The Image Problem Creating Captivating Blog Posts

Creating Captivating Blog Posts

Who am I? Professional Blogger for 4 years WordPress Podcaster Plugin and Theme Developer Former Community Manager for PicApp.com My name is David Peralty Yes that is a Star Trek pin in my school photo

Professional Blogger for 4 years

WordPress Podcaster

Plugin and Theme Developer

Former Community Manager for PicApp.com

What Do I Do? Blogger Internet Consultant Community Manager Affiliate Marketing Ninja Web Development Podcasting BrandingDavid.com

Blogger

Internet Consultant

Community Manager

Affiliate Marketing Ninja

Web Development

Podcasting

What Do Images Do? Images Convey Ideas Images Attract Attention Images Break Up Long Content Blocks Improve Appearance

Images Convey Ideas

Images Attract Attention

Images Break Up Long Content Blocks

Improve Appearance

What Do Images Do? Image comparison Post without Image

What Do Images Do? Image comparison Post with Image

What is the Problem? Images are Usually Expensive Legal Images are Hard to Find Images Can Be Space and Bandwidth Hogs Proper Sizing and Formatting Can Be Difficult Old Images Won’t Help Current News Stories

Images are Usually Expensive

Legal Images are Hard to Find

Images Can Be Space and Bandwidth Hogs

Proper Sizing and Formatting Can Be Difficult

Old Images Won’t Help Current News Stories

Where to Get Images? Google Image Search? Not Legal Flickr Creative Commons? Missing Events Free Stock Photography Sites? Strange Rules Other Blogs? Not Legal Stock Image Sites? Expensive

Google Image Search? Not Legal

Flickr Creative Commons? Missing Events

Free Stock Photography Sites? Strange Rules

Other Blogs? Not Legal

Stock Image Sites? Expensive

A Solution: PicApp – enables online publishers to easily embed images into their posts or websites

What Makes PicApp Different? 20 Million images Editorial & Creative Images Sports, News, Entertainment, Etc. 10,000 Images being added daily Did I mention FREE? Licensed and Legal to use

20 Million images

Editorial & Creative Images

Sports, News, Entertainment, Etc.

10,000 Images being added daily

Did I mention FREE?

Licensed and Legal to use

Where Do The Images Come From? Covering All Topics and Image Types

PicApp’s Website

PicApp’s Website

The History of PicApp Created by the same people that do PicScout Created Partnerships with Image Companies Created Partnerships with Blog Networks including b5media this used to be an ad

Created by the same people that do PicScout

Created Partnerships with Image Companies

Created Partnerships with Blog Networks including b5media

PicApp and WordPress PicApp.com is NOT a destination site WordPress is a top blogging platform WordPress’ plugin system is versatile

PicApp.com is NOT a destination site

WordPress is a top blogging platform

WordPress’ plugin system is versatile

PicApp’s WordPress Plugin wordpress.org/extend/plugins/picapp

PicApp’s WordPress Plugin

PicApp’s WordPress Plugin

PicApp’s WordPress Plugin

PicApp’s WordPress Plugin

RSS Notifications! PicApp will send RSS updates to let you know when new images have been added for a search you track.

PicApp will send RSS updates to let you know when new images have been added for a search you track.

Monetization PicApp overlays an image gallery of options on the images Image galleries have ads on them or What’s PicApp’s Business Model?

PicApp overlays an image gallery of options on the images

Image galleries have ads on them

Monetization The revenue goes to PicApp and its Image Providing Partners Though that might change in the future with image publishers seeing some other benefits.

SEO & Page Views Search Engines see the actual image Images are indexed at the proper size and quality Images have proper meta data and descriptions Images are associated with the blog they are found on, not PicApp.com This all increases both the SEO value and Page Views related to images

Search Engines see the actual image

Images are indexed at the proper size and quality

Images have proper meta data and descriptions

Images are associated with the blog they are found on, not PicApp.com

SEO & Page Views

Still Unsure? Google Recommends PicApp for Blogger Users

Coming Soon... New PicApp WordPress Plugin with improved usability and features New Photo Gallery Page using Lightbox JavaScript effects to keep visitors on your site And of course MANY MORE IMAGES

New PicApp WordPress Plugin with improved usability and features

New Photo Gallery Page using Lightbox JavaScript effects to keep visitors on your site

And of course MANY MORE IMAGES

Thanks! David Peralty Professional Blogger BrandingDavid.com For More Information on PicApp Contact: Niran Amir [email_address]