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All of us have started their Symbiostock site without different licensing options. Just put whatever you’re comfortable with into your EULA page and you’re good to go.
Only if you need more customization features, you CAN purchase the premium plugin. But it’s not a necessity to run a Symbiostock site.To be sure you place the .htaccess with the raised memory limits not only your WP root but also in the /wp-admin/ directory.
That’s very strange. Isn’t there any way to repair the issue on the source? I’m sure this problem will come up with other sites sooner or later. The more people join the network the higher the chance that they might move sites. It might become impossible to follow all links and try to motivate link partners to change their settings.
What’s left will be a network directory with many duplicate or broken links.Don’t mind at all.
Yes, I had a 301 redirect installed the very first day. I even properly deactivated the networking of the old site and deleted the Symbiocard. When the issue still wasn’t resolved I then deleted the entire site (except the .htaccess with the redirect). But somehow it’s still showing in the network directory.
Actually, select and add only one image at a time! Otherwise you can’t include tags.
We (stock image producers) actually do this already when we include all kinds of keywords. Only that we do it on the page side and not on the search engine side.
That’s excellent work, Martha, and I’m sure the search engines will reward these efforts.
To me, the downsides of this strategy are
1. You not only have to be creative as a photographer but also as an author (which I’m not)
2. It takes a lot more time to get an image listed.But like I said, I’m absolutely certain that this is the right way to go.
So basically “Content is King” while heavy cross linking, the strategy that got Symbiostock (and WordPress) well listed in the past, might now even get you punished.
Seems like we need to re-think and to re-work our strategy, doesn’t it?
Thanks for confirming the trend, Cathy.
@Snap Vectors wrote:
Thanks for the comments. That was pretty overwhelming. I’m glad I asked. Pinterest is obviously not a good idea for marketing our images.
Do any of you use any other outside ways to market your images besides just maximizing your SEO? I’ve heard Twitter can be helpful. I want to get the Twitter functionality of the Premium Plugin up and running. I’m sure that will help.
Thanks!
NateYeah, I use the automated daily twitter post that the Premium plugin offers. I have also connected my twitter my Facebook page so that the daily twitter post gets automatically posted on FB, too.
If I write a blog post (with actual text content), then I use the SNAP (Social Networks Auto Poster) plugin to post this article to Blogger, Diigo, Delicious, Facebook, FriendFeed, Instapaper, LiveJournal and Twitter at the same time.
Are you serious?
I think your site looks good. And the little cosmetic details you don’t like can easily be fixed with a few lines of CSS.
You might want to think twice if you really want to stay behind upcoming developments.I actually think Google Adwords is NOT the way to go because sooner or later you will compete with big bucks corporations and might be forced to pay more than we make. We should optimize our SEO instead and get good listings without payment.
I’m also a little suspicious that once you start paying for good listings, Google might lose interest to list your site very well without payment later on.@cascoly wrote:
to that point, I think it would be wise to fill all networking slots – you don’t necessarily need reciprocal links for all slots; having all slots filled gives a greater chance of exposure for everyone. later you can refine your connections.
same for promoted keywords, http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=31
focus & specialty http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=65lots of blanks on those reports! all those blanks are SEO opportunities
I’m wondering why a click on my site (picturebreeze.com) in the table on your page http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=65 directs me to a 404 error page: http://cascoly.com/404error.htm . Have I set something up wrong?
Here is my visitors statistic from when I started my Symbiostock site until September 30th. I have to admit I’m concerned.
Since I didn’t get lots of feedbacks here so far, I thought I’d ask again: Do you see a similar trend or not?
Because if more people (the majority of Symbiostockers) see this development, maybe we need to question the SEO setup or strategy.
Is there maybe even a chance that Google did something to ban or re-rank Symbiostock structured sites?