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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 …

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Let me quote myself.
I am not going to stick around and pretend to be something I?m not.? Too many people set goals and fail to reach them, yet still continue the journey unfazed.? I often share my experiences and ideas in hopes of helping you.? If I can?t help myself first, I can?t help you.
If I fail to reach both goals (10k images, $25k for the year) by 12/31/09, NiltoMil.com will close for good whether I continue to shoot microstock or not.

At this point in the year it is obvious …

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(chart taken from StockXpert top portfolios)
Figuring out where I rank on stock sites is a curiosity more than a necessity.? I don’t need to know – my goal is $1,000,000 regardless of whether Yuri or Lise has made $55,000,000 or what Lumaxart is doing.? However, it’s interesting to compare progress and see where we’re at and where we reach in what time periods.
Here are the tracking tools I’m aware of:
Istock Charts
Bigstock Gallery Size Listing
StockXpert Gallery Size Listing
(Araminta Studios has a great listing but it’s currently offline.)
As far as my own …

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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 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 …