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Can you still make passive income in microstock in 2012? Statistics say you can still make money in microstock photography.

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This is some raw SEO data – I’m going to analyze it in another post but here’s what I have so far from four major agencies. I am actually quite shocked by a few of these.

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For those of you who still read on the site (and it’s a lot of you, surprisingly!) I’ve redone the look of Niltomil.  I am making many more changes but wanted to get the site back online as soon as possible.  The Agencies page has been updated and fixed. I will also be fixing the Income Results page as well as back-posting several old monthly earnings post including October 2010.  I’ll have a full list of those posts once they’re all done.
The focus of NiltoMil is returning to earnings, tricks, …

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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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So by now most of you know that Bigstock is no longer BigstockPhoto and 123RF has also redesigned.? I’m surprised for a few reasons:
* Shutterstock (who owns Bigstock now) said the redesign proves they want to move forward with BSP.? What’s the idea of that?? Just keep stock photo buyers happy?? I like it but I wish they’d let us submit to one place and distribute on both networks.? I have many images on BSP that aren’t on SS – I’d like them combined.
* Both 123RF and Bigstock went for …

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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 …

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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 …