Comments on: Enhance Your Niche Site with Photos

By: Elliott

Elliott — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:51:48 +0000

Frank, great idea, and I agree that you don’t want the content to be to compelling. However, you need a little personal touch to make it appear more realistic.

I like the idea of using the adrotator plugin for that too, sounds neat, I’ll need to try it out!

By: Tim E.

Tim E. — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:44:43 +0000

Great links. Tim E.'s last blog post..Dodd’s Lake, Innisfail, Oval Ice Race Called Off (Jan27, 08)

By: Frank C

Frank C — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:49:10 +0000

Here's a little trick I'm doing on a niche blog where I'm pushing a ClickBank product. The picture inline with the post is really an ad. It looks similar to how I have OpTempo's pictures aligned but there are fewer pictures that are rotated in and out on page loads using an ad rotator plugin. Of course, the affiliate link is cloaked by a PHP redirect. Just one of those evil marketing trick that works. But, often the rule is that you don't want to make a niche blog's content too compelling. You want the pictures to push the visitor toward an ad click. Of course, this would be different for a local niche blog where you're depending on repeat visitors and local advertising sales. Frank C's last blog post..Blog Review: Prince of Wall Street

By: bloggingzoom.com

bloggingzoom.com — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:16:35 +0000

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Creating a niche site can take some work to accomplish. One important aspect for any niche site is to use images to make the site look less spammy and more like a real site. Now I’m not talking about your local niche site that you might ha…

By: Elliott

Elliott — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:35:31 +0000

You’re welcome! I find Skellie’s site to be a great resource for writing content and lot’s of other blogging related things.

By: Neena

Neena — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:23:36 +0000

I loved Skellie's Flicr guide. It cleared up a lot of the gray area about which images I could use without violating any copyrights. Skellie also included, in part 2, of her guide (I believe) a way to insert the photo credit directly under the photo in a blog post. It is a nice touch. Thanks, Elliott for introducing me to the other two sites, I have not used them before and will have to check them out. Neena's last blog post..Saugatuck Nursery School Offers Programs For Vacation Week

By: Elliott

Elliott — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:38:40 +0000

Bruce, great idea! This will work especially well for your local niche site.

The other photo sites are a great resource for images for a niche site that you would develop for monetizing, but you could also do the same with them.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:21:08 +0000

Don't forget your own images. I went out with my digital camera last week to our town hall, snapped a few pics and pieced them together for my header. Let me know what you think. Bruce H. Bruce's last blog post..A few pics from the Mike Reid softball tournament 2007

By: MikeL

MikeL — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:11:40 +0000

Where are your pictures?!!
Dosh Dosh breaks up the page of text by using images well, even when they’re not exactly related to the message.
Thanks for the tips on where to look for pictures: It is a time consuming addition to finishing a piece but makes a better product.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:39:53 +0000

You’re welcome! There are so many more resources out there for pics, just remember that you need to follow the request of the photographer if you use them. Some don’t care, others want to be notified or have restrictions.

That will keep you out of any problems. Now, off to fix up my sites! lol