How To Add Embedded Meta Data To Your Images For Relevant Image Search

Why do this?

To apply this extra image meta data I’ll be using Photoshop, but I first wanted to go over why this is important to do as your average visitor will never see this information. In all honesty there are a only a handful of people that even know where to look for this data. So why is this important you may ask? This info is for the search engine bots. It gives them a way to better index these images. These images then show up in popular image searches such as Google images, Yahoo Images, etc.

Hashtags, What are They and Why Use Them?

Are you looking for a way to use Twitter as a source for traffic to your website? There are several things you can do to increase your efforts, but in this post I’m going to talk about #Hashtags and why they are important. You may not have heard this term before, but if you’re using Twitter on a regular basis you’ve no doubt seen them.

How To Use Hootsuite to Schedule Tweets

Scheduling tweets is a good way to market prior posts with the addition of different titles and or keywords as well as hashtags. Many times when you write a post people have a number of keyword searches that they use to arrive on your page. Even using due diligence when researching keywords it’s often hard to determine what keyword phrase or grouping will trigger the most viewers. By retweeing prior posts you can get them in front of the eyes of your followers that may have missed it before. Not only that, but you can and should try different keyphrases in order to generate more targeted traffic.

Help Me Spread The Dead – The Walking Dead Contest

Spread the disease. Get the word out about The Walking Dead with AMC’s new, um, “viral” game, “Spread the Dead.” or Help me spread the Dead

How to Load External FLV Files Into Flash CS4 And Then Unload Them

I had to take a quick minute to post this, “How To”, as I’ve been wracking my brain for the past few hours stumbling my way through Flash CS4 and Actionscript 3. Flash CS4 or more to the point AS3 have changed sooooo much since back in the day. From 1999 to about 2003 I was primarily a flash programmer. I knew the program like the back of my hand. Working with this newer version had me feeling like a total NUBE.

Join The Blog Engage Guest Post Competition

If you’re a Blogger and haven’t heard about the Best of the Guest Blogger Contest at Blog Engage consider yourself informed. This great contest started by Brian Belfitt, Owner and creator of the great social website Blog Engage offers up a lot of great cash and prizes for the winnners.

Night Of the Living Thread

I thought I’d take a couple minutes today to talk about how to attract more traffic from Twitter. I recently picked up the e-book Twitter Dummy from John Paul Aulaguiar and have been putting it to the test. Since implementing some of the tips I learned here I’ve been able to quadruple my Twitter traffic in 1 month’s time. Below are just some of the things I’ve been implementing that have been working to drive traffic to my website using Twitter.

Power Twitter In Brief With Screenshots

So let me start this post off with… I’M AN IDIOT! I forgot I installed this super cool extension for Firefox Power Twitter“. It’s what Twitter is going to be some day. Inline video and images along with the 140 characters. It’s that last piece you were missing from Twitter delivered by default.

How to View Scheduled Tweets on Hootsuite

Hidy ho fellow social-medianites. I had to take a second and post a really quick tip for Hootsuite…which by the way I am starting to like more and more every day. However, I had a real issue viewing my schedules tweets. It doesn’t seem entirely intuitive so I decided to throw up a couple screen shots and show you how it’s done.

How To Opt In For Google Image Search

Here’s a quick tip for getting your images listed in Google Image Search. There’s no need to actually submit your images to Google Search. They will be crawled by Googlebot next time your site is indexed. You can however update your sitemap.xml file to include more data that can then be used to categorize your image as bots cannot read embedded text.

What The Search Engines Are Looking For

Search engine bots crawl the internet spitting back the results you see when you do a a search online. To get an idea of what the bots see check out the Lynx text based web browser. As you can see from the screenshot below all the bots see are text or text embedded within an image.