You can share your images on social image hosting Websites like Flickr and Picasa to get attention of masses. Flickr has 26 million users, whereas Picasa also has good amount of audience counting to 500,000 users. We are sure that both of the figures are more than total number of visitors on your Website. Do you know you can take benefit of their large and continuously increasing user base to promote your Website? We will tell you how in this article, stay tuned and read below!

Both Flickr and Picasa offer free accounts to the end users. One can create an account on both of them. Upload your pictures there and create slideshows. You can tag the uploaded pictures with keywords. What’s more? You can also add the short description about the image and show its location as well. You must enter the appropriate keywords to tag any picture. Both Flickr and Picasa allow you creating the slideshow of uploaded images.

You will get the URL of the image after uploading it on any Image Sharing Site. In addition, you will also get the code to embed these images in your blogs. Important: If you’re using any image from Web Album Sites then give a backlink on the image pointing to the source URL of its Web Album. You just have to copy the embed code from a Web Album Profile and paste it to your Website’s source code.

Both Picasa and Flickr provide the backend software and apps to upload the images directly from computer, mobile handsets, and few digital cameras. This is much better than uploading the images through FTP or via CMS’ inbuilt media uploading feature.

Key Benefits of using Web Albums to upload your Images

• You will get high-end quality incoming and outgoing links without nofollow tags.

• Embedded images at your Website will make good presence in the Image Search Engines resulting into good ranking and more visitors’ traffic.

• Using the images uploaded at Web Albums results into

○    less storage consumption

○    less load on Web Server

○    fewer bandwidth costs

• You create the slideshow of images in both Picasa and Flickr. Embed the slideshow code to your Website to show it. This slideshow helps you to attract more visitors on the Website.

• Create fantasy and customized Picasa/Flickr image galleries at your blog. These galleries are much better in features and look than traditional image galleries of WordPress or Drupal. You can either manually copy and create the image galleries or make use of third-party plug-ins or modules for it.

• Add geo-location tags to the images in Web Albums and embed them on your Website. The search engines give more preference to the images with geo-tags.

• You can search, invite and get connected with other users of the Web Albums. Doing this will make you popular and have more audience for your profile first and then for your Website.

• Share the images at Twitter, Facebook, Blogger etc. from the Web Album profile itself.

Difference Between Picasa and Flickr

• Both of them offers free account but Yahoo! Flickr offers unlimited storage whereas Google Picasa provides 1GB free storage
• Flickr allows 100MB uploading per month only. On the contrary, Picasa has no limits.
• Flickr allows uploading of 2 videos only with free account, but you can upload as many as videos you want with Picasa until storage space permits.
  NOTE: You can also use YouTube or Metacafe to upload the videos.
• Flickr has larger user base than Picasa, but Picasa is backed up by Google. You can invite Gmail Friends to your Picasa profiles.
• Flickr allows uploading the images in JPEG, GIF, and PNG files and store them with the similar extension or format. On the contrary, Picasa converts all the images into JPEG format.
• Flickr shows only newly uploaded 200MB photographs. If you upload more pictures then it does not show the old photographs but links to hidden images will work. On the contrary, Picasa shows all the uploaded images.

Tips & Tricks

• Make use of a graphic editor to shorten the size of images to be uploaded on the Web. If you do not want to buy the paid software then favor open source image editors like GIMP and Inkscape.
• If you are creating account on both Picasa and Flickr then upload different images on both of them.
• Use the Website name as username on Picasa or Flickr.
• Leave the URL of your Website or blog in the Profile page of both Picasa and Flickr.
• Create images to describe the services, products, and content of your Website. Publish these images on the Web Albums.
• Write catchy title, tags, and description of the uploaded images.
• Join the relevant groups/communities in Flickr and Picasa. Follow the groups’ images and let them follow yours.
• Search on the Web Albums for nice pictures, leave comments, and follow their owners. And then invite them to follow your images.
• Follow the users who are following yours profile.
• Upload at least one to two photographs daily on Flickr or Picasa and embed them to your Website.
• Show the badge from Picasa and/or Flickr at your Website with a link to your profile page.

Precautions

• Do not add the watermark or any other notification indicating the URL or name of your Website. Both Picasa and Flickr do not allow such promotional images.
• Do not leave the linked keywords anywhere in Picasa or Flickr.
• Do not post advertising images in the group discussions.

It is a truth that an image worth more than 1000 written words. If you also believe in it, then share the images and broadcast your message and populate your blog. Both Picasa and Flickr are giving you a great opportunity for the same. Take real benefit of these Web albums.

We are feeling proud to announce the launch of our Nokia Ovi App called Blog seoSemanticXHTML.

This application is compatible with following listed Nokia handsets.

1. Nokia 2690
2. Nokia 5230 XpressMusic
3. Nokia 5250 XpressMusic
4. Nokia 5310 XpressMusic
5. Nokia 5530 XpressMusic
6. Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
7. Nokia 5800 NE
8. Nokia C1-01
9. Nokia C1-02
10. Nokia C3-00
11. Nokia C6-00
12. Nokia C6-01
13. Nokia C7-00
14. Nokia E5-00
15. Nokia E63
16. Nokia E7-00
17. Nokia E71
18. Nokia E72
19. Nokia N8-00
20. Nokia N97
21. Nokia N97 Mini
22. Nokia X2-00
23. Nokia X3-02
24. Nokia X6-00

We request the visitors of our Website to use this App and stay tuned with our latest offers, Blogs, and tweets.

Follow below steps to install the ‘Blog seoSemanticXHTML’ on your Nokia phone: -

1. Open the Nokia Ovi Store and search for the application “Blog seoSemanticXHTML”.
   Or
   Visit http://store.ovi.com/content/110543 in your phone Browser.
2. This will open the Download page.
   

   Page to download Blog seoSemanticXHTML Ovi App

3. Click on Download button and then follow onscreen instructions to install this application.
4. Start the Application.
   

   Presenting Blog seoSemanticXHTML Nokia Ovi App

5. You can tap any section to read the update. It will be shown as: -
   

   Update of a Blog Post

   
   You can click the link “See Original Story” to read the complete article at our Website. Press the back button on the top right cornerto come back to previous screen.
6. In this application, you will get two different channels. You can click on the down arrow button on the top to select the channels
   a. Blogs and Offers (seoSemanticXHTML)
   b. Twitter Updates (Twitter_seoSemanticXHTML)
   

   Selecting Channels for the App

7. Choose the channel Twitter_seoSemanticXHTML and it shows the Twitter updates of our Website.
   

   Twitter Updates in Blog seoSemanticXHTML App

How to get the download link to your phone directly?

1. Click the following download link.
   
2. Login with your Nokia Ovi credentials and click on ‘Send to Cell’.
   Or
   If you don’t have a Nokia Ovi account but own a Nokia phone then you can register it free at http://store.ovi.com else mail us to support@seo-semantic-xhtml.com with your phone number. We will either message or email you the link to download our App.
3. This will send the link to download the Blog seoSemanticXHTML App in a text message to your phone.

Buttons

1. – To check for updates of Blog seoSemanticXHTML App.
2. – To recommend our App to a friend via email.
3. – To refresh the content in the App.
4. – To open the Nokia Ovi Store App.
5. – To change the channel of updates from seoSemanticXHTML.
6. – To close the Application.
7. – To go back to previous screen.

We are planning to launch the:

• Mobile Applications for other platforms like BlackBerry OS, Apple iOS, Google Android, and so on.
• Mobile Version of our Website.

Stay Tuned for more updates!

We request to provide your valuable feedback, suggestion, advice or complaint about our new Nokia Ovi App at support@seo-semantic-xhtml.com. This will help us to improve ourselves and our services.

• Posting alerts on e-mails like Google alerts
• Easily accessible on social networking sites
• Regular on the blog search tools like Technorati, Ask’s Blog or Googlr Blog search
• RSS (Real Simple Syndication)

The span of blogosphere is ever increasing and between 2007 and 2008, there was a 62% increase in its size. The Technorati blog has tracked more than 100 million individual blogs in April 2008. Sirfy another such blog has recorded 17 posts each second. This truly displays the increasing interest and participation of the people in such online activities. The blogs have primarily become popular because of the liberal nature, opinionated views and unadulterated information.

Blog has to be a mixture of the right information on the correct blog platform. The selection of the platform depends on every individual’s preference. WordPress.com is a busy blogging platform due to its immense popularity. It is a user-friendly platform with round-the-clock support of the developers. While using WordPress.com the prospective participants need to sign up and get started. The Movable type is different from WordPress.com, as it is a professional publishing platform requiring local downloads. The flexibility of managing the several blogs from one interface makes it acceptable. TypePad is a modified version of Movable Type which doesn’t require hosting. Blogger.com uses sub-domains to enable users to set up the blogs. Blogger.com is used by individuals who stay away from excess modifications and allow less control for hosting. Expression Engine is another blog hosting site which ensures increased customization and control over the site.

While initiating to create a blogging website, it is important to remember a few points:
• Carefully select the blogging software
• Register an active participation at some related forums
• Maintain consistency and answer the queries regularly
• Use Technorati, Del.isio.us. etc to tag content on your website
• Submit blogs to sitemaps, article directories, 9Rules or NewsNow and blog directories
• Ensure quality content and add images with each post
• Ensure proper links and trackbacks
• After every post, promote social bookmarking
• Enable plug-ins like WP-Cache, WP-ContactForm, Popularity Contest, Adsense Deluxe and Feedburner Feed Replacement.
• Avoid any sort of plagiarism