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I can’t tell you how many jobs I’ve landed just by coming up in searches for my own name in Google. Since I am an Internet marketing professional having a web presence is a must. What if you’re not a marketing professional, is a web presence something you should work on and will it benefit you? The answer of course is…Yes! As with any business your brand is what people identify with. If you are a freelancer or a consultant you are your brand. When you Google your name what comes up? How many results are of you? How many are of someone else? If someone wanted to hire you and learn more about you what would they find? These are important questions. It should also be important to you that when a search is done on your name that information pertaining to you and your area of expertise shows up. Why? The top reason “people searches” are done on the net is to establish ones credibility. Not having anything is almost as bad as finding something bad. Does your Myspace page show a picture of you flipping off viewers? That could be damaging and costly to your image and reputation. You can keep your personal profiles private, just don’t have damaging content or photo’s showing in your limited profile. How To Brand
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Many people will tell you that using external (free) image hosting to host your website images is the same as using free hosting overall: unsafe, unreliable and generally unadvisable…. Well, this is not exactly like that. So before we go any further, let’s discuss the pros and cons. Why using a free external image hosting service might be a good idea? (1) It’s a good way to save on hosting and bandwidth (especially if you publish multiple images regularly); (2) It can be one of steps to take to speed up your site. Of course, there are some cons: (1) Less control over your images (the service can decide to cancel your account, delete your images, etc); (2) Less reliable: the service may once just close down, etc. Am I using them? – Yes, for those sites where there are many images. Note: Of course, I do optimize the image size before publishing it, but if I have multiple images per page, the page load time will still leave much to be desired (even with a fairly good hosting package) – unlike when those images are hosted on Flickr for example: the page loads pretty fast even with like 50 images on it. Main (Most Reliable) Image Hosting Services:
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Google’s been integrating its product feed into the main SERPs under the guise of universal search for a while now, with the aim of improving the user experience.
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I’ve shared a few ways to search for images for “link-bailty” posts earlier . And today I have one more tool for that: PicFog . PicFog is a real-time image search powered by Twitpic , Yfrog , and Twitgoo . It worked really well for me in some cases when I needed “ cool ” post inspiration. Here’s how it works: Provide your search term (you’d better go for some more general alternative / synonym); The tool generates the list of related images which get updated instantly once they appear (get Twittered). You can also do without searching it at all: just visit the home page, sit back, and watch the new images appear until you spot something interesting to click through. Besides that, you can: See when exactly each image was tweeted (in the top left corner of each thumbnail); Hover over each image thumbnail to see the actual Tweet; Click on each thumbnail to see it full-size together with the Tweet sharing the image; See the images in a slide show; See breaking Twitter trends (powered by WhatTheTrend ). There’s also one really useful option that allows you to see the most popular images (i.e. those tagged with hot hashtags) by date. For that you’ll need to go to the “ Breaking ” section that is also searchable by the way: Now, I find the tool quite useful for spotting daily hot trends as well as brainstorming for post ideas (if not for killing an idle hour if you ever have one). Do you see any other possible uses of the tool? Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . PicFog: Viral Post Inspiration w/ Real-Time Image
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Google Bump is a n awesome Greasemonkey script worth giving a try. It adds some cool functionality to the Google web search: Main features include Multisearch, Image & Video results with a Player, Wikipedia definitions and links, and some clutter cleanup by Most Useful
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