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Starting today I’m going to be posting some images of mine and links to my weekly commenters to show designers and image buyers some of what’s out there in our royalty free image portfolios. 
Graphic designers: please remember to bookmark the photographers you like so you can revisit them directly.
This week’s theme is Summer!

Royalty free image: Summer sports image. Goal line of a football field as summer begins tryouts, practice.  Word theme for all ball sports.
Tags: game; leisure; field; football; ball; goal; line; entertainment; athletics; words; sports vocabulary; summer, …

 Micro Tricks & Tips,NiltoMil News         2 comments

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 ? …

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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 …

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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?

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 …

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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 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 …

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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 …