Here’s a fact. Most of the traffic that comes to my website is from google’s image search. Since I’m a designer, that’s a good thing for me as it means people are seeing my work.
When I upload an image to my website, I pay particular attention to the way in which this is done.
Here are some quick tips that I use (or need to implement ASAP 
) which seems to bring me extra traffic from Google image search. Read more
In the last few days, I’ve been hearing some interesting rumours on the social media scene.
The consensus is that Google are working on something behind the scenes that appears to be a direct competitor to Facebook. Supposedly entitled “Google Me”, it’s not entirely surprising that Google are rumoured to be doing this. Probably somewhat taken aback by the rampant growth and traffic that Facebook has been enjoying recently, it would seem that Google need something to prevent Facebook becoming too strong a competitor. They need to compete with Facebook on a level playing field. There’s no doubt about it that whilst Google are the King of Search, Facebook is the King of social media and social media is taking the web world by storm.
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There has been a bit of a turf war growing recently. It all came head to head with the release of the Google Nexus One. Apple saw this as a direct threat to the iPhone and their business model. Needless to say, ties between the two companies have soured rapidly as of late.
It was interesting to see just before the release of the Apple iPad, Steve Jobs came out and denounced the use of Adobe Flash and categorically denied that Apple would ever support it. People were wondering why? It’s hard to deny there is large support and demand for Flash Content. Steve Jobs claims that the world is moving towards HTML 5. I do agree that this is the case, however, people are not ready to entirely ditch Flash. It is still a valid platform and integral to the web. Read more
Let’s get to it. To start with, I’m an iStockphoto contributor. At the moment I contribute vector illustrations, but I’m looking to get into photography at some stage too.
Today, we’re going to find out how to:
- Find your iStock recent image RSS Feed
- Use Google Feedburner to embed the iStockphoto RSS feed into your website
- See how many people are clicking on your feed links
Please note, this method I am about to describe allows you to embed up to 10 images from your iStock recent uploads into your website. Why 10 you ask? Well that’s all that comes out of the iStock feed. Also, I am using Google Feedburner as it lets you get statistical information on click throughs etc plus it automatically updates your website with your most recent images. Feedburner will provide you with a fairly basic looking feed, but you can style it more if you know some CSS coding. If you don’t know CSS maybe find someone who does and they can style it for you.
Whilst this tutorial specifically refers to embedding an iStockphoto RSS feed into your website, you can also apply some of the methods listed here to embed any other RSS feed you may have into your website.
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