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Strategies To Make Flickr SEO Friendly

Filed under Guest Posts, Social Media, Tips and Tricks by Guest Post on February 22, 2012 at 5:17 am {no comments}

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Many people haven’t realized that it is possible to optimize their Flickr accounts so they are more SEO friendly and, therefore, more likely to rank well in search engine results pages. Before creating a Flickr account, however, you should decide whether it’s going to be helpful for your business or not. Do you work with a photographer, such as in a photography business, the fashion industry or even event management? If so, then applying SEO to your Flickr account is a great idea.

Image Titles

This is one of the most crucial steps when it comes to SEO and your Flickr account. Don’t forget to label photos, or just leave the name as whatever your camera decided to call it when it was saving the image to its memory – this makes it impossible for them to rank well. When it comes to SEO, you should consider the location where the image was taken, whether it is associated with any branding, and whether it is of a particular product – include these keywords in the title, but, for SEO, keep it short and clear.

Image Descriptions

Image descriptions are a great place to add links to your blog or website for added search engine optimization. Use similar keywords to what you used when describing your image title. For SEO purposes, you should always aim to get around 3 or 4 lines of text.

Image Tags

There may be many who feel image tags are useless for SEO, but there is no harm is spending a little time adding tags to your Flickr images. Unlike in other social networking profiles and websites, the way that SEO works for Flickr is slightly different and every little bit helps. Add both popular tags (as long as they are related to the area your image is in, such as women’s fashion) and niche tags (such as, Alannah Hill dress). In SEO, you should never add any more than 10 tags.

External Linking

As everyone in the SEO world knows, external links are invaluable when it comes to ranking well in searches, so include links to your Flickr photos from all your other websites (including blogs and even social media). It is also a very good idea to give other people permission to use your images, as long as they provide a link back to your Flickr account for SEO.

Remember, when creating a Flickr account for your business, it is always best to opt for the paid ‘Pro-Account’, as this gives you the extra options including being able to create collections, which can be very helpful for SEO. The free account, while still SEO compatible, doesn’t give you these options.

About The Author:

This useful article is shared by John K. Taylor on behalf of Infinite IT Solutions, is a SEO Company in Melbourne. They also offer web services like email marketing, web development, online marketing, graphic design and Website Design in Melbourne.

Using your website content for SEO, Social Media & Email marketing (marketing.yell.com)
Five Tips for Using Flickr to Host Multimedia Content (prnewswire.com)
Can posting pictures to Flickr reveal your hometown? (digitaltrends.com)

Why Your Small Business (this means you Realtors) Needs To Go Social

Filed under Small Business Blogging, Social Marketing, Social Media, Tips and Tricks by Jennifer Brown on February 21, 2012 at 6:28 am {no comments}

I talk about small business and social media a lot. One might even say that I nag about how small businesses really need to use social media if they want to compete in their industry. I nag a lot about this. But, the truth is I can’t stress enough how important it is for small businesses to get online, start a blog, use Twitter and Facebook (at the very least) and really make their business known on the web. Sadly, so many of them don’t. Realty is one of the biggest industries out there right now that can benefit big from social media and yet so many Realtors resist social media.*

This infographic from Wix visually depicts the urgency for small businesses to get online NOW.

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by Wix.

*it isn’t so much that Realtors and real estate agents resist social media it’s that they aren’t consistent with it. Like any marketing you have to keep at it. You would never purchase a billboard or bus stop ad for one day would you? No, and yet that is what most in real estate do. They start a blog or website, get on Facebook or Twitter and then after a post or two never come back to it. Of course it’s completely understandable because realtors are so damn busy, especially in this economy. They don’t see the ROI because it doesn’t happen within 24 hours. Tribal Blogs offers blogging and SEO services to realtors who don’t have the time or skills to build their business using social media.

Social Media for Small Business Quick Start Guide (tribalblogs.com)
In New Survey, Small Businesses Report Strong Social Media Marketing Usage (blogs.constantcontact.com)
The value of social media to small businesses (marketing.yell.com)

Why Your Small Business (this means you Realtors) Needs To Go Social

The Advantages of Blogging for Teachers

Filed under Guest Posts, Tips and Tricks by Holly Watson on February 21, 2012 at 5:55 am {no comments}

The advent of blogging has provided a valuable tool for teachers to use within their classrooms to broaden and improve the education of their students. Additionally, blogging can enhance a teacher’s career. Using creativity, blogs can be used to teachers’ advantage in various ways.

Blogging for Career Enhancement

Teachers love to connect with each other and share ideas. You can learn much from the experiences of others within your profession and blogs are an effective way to facilitate connections between teachers.

Before you embark on your blogging adventure, read other education blogs and make comments to get a feel for the blogging concept and process. Decide if you want your blog to discuss the teaching profession in general or if you want to focus on a particular niche within the field.

For example, you could have a niche that focuses on continuing education for teachers. To further their education, many teachers pursue online master’s degrees. You could write posts that discuss the different areas of specialization available for these degrees and what career opportunities they might provide. Also, you could write about the challenges involved in the process of furthering your education, such as finding time to fulfill all your other responsibilities.

On the other hand your blog could be more general and cover a myriad of topics relevant to the teaching field. Ideas for topics could include useful online resources for teachers or perhaps a special technique you are using that has had positive results. Another idea could be exploring how to maintain order and discipline in the classroom. The teachers who read your blog could make comments, sharing their thoughts and insights on the subjects. Once you get a steady following of teachers, your blog could feel like a community where members of the profession come together to exchange ideas.

Blogging to Improve the Education of Students

Blogging enhances the reading and writing skills of students. Not all children are inclined to go to the library and check out books to read, especially nonfiction titles. However, some topics that could appear dry and boring in a physical book could come alive and be interesting in a blog format. The students could have a “Fun Fact” series, in which they relay out information about various geographical areas, or they could have a “Did You Know” section that could be equally engaging. In addition to fostering better reading skills, their writing abilities would develop serving them well in any future endeavor.

Blogging can also strengthen the link between a student’s home life and school. When children show their blogs to their family members, blogs become means of fostering parental involvement in the educational process. The support and interest blogging projects generate in parents can encourage children in their studies.

Blogging opens up a whole new world for educators, as well as students. It enhances the careers of teachers, leading to greater fulfillment in their profession while making learning more enjoyable for children.

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About the author: Holly Watson is a full time student and TA studying towards her Doctorate in literature and writing. She is an avid runner, blogger and fashionista who enjoys a sale maybe a little more than the average person. You can follow her fashion blogging at Belts and Bangles and on Twitter.

Advanced Tips for Making Money Online with eBay

Filed under Guest Posts, Monetization, Tips and Tricks by Guest Post on February 20, 2012 at 4:46 am {no comments}

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The internet is a great way to make money. There are many things that one can do to make the web profitable, and many people turn to eBay. Selling products on eBay is a great way to make more money; folks all over the globe are already utilizing the site to make extra cash. There are things though that advanced eBay sellers can do to make even more money with the popular auction site.

If you already sell on eBay on occasion, you could make your eBay business into a full time job. The following advance tips for making money online with eBay should help you to boost your profits in no time. You may be doing some of these things already, but if you aren’t, you can start incorporating these elements and bettering your business now.

Research your competition

Your eBay business is indeed a business like any other. This means that you have competitors, and if you want to stay competitive, you need to know what these other eBay sellers are doing. Once you know what they are doing, you can learn about how you can be better.

Before you sell anything, do some research on the site to see what other businesses selling the same products are doing. Don’t just look into the same items, look into similar items. Check in how much others are selling for and how much the products actually sold for. Look into shipping, product descriptions, other items they sell and their feedback.

Follow up with your customers

Repeat business can be a big deal, especially if you sell a certain type of item. Following up with you customers is a type of backend marketing.

Follow up goes beyond leaving good feedback. Consider sending a thank you in a timely manner to customers sometime after they have received their purchases; you may want to use an automatic service to do this promptly and effectively. When you do this, you may even want to consider offering a discount for future purchases. This email will help leave an impression on your customers, and next time they need a product you offer, they will think of you before they start scouring the web.

Use seller tools to power your listings and manage inventory

Your eBay business is probably a small operation. You might need some help to keep your listings and inventory current, and investing in some software or an application is much less cheaper than investing in some employees.

These tools can make your listings look more professional. They can also make sure that you have new listings going up all the time, even when you are away from your computer. This will make sure that you continuously have additional income coming in.

Open a store

Stores on eBay are a great way to show customers that you are a serious business that offers that caliber of customer service. If you just list items on the site without a store, you don’t look as polished and professional.

Having a store can be as helpful as having great feedback. If you chose to open a store, it shows that you are intending to be on the site for the long haul, and this is going to give customers even more confidence in you.

Go global

The more countries you sell in, the more customers you can reach. The more customers you reach, the more money you can make. It really is that simple.

Just be sure to do your homework before you sell and ship to some countries. There may be certain items that are prohibited or highly taxed in some nations (like sending leather goods to Italy), so you may not be able to sell everything everywhere. You should also research shipping rates, as a miscalculation could lead to you losing money on an international sale.

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This article is written by Kevin Moor, who also writes for http://www.antivirussoftwarealert.us, a site emphasizing antivirus software.

10 per cent of eBay traffic is mobile (mobile-ent.biz)
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Advanced Tips for Making Money Online with eBay

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