and headings.
- Connect related service, portfolio, and resource pages.
- Publish genuinely useful photography or client-planning resources rather than thin filler.
Before launch
- Test every enquiry and booking path.
- Check every important gallery on mobile.
- Confirm contact and location information.
- Review image loading performance.
- Set up analytics and conversion tracking where appropriate.