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100 articles in three years for OrganizePictures.com

January 25, 2010

Today is an important day for OrganizePictures.com. I am writing article number 100. For those of you who know about blogging, you know that 100 articles is an important milestone. I have been writing for OrganizePictures.com for over three years now which means I have been able to write close to three articles per month.

Increase your website traffic for free

November 5, 2009

web site traffic going up thumbnailI decided to run a small project and provide some SEO advice for free for a limited number of people. If you would like me to review your site and give you feedback as to how to optimize your site, then put your website address in the box at the right and submit it. This page is the only place on the site where you can sign up. If you want to get more traffic for your site you can see more details and sign up.

Use Flickr and Facebook to gain traffic for your photo website.

September 28, 2009

social groups thumbnailFlickr and Facebook are great ways to make your pictures more “visible” on the internet. This way is not very direct but it can be very beneficial. Flickr is the largest photo sharing website (Facebook is catching up quickly) in the world and you can take advantage of its popularity if you do a few things right.

Write a photo blog and make your pictures famous

September 21, 2009

A photo blog is a diary with picturesOver the years I have accumulated many travel pictures that I wanted to share on the internet. It was pretty easy to get my pictures published on the internet at first, but then I noticed that hardly anyone was finding my pictures on the internet. Even though I didn’t know anything about SEO or page ranking, I realized pretty quickly that having the pictures published on the internet and having people actually come visit my site are two entirely different things.

Adding the right text in the right place will make your pictures visible on the Internet

September 12, 2009

make your images visibleSince there are so many photographers and photography websites it is very hard to get your pictures noticed on the internet. You may really be a very talented and experienced photographer and you may indeed have many great pictures. But how to you get the word out on the internet? How do you get your pictures noticed? What do you do to have your pictures show up in an internet search like Google, Yahoo or Bing? Fortunately there are some steps that you can take so that your pictures become “visible”. Read on and see what I have found out about making my pictures “visible” on the internet.

RSS Feed location has changed

January 21, 2009

rssSince Google has purchased Feedburner, I didn’t notice that they have changed the URL for my feed. For those of you that are subscribing to my RSS Feed, the new location for my feed is: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/organizepicturescom . I have also updated the Subscribe button on this page with the new location. So, please update it in your RSS reader.

What is a photoblog good for ?

December 29, 2008

I have argued in my previous article about simple marketing for photographers, that a simple website specific to your photography niche can be very powerful, even more powerful than a full fledged photoblog. That being said…what is a photoblog good for then? Well, I don’t believe a photoblog is suited for every kind of website, but it can be very well suited for certain web sites. Read along to find three ways to successfully use a photoblog.

Choose the best web hosting company in 10 easy steps

December 9, 2008

When talking about publishing pictures online, the discussion inevitably goes towards web hosting companies. There are so many companies out there, from small to large, from cheap to expensive; they all say the same thing: we’re the best ! How can one choose? Well, I have been publishing online for over eight years and I have tried several web hosting providers…so my opinion is somewhat qualified. If you’re looking for a web hosting provider, I’m hoping that this article will help you choose a good company.

How to turn a simple website into a powerful marketing tool for your pictures.

November 25, 2008

I find many good photographers on the web. I love browsing through Flickr because I see lots of great pictures; there are some great photographers on Flickr! Sometimes I think that they’re making lots of money with their great pictures but when I research a little more I find out that they probably don’t. On the other hand on Flickr I find other good photographers that actually make money from their pictures. What is the difference between these two groups of photographers? While the quality of their pictures is certainly a factor there is another simple difference: publicity…or in other words…marketing.

Lost my comments for the last two weeks

June 2, 2008

I have just returned from my vacation and I looked over the comments that I received in the last two weeks…and I messed up! I have accidentally deleted all of them instead of deleting only the spam comments. I’m still getting used with the new WordPress 2.5 interface…it looks like I need more practice.

Inside secrets about OrganizePictures.com

May 20, 2008

open doorPhotoNovice.net continues their project with another phase. They want some answers to questions that have to do with source of readers for my blog.

A look at 21 months of statistics for OrganizePictures.com

May 6, 2008

blog-statistics-graphSometimes it’s good to do a sanity check on a blog. You’ve got to go back in time and see if anyone says anything good about your blog…well at least you’ve got to find something out there about your blog…otherwise you’re writing all to yourself. That’s what I did…I went back through my analytics reports provided by Google Analytics.

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