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Question from Ellen: I enjoy taking pictures and sharing them on Instagram and Facebook, and I’ve been doing that as a hobby for several years now.
Ten months ago I started a photo blog using WordPress to try to make some money from all the photos I’ve taken over the years.
The problem is I’m not getting much traffic from Google at all to my photos.
Is there something I can do to get the photos on my blog to show up in relevant Google image searches?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
What Should One Know About Visual Content Marketing?Times change, and now it’s not enough to provide the readers with textual information. Visual content is what’s currently demanding their attention.
Scientists have discovered that we forget 90% of the information we receive in the textual form after just three short days.
But that improves a great deal if the facts are presented with the help of visual content. That way, 65% of data remains in the human memory even after this time passes.
Question from Allenda G.: I have several blogs and websites that I visit every day to see if any new posts or articles have been published.
It’s really time-consuming to visit every one of them every day only to find that just a couple of them have added something new.
Is there some way to set up an alert that will let me know when a site has been updated?
My computer is an ASUS laptop with Window 10.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Are planning to create your own self-hosted blog?
If so, one of your most critical tasks will be choosing a great domain name that matches your blog’s niche, keywords and title.
Your blog’s URL needs to be short enough for readers to remember, yet long enough to provide at least a hint at what your blog’s posts will be about.
Back when I was in the planning stage of creating this blog, I wanted a domain that included three things: [Read more…]
If you’re like most folks these days, you probably buy a new phone at least every other year or so, and more often than not your old phone is still working just fine when you move on to the new one.
You could always sell your old phone or simply place it in a drawer and forget about it, but you also have the option of giving it a second life by installing an app that turns it into something that’s actually quite useful.
Here are seven great uses for your old, but working smartphone (or tablet for that matter): [Read more…]