May | 26 | 2008

Adding Interest to your Blog: Images and Multi-media Content

Posted by Guru as Images, Tips Though I rarely add images in my posts here and have lots of pure text entries, it is actually advisable to occasionally add other elements to your blog posts to keep it more interesting. Remember you do not want one time readers only but want to get people to keep on returning. Making sure that your blog is pleasing to the eye (and never ending long lines of text is definitely NOT pleasing to the eye) is one way to make the blog more interesting and worth checking out regularly. So what are the things you should insert in your post ...

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Oct | 05 | 2007

Alt-Tags: For Spiders and the Visually Impaired

Posted by Guru as Design Features, Images, Marketing and Search Optimization, SEO Features Lots of people underestimate the importance of Alt-Tags. Even though SEO experts time and again stress the importance of Alt-Tags many still do not bother with it at all, or if they use it, do not consistently do so. To be honest, I belong to the inconsistent group. Alt-tags ARE very important. SEO-wise the absence of alt-tags will ensure that your images and other embedded media will NOT be indexed by spiders since they will be unable to determine the actual content of each embedded element. Being a parent of a child with special needs though, I am very sensitive about ...

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Aug | 22 | 2007

Add pictures to your Blog

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Images, Tips, Writing Here's a cool blog tip. Try add pictures relevant to your post to make it more appealing and more attractive to other readers. If you can add you own homemade video the better. Pictures add dept to your posts makes it more exciting and more true. Although an overload of pictures on your post may seem overkill so limit it to just 2-3 pictures. But you can still go as many as 5-10 pictures If it's about photography. Also add your own personalized logo or your picture and tell something about yourself. Advertise yourself : state your strengths, hobbies or anything ...

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Jul | 26 | 2007

Where to Get “Supporting Blog Content”

Posted by Phillip as Blog Tutorial, Images, Tips As bloggers, it's our responsibility to come up with original and informative articles. However, our pen (or keyboard, that is) do fail us from time to time, and we need inspiration for our blog posts. A good answer to this problem would be the earlier Blog Tutorial on where to get more blog topic ideas. So, you’ve pinned down the core concept of your blog post, which built upon your very own sentences, opinions, and experiences. Now, you just need that piece of quotation, that descriptive photo, that matching video – blog content that supports your core idea and words. ...

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Jun | 27 | 2007

A few reminders on third-party Image Hosting

Posted by Jeff as Blogging Tools, Design Features, Images, Tips If you have a blog that's hosted in Wordpress.com, or Blogspot, or any other free* service, or if you have unlimited resources, that is, truckloads of money to pay for all that uncapped web space, you may be least likely concerned about the gigabytes that images can easily consume from what you have arranged with your webhost of choice. The rest of us common men with an inkling of what saving both gigabytes of allocation and the bandwidth needed to pump out all those images may consider hosting these on a separate service, or outsourcing to a third-party image hosting ...

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May | 14 | 2007

Two Design Tactics To Improve Your Blog Income

Posted by Brix as Design, Design and Themes, Images Adsense is one of the most popular ways to monetize your blog. Two of the most popular Adsense advertising tactics that became widespread last year were: 1. Putting Adsense Ads beside images 2. Blending the design You earn money on Adsense through clicks. Whenever a visitor clicks on the ad, revenue from advertisers is credited to your account. Putting thumbnail images beside ads increased the overall number of clicks. This works because people often associate the images with the ad and clicked on it. The latest Adsense blog on images beside ads clarified this rule. You can no longer put images beside ...

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May | 12 | 2007

Maximizing Stock Photography

Posted by Benj as Design Features, Images, Tips Hi everyone, I'm Benj, one of your new writers for BlogTutorials. Even with the preponderance of technology to allow bloggers to take and modify their own photos, there are still individuals (*clears throat*) who are still not well-versed in the subtle art of photography. It's a good thing that now, people who weren't born with a feel for the lens have alternatives as sources of embellishment for their blog posts.

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May | 12 | 2007

Use Image Attributes to Boost Your Blog’s SEO

Posted by Phillip as Images, Marketing and Search Optimization, SEO Features Last month, we had a post about image relevance in blog posts. But images aren't just there to spice up your posts -- they can draw in traffic as well, that is, search engine traffic. When properly used, images can help your blog's search engine optimization. You'll need to pay attention to two attributes/HTML tags: alt and title. The alt attribute stands for "alternate text", which stands in for the image when it can't be displayed properly. The alt attribute is a pillar of website accessibility, and is a boon for visually-impaired users and those who use speech synthesizers. But aside ...

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Apr | 24 | 2007

Image Relevance in Blog Posts

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Community Building, Creating a Blog, Design, Design and Themes, Images, Promotion, Submissions, Templates, Terminology, Tips Bloggers can use any image of their liking to act as supporting designs for usual blogs that want to prove a point. Some insights may not be shared by other people, but from the viewpoint of one person alone, a broad image to support blog entries would need in-depth content meaning for the whole entry to be justified. Graphics Artist Blogger

Irrelevant images pointing towards the actual gist of a blog entry is something that may be risky. For one thing, not all people would understand the actual intent of the blogger. To some people, blogs ...

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Apr | 13 | 2007

Why Images Can Spice Up Blog Entries

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Blogging Tools, Design, Images, Templates, Writing Photographer

Although it is not a required practice, images can help boost the message of blog entries, assuming of course that they cover the whole essence of the blog entry being made. Relevance of images have made the entire entry manageable and understandable and such practice is something that has been done by most probloggers active on the web today. There are millions of free images available on the web. But the best practice is to take own picture that express the point of the message being sent across. This is better than hyperlinks since some people are ...

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