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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 [...]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, [...]
How to Transfer your Hosting to Bluehost
Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back. – Harvey MacKay SLR Lounge used to be hosted on Go Daddy, but after hours lost dealing with various issues, [...]
What is the best hosting service for photographers?
As photographers, we have multiple websites, portfolios and blogs that show off our work and capture leads. And while we may be experts at photography, we may not be as knowledgeable at finding the correct hosting solutions for our websites. While there are many different hosting companies out there, three commonly used amongst photographers are [...]
Install WordPress with Blue Host
Here is a short video tutorial on installing WordPress on your website or blog using Blue Host’s hosting services. Bluehost has a ton of great features that fit a photographer’s needs perfectly We pay only $7 a month for a single Bluehost.com account that hosts each and every one of our domains, allows for unlimited [...]
Install WordPress with Godaddy Hosting Services
Here is a short video tutorial on installing WordPress on your website or blog using Godaddy’s hosting services. Feel free to comment with any questions or concerns! Click Here to sign up with Godaddy
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