Images and design aren’t about specifics, they’re about the subconscious. What do you want them to feel? What emotion is going to lead to the action you want? When planning your design features and images it is important to have a goal in mind and not to simply put something on your page because it looks good. If you cannot look at an image or a design feature of your [...]
Facebook has turned into quite a phenomenon. It seems like almost anyone and everyone with internet access has an account, and this means that you can reach out to a lot of potential site visitors through this top social network. That being said, the following are just ten tips that can help you get started marketing your website on this top social network. 1. Get on Facebook NOW! Your competition [...]
SEO is a mythical art that extends back into the beginnings of time, back to at least 1997. Since then entire fortunes have been made and lost trying to essentially game Google and Search. The cynic in my head wonders if we won’t all be trying to game Facebook soon. There will be completely new crowd of FO specialists. It’s coming, give it time. However, here we are concerned with [...]
Professional photographers utilize multiple different tricks to both capture and edit images. The following list will showcase some of the tricks which allow photographers to spend less time creating the perfect image. Editing Photoshop Filters – Although there are many small editing actions that professional photographers will perform manually, there are just as many editing steps which a photographer repeats on such a regular basis that they’ll turn to a [...]
“Blogging is great! Just put up a few new articles every week, and watch your readership and sponsorship grow exponentially.” If only it were so easy. The truth is blogging is a difficult pursuit which requires creativity, persistence, and patience. One thing pro bloggers have learned of over the years is the importance of including high quality images in their blog articles. They have learned images aren’t just for aesthetics. [...]
When I started my blogging career it seemed a lot tougher for me to write articles in a consistent pattern which look great for the readers. If you belong to blogging and writing arena, you may also have experienced the same situation of what I had. It definitely makes you to start thinking about nice topics, but it is not that much easy to get better results. In this article, lets [...]
The future of SEO, as we know it, is quite shaky. Spun content does not work, bulk links now do more harm than good, rewritten article does not have the same value and spamming social media sites does not yield the same result anymore. Now it is not just the off page SEO techniques that can make Google hate your website, you need to take care of some On page [...]
Photography has its challenges like any other medium. Finding a unique voice or angle is the key in separating that work from others. In the process, many artists lose themselves to the techniques that overcompensate for lack of voice and angle. Here are five overly used photography effects that artists should avoid. # 5 – Long Exposure This is seen most often with streams of water and traffic. A photographer [...]
A practical article detailing how to identify (and fix!) pages that are buried on your site. The Problem One way to improve your site’s performance in the search engine is to address buried pages on your site. By buried pages, I mean pages that are less frequently referenced, harder to get to, and not often linked to. These pages are viewed as less important to the search engines for – [...]
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