How to title your pictures and link to your sites and blogs

In one of my seminars I explained that how when you save a picture as a jpeg to then publish on your blog or website, that however you “title” it is how it will be labeled when people are doing a web search using Google Images for example.

So instead of just stating “bananas” for instance when you have a picture of bananas, you should state the name of your website, or book, or whatever you wish to promote in the title such as “Northshore Garden’s Bananas”. (Note that I’m not endorsing Northshore’s bananas, I didn’t take time to do a search to see if such a business exists; if so, please visit them and do some business there!).

In a recent blog post where I was explaining how to shorten links, I created “pictures” of the sites for both tinyurl and Bitly. I saved those pictures as: “Tinyurl and Ter Scott”

 

 and “Bitly and Ter Scott”

 

so when these images eventually make it on the web and people are searching for Tinyurl and Bitly, in the images part of Google (or other search engines) they might find these that also include my name linking to my blog post. Cha Ching and Voila, more more money from more web traffic!

In my earlier blog post (as I’ve also done here) I’ve linked the pictures to my web improvement course page (just click on the pictures above to see what I mean) on my terscott.com site so that when people click on the pictures within my blog, they can learn more about creating web traffic for their websites and blogs.

Make it a great day!

Ter

PS. In an earlier blog post, I mentioned how you can shorten long addresses. My blogability (TM) "system" is available now as a Kindle Book. You can click on the picture below to get to Amazon or click on this (long) link: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ter%20scott%20blogability. This is a great opportunity to show you that by going to tinyurl.com and placing such a long link into their box and translating it, I got a much smaller link:

TinyURL was created!

The following URL:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?u rl=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ter %20scott%20blogability

has a length of 102 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 26 characters:

http://tinyurl.com/d2cr9t3

 





 

 

Title Your Pictures, Web Pages, and Headings to Bring More Web Traffic

Do you create your own photos, art prints, anything having to do with an image? If so, be sure to title them correctly for maximum exposure (and get more traffic to your site, blogs etc.). 

In other posts I’ve mentioned how it is important to “label” and “title” everything in your web pages, blogs etc. I’m speaking of things such as your web pages, headings of your paragraphs and even photos; and to be sure you are using “key words” in those labels and titles. Use key words that people searching on the Internet are actually using, in those labels.

Here I will explain how I’ve labeled a photo and why. Here is a picture of a business card that I created for one of my customers, Poplar Auto. As a free plug for them, because they are great people and have wonderful service, I recommend that you visit their site: www.poplarauto.com. I created a business card for them that looks like this (plus I gave them a little "link love"; you can click on the photo of the business card and get to their site):

 

(If you would like graphic design like this for your business, please go to my site: www.terscott.com and click on the graphic design tab. If you’d like pricing on business cards and other imprinted items, please visit: www.myimprintrep.com/123order).

Getting back now to “labeling” things correctly, what I did was to “name” this business card jpeg: poplar auto Ter Scott Business Cards. Since I designed the card, I could do this. Now when people search for: Poplar Auto, Ter Scott, Business Cards and variations of those, they will find that picture in the “images” section of major search engines, especially when I repeat the use of the image in my blogs, and sites. My customer is happy too because every time I place their business card in places like this blog, they are getting added exposure! I'm happy because people find the picture and visit both my customer and my sites.

 

As always leave questions/comments after this post. If you are in my Online Web Improvement Course, don't forget that you have your 3 months free email coaching!

Make it a great day!

Ter

Terrific. Energizing. Results!

 

How to shrink long web links, Have you ever needed a "shrinker"?

Please, I'm not asking you if you ever needed a "shrink"! I'm sharing today how you can shrink your very long web addresses, etc. using two of my favorites: tinyurl and Bitly.

Have you heard of “Tiny Url”? Sometimes when you are working on the web, you end up getting these long (sometimes very long) urls; addresses, or destinations if you will, that you arrive at after clicking them. My favorite is Tiny Url. I think it was the first out on the web.

 

 

I used it on a recent post in one of my other blogs today so you can go to: http://thatisgoodbusiness.blogspot.com/ and see how I used it in my post announcing my availability to speak at local businesses at a reduced rate. (See what happens when I “shrink” that blog address from http://thatisgoodbusiness.blogspot.com/ down by using tinyurl; it becomes: http://tinyurl.com/cl7g6xy; OK, this might not be much shorter, but you can find very long addresses at times).

Anyway, back to my blog post at “That’s Good Business”, where I was wanting people to click on a link to go to my YouTube video, I could have used the long url address that included the word YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXsxV-DMh7o, but I went to tinyurl.com and created this one: http://tinyurl.com/brvxt8l. You can click on both and see that they will get you to the same destination. There may be times when you want to “hide” your destination such as YouTube, Kindle, etc. for some reason and you can use tinyurl to make this happen. Note however that the words: “tinyurl” will be in your address.

Here’s one of mine about my screen play that is a bit longer to give you some idea: http://www.terscott.com/winterboydetails.html . Here it is after using tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/bsapx7e.

Another favorite of mine is: Bitly.com.

 

Try both “shrinkers” and see which that you like the best. A fellow blogger, Adam offers his favorite five at: http://lifehacker.com/5068945/five-best-url-shrinkers. (Shrinking that address with tinyurl, it becomes:

The following URL:

http://lifehacker.com/5068945/five-best-url-shrinkers

has a length of 53 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 25 characters:

http://tinyurl.com/5mlzsf

Can you see how "shrinkers" can help you in your websites, blogs, etc.? You can find ways to use this when you are “hiding” or “disguising” your sources to your affiliate links, etc.; there really are many ways that you can use smaller links.

You can see about 50 more alternatives at: http://www.siteslike.com/similar/tinyurl.com but I’m not sure they are all “shrinkers”. There seems to be some very beautiful, and also some disturbing pictures on the site as well; “I’m just saying”.

The best way to understand this article above is to click on each link; you might even find my blog “That’s Good Business” interesting or the page on my site that speaks of my screen play: Winter Boy of enough interest to help me get it in TV by reading it at: http://www.terscott.com/winterboydetails.html.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please leave them after this post. Also, consider “following by email” so you won’t miss any posts.

Make it a great day!

Ter