Photographers.com is clearly the most logical site for "Professional Photographers" to be listed on, and for potential clients to find the right Photographer for their assignment! 

Our site assist visitors in their  search for a Professional Photographer,  by a combination of the Photographers' specialty and geographic location (among other search criteria).  Find the photographer you need, in the location where you need them.

We have Professional Photographer Members in most Countries throughout the world, and before long we will have Professional Photographers in nearly every Country, if not all.  

Our goal is to help clients in their search to find the top photographers in the world, while also bringing our Member Photographers contact from clients that might not otherwise have known about them.

Our domain name ""Photographers" describes the exact profession of our Members. Put that together with the best domain extensions of ".com" and you have "Photographers.com"

We contend there is no better or more logical Domain name for a Professional Photographer to belong to than "http://photographers.com"! Our goal is to provide the best photographers site for both our member photographers and our valued visitors.

How important is the word that describes this Profession of "Photographers"? Just look at all the wannabes (definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannabe) that have to prepend, append, or hyphenate onto the word "photographers" (or intentionally misspell it).) You'll get the idea. Everyone of them feels they must include the word :photographers in their domain name but knows it is not available, so they must do "the next best thing", change it to something else that "might come up in a search for the term "Photographers". There are now so many thousands of them, potential clients wouldn't know which one to start looking at, or what search term to use other then "Photographers".

Potential clients want to find the correct site for their search needs quickly, then have search flexibility to isolate the Photographers that fit their requirements, and quickly review sample portfolios to target the Photographer(s) that best suits their needs. Our programming and design facilitate this.

Photographers.com was always designed to be a "Global Resource". We are not limited to the Members of a single Professional Organization, Country, State or are a of professional specialization. We are open to all Professional Photographers worldwide - you just have to be a good or great) Professional Photographer, capable of turning out high quality Professional level work. 

We do have competitors who we think have done an admirable job as marketing themselves as having "some" of the top Professionals, although they have limited primarily USA Domestic Members. These competitors are well beyond the affordability of the average Photographer, often costing 10 to 20 times as much for a single year then the affordable range Photographers.com has decided to price itself in. We don't want premium web exposure to be limited to a small handful of only the highest priced photographers, but feel our Domain Name is so important and unique, that Membership with us should be within the affordability of the tens of thousands of quality Professional Photographer worldwide.

Who are these top, competitors and how much does a Profile Listing with them cost? Well, on a search for the term "photographer" they do not show up on the first page of Search Engine Results, and probably not even in the first 500 listings. If you are not in a top Advertising Agency or a fortune 500 Company, you have probably never even heard of them. But, we have no worries about giving out their names, so you can check them out for yourself, and while you are at it, be sure to check out their pricing structure. If you can afford a yearly Image display profile listings with them, then covering yourself with an additional listing on Photographers.com (as many of these sites Members already do), should be an easy decision as part of your Marketing Program. If you can't afford a listing with them, then a decision to make sure you have a listing on the top rated Photographers.com should be an easy one.

 

http://www.blackbook.com/

http://www.workbook.com/database?p=1&sid=1634314&dir_locValue=&dir_locType=&dir_category=PH&dir_corpcategory=&dir_specialty=&dir_name=

http://www.photoserve.com/photoserve/index.jsp

 

There are also some great Professional Organizations in the world, and we advocate that serious Professional Photographers belong to at-least one Professional Photographer Organization, as part of their overall marketing campaign. Photographers.com has members that belong to dozens of Professional Photographer Organizations from all over the world. 

Here are a few we recommend:

http://ASMP.org

http://www.apanational.com

http://www.bipp.com/

http://www.capic.org/

(There are literally hundreds more globally. If you're a creative looking for a Photographer half-way around the world, would you know which organizations to try for finding a photographer, in their limited "organization member only directory"?)

 

p.s. Be sure to go to http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo and check out our traffic ranking compared to any of our competitors. 

 

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/photographers.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/blackbook.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/workbook.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/photoserve.com

 

Alexa provides separate rankings for both Worldwide and USA Traffic (The lower the number the higher the sites popularity - Google is ranked as number 1)