How can a wedding vendor show up on Google when couple is searching venues?

I'm a wedding DJ who is currently working on organizing my portfolio of venues I've worked at. This is for social credit to show couples I've worked at their wedding venue, but I'd also like my portfolio to eventually rank on Google and pop when couples search a specific venue. What would be the best way to go about setting this up? I'm thinking either:

URL: /venuename-city-wedding and display pics & vids on each page with word descriptors or blog post and set up tags where they can search by venue.

Any thoughts on this? I have 12 years worth of content (pics & YouTube vids) that I can showcase and ready to put in the proper legwork to help achieve my goal.

Thanks.

 

Hi @visualizeent - I actually wrote a blog with Squarespace that should help here: https://www.squarespace.com/blog/how-to-do-seo-for-portfolio-website

Thanks, Henry! Your article is mentioning to write it as a blog post. So this is better than creating my own slug for the venue that I'd like to show up for when the client searches that venue? The only issue I see with it being a blog is that I can't update it with new pics and vids. Or is it better to have a blog set up to where I organize it by venues and showcase each individual event I've done there?

On 8/8/2024 at 3:25 PM, visualizeent said:

The only issue I see with it being a blog is that I can't update it with new pics and vids.

Hi @visualizeent. You can update blogs the same way you update any other page. 

As said above. And not only that you can, but it is also recommended (following certain rules and best practices). I also vote for the blog idea. Although, I expect that ranking your blog in the venues searches won't be easy. But it's not impossible. The idea about organizing it by venues sounds like a good choice here. 

Thanks a bunch for helping me with this! I have created blogs with tags including venues & locations and it's working out great. I also see that I can update all of my blogs.  🙏!