June 16 2011

Google Images Search – Tineye Killer?

It’s a Tineye-type Firefox or Chrome extension so I added it and rebooted Firefox. Right click an image and under TinEye is the new Google Images context menu.

October 7 2010

SEO for photographers – questions

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Thanks to a few friends and well placed posts, I’ve had a lot of questions this month and last from photographers wondering about my new SEO for photographers business, PhotoSEO (thanks Flem, Todd, and all!)
It’s true – I’ve begun working on several sites for photographers to push their sites higher in the Google ranks.  I wrote a page explaining most of my SEO business here.
How will this help you?  If you don’t have a website, it won’t.  If you’re a microstock submitter who simply shoots, keys and uploads, I can’t …

December 14 2008

Learning about this site

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I recently completed a two-day test of a heatmap software with CrazyEgg.com? I have to admit that I’m not linking them in because the test went VERY poorly.? It didn’t start for almost 24 hours and when it did, the statistics it says I received were not in line AT ALL with my statcounter reports.
Here are links to the results from the CrazyEgg tests:
Top of page
Middle of page
Bottom of page
There are a few interesting bits about these maps.
#1 – no surprise most hits on a website come above …

December 2 2008

SEO and Technorati, Part 4

The Internet isn?t as organized as say the NFL or Miss America. To know who?s ?winning? requires some amount of research into a few things:
1) on what are blogs ranked?
2) how do you track that stuff?
3) who?s winning?
4) how much do we care?

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This is Part 4 ? How much do we care?
The last question is how high you want to go. This isn?t as difficult as it seems. There are 5 levels of bloggers according to Technorati and they are ranked according to Authority like this:
A List Blogs ? …

December 1 2008

SEO and Technorati, Part 3

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The Internet isn?t as organized as say the NFL or Miss America. To know who?s ?winning? requires some amount of research into a few things:
1) on what are blogs ranked?
2) how do you track that stuff?
3) who?s winning?
4) how much do we care?

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This is Part 3 ? Who?s Winning?
The ?Who?s Winning? of blogs can be summarized very easily: multiple bloggers using one portal and a ?newspaper? type interface. They are winning and easily. For your own blog, as a small business or solo photographer, winning isn?t as important as …

November 30 2008

SEO and Technorati, Part 2

The Internet isn?t as organized as say the NFL or Miss America. To know who?s ?winning? requires some amount of research into a few things:
1) on what are blogs ranked?
2) how do you track that stuff?
3) who?s winning?
4) how much do we care?

This is Part 2 ? How do we track it?
To track your blog on Technorati, you will want to claim your blog. You can do that by clicking the Blogs tab and then at the bottom of the page inserting your blog URL and following the steps …

November 29 2008

SEO and Technorati, Part 1

The Internet isn?t as organized as say the NFL or Miss America. To know who?s ?winning? requires some amount of research into a few things:
1) on what are blogs ranked?
2) how do you track that stuff?
3) who?s winning?
4) how much do we care?

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This is Part 1 ? On what are blogs ranked?
The current standard for ranking blogs is Technorati (http://www.technorati.com). As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs. Technorati is THE ranking system for blogs. So let?s check it out. Technorati measures a blog on:
#1 ? Technorati authority
#2 …

September 20 2008

How to post your microstock images in agency forums

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Google is all about content.? Forums are FULL of content.? A lot of microstock forums are full of REALLY bad ?pimping? threads – where you show off your latest ?X Topic? image.? “Show us your Red Balloons.”? Google hates those threads because a) nobody talks on them really and b) they have bad titles and no real keywords.? If you really want to ?pimp your images? on a microstock site?s forum here?s the best way I know of.
Great title
Stock images of red objects
Great text
Looking for your microstock photos of objects …

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