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Infographic: ShutterStock Reaches 200 Million Image Downloads

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:55:21 +0000

Shutterstock.com claims it is the first such venture to reach a total of 200 million downloads of licensed images of stock photography, vector graphics and other illustrations. “Searching the word ‘networking’ used to return images of handshakes and business contacts; now it’s all about online social networking,” says Jon Oringer, Founder and CEO of the company.

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Yes, images about cats lead the way, no surprise with over 400,000 downloads, surpassing “only” 79,000 downloads of last year’s Royal Wedding. But what is interesting is that vector graphic downloads are on the increase, and vintage images are also up. Who knew the Internets could be so nostalgic?

Shutterstock has been providing licensed images to businesses, agencies and media organizations since 2004 and has more than 17 million images online.

Disclosure: ReadWriteWeb uses Shutterstock for some of its post illustrations.

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Is Your Facebook Ad Image Worthy of People’s Attention?

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:29:48 +0000

If your Facebook ads could talk, they’d probably scream “LOOK AT ME!” But they can’t, leaving it up to you to do a good job of grabbing as much attention as possible. Here are four elements to help you create visually stunning Facebook ads.

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Is Your Facebook Ad Image Worth A Thousand Words?

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:28:45 +0000

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So when you’re stuck with a 160 character limit in a Facebook ad, use a great image to grab attention and tell the rest of your story.

Finding a good image is hard. Finding a great one is even …

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Google Announces “Megasitelinks,” Image Search Improvements & Better Byline Dates

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:09:54 +0000

Among several interesting new search tweaks in Google’s latest monthly recap is a project internally called “Megasitelinks,” along with improvements to Google’s image search tool, its detection of “byline dates” on web documents and much more. Google just began…

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Google Updates Movie & Image Search for Mobile Devices

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:29:31 +0000

Google has added some fancy features for the hyper-mobile. Those using a mobile device to search for movies will find movie information, trailers, and the option to buy tickets from their phone, while tableteers will find a richer image search exp…

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Yahoo Image Searches Get Infinite Scrolls, Social Sharing

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:28:47 +0000

Yahoo has updated its image search with two significant new features. Searchers can now scroll infinitely through the results and share images they like on either Facebook or Twitter. Yahoo is the last of the major search sites to add such feature…

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Yahoo Image Search Adds Social Sharing & Continuous Scrolling

admin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:08:59 +0000

Yahoo announced two new features on Yahoo Image Search, social sharing and continuous scrolling. Social Sharing On Images: Yahoo Images enables you to share the images you find on Yahoo Image Search with your friends on Facebook or Twitter, not Google +. When you click on an image result and are…

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Los Angeles SEO Company Launches New Social Media Optimization and Image … – EIN News (press release)

admin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:26:14 +0000

Los Angeles SEO Company Launches New Social Media Optimization and Image …
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The +1 Button Comes to Google Image Search

admin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:28:45 +0000

The Google +1 button is continuing its march across Google properties. The latest recipient is Google Image Search, which now allows users to +1 directly from an image result and which promotes +1′d results to users who are connected to your accou…

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Social SEO: Google Adds +1 Button To Image Search

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:55:27 +0000

Google continues the inevitable wallpapering of the Web with the +1 button, adding it to image search today. This makes Google image search into a social affair, highlighting images and displaying annotated recommendations from your +friends. Images will now appear in the +1 tab of Google+ profiles.

This extends the Google+-powered personalization of Google search results into the realm of images. Social search could be the greatest impact of Google+, since the +1 button now affects the way Google search results appear. For anyone logged into his or her Google account, social signals have begun to affect the results of all kinds of Web searches whether users want that or not.

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Google introduced the +1 button in June, about a month before Google+ was unveiled. It didn’t make much sense until the social network opened and Google users got a profile with a +1 tab. Then Google added +snippets for sharing pages to Google+ with the button, and it became useful. It was just like Facebook’s ‘Like’ button, only for Google+.

But because of Google’s search business, the button has some subtle but important implications. It provides feedback to website administrators in Google Analytics, and it now appears on desktop and mobile AdSense ads, allowing Google to monetize the social feedback. But the most important implication of +1 is clear from today’s addition to image search: it actually affects search rank.

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With yesterday’s launch of Google+ pages for brands, some new implications of Google+ appeared. As well as allowing fans to +1 a brand, it also gives brands the opportunity to add their page’s name to a program called Google+ Direct Connect. Once enrolled, users who search for “+[page name]” in regular Google search will be taken straight to a Google+ page. Google+ is not just for sharing now; it’s an important part of being discovered through Google search.

Google+ has also infiltrated Google News. Articles now display authors’ Google+ profiles, as well as their circle counts and the ‘Add to circles’ button, right alongside Google News headlines. Furthermore, search results now privilege Google profiles when searching for an author’s name.

As Google continues to plaster the +1 button and Google+ profiles everywhere, these will become increasingly important factors in how each new kind of content appears in search results. Whether Google+ takes off as a social network or not, anyone optimizing content for Google search will have to adopt it.

Speaking of which, don’t forget to add ReadWriteWeb to your Google+ circles.

Do you click +1 on content while you’re surfing the Web?

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