Archive for 2010

Three tips to promote your photography blog

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

There are many methods and opportunities available to promote your blog and website.  Here are three basic tips that will help give your blog a little kick.

  1. Tweet old posts.  If your post is still relevent and more than three months old, it’s fair game and new to most people.
  2. Guest blog. Trade opportunities with other bloggers.  Give photographers you have connected with through social media the opportunity to share their posts or images on your blog in exchange for space on theirs.
  3. Add your name to blog directories.  Don’t expect a ton of traffic but it is one more opportunity for people to find you.  The little extra SEO juice doesn’t hurt, either.

Selina Maitreya Interview: Podcast 132

Monday, December 20th, 2010

This week: Interview with photographer consultant Selina Maitreya.

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Three Links: Fonts, translation and maps

Sunday, December 19th, 2010

Smashing magazine released a list of twenty-five free new fonts. Take a look at the new augmented reality translation application called Lens word, it looks very cool. Lastly, Google updated the maps application for the Android – 3D.

Twenty fine new high quality fonts from smashing magazine. 25 fonts.

Sign translation application for iPhone. Lens word.

Next generation of mobile maps released for Android.

Tom Peters on Innovation

Saturday, December 18th, 2010



How many people view your site using smart phones?

Friday, December 17th, 2010

This is an analytics sample of tablet and smart phone users viewing newmediaphotographer.com

Do you know your audience?  What percentage of your followers use smart phones or tablets?

Fortunately, Google Analytics has the answers.  Listed under visitors –> mobile are answers such as what device and operating system people are using to view your website.  Google also displays the service providers your visitors use.

It’s good to compare the quality of your niche traffic to the rest of your site visitors. This information will support your decisions as to the type of content you share. For example, if a majority of the people viewing your site use an operating system that doesn’t support Fash, you might want to make an adjustment.

Should you make adjustments now?

Over time it will be interesting to track what percentage of people view your site from their phone and various tablet operating systems.  If most people end up viewing your blog via an iPad you might want to make changes that would benefit the iPad user.

Now is the time to make note of the trends.  Many changes will occur over the next six to 12 months.  It’s better to be prepared now than wonder what happened later.

Rosh