SOPA & PIPA – Just A Healthy Curbing of Social Media’s Sense of Entitlement?

Okay so if you don’t know what SOPA and PIPA are, well, you basically have not been on the internet *AT ALL* in the past few weeks…

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Photography Web Hosting Review | What’s the Best?

An in depth review our top 5 favorite shared web hosting companies for photographers, videographers, and other creative professionals.

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Photography SEO: Single Domain or Multiple Domains?

As a photographer, should start one website (on one domain) or multiple websites (on multiple domains). Let’s take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of each.

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Disable or Prevent Thumbnail Creation in WordPress

As photographers we have thousands of files on our websites and blogs. On top of that, if you use the Wordpress image uploader, you are stuck with three times the number of images, as the uploader automatically creates two additional files in different sizes. If your site isn’t utilizing the thumbnails created by the uploader, you should disable the creation of the Thumbnails. Here is a quick tutorial on how to do it.

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5 Image Hosting Sites

The new world of digital media has opened the doors for amateur and professionals alike to share their images online. With a few clicks, your work can be seen by hundreds, thousands, even millions of people. Image searches by all of the major search engines widens your audience and social networking like Facebook and Twitter [...]

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5 Must-Use Google Tools for Your Photography Studio

Every month, it seems like Google is coming out with new products that make our lives easier in some way or another. In this article we break down the must-use Google Tools for photographers.

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Best Wedding Photography Blog RSS Feeds

Stop wasting time! Instead of visiting dozens of blogs daily, use RSS feeds to aggregate the information on your reader. Better yet, add filters and sort through the information to get all of the photography inspiration you can handle. Here’s a list of great wedding photography RSS feeds to add to your readers.

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Backlinks with Ofcourseido.com and Togtips.com

In this post, I wanted to introduce a couple of resources that we started that can help in your link building efforts. We created Of Course I Do and Tog Tips to experiment with user-submitted content and aggregate interesting, relevant information.

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Side Tab WordPress Plugin | Free SLR Lounge Download

The “Side Tab” Wordpress plugin is designed to solve this very problem by inserting up to 3 tabs that are affixed to the left side of your website. These tabs use jQuery to slide open when your user hovers his or her mouse over the tab.

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How to Get SEO Keywords into Blog URLs

Google first looks for keywords in the page title, then second it looks to the URL. That’s right, URLs are more important for keyword placement than in the first paragraph of text, images, or even H1 tags.

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5 reasons wedding photographers should use Craigslist

I want to focus on convincing those photographers who are just starting their businesses that Craigslist, despite all that you may have heard, is a good resource to help grow your business. So here are 5 reasons wedding photographers should post on Craigslist.

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10 WordPress Plugins for Photography Blogs

WordPress is our recommended blogging platform for a variety of reasons, one of which is its extensive library of 3rd party plugins. These plugins make life easier for us bloggers, with functionality ranging from aesthetics to SEO. You can link to your Twitter and Facebook accounts, include “sexy bookmarks,” flash headers, and add other great, [...]

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