Peter Linsley talks about Google Image Search

Google Image Search is a search service which allows users to search the web for image content. The keywords for the image search are based on the filename “Alt tag” of the image, the link text pointing to the image, and text adjacent to the image. When the thumbnail is click by the user, the image is displayed in a frame at the top of the page and the website on which that image was found is displayed below it, making it easier to see from where the image is coming.

Peter Linsley delivered a very good presentation slides about “Google Image Search” which were presented at SMX West Feb 09. The slides the he presented are an introduction to image search.

The slides includes the following:

IMAGE SEARCHES

Broad Exposure
Unique Search Behavior
Novel Use Cases

HOW DOES IMAGE SEARCH WORKS

Discovered from web pages
Crawled, Classified, Indexed
Duplicates and referring pages
Ranked based on many signals

BEST PRACTICES

Focus on the User
High Quality Images
Above the Fold
Descriptive Text

RESOURCES

Webmaster Help and Forum
Web Search Help and Forum
Official Google Blog


Also, included in the clip is his answers to some questions asks during the presentation.

To see the full explanation of Peter Linsley about the slides, click on the link below.

Peter Linsley on Google Image Search

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How To Load Your Blogger Blog Faster

Here are great tips and tricks that we can apply in our blog from Blogger Help. This is for blogs using Blogger. You can apply suggestions mentioned here for a better and faster loading time of our blog.


How can I make my blog load faster?

The speed at which your blog loads is critical to attracting more readers to your blog. If your blog takes a long time to load, many readers may leave your blog before they have the chance to read it. Here are a few tips and tricks that will help your blog load faster and attract more users:

Posts

Your blog's load time can be affected by the number of posts you display on your main page. You can easily edit the number of posts displayed of the main page from the Settings l Formatting tab. You can then select the number of posts you want to display on the main page. We recommend displaying 10 or fewer posts on the main page.

Third Party JavaScript and Links

For optimal blog load speed, we recommend using Google/Blogger widgets, JavaScript and links. However, if you need to use third party JavaScript and links, your blog will load much faster if you put all JavaScript at the bottom of your blog. If you have third party JavaScript and links in your sidebar, put them in at the bottom of the sidebar.

Images and Media

The more images, videos and other multi-media you have on your blog the longer it will take to load. However, images and other multimedia are important to attracting users to your blog, so it is important to optimize the load speed of your images and media. Here are few tips to increase the load speed of your media:

• Decrease the size of your images or use thumbnails that link to the full-size image.

• If you use third party images, consider uploading them to Picasa Web Albums via the Blogger post editor.

• If you have a larger number of images to display, you can upload all your images (from a vacation or event) to a Picasa Web Album and link to the album in your post or sidebar.

Other suggestions:

• If you've added any custom CSS to your blog, make sure you put it at the top of the page.

• The most important content of your blog that catches readers attention should load the quickest. To help identify which items are taking the longest to load you can use Stopwatch. To use Stopwatch, enter your blog's URL into the text box and click "Start StopWatch". Stopwatch will then open your blog in a frame and will record the time it takes for everything on your blog to load, including images, videos, widgets, etc. Take note of the items that take the longest to load and modify them appropriately using our suggestions.

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“ABOUT ME PAGE” IS ABOUT YOURSELF AND YOUR READER

THE ABOUT ME PAGE

The “About Me” page is an essential part of a successful blog. It is an information page about the writer or author of a certain blog. It is also considered as one of the most important pages in a blog. And a powerful marketing tool to gain loyal blog visitors.

Creating a well written “About Me” page helps your blog to be likeable by readers. Many blog readers, especially first time readers after reading your top article or some articles, want to click or look into your “about me page” and read what are your experiences or expertise about the topics your posting in the blog.

ABOUT YOURSELF

Introduce yourself by giving readers your real name. This is important for them to know who really you are. Do not just put your first name or just an alias, it’s not proper and most likely readers do not want to continue reading the rest of your profile. Also very significant is to include your photo, your real good quality photo. It is a personal experience that I am likely to read the whole page if the there’s a nice photo included, not a landscape pictures or movie stars picture. For me, there’s a sense of trust to the writer if I see a picture on top while reading the rest of the page.

Include your detailed knowledge and experience about the topics you’re writing in your blog. This will give confident to readers and can say that you can be trusted on what you are writing on your articles. It is talking about your background about what you do, your current job, and what industry you’re related.

It is very important to discuss your expertise to better brand yourself and blog in the kind of niche you’re working into.

ABOUT YOUR READER

“About me Page” is not only about yourself. It is also about your blog visitors, helping them. Visitors on your blog want to read posts that interest them. Tell your readers that what you can offer are good, informative, and helpful information. It will greatly help to let your readers keep coming back for more readings. Write the information in the page as if you were talking in face to face, it’s a way of being conversational to them. Discuss also the benefits that they can get while reading your posts and digging deeper in your previous posts.

Helping your readers or visitors, I think is the key to a good “about me page.” This is most likely what we are looking for in reading this page, about what help we can get from the articles posted in the blog. This way, the reader will probably remember you as they in their lifetime view thousands of “About me” pages.

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Make Money Online Through Facebook

Facebook is truly the most popular among the social network sites with millions of users and continuously growing. People are having fun using it to communicate with their families, friends, and to other people. This is really a hot web application that continuously amusing lots of people everyday.

But, facebook is not only use by other people just to have fun creating a nice profile for their friends and love ones to view; it is also use as a tool for their business. They are taking advantage of the number of targeted people in which they can offer their product or any service. For many internet marketers, this is a great website to market products or whatever they are selling.

BUILDING TRUST

If you were able to build 1,000 or more friends in facebook, it’s a great time to start giving them some information about your product or service. But before you start introducing these services, you have to first build a good relationship with them. In this way they are more confident in trusting you and consider giving interest in whatever you were offering to them. Gaining friends trust is very important in online marketing. The people you’re dealing with here mostly know you only by the every message that they are reading. Building good relationship here may take some time for you, but once you were able to do this, your marketing is much easier.

TAKE ADVANTAGE

If you have built a better relationship with your network of friends, it’s a perfect time to slowly introducing them about your products or services. In facebook message box, you can give a short message to all the people in your network where you can write to let all know what you are currently doing. It’s a great place where you can give information about your services. The strategy of marketing your products in facebook is so powerful. Offering to your network of friends is much easier because you have built a stronger and lasting relationship.

There are also lots of applications you can use in facebook. Take advantage of these great applications for your convenience. Most of these applications are free and some are paid programs. These are tools in which you can boost your marketing strategy to your network and to other members of facebook. The more than 50 million people using facebook were people interested in making friends to other people all over the world.

Best of all joining facebook is “FREE” to all and many applications you can use are also free. It’s free and many are getting really great results in marketing through facebook.

So, if you do not have join yet, sign up now and see for your self what facebook can do for you and to your marketing advantage. It is also said that facebook does have almost as much traffic as Google.com.

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Popular Social Networking Site - Facebook

The number of social networking sites these days is significantly increasing in numbers. It almost seems like we can see new social networking site in every month. More people are going crazy about this phenomenon in the internet. The number of people using this type of internet application is continuously increasing.

THE FACEBOOK

Whenever you talk about social networking, you will probably first hear the site Facebook. This website is far more popular on the net than the other social media sites. The members joining facebook everyday is significantly growing in big numbers. Millions of people are already registering and enjoying the use of this social media.

Like any other social media sites, facebook basically have the same program setup compared with the other popular sites. Here you can create your own personalized profile, add relatives, and add friends. Your newly added friends here can easily increase to a huge number, by adding to your profile the friends of your friends. Some people are not only using facebook to meet new friends, but also to promote their business. These people doing their business in facebook are taking advantage of the site, because of the opportunity to gain more friends. We can see many accounts in facebook have friends up 10,000 or more.

HOW TO JOIN FACEBOOK

Registering in this social media site is quite easy, after just a few minutes of signing up and your one of the instant facebook member.

--> Go to www.facebook.com

--> Sign up as a new member. Provide all the necessary information.

--> Set up your profile. This is basically the intro page about that people will see.

--> Start adding your friends and add new friends.

--> Have fun socializing.

WHY FACEBOOK?

Facebook is more popular than the other social networking sites because of its better applications compared to others. Facebook from time to time comes up with new ways of application to serve much better to their subscribers.

It’s the hottest social network today and millions of people are registering and using it everyday. Facebook indeed is a great tool for everyone to enjoy, have fun, have friends, communicate with other people, and to promote business.

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