Archive for September, 2010

New Media Photographer Podcast 118

Monday, September 13th, 2010

This week:  Should I care about Apple buying Ping?

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Three Links: Photoshop patterns, fonts and facebook discovery

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

This week I’m sharing a couple of links from the same source designed to support your Photoshop and design efforts.  Plus, a new launch from Facebook: a facebook page discovery browser.  It shares popular Facebook pages.

Fresh new fonts for your designs – Here

800 + Photoshop patterns – Here

Facebooks adds a discovery browser – Here

Keep an eye on the little things (SEO)

Saturday, September 11th, 2010

When it comes to search engine optimization, or SEO,  little things can give you an advantage.

I’m not one to obsess about the little things.  I’m more of a big picture guy.  But, every few weeks I go through my websites and blogs to make sure all my tags are up to date, photographs are labeled and key words are used to their potential.

Make sure your photographs have alt tags containing keywords describing your photographs.  Videos should also be well tagged. How are your headlines? Could they be adjusted for better SEO?

It’s also a good idea to review your posts and writings to see if there are good words to bold or add an H1 or H2 tag to ad emphasis.

Don’t over do the H1  tags.  Usually one per page is recommended. If you wish to highlight additional words use H2 and H3 tags on the rest of the page.

What SEO review items would you add to the list?

Rosh

Checkmate: Google

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

I think Google Instant is on the mark. Google continues to prove itself as the king of search. What do you think?

Create Your Own Twitter Newspaper

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

http://paper.li is a website designed to take twitter feeds and display them in a newspaper style format. The example below is a feed featuring Jack Hollingsworth and friends based on the tag #togs.

If you have a feed, please share it in the comments.