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So you have done your keyword research and have written a killer post on your Blog, now what?  You wait for the search engines to find it.  After all, until the search engines smile on you and give you a high ranking position for your keyword of choice, very few people will see your article amidst the billions of articles posted every day.

Sure some of your fans will read it via their email subscription or their RSS subscription to your Blog feed, but you could count on them reading it anyway.  What you need is a world wide web submit site for a fast index.

You must be indexed.  Indexing occurs often on popular blogs because the search engines know those of you who post often with new, fresh, exciting content and those little index spiders will come back and crawl your site several times a day if you are an A-Blogger, whatever that is.

So what about a niche site that you care about because you have built a site around a very specific subject or product and you have optimized this site with advertisements or offers that you want to make money with?  You may only post to this niche site once a week or maybe once a month.  The spiders will find it eventually, but they are not hanging around outside your hosting portal just waiting for you to feed them with new digits.

So what do you do to call them in and say “Hey spiders, I’ve got some new awesome content!”  Well here is what I suggest.  You probably already have a Facebook (the biggest) and Twitter (the hottest) social network accounts, but what about having more than two dozen real popular social sites that you could post to all at once with just one button?

Well there is just such a magic button out there and it is free.  Ping.fm is my new best friend.  Go there now and get your free account and set it up with all of your social bookmarking sites of choice, and then when you write a post all you have to do is copy the title of the post and the url of your new article into the Ping.fm text box and hit “Ping It!”.  That’s all there is to it you have now announced to up to 30 social sites that you have new content.

I guarantee that the spiders that live at Google, Yahoo and Bing will be running across their webs to come to visit your new post.  You will be indexed almost immediately.  Now that’s what I call a fast index!

Sure it takes a little time to set up Ping.fm but it is worth the effort, I promise.  Here is a list of social sites that you can post to all with one push button; Twitter, Facebook, Ning, Tumblr, Brightkite, FriendFeed, hi5, Delicious, Diigo, Multiply, posterous, Facebook Pages, MySpace, Gtalk Status, AIM Status, LinkeIn, Identi.ca, Plurk, Jaiku, Blogger, Plaxo Pulse, Live Journal, Bebo, Xanga, WordPress.com, Custom URL, Friendster, Koomk, you are, Yammer, Flickr, Utterli, Seesmic, Laconi.ca, Present.ly, Vox, TypePad, ShoutEm, StreetMavens, Radar, MyYearbook, Photobucket, Tagged, MerchantCircle and Yahoo Meme.  This list changes from time to time and more are being added often.

What I do now is to keep Ping.fm open on a page of its own.  Then every time I post, I Ping.fm it.  Every time I comment on another Blog, I Ping.fm it.  Every time I create a back link somewhere on a directory or other website, I Ping.fm it.  Get the idea?  You want traffic?  You can’t handle the traffic that you will get with this web submit site!

Use Free, Creative Commons, Images from flickr and find selection by color scheme.  This is the easiest way to select Free Photos Online.

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This information was found by commenting on a post by Ann Smarty at Search Engine Journal. and one of the readers, Leila Boujnane of ideeinc, commented back about this excellent resource.  What a find.
Here is the link to ideeinc.

free photos online

I have been going nuts and wasting hour upon hour searching for photos and images to use in various website posts, only to find excellent ones and then finding out that they were copyrighted or restricted.

I have had good luck in sending a request to the owner and in each case they all have answered back that it was fine to use the image but they wanted credit, which I gave of course.

free photos online

You’ve done this for sure.  One problem is that usually a couple or more days have passed since you found the image and by then you have worked on a thousand other things and when the email came in giving permission to use the copyrighted image, you can no longer remember exactly where you had found it.

free photos online

That all changes now.  With this fantastic search tool from ideeinc.com they search “only” Creative Commons images and you get to search by color scheme.  There is a color chart on the right and you click on the colors you want  to use and you can select up to ten colors.

As you click on each color the tapestry screen full of images keeps changing to reflect your choice.  You can select a color more than once if you desire to emphasize one certain color.  After you get through choosing the 10 colors you now have choices galore to select from and all of these images are free to use with no restrictions!

free photos online

From the ideeinc home page there is also another method to search by subject matter but I have not tried that yet.

The images you see in this post are just a few from the hundreds available that I selected in just a couple of minutes by using the base color theme of this LinkMoney dot org website.

All I did to use them in this post was to download them all to a folder, then I opened each one in photoshop and resized them all to 300 px wide and re-saved them, then uploaded them to this post.  Easy as 1, 2, 3.

Use your imagination and think about projects that you have been planning for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas

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Get The Picture?

ideeinc and flickr, an excellent combination for free photos online.

I’m Rich

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