Stock Photography
Today I spent a couple of hours looking for a good source of photos for different uses. I would like to be able to put photos in a lot of “blog” posts on various sites and other projects.
There is only one good and worry free way to do this. Stock photography. Sure most of the pictures that I will be using I could get on my own, but the headache involved would be huge. For the $5 or so per image I think that it is worth it.
There are a lot of stock photography sites out there, the one that I finally picked had a 10% refund for your first bunch of credits, and the more that you buy the bigger the deal. There are also a subscription plan that you can download a as many images that you need. This would be the best option for companies or individuals that have a large need for photos.
Me, well I have enough credits for about 100 pics and that should do me for a couple of months. If I am making money then I may just get a sub subcription. Oh yeah, the one that I am using is CreStock as suggested by ChrisG
It will be a good method to find out if the images will help with the conversions and the readership.
How Important are Links in your Blog Posts
I was just looking through my last few posts and noticed that I have 0 links in them. I am starting to wonder how important it is to have links heading out of your blog. I know that in the past it was best to limit your outgoing links while maximizing your incoming. That is what made directories and the like so popular. I am starting to wonder if all of that has changed, and whether if you are linking to an authority type site does it really hurt your rankings?
I am going to have to look into this in the near future, it doesn’t mean that if I find out that SEO wise it is better to link in posts that I am going to do it for every post. A lot of topics that I discuss here aren’t really worth linking, but I will be more active in posting links to articles, tools etc…. that I use, and may even spend some time looking for interested sites to link to.

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